I just read the sports section of today's Zaobao and there is this article on our China born shot put player who won a gold medal in yesterday's event.

  it go something like this:

   我国东运会代表团团长：谢谢你为新加坡在添一枚金牌。

  选手：身为新加坡人，这是我应该做的。

  my first reaction was 'fuck la putass'.

  even if Singapore wins 1000 gold medals at the next SEA games, Olympics or Universe games, I won't share Singapore's honour unless they are won by LOCAL players. stop showing off money-bought success and suceess of FOREIGN TALENTS. there is nothing to be proud off.

   no matter how our ministers proclaim that these talents are neutralised citizens etc, the reaction of the whole universe will be the same when they see these talents standing on the podium wearing that jacket with the Singapore flag embroided on it and listening to the national athem.

  "oh that one ah, come from China one la. Singapore buy them one la."

  if one day Feng Tianwei beats Guo Tie at some pingpong finals, will it be a Singapore success or China success?

  I don't understand the Singapore mentality of wanting to be first-in-everything. YES if it brings enormous economic benefit to the country (I want to distinguish between country and society cos what is beneficiary to the coutry might not be to the society), by all means bring it in. bring in the F1, casinos and conventions (APEC etc) and show us the money. but this thinking cannot apply to sports!

  what's wrong if you cannot win any medals at the games? as long you keep on trying, be humble and not make over-confident medals forcast (ie. we will win gold this time, end up bronze also don't have). I believe in sports, Singaporeans are willing to judge our atheletes by effort and not results.

  spend the money you spent on hiring foreign talents on talent scouting and players development. look at our swimmers, mostly locals. these locals are sent to U.S and they turn investment on them into fantastic results!

  "hey, if the person winning the medal is born in Singapore but his parents are both China nationality? like that will you be happy?"

  food for thought. but I suspect me probably won't be happy about it too.

  what a long grumpy post early in the morning. it just makes zijing a very unhappy and grumpy person when he sees articles like this. *roar*

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  lighter note, my partner sent me a sms at 2.25am telling me he vomitted and when I replied him at 6plus, he replied with more vomit and did'nt koon much. this is real bad. who wants to go Genting tonight please tell me cos there's a free ticket waiting for you.

  when it comes to money issues, my mother likes to tell me this: 什么才叫够 she likes to give her typical example of a person wanting to have 1million and when the person has 1million, he now wants to have 2million. so what is enough?

  I believe different people have different definition of 'enough' and financial planners will always point out to you that you do not have enough. if you are a 250ml Yeo's packet drink, having 225ml of liquid in you sounds enough. likewise if you are a 1.5L coke bottle, you know you can fill more within yourself and thus work hard to have 1.3L in you! that sounds enough.

  I guess I want 'something in excess of sufficient but not necessarily be enough'. maybe I can tell you if I achieve this in 5years time.

  anyway, the no running + no textbook December lifestyle is giving me enough time to do lotsa things! say YES. nevertheless, I managed to waste the bulk of this spare time. say NO.

a piece of classic by the Graffiti master himself. I'm extremely impressed by the extremely firm hand/fingers he has. notice the water bottle on the belt, this is detail to the core!

well, this is drawn by me many many months ago. leftist are supposedly artistic inclined, haa I can only say I like to draw.

I need to share this with everyone!!!

something which made my rainy day slightly less rainy!

reasons why I feel this is a good picture: 1) different colours were used to identify different character. 2) each character has different characteristic (ie. long body, curly hair etc). 3) there's a clear center of focus in this picture, whereby the listeners are clustered in one corner with the subject is addressing the crowd at another corner, hence forming a passive-active contrast. 4) this is a simple picture but it paints details!

so much for a small and simple picture! but I bet the originator achieved the few points I mentioned by accident haha. but nevertheless, it did put a smile on me!

to be fair, next time I shall also post the works of another friend - Graffiti Master Goh JJ. be amazed by what he can do with Microsoft paint alone.

  what's with Genting? I can easily name 4 different groups of friends going to Genting within these 2 weeks! I tell you more when I come back haa.

  as a small kid, I was always fascinated with the idea of going Genting. to poor kids like me, going to the TOP of a mountain to catch clouds is a very cool idea. not to mention the very cooling weather and the theme park rides make Genting a very attractive holiday venue for me.

  now as a young adult, the enthusiasm of going Genting has diluted itself with time. no doubt I'm now able to go into the casinos, I never venture beyond the jackpot machines. probably I never thought of winning big money in casinos. jackpot machines, win small, lose small, just nice for my 小赌娱情mentality. 

  I think the company is more important than where you are going. on second thoughts, I'll reject your call to go India regardless of how pretty/good friend you are!

  anyway, caffine seems to making me lose sleep at nights recently. strange, I thought I was quite insensitive towards caffine.