Passing of a busy week

The Olympic fever, ah... all the hustle and bustle in the local media, among its netizens and citizens alike.

Our 48-year medal drought has finally ended. This time, we've secured at least a silver medal. Not bronze, but silver. Our table tennis (women's) team will be playing in the finals against China. We all know what that means, don't we?

I was listening to the match on 89.3FM. For the lost souls out there, this station is 'audio mobile' - the audio version of TV mobile - though I could not watch the match, I could still listen to it... or so I thought. Until the train I was in went underground. zzzzz. No reception, just when the final set (Feng Tianwei's) was going on.

Today, Singapore rejoices with its athletes as they create for themselves an event most worthy of rememberance, in the nation's olympic history. God is good (:


The Games aims to unite the world in sports. It makes me wonder -- how? Is this still true in today's context? Why does it seem like this global sporting event is dividing the world instead of uniting it?

Look at China now, it's dominating almost every sector within its power.
Look at how it has surpassed the USA in gold medal counts as well as overall medal counts. Look at how it 'trains' its young in gruelling and harsh conditions. These kids share a common dream of winning gold medals in the Games when they grow up. Investment? At such a young age? Just to make sure it possesses every gold medal it can get its paws on? I can hear the US president calling for human rights already (kudos for his calling for religious freedom in a Chinese church).

I could go on, but I don't exactly want to write an essay at this time of the morning...
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Week has been tough, and it's going to get tougher. Claire (bong) did not sleep for three nights in a row, which is outrageous. There was the >3 hr-long Chinese mock exam paper (I forsee a U or S); the dreaded econs case study test which I did not study for having fell asleep early the night before; the submission of the 'final draft' of our written reports for PW (triggers nightmares and daymares, all the time); the Econnect II submission, causing every econs student (in AC) to frown; the physical geography mile-long tutorial which took up two whole nights for me to complete, in point form. The. List. Goes. On.