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* *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- 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. |