Journals
Friday,Apr 24 2009, 12:29:05 AMVisiting Grandma Fuifui Tufuga
I have finally found my grandma Fuifui Tufuga, see video. I have been looking for her for years. She was being cared for by her daughter and her husband unbeknown to myself and my sister that she had survived five strokes and was taken into a Nursing home in Logan City. It is just about tenb kilometres from where I live.
So now I visit my grandma on a regular basis. My sister visits her everyday. It is not like it is the last of the Mohicans type of situation, however, my grandma is indeed the last of her generation. All her siblings have passed away since she was the youngest. Her eldest sister was the Taupou of Asau, there has never been another Taupou of Asau since then. My grandmother's siblings have passed away leaving her as the sole survivor and the only one in Brisbane Australia. Her eldest daughter was my late mother, Mema Tufuga.
We have all assumed our matrilleneal surnames and acknowledging our maternalised agnation heritage. Click onto this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeyGT6kEwco
Ia manuia le tatou aso nei
Tim Tufuga
Logan City Australia
Thursday,Apr 9 2009, 04:55:39 AMTwilight half marathon results
The University of Queensland half marathon results have been posted on http://intraining.com.au and I was sent a message from http://www.sportingimages.com.au but with an omission of any trace of my existence in the half marathon. I think that this has something to do with USM events and perhaps the Queensland police service and their aim at defamation of purported persona non grata. What ever the reasoning I have posted a response on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/timtufuga
I will be running in the Warwick pentath-run on the 23rd and the 24th May, 2009. Thankfully, the Queensland police are not sponsoring this event nor the USM events, which I have personally accepted as a deliberate defamation ploy by the QPS at my personal expense.
I will be running at my personal expense once again just like the twilight half marathon as well as my open ocean swim in Mooloolaba which was also at my personal expense as well. I have paid for my travel and accomodation at my own expense with no financial assistance from the QPS , USM events or sporting images photographers. Why these people? They are the shit stirrers who have made my triathlons and running experience a personal burden.
I hope that these people will either compete against me on the running road or keep the hell away from me.
If you would like to join me then please log onto http://www.pentathrun.com/ and register to run. Hopefully, bad coppers and crims alike will not needlessly harrass you and I on the running road and tracks until we cross the finishline.
I will be back in training for the Gold Coast marathon after the five running events in Warwick. Log onto http://www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au either way I will be doing my fourth 42.195k marathon run on July 2009. This will be my third 42.195k Gold Coast marathon run, and yes I do not expect to win the damn thing but to finish it with a reasonable time that befits my age, weight and level of fitness, which is SUPERHUMAN level!!!!!
Ia koleni fa'amaoni tatou uma ma ia tatou fetaui i luga o le auala tatou te tamomo'e fa'atasi ma ia manatua pea o le mea ua e luluina e te seleseleina i le miliga o le 41kilomita marafoni. Pe ana e mataala ete manuia pe afai e leai ua e pepelo ma o le tagata le amiotonu ma le fa'amaoni. Pe afai o oe ose tagata toa moni e faigofie lenei avega mo oe, ai maise mo tagata pae'ee'e ma laiti, aua ele e pei o a'u nei e fai ma se pepeki tele ae maigi pea. Ua atoa nei le 80 kilograms o lo'u mamafa ae ua atoa neo le tolu o a'u marafoni 42 kiomita le mamao o le mili ua uma ona ou faia. Ou tele vaia fa'atasi ise isi tagata Samoa i le marafoni i le tausaga 2006 ma le 2007 vagana le 2008. Ae atonu e to'atele nei i le 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6s1uaCpbpc
O le triathlon fo'i sa ou le va'avaai i ni tagata Samoa vagana le tagata lenei o Ray Pogi ua ou fa'alogo sa fai ma triathlete mua lenei o Samoa ae e fou i lo'u fa'alogo i le 2006-2007.
Ia manuia le koleni
Tofa mo lenei taimi.
O Tim Tufuga
Crestmead, Logan City
Saturday,Apr 4 2009, 08:47:35 AMIntraining Twilight half marathon run
Intraining twilight half marathon 2009, to be run on the 1730 AESTat the University of Queensland, Saint Lucia Campus, in Saint Lucia Brisbane, on the 5th April, 2009.
I am a new member of the Intraining club http://www.intraining.com.au and I will be running for this club on the 5th April 2009. I am no longer an AMS triathlete in Logan City since I have now decided to join the Milton Brisbane based club for future triathlon and running events for 2009-2010.
So it is no rest for the wicked. Below is my swimming effort in Mooloolaba. Not that much fun.
Tim Tufuga swimming in the Mooloolaba open ocean swim 28th March 2009.