tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38530403.post4115726109293887518..comments2024-01-27T19:41:05.143+08:00Comments on Nuraina A Samad's 3540 Jalan Sudin: Sir Edmund Hillary Dies...NURAINA A SAMADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07671206532110686716noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38530403.post-46942911581738328362008-01-12T17:41:00.000+08:002008-01-12T17:41:00.000+08:00Sir Edmund Hillary was one of my childhood heroes....Sir Edmund Hillary was one of my childhood heroes. Another was Neil Armstrong. And Gordon Banks (he was goalkeeper for Stoke City and England in the 60s, when Star Soccer was the tv programme I never missed, although we didn't own a tv ourselves]. And Hang Tuah.<BR/><BR/>As I grew older, I began to take more interest in Tenzing Norgay, the sherpa who helped Hillary (or guided him) to Earth's highest peak. <BR/><BR/>I started wondering if Man actually landed on the Moon.<BR/><BR/>I went on to be a goalkeeper, and quite a good one, too, though nowhere near half as good as my idol.<BR/><BR/>And I ditched Hang Tuah for Hang Jebat, and still wonder today if they weren't Chinese exported by the Shao Lin temple in Peking of the old days. <BR/><BR/>p.s. I also started to see a lot of Kung Fu movies and Fu Sheng was one of my heroes. Ti Lung was not bad, too. Jackie Chan and Jet Li too Hollywoody for me.Rockybruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187242806213153913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38530403.post-80738857390745542102008-01-12T07:41:00.000+08:002008-01-12T07:41:00.000+08:00Hillary often referred to himself as "Ed from the ...Hillary often referred to himself as "Ed from the Edge." Ever self-effacing, he downplayed his first ascent saying many others might have beaten him and Sherpa Tenzing to The Peak. "I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm." <BR/><BR/>He constructed twenty-seven schools, twelve clinics and two airfields for supplies to more easily reach the region, in the four decades after the trip to the top.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, I strongly recommend this book, "Three Cups of Tea" about an American mountaineer who built fifty five schools - especially for girls - in that same part of the world and in the heart of Taliban territory. <BR/><BR/>It's an extremely inspiring and moving story of the selflessness, kindness and humanity of people like him, and Hillary. Definitely makes one feel really small laboring over the trivialities and tribulations of ordinary lives. Or thumping chests over meaningless achievements.<BR/><BR/>If nothing else, it will be a pleasant distraction from all the depressing doings and happenings in bolehland.Mr Bojangleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01936269017803358208noreply@blogger.com