It is getting pretty irritating today that the radio DJs has been repeating about Singapore's biggest haul in Olympic...??? One DJ even said that Singapore has got it's 2nd Olympic medal. I guest they were not informed that Singapore had a Silver medal in Olympic weightlifting before, remember Tan Howe Liang?
Tan Howe Liang (SIN) - Olympic Silver Medalist
Once again, I think it's just the nation's propaganda of trying to justify their spending. Plus, I wonder how it looks like when you imagine the faces of the officials from the minister's office telling the people in radio what to say on radio. Just like the outlet managers who tell the DJs what to play when their friends come along. Brupppp!!!!
Bloody hell, today taxi driver kaopeh and say, "Brudder, you local ah? You watch Olympic ah? Kaninna China-lang win Olympic my heart boil ah!!" - Seriously, I don't know what it means but I'm sure he wasn't excited about it. The only thing I understood was after that, he said the only time Singaporeans feel excited about sports and the athletes were during the Malaysia Cup days. I kinda agree with him.
With my experience of representing the nation in some of the sports meets, I have come to understand and accept that Sports in Singapore will never reach the heights it desires. Never ever!! I've seen it first hand, experience it and lived with it for awhile. No disrespect for the athletes, I know many are real sportsmen/women who sacrifice everything for the nation and the sport. Unfortunately, they are the ones who will always become the victims.
Singapore sports bodies have very capable people with passion in their organization, however, the head of these organizations are always those without proper sports knowledge, they are just bureaucrats, businessmen and corrupt officials who has their own agendas. Ask any athlete in any sport in Singapore about their governing bodies and hear what they have to say. "Any athlete" here refers to native Singaporeans, and, the Table tennis and badminton team is not included.
I remembered an incident when we went for an international tournament where the association's chairman came along, sat in First Class, stayed in a Suite, ate in private rooms and travelled in limousines. Nothing wrong you say?? Don't you think those money can be use for the players? At that time we asked for a team's masseuse, team's dietitian, team kit man, etc. All our request have the same answer, "NO BUDGET". Worst, we got sponsorship of $20k a year for apparels and yet we had to wear the same jersey and tracksuits for 4 different international tournaments. After all that, the players went all out despite the setbacks.
Being in competitive sports half of my life, I've met with lots of great coaches. All of them has the same message..... "Winning is not everything. Win or Lose is all a part of it. Just get out there do your best." - That is what I was taught all my life, and still live by it. In fact, the ministers have said the same thing in their pep talk to the athletes before their departures to the international games. So, here's the question :
1. When they the officials say, "Winning is not everything. The Olympic spirit is getting together in harmony as one nation." - Why don't just send a native Singaporean? Isn't buying talents means "die-die-must-win"?
2. "Win or Lose is part of competing" - Why afraid to lose and spend the citizen's hard-earned money for those talents??
3. If the idea is to bring the nation together, didn't they hear the nation bitching??
4. Just to show that they did the 'right' thing, they had to justify by making repeated announcements of the foreigners achievements on TV, radio and all the state-owned medias??
5. What they tell us during training is not the same as what the gahmen is doing. So how??
And bitch preaseeeee....... don't ask the same stupid question again......."WHAT DO YOU THINK?"
and, when is the next Sex Olympics?
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