Nervousness

This time tomorrow I will know if I I'm leading our great Town into the future or supporting the new Mayor and Council. This election is whole lot different the the last two I went through. 2007 and 2010, I ran for Council, there where six seats available for Council. Which means I only needed to get more votes then the seventh candidate and I would have won a seat. This time, it's for all the marbles, having to resign from council to run for the Mayoral seat is scary. There is not a seat for second place, I have to finish first. As the time closes in many thoughts are running through my head, have I done enough during the campaign to win? Have I done enough during my 4 1/2 years on council to deserve to be the Mayor? Have I done enough for my community to get the support from the residents? Have I ..... ? This night will the similar to the whole week, little to nervous to sleep very much. It's hard the settle my brain down enough so I can sleep. I'm hoping to win tomorrow but if I don't, it's not the end of the world. I would be extremely disappointed but I have so many other wonderful gifts in my life. I'm feeling pretty good physically and my eye seems to be better the last few days, not as red and the pain is not as frequent and I have gained all my weight back. I'm going to start tracking my numbers again. I haven't tracked anything since my surgery (my next appointment with the specialist is on May 15 and I don't know if I can wait that long), just doing enough to keep me from deteriating to much in my training. I'm going to need a lot of help getting everything up to par...anyone volunteers? I'm going to try to do 500 pushups and situps tomorrow (yes sifu Kichko, I'm going slow). It's late enough, let's see if I can get a few hours of sleep tonight.

1 week to go

Tonight we had the all candidates forum for the Town by-election. It was a packed house, this surprised me. I thought wTith all the hype of the provincial election people would have had their full share of politics. This goes to so you how much community pride and involvement is in Stony Plain. I was nervous at first still need to work on my public speaking skills but they are a lot better then 2007 when I ran for council. As the evening went on to the question and answer period, I got more comfortable and felt good. Hoping to get elected on May 01. Looking forward to this h Council to run for Mayor but it fells like a long time. If anyone is interested you can check out my website to see my platform. www.wix.com/williamchoy/williamchoy If you like what you see and support me, please tell everyone you know in Stony Plain got out and vote for me. May 01, let's get the social media buzz trending that day #choy4mayor Another thought, my iPad can copy and paste to the I Ho Chaun blog, I need to copy my post before posting, then paste it to the other blog site. I guess my purchase of an iPad is validated :) until I try to do some excel and word projects. Went to see the optometrist on Monday, my left eye is great, the preventative lasering to the back of my will prevent it from ever detaching (yeah!). My right eye, the one that had the tear, is healing and with the scleral buckle and lasering the chances of it tearing is very unlikely but not 100% for sure. The gas bubble is all gone but the healing is slow. My eye gets really red when I do anything that adds extra pressure to my eye. Today at Kung fu, we where practicing our knife defense and after a few minutes Mr. Bouchard was kinda queered out with my red eye. Needed to take a breather. Looking forward to end of the election and my eye healing so I can start focusing back on my Kung fu journey. Thank you for all the support from my classmates to help me though this.

Can't do that with an Ipad?

I finally got onto the I Ho Chaun blog site and tried to copy my post over.  No matter how hard I tried to cut or copy my blog, the ipad would not select it.  I thought Apple was suppose to be able to do everything. I guess not.  In the end, I had to use my PC to copy and paste my past post over to the team blog.........hmmmmm...maybe somebody smater and better with computers create and app for that.

On another note, it was nice to be back in class with all my fellow students.  I will still have to take it easy until my eye fully heals.  One step at a time.

It's been a while

I attended class this week and it felt good. I'm also feeling frustrated because I want to push myself more but I can't not yet any ways. Ever have that feeling? You want to do something but you can't. I don't really know how to explain that feeling but it's like an unsettling fustration. On May 15 I will see my surgeon again and I will have a better idea of how much I can do. It was nice to play around with the chucks again. I haven't touched them in 6 weeks, I was afraid of hitting my eye and that wouldn't be a very nice sight. I have a lot to work on to get the moves ingrained into my memory and have the feel and technique. Glad that there are few other students practicing the chucks, it's always better the train when you have other people along side. My campaign is going well, meeting with key residents and garnering lots of support. My fear is that since the by-election is only a week after the provincial election the voter turnout will be low and maybe some of my supports will not go out and vote because they just voted last week or they think that I'm getting in and don't go out to vote. I'm just hoping that I can get everyone that supports me to go out and vote on May 1.

Pressure......

Pressure, that seems to be the theme today. I dropped off my nominations papers to run in the by-election. Little nervous and excited at the same time. This next month is going to be busy. The election is on Tuesday May 1 and I would like to ask for everyone's support. I also had laser surgery on my left eye to prevent it from tearing. That was kinda a freaky. As the doctor zapped my eye with the laser, I could hear this snapping sound with a bit of pain in the back of the eye. Glad that is over and my eye should be back to normal in a couple of days :) They checked my right eye, looks like its healing but the pressure is a little high. It measured in at 24 and my left eye which is normal measured in at 14. So this means I still can't do to many activities that add lots of pressure to my eyes. So the pressure is on. I have a mayoral campaign to run, eyes to take care of, an altered training plan that's needs to get ramped up and my personal goals that I need to keep on track. Nothing that I can't handle! Right?! Defineitly not by myself but with help of my family, (especially my wife), friends, classmates, sifu's, and acquantiances I will achieve all my goals.