seriously?
hello blog...
if you haven't known by now, i left my job last week... i shall refrain from bitching about the place and why i quit my job but seriously... trust me i have lots to say about the place and the people there... ok just ask me if you want to get the full details... damn it those agents... ok whatever... it was my fault that i even took it in the first place...
i had fun in sentosa, spending time with my jc class doing the usual things that people who go to sentosa do... except cramming 11 people into 1 hotel room...
ok now moving on to what i really created this blog entry for, i shall talk about the asian games telecasts that i have been watching on television... i hope i dont get into trouble for this...
those 11pm broadcasts have been both beneficial and detrimental to my daily dose of television entertainment... although i can watch our representatives in action and get entertained for hours every week, they deprive me of my favourite channel 5 tv shows which are actually the only things worth watching on mediacor* stations nowadays... seriously... the quality of local productions is... well... i mean look at the channel 8 drama serials... i cannot even stand 15 minutes of channel 8 or channel u sometimes... thank God for prison break and csi and cable tv...
watching our local atheletes in the games has given me much to think about... cheering our country on and watching them do well against other countries gives me incredible national pride but sometimes it get weird... especially when the athletes don't exactly come from your country...
ok don't get me wrong... i am not a xenophobe and i do not abhor naturalizing athletes in their adopted countries at all but it just feels weird sometimes... it gives me trememdous pride watching our table tennis exponents doing well and although gold medal match looks more china vs china than singapore vs china, i know that deep inside they are truly singaporeans at heart who want to do well for our country on top of achieving personal glory... and i am pretty sure they deserve to wear the country's colours as much as any one of us local born citizens since they have been living in our country for many many years already...
but it gets weird when you watch the mens 1500 metres or 5000 metres track events and you see kenyans bagging all top 3 prizes for countries, whose languages they can barely even speak save for the name of the country or the word money... i mean seriously... kenyans representing their "countries" at the "asian" games? deco may not be Portuguese but the former Brazilian had been playing for fc porto for many years before he started to don the Portuguese colours... and part of the brazilian population is actually made up of portuguese immigrants anyway so there isnt much of a difference... ditto for our chinese table tennis and badminton athletes who sweat and work their asses off for our country... now africans coming to an arab country to talk about winning and happily donning foreign country colours because they couldnt earn a living in their home country? seriously? weird...
as i write this blog, i am actually watching the football final or rather the gold medal match of the games... the host country, one of the finalists, is a middle east financial powerhouse who has players called "sebastian" representing them in their national football team... in fact, 1/3 of their players do not seem to bear the least semblance of being asian at all... now i am not even going to bother to comment about our national football team... as a "foreign import", you can tell people that you are a local at heart but when you cant even sing a single word of the national anthem when it is being played at the prize ceremony, or speak a single sentence of the local tongue when your "compatriots" come to congratulate you, it simply proves that money can be a very powerful thing in making people do unnatural things for reasons that leave a lot to be desired... seriously... think about it next time you watch the olympics or whatever...
now i am not writing this blog entry to judge or to condemn anybody or any country for doing what they think is right or what is the best for their own agendas... i just thought that it would be good to mention this, so that anybody who reads this blog might actually take a second to ask themselves questions that this entry is trying to probe...
thanks for reading if you've made it this far...
if you haven't known by now, i left my job last week... i shall refrain from bitching about the place and why i quit my job but seriously... trust me i have lots to say about the place and the people there... ok just ask me if you want to get the full details... damn it those agents... ok whatever... it was my fault that i even took it in the first place...
i had fun in sentosa, spending time with my jc class doing the usual things that people who go to sentosa do... except cramming 11 people into 1 hotel room...
ok now moving on to what i really created this blog entry for, i shall talk about the asian games telecasts that i have been watching on television... i hope i dont get into trouble for this...
those 11pm broadcasts have been both beneficial and detrimental to my daily dose of television entertainment... although i can watch our representatives in action and get entertained for hours every week, they deprive me of my favourite channel 5 tv shows which are actually the only things worth watching on mediacor* stations nowadays... seriously... the quality of local productions is... well... i mean look at the channel 8 drama serials... i cannot even stand 15 minutes of channel 8 or channel u sometimes... thank God for prison break and csi and cable tv...
watching our local atheletes in the games has given me much to think about... cheering our country on and watching them do well against other countries gives me incredible national pride but sometimes it get weird... especially when the athletes don't exactly come from your country...
ok don't get me wrong... i am not a xenophobe and i do not abhor naturalizing athletes in their adopted countries at all but it just feels weird sometimes... it gives me trememdous pride watching our table tennis exponents doing well and although gold medal match looks more china vs china than singapore vs china, i know that deep inside they are truly singaporeans at heart who want to do well for our country on top of achieving personal glory... and i am pretty sure they deserve to wear the country's colours as much as any one of us local born citizens since they have been living in our country for many many years already...
but it gets weird when you watch the mens 1500 metres or 5000 metres track events and you see kenyans bagging all top 3 prizes for countries, whose languages they can barely even speak save for the name of the country or the word money... i mean seriously... kenyans representing their "countries" at the "asian" games? deco may not be Portuguese but the former Brazilian had been playing for fc porto for many years before he started to don the Portuguese colours... and part of the brazilian population is actually made up of portuguese immigrants anyway so there isnt much of a difference... ditto for our chinese table tennis and badminton athletes who sweat and work their asses off for our country... now africans coming to an arab country to talk about winning and happily donning foreign country colours because they couldnt earn a living in their home country? seriously? weird...
as i write this blog, i am actually watching the football final or rather the gold medal match of the games... the host country, one of the finalists, is a middle east financial powerhouse who has players called "sebastian" representing them in their national football team... in fact, 1/3 of their players do not seem to bear the least semblance of being asian at all... now i am not even going to bother to comment about our national football team... as a "foreign import", you can tell people that you are a local at heart but when you cant even sing a single word of the national anthem when it is being played at the prize ceremony, or speak a single sentence of the local tongue when your "compatriots" come to congratulate you, it simply proves that money can be a very powerful thing in making people do unnatural things for reasons that leave a lot to be desired... seriously... think about it next time you watch the olympics or whatever...
now i am not writing this blog entry to judge or to condemn anybody or any country for doing what they think is right or what is the best for their own agendas... i just thought that it would be good to mention this, so that anybody who reads this blog might actually take a second to ask themselves questions that this entry is trying to probe...
thanks for reading if you've made it this far...
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