Olympic: Our Dreams or Goals

Olympic: Is Singapore really able to go for it now? Olympic had just ended, with the closing ceremony is still playing it over in my head. It was reali fantastic, an eye-opener, and so many things happening at one go. Be it sports or not. Reports on sports are all over the local newspapers than usual dishes. Everyone, all of sudden was caught in the “typhoon” of it. I called it “typhoon” cos it had caught up ppls’ sudden interests and sort of went off fast enough than for us to be thrown back again into our daily jobs…
During those days, everywhere u could see the reports of the Olympic, catching the news of sport events in Athens. It was splashing everywhere. Even way before the games start, there were news of Athens, preparing all the precautious (security tighten up to prevent noisy rowdy crowd even terrorists: Lucky there wasn’t any). Lots of money also poured in to be done with all the maintenance of the stadiums; n ensures the smooth traffic flow as the Olympic began. It had really left them a lot of debts now according to papers, but nevertheless the people are proud to hold this big event in their “beautiful” cities (as the promotion of the “tourist board” always do). People who lives near the vicinity, were even grateful, as there is alot of new entertainment settings, the roads (which are oft complained) are repaired, as the Govt could no longer put it off in order to save their grace when Olympic start.
Sport could reali help to unite ppl, as everyone of us is now standing on the common grounds. I did get to see the real sportsmanship incidents at this season like the Gymnastics; when one of the contestants is badly judged due to his bad final landing. But ppl was heard cheering for him, even demand the judges to give a fair result.. wow.. that was gd…no competition, everyone even the coaches jt went cheering n standing on his side regardless of what races nor countries he represented. In the end, he was a like peacemaker, calming the enthusiasm spectators down. Friendships are definitely built n bonded by then. The spoils are: During the race, a person like the mad Irish priest pushes athletics off the running track just few more paces before he could end the race. So pity for that guy, of cos, the culprit is sentenced to jail of the disturbance.
Our sportsmen, or so “called” our representatives were all disappointments,.. n disappointments. Looking forward for our “infamous” water teams, at Athens, turned out knocking off one after another. It was reali saddening to see, not to mention the embarrassment when we recall how we used to boast our team. Their results were like a disaster, one could be reali at loss to explain n even judge on it, “bless” that coach could even came out with the explanation n conclusion. You could see the “much” difference as we compared the timing our swimmers do with the records. It was way too much, not even a slightly close; like a child swimming records (2mins to 0.57secs). They better give a gd explanation for their results. Not even convincing, sound veri unstable. Then our yachter n shooter was off at the first round. N our “near” close shave to the wining rounds. It was so long since we last see our sportsman got a gold from Olympic.

Our hopes were again hang up one more when we saw our contestant in the badminton courts, beaten all the strong, high, worthy opponents… Our eyes were like glued on the wide TV screen, catching every moments n glances, cheering, yelling or some keeping our fingers crossed, praying hard for it…so many years.. yaa… had gone. He was so brilliant in his excellent shots, so do Li Jiawei in her table tennis tournaments. But Lady Luck was not with them throughout the whole game, they get distracted in game n missed the gold. It is almost an impossible dream but come to think of this. They are not even local.. but foreigners…

Now sg even going for sport like having sports sch…so many things/ activities are promoted to target on it…. but can we really make it to a reality goal than jt a beautiful high-up dream fantasy…sigh.
Promote sg as a culture sophiscated society is one thing, but doing this (making Singaporeans tune mre towards exercise) even harder… not many artists is often recognized/ appreciated here too…thinking n mindset had to be change, we had to ” brain wash” to make it as success.
I think its not easy since we grew up into a place where a paper chase is gd enough to bring u everywhere…u desire. Having top place in sch (make u n yr parents proud, even teachers n principal get the honour, then come landing a gd job n stable salary). “The higher education, the higher position u get”, this also put u in a different social class than others. In sg, this is very prominent evidence. Compared to other countries like European, where they look into experiences n creativeness + innovative… Sg ppl just had to try hard to go into entrepreneur.. venture out far beyond its small island, is already very achievable… Remarkable!! I could say...