ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

So here I am… for almost a week now there has been a whole social rumble that went around the globe and hitting Twitter & FB like crazy… Though this doesn’t seem really related to Dynamics GP or ERP at all, it hit me actually because some fellow Dynamics GP friend and blogger, MVP Jivtesh Sing nominated me and another great GP buddy, David Musgrave, to take the challenge of the ALS Ice Bucket..Seems nobody can escape it, as it hit also Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates and the current MS Business Solutions VP, Kirill Tatarinov.

First of all I thought that I’m not going to participate in those silly / crazy social ring events that go around and come back once in a while… not me, I’m not that kind of guy, nah not me… but this morning a whole new information came to my hear.. I very close friend of mine that I work with was in the hospital last night to visit her nephew. As I’m a great admirer of people that have achieved something in life and have great respect for my colleague too, I was really touched by this story and decided to take the challenge. Listen to this quick video of her nephew, who happened to get on the news last night on CTV channel. He has been diagnosed in 2005 of ALS and is now in his 9th year, which is extreme considering the disease. Most people don’t live up to the 4th or 5th year.

And I already did posted my contribution to the Canadian ALS Support Organisation and as of this morning they had passed the mark of 500k$ raised so far with an objective of 1$mio… By the time I’m writing this, the mark has already passed 780k$ !!! less than 12 hours to raise 250k$… lets go and break that million dollars goal.

And now the funny part 🙂

It’s now my turn to nominate someone, and to keep the ball rolling inside the Dynamics GP community, I’m challenging here Mark Rockwell from Rockton Software, Erroll Schoenfish from Microsoft, and to send back the ball to the southern hemisphere, our national Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who happens to be in Australia this week (Chris actually has no connection with Dynamics GP, but I love & admire what he does).

I’m looking forward to see your own recording and who’s next on the list 🙂

Have fun !