medal?

singapore have failed to win an olympic medal for 44 years. so what? what good does winning a medal bring to us? it would only serve to make which ever fuck who won the medal a bloody rich bastard. $1 million for a gold medal is seriously stupid. michael phelps only gets us$1 million (us$1million = s$1.75million) if he wins 7 medals. i bet he wished he were a singaporean.

so how does winning a medal help anyway? would foreign business want to do busisness with singapore because we have won an olympic medal? or maybe singaporeans just like to show off. "look, we are such a small country and yet we still can manage to win an OLYMPIC medal!" yes, right. win an olympic medal with a girl from china and a boy from indonesia... no one seems to realise that the money that would potentially go to these atheletes comes from their hard-earned tax money.

anyway, kinda expected that the singapore wouldn't win anything. the atheletes are just not mentally prepared for this kind of pressure. when it comes down to the shit, they would just break and give up. this is especially visible in the table tennis semi-final loss to north korea. leading 3-1 and then going on to lose 4-3.


watching lee hsien loong's speech now. no choice because all the damn channels are showing him.