A bunch of us was at Zsofi's on Wednesday and were watching the silent TVs. Did you know there's a Mediocrecrap programme that follows inter-school competitions? We were surprised. Track, basketball, swimming, get this - golf! plus lots of screaming kids. I saw my secondary school do in their competition in basketball. Woof. Ang Peng Siong, a national hero in my books, also appeared in an interview. The guy host seemed crap though. We couldn't hear him but we could sense his pretension and cheese.
Watching all this young talent made me wonder why we don't do any better in international competitions. These kids are good and could be better. How come we still suck and can't reap any medals? I remember when I was in NTU and stayed in Hall Six, there were some athletes who are represented the country and did the hall proud by beating the crap out of the other hall's teams. Seriously these players were more than good, in football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, hockey. Then they graduated and got jobs. Real jobs that gave real money for real living. So I guess it was easy to downgrade athleticism for the weekends and random games with the chums.
I wonder if it would a difference if someone from the Sports gahmen came over and asked them to take on a sports career at some point in their young lives. Don't they talent spot any more? Is sports just for school? What about replenishing the sportsmen of yore for the sake of national pride?
We didn't know we had singing talent till Singapore Idol came around (well, a lot of them aren't that good, haha). It was all about taking a chance. So let's take a chance on these young kids and ask them if a job in accounting or engineering or managing the casino is what they want or if an Olympics gold medal is something they want to strive for. If the latter, then give them the resources and money to make it happen. When they win, let Milo and other companies to support them through endorsement campaigns.
Someone also asked what happened to all the kids in the Sports School. Are they on track to reignite some national zeal?
And what happened to David Lim? Poor guy, used to come in second after Peng Siong in quite a few races. He's a hero is my books too.
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