My Father And The Melbourne Olympics

I’ve told this story many times before, but as the Olympic Games get under way in Rio, I remember again my father’s stint sixty years ago at the Melbourne Olympics: In another age altogether, my father scored a temp job at the Melbourne Olympics as a general clerk/intern assisting the accounts department. The Games then […]

Disappointed

That the national ping pong scandal was resolved, and there was NO sex involved! How to increase birth rate like that?

Congratulations, Tao Li

On being the first Singaporean ever to make an Olympic swimming final, and finishing fifth. No medal, never mind.

How many medals?

Our last medal haul looked like this, only silver [poll id=”5″]

No torch, no medals, no records, no nothing…

Image from mooncostumes.com The torch relay bypassed Singapore probably because protests are only to be held indoors, with a licence, in designated areas. I dunno. Then there’s news that the Youth Olympics might be a Games without medals or records. That is the sucks! Might as well not have athletes. I mean, they even give […]