Saturday, August 16, 2008
~ 11:36 PM ~
CT: Jaslyn, so no more distractions now right?
Me: Er.. Olympics?
Seriously there's all that craze about Olympics now and it's terribly distracting. Michael Phelps, leviathan chasing ten gold medals and his mad swim in 100m butterfly winning just by a fingernail of 0.01 secs. Usian Bolt smashing world record in men's 100m, first time in the history of human beings a man has run the distance under 9.7 seconds without a significant tailwind.
It's the IN thing at the moment, it's hard not to talk about it as it pervades the TV, headlines, mobTV, school and not to mention friends.
Adding on to the Olympic frenzy, vj's plasma screen has been converted to live screening of the Olympic games. Avid fans of Michael Phelps would request their teachers to let them off class early so they can catch his spectacular display of prowess at 10.21am, exact timing clearly recorded for each and every of his swim. That's the extent of Craze.
I was walking towards the canteen on friday afternoon in search of yy and alison who were catching the table tennis match between Singapore and South Korea. Nearing the canteen, i heard cries of excitment. "What on earth is happening?" I wasn't expecting that many people to be at the canteen at 4pm in the afternoon. The excitement sure caught on fast, because people from behind me started to run towards the canteen. Not wanting to look like some typical singaporean, i din't join in the run. That's why upon reaching the canteen, i came a wee second too late, only to hear that Li Jia Wei lost to the Korean.
The althletes train so hard just for that moment of glory when they win. Or maybe it's for the 1 million tied to each gold medal. Imagine Michael Phelps with 10 gold medals, or you could say 10 million, how many days would it take for us to earn that when he does it in 10 days, make that 10 events, no how about rounding off to an hour? Let's just say you're lucky to be born either talented or filthy rich.
Tomorrow's the match of Singapore women's table tennis against hot favourites China in the finals. Our first medal in 48 years, no wonder we get excited when we're deprived. Looks like it's Singapore vs China again. Relive the feeling of deja vu from 3 months ago. Let's just wish Team Singapore all the best for being the underdogs.
