Love at first sight...
Someone gave me a present one day.
I opened it and saw a flash of black and white.
and ordinary too.
Untill someone dropped it and chasing after it.
It was then when i started playing with it, and found out all about it.
It was soccer or also known as the beautiful game.
After kicking it once,twice,thrice...
I couldn't stop.
love at first sight...
5:41 AM
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am honoured to address on the issue regarding foreign talents. Singapore has been accepting foreign talent from many different countries, but few have contributed much in helping our nation.
Firstly,many foreigners have been hired to represent Singapore in various sports.However, not all of them have excelled in the highest international level.Take our soccer team for example,there are many players from different nations plying their trade here.Although they have brought home the coveted Tiger cup, they have yet to perform on the big stage and qualify for a major tournament such as the world cup. In the past,when there were no foreign players yet,Singapore had won the Tiger cup(Malaysia Cup) many times and even got closer to qualifying for the World Cupthen the modern day Singapore team. This shows that Singaporeans are not worse then foreigners.
Another point is,Foreigners have been taking up most of the jobs in Singapore.This has left Singaporeans with less job opportunities as the foreigners are also given more privelleges and benefits than the locals, causing many capable singaporeans to leave for other countries.
Hence,although Singapore is a small nation,I feel that it's people are capable of taking care of their country themselves.However, I also feel that not all foreigners are not allowed to work for Singapore but just that the locals should be given the privelleges as they are the ones who would fight and die for their own country.
Thank You.
2:52 AM
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Its been a long time since i lasted posted.Many events have taken place in this past few weeks but i just did not have the time to write any of it down. Well, but now i do have,so let me give all of u a brief explanation of what i had been doing this past few weeks. Here goes...
On the Saturday 2 weeks ago, some of the table tennis boys,including me and Nick, went to JB to have a friendly match with our 'brother school. It was quite a short trip to and from our school to theirs as it took around 2 hours to get there. As we arrived their school, we were very warmly greeted by the teachers there as well as the students, who offered us some of their local delicacies and drinks. While we ate the food that were offered to us,they also told us many jokes to lighten up the atmosphere, encouraging us all to bond together with them. Soon after, the table tennis competition started. It was going to be a match consisting of 4 singles and 2 doubles events. First up was Liang Kai, a sec 2 junior who had the skills and technique of a sec 4. All of us had high hopes of him as he was considered one of the best few players in our school. However, Liang Kai did not do as well as we had expected him to.Although all his movement and technique was correct, the ball just did not seem to be able to hit the opponents half of the table. No matter how hard he tried, the ball just would not go in.I think it was because the ball was different from the ones that we usually use. In the end he lost but we were all very proud of him as he had played very well. Next up was the first doubles consisting of Yan Jing and Sheng Hui, two singles player.Although they had never played together before, they still had plenty of chemistry between them to control tyhe whole game and overwhelm their opponents. They won the match 3-0. Jamus was the 2nd singles for team AHS and while his match went on,the doubles events started.Nick and I was the pair going up against the big boys as we heard them saying that this was an under 18 event.Wow. We had the before match jitters and could not really concentrate before the match. Hence when we started we made many mistakes.But luckily,halfway through ther first set,we gained back our rhythm and form and fought back all the points and won the set.After that, things went on pretty smoothly adn we went on to win 3-2, after making many costly mistakes.I felt that i played pretty okay but Nick performed brilliantly,forcing the opposition into many errors.
After the whole tournament,we had won 5-1.Sorry that i am unable to post about the rest of the matches as i was too tired to pay much attention to the rest of them. We played a few more friendlies with the malaysians, this time with no stress at all. At around 1 plus, we were invited to have lunch with them. The food that they prepared were filling yet delicious, one of the most enjoyable moments of the day to be able to enjoy the widespread prepared for us. After that we headed back for SINAGAPORE...
To be continued...
2:00 AM
