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Let's make Olympics a friendly game... anyone can score!

The above image was tweeted by Caroline Buchanan, an Australian cyclist. We’ve known for a while that the Olympics is just an excuse for the world’s most beautifully athletic people to come together for a cross-cultural boink session.

Only we had no idea how much boinking was involved.

Mediacorp’s Today reported that Durex sponsored 150,000 condoms for the 10,800 athletes. For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume all the athletes are straight, and the ratio of male and female athletes are roughly 50:50.

That gives each male athlete 27 condoms to use over the duration of the Games, which run for 17 days.

Now who wants to watch a version of Olympic Big Brother?

picture source: Caroline Buchanan’s Twitter

So, Feng Tian Wei won the women’s singles table tennis bronze medal yesterday in the 2012 London Summer Olympics for Singapore. For that, I congratulate her. But I don’t feel like we, as a nation, have anything to celebrate. Feng was brought to Singapore in 2007, and in Jan 2008, was made a Singapore Citizen (Just in time for Beijing 2008), and together with her fellow chinese imports Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, went on to claim the Silver medal in the 2008 women’s team event.

What our government was/is doing is as obvious as the match-throwing badminton players. They were systematically gaming the system in order to gain (almost) instant gratification.

If we can’t win it, we’ll fucking well buy it.

I just don’t think its right. I guess I can understand the temptation, and the rationale behind doing it (It sure feels great to be part of the medal winning elite in a global event such as the olympics), but ultimately, the victory will ring hollow.

Also, FTW (Feng Tianwei, incidentally, also, For The Win!) has been a “Singaporean” since 2008. Yet she can’t field a simple interview session after her win in english. Integrate leh.

We’re not asking a lot of you. Just speak english. Like the rest of us.

Not too loud please.

I’m a fan of how our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been doing thus far on Facebook.

He adopts a more light-hearted tone, engages well, and responds to people’s feedback. We can also differentiate his own postings against that of his social media team by his sign-off at the end of each post, and he posts often.

So, good luck on your National Day Rally Speech PM, and I look forward to hearing what you have to say about what some of us have suggested.

– RTCB (waah… sounds like some Bank!)