Anyway, did I ever say that 还珠格格 (HZGG) is the most addictive drama on earth? I mean the old one with 赵薇, 林心如, and 苏友朋, not the new one with the ugly-looking 紫薇 and 小燕子 with a mole that makes her look like a 媒婆 =.= Anyway I think I slept at like, 3am last night?! I actually went to bed at 1am, but I couldn't get to sleep so I started watching HZGG on my phone. Seriously, it's like ONE EPISODE AFTER ANOTHER, NON-STOP. I'm like giggling at 小燕子's crazy antics and oogling over 五阿哥's cuteness in the middle of the night. If my parents were awake they would have thought that I'm watching dirty videos or something. I think I've watched HZGG 3 times, and just this year alone, I watched it another 3 times! HZGG is the new nicotine I swear.
Oh, and not to mention, it's actually still my exam week. Watching HZGG without any guilt makes me feel so ashamed of myself :(
If TVB will hire me to help them type in the subtitles for their new dramas, I'm willing to fly all the way to Hong Kong to accept the job! Come on, it's like watching a new drama ahead of others, and you can fastforward or rewind as many times as you like! Once you're addicted to drama, you start dreaming of impossible things like meeting Prince Charming or having jobs like this. I'm not called AuntieSeah without a reason hahaha! I realised that aunties like to get hooked onto dramas, hallucinate about the good-looking guys in the show, and start complaining about how sad their lives are when their husbands are nowhere like those from the dramas. Like what I told Trixy before, the Perfect Guy Syndrome states that if you watch too many TVB dramas, you will sub-conscientiously have this picture of the ideal boyfriend/husband that you will like, which are the exact replicas of the male leads in dramas. Well, you know that's impossible in real life, so people suffering from this syndrome usually end up being nuns after losing hope in guys hahahaha! They can buy a big house and live together with all the other nuns, discussing about dramas everyday.
In the evening, it was the SEA Games again! This time round, they were showing Singapore's female badminton gold medal match against Indonesia. From what I know, Indonesians have always pride themselves in badminton. It's a bit like how Singaporeans are crazy over soccer, just that at least the Indonesian badminton players are known internationally unlike errr, the Lions? It was seriously one of the most exciting match I've watched! Fu Mingtian (What a promising name!) had everything against her - Playing against an Indonesian player who's ranking is higher than her and had the home ground and audience to her advantage, but she displayed true courage, sportsmanship, and perseverance to finally clinch the gold medal home with an outstanding win in the final two games. Openly disgracing the Indonesians by winning the gold medal on their home ground in their national sport was nothing but SHIOK!
When Yahoo! News reported her win, many were disgusted at the fact that she's born in China, she's a foreign talent, they are not proud of her gold medal, etc. I beg to differ from their views. My close friends would have known my criticism of China and the disgusting habits they have brought to Singapore, but in my opinion, I think China-bought sports talents are way different from the foreign talents you know of out there. They should be respected, not jeered at. Why?
1. They left their families and gave up their nationalities to come and represent Singapore. Did the China woman selling you your bubble tea gave up her China passport too? I don't think everyone is able to do the same. Fu Mingtian was tearing when the national anthem was sound. She may not know how to sing it, but I believe she'll be able to sing it loud and clear in the same event 4 years later, during the 2015 Singapore SEA Games.
2. The China-born air-con repairman took away your jobs, but did China-born athletes took away your gold medals too? Those foreign talents earned their money in Singapore and sent it back to their China homes, causing the outflow of our money, but I don't think China-born athlete did that too. Surely you can argue that they are after the bonus monetary reward for bringing home medals, but are you sure you are willing to give up your studies and train everyday from 5am-9pm? Trainings are physically and mentally grueling. You work overtime also got money, but they train overtime no money hor. And that doesn't guarantee them a medal too. If they unfortunately under-performed, they are replaced by another countrymen of theirs sooner than you think.
3. If I've given up my nationality to win a gold medal for Singapore, yet gets lambasted verbally by ungrateful Singaporeans for being unhappy at my China name, accent, and face, I would have called it quit. Singaporeans usually post pictures on STOMP about disgusting China immigrants who cut their toenails on the MRT or perform other socially-unacceptable antics of theirs in public, but are China-bought athletes like that too? I bet they are so busy with training, they don't even have time for that. I've never heard of the name Fu Mingtian before the SEA Games, and that shows how low-profile they are. I really cannot believe how can any Singaporean said that they do not feel proud of her achievements at all because "she is a Cheena". Your great-grandparents were from China too, that's a fact that I do not like to, but have to admit it. I study Chinese Literature, and you can imagine how harsh my criticisms are of China, yet I have nothing but respect for China-bought athletes like them. Sure, I do feel happier when they are true blue Singaporeans, but I'm proud of Team Singapore regardless of whether they can sing our national anthem or not.
In fact, I despise the Indonesian audience more. Cheering for their Indonesian athletes and jeering at athletes from other countries is not the best way to show how "cultured" your country is. Like what a netizen mentioned, when Singapore plays against your country, you jeered at us when the results were announced and made fun of our national anthem during the award ceremony, but when your people gets drowned by tsunamis or buried by landslides, we are always the first few to send our rescue team. Reflect on that please.
Oh well, this was supposed to be a short and happy post on how happy I felt with Singapore's first badminton gold from SEA Games, but I couldn't help sharing some of my views when I saw the insensitive remarks by Singaporeans while searching for Fu Mingtian's pictures. You may not agree with me, but I think we should thank them for helping to realise our Singapore dreams in the international sports arena.
Way to go, Fu Mingtian!
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