Sg is assured of a silver medal in table tennis @Beijing2008

[saturdaynitespecial]

The last time Singers won an Olympic medal was in 1960 when Tan Howe Liang clinched a silver medal @ Weightlifting.

This time round, after 48 years, Team Singapore Table tennis women team had qualified for the finals against host country, China.

Match will be telecast live @ 7.30pm SUNDAY Channel U and 5 on 17/08/08.



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[Vaucluse]

Malaysia is also going nuts over their silver or gold medal . . . same situation as Singapore.

Good for them, excellent performances.

[Global Citizen]

Congrats to both!

[Wind In My Hair]

Bagus!

[mondaymorningquarterback]

As a singaporean I'm embrassed. The 3 players and their coach are china born and trained. We just bought a silver medal. Great job singapore!!!

[sundaymorningstaple]

As a singaporean I'm embrassed. The 3 players and their coach are china born and trained. We just bought a silver medal. Great job singapore!!!

I guess that's what happens when a whole population is afraid to follow their dreams because their parents didn't think is was a good idea. You end up with a whinging populations that are afraid to place the blame squarely on the shoulders of those responsible.......

Themselves.

There is a lot of potential sports talent here but the fact that money & greed override all else here tends to disseminate any pursuits of "glory" seeking instead material comforts. If you didn't step out of your comfort zone to try then don't dis those who came here to do your work for you and flying your flag giving glory to a country other than their own.

Chew on that for a while......

[banana]

As a singaporean I'm embrassed. The 3 players and their coach are china born and trained. We just bought a silver medal. Great job singapore!!!

I guess that's what happens when a whole population is afraid to follow their dreams because their parents didn't think is was a good idea. You end up with a whinging populations that are afraid to place the blame squarely on the shoulders of those responsible.......

Themselves.

There is a lot of potential sports talent here but the fact that money & greed override all else here tends to disseminate any pursuits of "glory" seeking instead material comforts. If you didn't step out of your comfort zone to try then don't dis those who came here to do your work for you and flying your flag giving glory to a country other than their own.

Chew on that for a while......

dayum SMS, you do like to go on don't you? Despite being here 26 years, despite being married to a local lady, despite having kids here, despite the fact that you know these trolls don't think before they type. If I didn't know better, I might think these trolls are an alter ego so you can lecture on how useless the natives are without looking like a chump yourself. But you're bigger than that aren't you?

I'm chasing my dream. I know many who are too. Don't tar all of us with the same brush.

[sundaymorningstaple]

I actually give those Singaporeans with common sense the credit to know that what I write isn't about them per se. Was I wrong? Or do I have to spell it out for them as well? Your response would indicate so, but I also know better.

"The natives?" Them's your words not mine. I took my own wife to task yesterday about the same thing after she made the same sort of comment about them not being "Singaporeans".

[sundaymorningstaple]

Oh, sorry, I don't use Singnet. I use Pacnet both at home and in my office.

[banana]

Yes, I know you mean well in your special way. Just...don't you think when you say things like that with phrases like "whole population", especially on an expat board (as so many like to remind us locals), it doesn't actually help smooth integration on both ends? If I were an expat fresh off the boat (or plane) reading such remarks from an evidently long time, respected moderator, I'd probably have a rather skewed impression of how to interact with Singaporeans.

As for the Singnet/Pacnet comment...no idea what you're trying to say, sorry.

[sundaymorningstaple]

As for the Singnet/Pacnet comment...no idea what you're trying to say, sorry.

If I didn't know better, I might think these trolls are an alter ego so you can lecture on how useless the natives are without looking like a chump yourself.

[banana]

As for the Singnet/Pacnet comment...no idea what you're trying to say, sorry.

If I didn't know better, I might think these trolls are an alter ego so you can lecture on how useless the natives are without looking like a chump yourself.

ok...my head was hurting because I was trying to see the significance there cos y'know, old people usually make their most meaningful statements subtly, like with a

then I realise there was none and my head hurt even more trying to say it politely. curse my Asian upbringing. I mean this is a guy who's so old his parents were fishes.

so I thought frig it, just come straight trout and say WHATCHU TALKIN BOUT WILLIS?!

[Wind In My Hair]

Free translation service from yours truly:

SMS is saying: The poster / 'troll' you said was his alter ego is using Singnet (he knows this as a moderator who has power to look into all our private lives). He can't be that troll because he uses Pacnet.

banana is saying: Speak English lah!


Gosh, what I do for the people I love. Don't shoot me if my translation is wrong. Whadya expect for something that's free?

[banana]

errr...that's like a kid saying he couldn't have taken the cookie because he was watching the jar.

wait...you love me?

[Wind In My Hair]

Of course. Agape, not eros. Keep your knickers on.