1. Dollah Kassim in hospital
Ever since the Singapore football team pulled out of the Malaysia Cup (after winning it), Singaporeans have hardly had a reason to come together to cheer on a local sports team. The Sunday Times carried a picture of a thousands fans showing up at Paya Lebar airport to celebrate the triumphant Singapore football team returning from winning in Malaysia. It reminded me to the double decker bus tours the European teams take through their cities when they win a title. Sadly, more people on this tiny island watch the English Premier League than support the generally pathetic S League. We're fans of clubs 10000 miles away and not the ones down the street. It will be very hard to turn that around. I'm waiting for the little sportsmen and women who represented us at the Beijing Olympics to be the ones to rally around. Dollah and his kicking kakis were the ones in the 70s, Ang Peng Siong, David Lim and Joscelin saw us splashing through the 80s. What happened in the 90s? Nothing apparently. All the best to Dollah Kassim.
2. Unsold HDB flats
Wow, 2000 flats eyed by ten times as many prospective owners. Some are in pretty nice locations. Prices are another story. There's been great debate about flat affordability with the gahmen sticking to market level pricing. That means owners seeking a cool 40 storey 5-roomer in Duxton need to commit close to $600K. Those hoping to live by Kallang River in a 4-room will need to fork out $400K. The flats next to Kallang MRT are just as insanely priced. So everyone gets into loans for the rest of their lives and hope to pay them off by the time they are too stiff to work. Well it's expensive to be ambitious eh. I fit in the category of watchers - 35 and I can't get one, unless I apply with my mom. I feel cheated.
3. Lessons in letting go
A) My boss is kinda cool in the way he deals with less-than-advantageous situations - staying level-headed. "There's no point getting ahead by putting someone else down." Don't the let the facts, no matter how obvious they may be, harden the relationships you need to move forward. I sometimes let my emotions get in the way, and need some reigning in. And it's gotta happen from within.
B) There are a few yoga instructors in the studio I go to who seek to do more than bark instruction and urge you to into a deeper stretch. They enlighten students with their words. Directed at the practice, the message also applies to real life. Tension hardly gets you anywhere. Letting go lets you be flexible in handling what life, work, family, friends throw at you.
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