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Saturday, September 04, 2004 |
| We should NOT settle for mediocrity... and the TRUTH about our DNA...
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Now that the Olympic Games are over… the sports hype in Malaysia has all about died down except for the football fans as Schumi has already won the F1 championship… And I’m pretty sure everyone in the world is aware of Malaysia’s poor stint in this year’s Olys… Actually it is the second Oly in a row that we have came back empty handed… I read a very truthful article in the NST yesterday and I totally agree with what Datuk Seih Kok Chi our Olympic Council of Malaysia’s secretary said… He basically said that we are rewarding our athletes too easily… rewarding them for their mediocre achievements… He said: “When an athlete ends a long wait for a gold medal in a certain event, money, cars and even land are bestowed on him but we forgot to see the time or distance he won his event in. This leads to athletes being content to excel at the Sea Games level or even at Malaysian Games level as the rewards are already lucrative.” Last year, our sprinter Nazmizan Muhannad was rewarded for his 100m-200m double… but was it worth the reward?? His 100m sprint clocked a time of 10.40s… Even the slowest Olympic sprinter runs faster than that… According to Datuk Seih, the rewarding system should be changed to something like rewarding the athlete when he improves… In addition… there seems to be a decline in sports interest… and people are calling for the government and schools to do something about it… the truth is… well this is what I think anyway… that firstly Malaysian families in general are VERY academic orientated… parents expect their children to excel in their studies and except them to study day and night… and now they are expecting their children to become sports prodigies as well… is it not a bit TOO much to ask for?? Also… schools are not properly equipped with sporting equipment and facilities… and not forgetting trained staff… teachers are train to teach not to coach… they do not have the knowledge of how to improve students sporting abilities… Well then what about clubs and associations outside school that have former international athletes?? Personally I think these clubs do not properly publicise themselves and thus no one actually knows who they are and where to find them… and lastly one MAJOR factor is that… sports does not pay as much as other industries in Malaysia… even selling ‘Char Kuey Teow’ in a hawker stall in Malaysia is better than becoming an athlete especially if you are a non-bumi (I don’t mean to be racist but it is a fact…)… But I think we can really do something about it if we really wanted to… I think Malaysians just don’t have the drive to excel in sports… I think firstly… schools should have trained staff to develop the potential athletes or at least know who to recommend these potential athletes to… instead of just keeping silent and letting them compete in school level only… Next… the national sports association or committees should send talent scout frequently all over the country to look for talent… they are bound to find some… but just in case they do not find all… they should have some kind of annual national tryouts… it’s not easy but it definitely CAN be done and they really should because some people really don’t get noticed even if they are talented… I personally think that there are people who are just unfortunate that they do not compete enough in competitions to be noticed but they have the talent… and if that fails… the non-governmental sports committees or clubs run by ex-internationals… should promote themselves more widely so people know where to find them… But seriously… I myself love sports and always get really disappointed when our national athletes do soooooooo badly… and why don’t they give scholarships to talented youths?? The government is so keen on giving away scholarships to students who “so-called” excel… why don’t they invest some money in young athletes… send them overseas to be trained instead of the older athletes… as they say… ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’… Another very sad thing going on is the Malaysian Idol… yesterday’s performances was disgraceful… the theme was ‘Rock’… note it is rock NOT rock and roll… I don’t understand how they can choose such a weird theme… even if you have a good voice doesn’t mean you can sing rock… you need a unique voice… but usually rock can’t pop and pop can’t rock… and anyway isn’t the Idol show based on pop-ish style?? But seriously can’t they pick something more interesting like big band, swing, jazz, Broadway or based a some great songwriter… more like the A Idol… Furthermore… the producer should make the idol contestants do their research before they sing… they seem to not know much about music at all… they always pick the newer song in the music scene or those which are really famous… it’s terrible… Anyway… on to the next topic… I was watching some tech program yesterday and they were talking to a scientist from the Human Genome Project… according to the guy… it seems that only about 1% of our genome (DNA) has our genes… others are just “stuff”… which they have not found out why they are there yet… supposedly… about a billion years ago… our ancestors were infected with the DNA parasite where it clings on to your DNA and just multiplies itself… Thus… more than 50% of our genes are not actually ours… it’s theirs… how odd is that??? Maybe that’s what caused evolution… and we’ll mutate into weird creatures in the next millennium… no panic… I’m just crapping here… hehehe… Cheers…
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WanTse @ 9/04/2004 04:56:00 pm
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