Yeeha! Finally submitted the much horrid and stressful item known as the Honours Thesis yesterday. It's been a long time coming, and put much effort into doing it for the last 2-3 mths. Had been waking up and sleeping to my HT everyday for the recent month or so. So felt an immense relaxation and joy when I finally handed it in to the department. All that's left is the hardbound copy to be submitted next wed. YesssshhHhh~!
Right now, catching up on stuff that I haven't had time to do before, like watching Hustle and other stuff. Been also watching episodes of Little Britain (yes again) on the BBC entertainment channel on cable, and Lost which is airing on Ch5. And more time to surf the net and do time-wasting stuff, but not for long, before the exam arrives.
Oh and I saw Daniel Bennett at the train station the other day, Singapore's National football team player. He's a good player and performed pretty decently for the team, which led to Spore qualifying into third stage (I think) of the world cup qualifiers. That's pretty awesome.
But one thing for Singaporeans to ponder about is the focus and direction of the country's sports scene. It must be said that the way conduct sports is similar to Singaporeans conducting business. How so? I may explain
The impatience to win, has led them to disregard nationality issues, and conduct big-scale, sorry, massive-scale imports of players from other countries who have shown quality. This is done thru enticing with the carrot. For the local players, they have mostly been overlooked, and I would have thought that a country should and would train local players to be successful, but unfortunately, country says no.... The quick fix method is to buy/import, not train and cultivate, where the former would be cheaper in the short-run but expensive in the long-run, while the latter is vice versa.
Regarding local players participating in overseas competitions, the onus is also on the player to raise their own cash/funding so that they can take part. So you're practically on your own. No money, no trophy so no reward. They said they are tired of sponsoring players who can promise medals and in the end they don't bring back the gold/silverwares. Do they think sports is like business when you can buy a piece of land by just offering the highest bid? Even the best player may stumble one day. So then, what? Impatience is not the way to go.
If we have to win the worldcup or whatever cup by having an entire squad of imported players, I'll rather not win anything. This is not the English Premier League.
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