41 and on the move?
Its been a week since i came back from covering a fishing tournament in Rompin Pahang, national day has passed and perhaps its been a while since i posted, i gotta be honest, i'm not all that active and what not on blogging, but i'll do whatever i can to update this space as much as i can.
The tournament concluded on the 6th August, and the news of Singaporeans taking the top placings, yes placings not placing, and to do a bit of shameless publicity for this event, it is an international event involving participants from 14 countries and its been running for 4 years already, a bit of history would put it that a Singaporean who came in 2nd for this year was actually the champion last year.
My question here is simple, why isn't this covered in the main stream press here in Singapore? I mean with national day only a few days away from the completion of the tournament, myself and a journalist took the oppurtunity to forward this piece of news to the TODAY newspaper, but from what I see there wasn't even an official response from the paper on this.
And yet i thought our very own leaders were on the lookout for Singaporeans with talent and to make known this sort of acheivements to the public at least, i mean this ain't just catching Ikan Bilis or small fish, its Game Fishing involving grabbing a fish of at least a whopping 50kg! And heck it ain't easy i tell you, i even have difficulty getting a catch from those fishing trips i go for.
To put forth as we celebrate 41 years of independence, enough of this nonsense that patriotism comes only during the 9th August and the days before it, i mean yes we celebrate our achievements and what not, but lets accept that nobody's perfect and we make mistakes and we should be held fully accountable for those mistakes, and not simply sweep it under the carpet, as we continue to pile more shit under the carpet it will eventually stink, and hell its gonna be hard to get rid of that stench.
The tournament concluded on the 6th August, and the news of Singaporeans taking the top placings, yes placings not placing, and to do a bit of shameless publicity for this event, it is an international event involving participants from 14 countries and its been running for 4 years already, a bit of history would put it that a Singaporean who came in 2nd for this year was actually the champion last year.
My question here is simple, why isn't this covered in the main stream press here in Singapore? I mean with national day only a few days away from the completion of the tournament, myself and a journalist took the oppurtunity to forward this piece of news to the TODAY newspaper, but from what I see there wasn't even an official response from the paper on this.
And yet i thought our very own leaders were on the lookout for Singaporeans with talent and to make known this sort of acheivements to the public at least, i mean this ain't just catching Ikan Bilis or small fish, its Game Fishing involving grabbing a fish of at least a whopping 50kg! And heck it ain't easy i tell you, i even have difficulty getting a catch from those fishing trips i go for.
To put forth as we celebrate 41 years of independence, enough of this nonsense that patriotism comes only during the 9th August and the days before it, i mean yes we celebrate our achievements and what not, but lets accept that nobody's perfect and we make mistakes and we should be held fully accountable for those mistakes, and not simply sweep it under the carpet, as we continue to pile more shit under the carpet it will eventually stink, and hell its gonna be hard to get rid of that stench.
posted by Kao Wen Sheng at 8/12/2006 04:02:00 AM
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