look on the bright side. this is the first time in a long
while that a "Lee" in the government ever came out and apologised
to anyone, no? Haha.
seriously, since the incident is more or less over and the
minister has made his speech, we can more or less move on, and the
important thing would be to learn from this. in Singapore,
the ends always justify the means, but maybe after this ppl will
know that even the biggest success means nothing if we have not
done things the right way from the start.
STTA may be the most successful sports organization here, but
this incident has shown them to have one of the weakest
foundations. they should start learning from sailing,
swimming, and some of the others that regularly send large teams to
competitions and yet can still manage and run them well. with
its success, STTA should have no problems in securing money for
what they need as compared to other sports, and they should be able
to do a good job if the right foundations are laid.
Lee Bee Wah might be a loudmouth but lets see if some of her
ideas might not be as dumb as what comes out of her mouth.
Her intentions to promote the sport to more young people here is
important.
This issue, just like the Mas Selamat issue is never going to
resolve itself in the way that each and every one of us believes it
should be. at the end of it all, maybe we should not forget
that all parties involved had Singapore's interests at heart, and
move on to seek a better way of doing things.
i've long stopped celebrating our olympic medal,
seriously. maybe its cos of this incident, maybe its still
the fact that are athletes had only been Singapore citizens for a
few months. but what i do look forward to is to the next
Olympics to see how our sports have grown.