A lot of things in life, when look back, can be a joke. What once used to be touching, can now be very humiliating. This is life isnt't it? All the promises we make, all the emotion we present, how long will they all last?
perhaps .. 他們從來也沒有想過，有天錢多到可以存在國外.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
5:24am
5:24am in the morning, i guess most people should be in bed. I wonder will there be anyone else staying awake?
What kind of man will fall in love with staying awake early in the morning? What is he thinking, how is he living his life?
I guess not many people understand this, unless you are living this out yourself.
Until then, you will comprehend, and when you fall in love with it like i do, drop me a message.
What kind of man will fall in love with staying awake early in the morning? What is he thinking, how is he living his life?
I guess not many people understand this, unless you are living this out yourself.
Until then, you will comprehend, and when you fall in love with it like i do, drop me a message.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Proudest Moment?
I read this online, someone's thought about the Singapore Table Tennis Team. This is exactly what I meant about, Singapore may eventually get the gold, but will this make everyone proud of the moment ?
The guy wrote this ..
This becomes a precedent that the foreign talent scheme works. It will be the model case study for all future cases. And the Singapore Sport Council will have more ammo in terms of money to get more foreign talents to Singapore. Forget about grooming the locals. Why invest in such a big risk? Just go buy another athletes from elsewhere to help us win. Besides, other countries are doing that too. So why not Singapore?
Yes, the Foreign Talent Scheme works in the sense that it does bring us an Olympic medal. But it kills the entire local sporting scene. How do we groom local athletes when all we think about is to bring foreign talents in to help us win? How do the local athletes gain international competition exposure when we always send foreign talents oversea? How do we motivate our local athletes when all the media attention are on the foreign talents? Who will dare to send their child to the Sport School when there is a high chance that we will bring in a foreign talent to replace them if they don’t perform up to standard?
We are only interested in the results. Not the process in getting the results. It doesn’t matter who gets the medal. You don’t need to be a local. You don’t need to stay in Singapore for long. You don’t need to speak with a Singapore acent. You don’t need to know the Singapore history. You don’t need to understand Singapore culture. You can even drag the Singapore flag on the floor for the world to see. So long as you get the medal under Singapore flag, the rest doesn’t matter.
This is the sad state of Singapore sporting scene. And it will remain this way until someone wakes up from the medal chasing dream. It’s not about medal. It’s about representation. It’s about national identity. And this foreign talent scheme is eroding our national identity, if there is any to begin with.
So while everyone is out there celebrating the Olympic medal, I sit infront of my computer with mixed reaction. I should be happy that Singapore finally won a medal after 48 years. But I just couldn’t feel the pride and glory. In fact, I feel sad because we will start having the mentality of getting new migrants to help us in sports.
Congrats to Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei for winning the Silver Medal. But sorry, I don’t know how to celebrate your victory.
The guy wrote this ..
This becomes a precedent that the foreign talent scheme works. It will be the model case study for all future cases. And the Singapore Sport Council will have more ammo in terms of money to get more foreign talents to Singapore. Forget about grooming the locals. Why invest in such a big risk? Just go buy another athletes from elsewhere to help us win. Besides, other countries are doing that too. So why not Singapore?
Yes, the Foreign Talent Scheme works in the sense that it does bring us an Olympic medal. But it kills the entire local sporting scene. How do we groom local athletes when all we think about is to bring foreign talents in to help us win? How do the local athletes gain international competition exposure when we always send foreign talents oversea? How do we motivate our local athletes when all the media attention are on the foreign talents? Who will dare to send their child to the Sport School when there is a high chance that we will bring in a foreign talent to replace them if they don’t perform up to standard?
We are only interested in the results. Not the process in getting the results. It doesn’t matter who gets the medal. You don’t need to be a local. You don’t need to stay in Singapore for long. You don’t need to speak with a Singapore acent. You don’t need to know the Singapore history. You don’t need to understand Singapore culture. You can even drag the Singapore flag on the floor for the world to see. So long as you get the medal under Singapore flag, the rest doesn’t matter.
This is the sad state of Singapore sporting scene. And it will remain this way until someone wakes up from the medal chasing dream. It’s not about medal. It’s about representation. It’s about national identity. And this foreign talent scheme is eroding our national identity, if there is any to begin with.
So while everyone is out there celebrating the Olympic medal, I sit infront of my computer with mixed reaction. I should be happy that Singapore finally won a medal after 48 years. But I just couldn’t feel the pride and glory. In fact, I feel sad because we will start having the mentality of getting new migrants to help us in sports.
Congrats to Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei for winning the Silver Medal. But sorry, I don’t know how to celebrate your victory.
Life in the Olympics Season
It is 420am in the morning. While most of you has fallen asleep, I am still awake. Been thinking a lot lately, about everything. Before I share more about what I have been thinking, I want you to know that, no drama. It is very easy, when someone share things about life, many will go like, he must have gone through some tough time, or something drama must have happened etc.
Frankly, for those who understand what I am talking about, if you are like me, who love to stop and think once in awhile, while we go on living our lives, this is a natural process .. for when one thinks, he is living.
Someone who has stopped thinking, is someone who has stopped living.
So life has been great, just that at this stage of my life, I have been thinking alot about what I should do next, what is the next wall for me to climb, what is the next project for me to embark. They are all good I believe.
Been watching a lot of the olympics. I have witnessed a lot of great moments. At every victory ceremony, I think about achievement. What i have accomplished so far, what else I can do.
I share this with a numboy recently.
"What have you achieved in your life so far?" I asked.
"Is there any moment in your life, when you laugh, the whole world laugh with you, when you cry, the whole world cry with you? I asked again.
We witnessed this again and again and again the last 10 days of our lives.
Behind every victory, we know well there has been much efforts put in.
So the olympics give me a lot of encouragement to work harder, to plan further, to see beyond .. for victory goes to people who have put in a lot of hard work.
I have been following a lot of arguments over the Singapore table tennis team
..... whether they used to be a Chinese citizens, now Singaporeans, this is not important at all.
The only issue I worried about was, if Singapore wins, will the girls know how to sing the Singapore National Anthem? When the camera zoom in on their face, will they be singing proudly the Singapore national anthem like others did? I was almost worried, during the victory ceremoney, when China anthem was playing, will that be a more familiar national anthem for all the 3 of them ?
The greatest moment in any olympics game is not about winning only, those moment at the victory ceremony, every single time I watched, the proudest moment for any athlete is, when your national anthem sounded, they sang along with the crowd proudly. That alone is enough to send people to tears.
So if Singapore wins, will they sing along proudly too? I wonder.
It is 430am in the morning, when everyone else is asleep, this is the best time to reflect,
Frankly, for those who understand what I am talking about, if you are like me, who love to stop and think once in awhile, while we go on living our lives, this is a natural process .. for when one thinks, he is living.
Someone who has stopped thinking, is someone who has stopped living.
So life has been great, just that at this stage of my life, I have been thinking alot about what I should do next, what is the next wall for me to climb, what is the next project for me to embark. They are all good I believe.
Been watching a lot of the olympics. I have witnessed a lot of great moments. At every victory ceremony, I think about achievement. What i have accomplished so far, what else I can do.
I share this with a numboy recently.
"What have you achieved in your life so far?" I asked.
"Is there any moment in your life, when you laugh, the whole world laugh with you, when you cry, the whole world cry with you? I asked again.
We witnessed this again and again and again the last 10 days of our lives.
Behind every victory, we know well there has been much efforts put in.
So the olympics give me a lot of encouragement to work harder, to plan further, to see beyond .. for victory goes to people who have put in a lot of hard work.
I have been following a lot of arguments over the Singapore table tennis team
..... whether they used to be a Chinese citizens, now Singaporeans, this is not important at all.
The only issue I worried about was, if Singapore wins, will the girls know how to sing the Singapore National Anthem? When the camera zoom in on their face, will they be singing proudly the Singapore national anthem like others did? I was almost worried, during the victory ceremoney, when China anthem was playing, will that be a more familiar national anthem for all the 3 of them ?
The greatest moment in any olympics game is not about winning only, those moment at the victory ceremony, every single time I watched, the proudest moment for any athlete is, when your national anthem sounded, they sang along with the crowd proudly. That alone is enough to send people to tears.
So if Singapore wins, will they sing along proudly too? I wonder.
It is 430am in the morning, when everyone else is asleep, this is the best time to reflect,
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
When Does a Difference Matter?
It is very tiring to keep hearing people talking about respect. It is tiring because we talk so much and keep talking, nothing seems to be have done enough. So I went search for something to express my thoughts. I found this.
When does a Difference Matter?
When we are young, it does not matter. So why does it matter when we are older?
When does a Difference Matter?
When we are young, it does not matter. So why does it matter when we are older?
Monday, August 4, 2008
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