Why we broke at the Olympics
Our failure at the Beijing Summer Olympics has received differing reactions both across the mainstream media and the blogosphere, prominent views amongst them are those which express dismay and blame the athletes for being either too confident or underestimating to the significance of rigorous practice.
Mind me, sports in the Philippines really took a dwindling status since the day it became one of the avenues of politicking including public relations, promotion of personalities, betting and gambling, and electioneering. Sports is being used as an instrument of blowing the egos of politicos stuffin’ our athletes with promises of material wealth and yes, for the love of money everything became commercialized from basketball to boxing, the reason why the Philippines cannot erect a monument of prominence in the world of the best sporting nations.
On Solar Sports I watched a teary athlete from our Olympic contingent complain that he was not given enough attention during his preparations. It is true that they were trained just months before the Games (Philippines Sports Commission Chairman Butch Ramirez admitted it), something quite portending of the results when compared to countries whose athletes had already been training for the events more than three years earlier. Worse, the Olympian said that he practiced in irregular periods with non-permanent trainors and monitormen, reflecting the situation of our delegates whose needs in the field were not given immediate support. They were treated insignificantly and left to themselves like hens expected to lay golden eggs after some time. Our strategies are very far from other nations’ which study with close scrutiny the performance of their players during practice, providing proper recommendations and additional facilities to improve them whenever necessary. It doesn’t need much money because the right mind would no doubt apply improvisation, as what contingents from poor countries in Africa and South America did which led them to exceptional successes that even broke records.[continue reading]
Famous Quotes on Marriage
This is entry is like dominated by the male specie as the rants are directed to their wives. So let’s take this in a man’s point of view:
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. – Sacha Guitry
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together. – Hemant Joshi
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. -Socrates
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -Dumas
The great question… which I have not been able to answer… is, “What does a woman want? -Sigmund Freud
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. -Anonymous
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” -Henny Youngman
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3D Movie – Proudly Pinoy Made
Confined in his room for most of the day. Sitting in front of his computer doing what he likes best…making 3D animation. This is the usual scenario at the house of this very talented gentleman from Cavite. His name is … con’t HERE.
Speculations Regarding the Eraserheads “One Night Only” Concert
…what if:
- The event pushes through in the hands of another organizer?
- What if the original organizers had decided to throw in the towel?
- What if the private event now becomes, gasp, public?
- What if your chances of seeing the band you’ve listened to in your youth were given to you at arms reach if only you were to pay for admission?
Sounds impossible? Read the rest of this article at fritzified.com.
X-Factor Special: Layla Miller, Secret Invasion, Final Crisis, and Other Face-Rocking Comics
I’ve been defying my limit of comic book purchases per week for the last 3 weeks, and it feels so good. I do expect to cut down on some of the titles after Secret Invasion and Final Crisis. I’m starting to really despise big “events”. Bah. Now, onto the reviews!
X-Factor Special: Layla Miller – This one-shot made me regret not picking up the Quicksilver special, thinking that it was just as awesome as this one. Peter David gives us a depressing but oftentimes funny peek into one possible future where Layla has been trapped since Messiah Complex, and it’s a very good read.
