Widiah came back RP to study her uni stuffs, and we had a great chat + gathering with other temp staffs from other department during lunch. Looking back, we were extremely good with each other, together with some other council members and Clinston, Pengkee and some people which i can’t rmb.
Good time doesn’t last long, and i quite treasure these catching up session, hoping to have more of this again.
Tomorrow taking off + going Sentosa with the cheerleaders. As much as i can rmb that the juniors wanted more of outing and bonding activities, i plan this outing for them, hopefully everything goes well + good weather. OT on Saturday and please please, someone bring sun tan lotion so that i won’t become a cooked lobster!
Anyway, i found this interesting stuff from the internet, extracted from http://www.redsports.sg
Singapore is number one at the Beijing Olympics…in incentive money offered
August 20, 2008
What is the value of a gold medal? It depends on where you live.
If there was a medal for the country that promised the most money for a gold medal, Singapore would win. If Michael Phelps were a Singaporean, he would have gone home with 5.75 million Singapore dollars or about 4 million US dollars.
Here is a list of countries which have promised monetary incentives for gold medals (all in US dollars):
Singapore – US$708,800 (equivalent to SGD 1 million. The SNOC also promised $1.5miillion for a team gold.)
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Obviously promising folks money is one thing. Whether they will still represent you is another. If it was just money alone, Michael Phelps would be at the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) tomorrow applying for a passport.
I wonder if he would qualify.
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Conversation between ICA and Michael Phelps.
ICA: Name?
Phelps: Phelps. Michael Phelps.
ICA: Sound familiar leh. What you do, ah?
Phelps: Swim.
ICA: You want to apply for citizenship just because you can SWIM?
Phelps: Er…yes. I swim quite fast.
ICA: I also can swim. My breaststroke damn power. You can swim what stroke?
Phelps: Er…all the strokes.
ICA: Eh, you quite show-off type, hor. What else have you been doing?
Phelps: I just eat, sleep and swim. Have been doing so for the last four years.
ICA: Wah! Very shiok, like that! We don’t accept lazy people like you. Eat, sleep and swim only. I also can do. But, very important, let me ask you: CAN YOU PLAY PING-PONG?
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