Now I don't even know why I bother to blog here any more. I'm too lazy to actually bother of thinking of something worth saying that isn't exclusively emotive. Now I'll just bum around and make really daring statements that might get me into trouble. Like I dunno, saying racist things, talking bad about the government etc. Anything else I'm 100% going to stick on Blogger.

Oh and listen to Ricky Gervais's podcast. Remarkably funny stuff, so stupid it can be intelligent somehow.

I'm too lazy to even think of a proper title. That being said it's amazing. It's like eGen's all grown up in a year or something, like all the young'uns grew up or buggered off. The titles on the front page no longer read like: "sKoOl sUxXx" or "i luv u jeremy" or just "i hate living". I see proper punctuation now. Mr Period must be so happy.

Anyway a new year, and I must say I'm sad to throw away my eGen Calender card thing. I liked the design.

So right, here I am today to rant about sports in Singapore. It's an old topic I'm sure. I might have already mentioned it. But I read the papers today, so I feel like mentioning it again.

So here's this report about gymnastics in Singapore. This grabs my attention, my sister used to do gymnastics, and gymnastics has some recognition now in Singapore, after some girl went to go win a Silver Medal in the Asian Games all by herself. Of course there's no financial support, and prior to that there was absolutely no official body representing gymnastics in Singapore at all. At least they're like "Hey it exists" now in Singapore, that's a step forward I guess.

So anyway it turns out the commonwealth games (that's 71 countries) isn't going to see Singapore gymnasts. The reason, (correct me if I read this wrong) is that the target they were supposed to reach in points was the 6th place scoring that last time Scotland achieved.

It matters not that there's only one team in Singapore. It doesn't even matter that they won the Asean Games (Gold to be precise. They were the pride and joy of the system that didn't help create them for a while. They even had Mark Richmond pronounce their names wrongly). The only indicator (as far as the papers report) is that they're not good enough because they can't get top 5 placing. Sure their score isn't that far off, but it's off and since they can't secure it, sorry girls you're not going.

To make it clear, the target isn't set by the Commonwealth Games people who'd say "Oh sorry, you didn't make the grade you can't compete". Specifically it's the Singaporean Olympic people going "oh you're not good enough you won't represent us sorry cheers".

This is making alot of sense to me. Top 5 place or Nothing seems to be the psyche of competition here. Bollocks to Home Grown Talent, screw the fact they are Without National Support, who cares about Best in Region.

Well at least it's now fair to say that with all the effort put in, our own regulation bodies of sports are more cmi than the sportspeople themselves.

At least we know not to encourage people to be good in sports now, we know that it's not that they'd not be good enough even if they trained, it's just that they'd not go anywhere anyway. Who cares if you're the fastest in the land... can you acceed to our demands? Does it matter if you're the most graceful from here to mongolia... can you ride a unicycle?

The skeptics are right then. We'll never make it in sports. Singaporean Sportspeople aren't good enough. Good enough for everything, but Singapore, that is. And it looks like that's all that matters.

I could start on the sports school and this need for sportsmen to be like Gods or something, to have the amazing capacity to devote their lives to achieving a minimum grade while being at the top of their game. Distraction is something Pros deal with. Only n00bs at sports get Ds in their studies. Apparently.

I sort of want to be able to say I cheered on the Singapore Lions as they faced The Group Of Death (scary) now. I hope they never get as far as our gymnasts did.

Also recently in the news (100% all of you read this, it was in the comic section of sunday times too, in the end) it turns out that being naked at home is a crime. We were talking about it, and it's generally agreed: There must be something more to the news. But if there isn't, by golly I'm afraid to take a bath now, I could get charged with indecent exposure. Scary world we live in eh? I join my voice with thousands at the stupidity of it all. I don't know why I even bother with this country anymore, it speaks for itself, and I don't even know how anyone's gonna fix it.