More olympic news to talk about. seems like singapore has a medal. while i'm happy for the athlete's achievement, i'm not necessarily proud of it. like i said before in 2008, the medal would have more meaning if a born-and-bred singaporean athlete won it. after all, how much loyalty to and understanding of a country can be gained in 5 years, bearing in mind that 21 years were spent growing up and living in another country? honestly, i can't fault certain websites for saying that china had a clean sweep of the medals.
if singapore wants a medal, the government should put more emphasis on sports! make it more viable to be a full-time professional athlete and coach, promote sports more, and stop focusing so much on purely academic achievements. hiring foreign coaches is fine, i think, but the athletes who are out there representing the country should be singaporean. i'm willing to bet that the whole country would be unanimously happy if a singaporean athlete won something. and by "singaporean", i don't mean a 5-year citizen or a PR.
having said that, it would be hypocritical of me to want to squeeze benefits out of this medal. like public holidays, for instance. i do not care whether a public holiday is declared or not. in fact, i think there shouldn't be too big a fuss made of this medal. however, if there is a holiday, i won't complain. if there isn't, fine by me too.
TA training ended today, and seems that everyone made it. so, while my official title is "teaching assistant", i prefer to think of myself as a "trolling advocate". it's actually quite exciting! never thought i'd be on the other side of the system, wearing an orange lab coat. my prediction is that my group will do ok-ish for the physical experiments, but they'll be strong for separation and organic synthesis...provided they pay attention and follow instructions.
last night's sleepover went well. watched the first 2 batman movies, which was a good recap. spotted a few more references, which made me happy. out of the trilogy, i think the dark knight was kind of the odd one out, since there wasn't much reference to it. still, they're a good series of movies. seriously contemplating getting the DVDs if there's a boxset or anything like that.
finally, after 3 weeks, the 2 guys are having tuition. wonder how much they've forgotten. TKGS girl is having tuition too. so much tuition is good for my wallet, not so much for my mental health. but i'll get by. have refereeing on sunday too. oh! tomorrow is the first time i get to try driving the new car. my dad warned me that there was a problem with the transmission, so i have to start accelerating slowly, step off the pedal, and accelerate again. nothing i can't get used to, i think.
if singapore wants a medal, the government should put more emphasis on sports! make it more viable to be a full-time professional athlete and coach, promote sports more, and stop focusing so much on purely academic achievements. hiring foreign coaches is fine, i think, but the athletes who are out there representing the country should be singaporean. i'm willing to bet that the whole country would be unanimously happy if a singaporean athlete won something. and by "singaporean", i don't mean a 5-year citizen or a PR.
having said that, it would be hypocritical of me to want to squeeze benefits out of this medal. like public holidays, for instance. i do not care whether a public holiday is declared or not. in fact, i think there shouldn't be too big a fuss made of this medal. however, if there is a holiday, i won't complain. if there isn't, fine by me too.
TA training ended today, and seems that everyone made it. so, while my official title is "teaching assistant", i prefer to think of myself as a "trolling advocate". it's actually quite exciting! never thought i'd be on the other side of the system, wearing an orange lab coat. my prediction is that my group will do ok-ish for the physical experiments, but they'll be strong for separation and organic synthesis...provided they pay attention and follow instructions.
last night's sleepover went well. watched the first 2 batman movies, which was a good recap. spotted a few more references, which made me happy. out of the trilogy, i think the dark knight was kind of the odd one out, since there wasn't much reference to it. still, they're a good series of movies. seriously contemplating getting the DVDs if there's a boxset or anything like that.
finally, after 3 weeks, the 2 guys are having tuition. wonder how much they've forgotten. TKGS girl is having tuition too. so much tuition is good for my wallet, not so much for my mental health. but i'll get by. have refereeing on sunday too. oh! tomorrow is the first time i get to try driving the new car. my dad warned me that there was a problem with the transmission, so i have to start accelerating slowly, step off the pedal, and accelerate again. nothing i can't get used to, i think.
-random thought of the day: Interpersonal interactions are complicated.-
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