20081015

1320 HRS OCTOBER 15TH

Today's papers reported.

Singapore's Olympic silver medal

winning table tennis team,

is quitting Singapore

to ply their trade

elsewhere.

Barely two months,

after winning the silver medal

and pocketing

Singaporean taxpayer's

$750,000

they decided to quit Singapore,

to ply their trade elsewhere.

Singapore Sports Minister said,

they may be China born,

but they played their hearts out

for Singapore.

Right.

Now, they're quitting.

Did they play their hearts out

for Singapore,

or for the prize money?

If indeed they played their

hearts out for Singapore,

how about giving us

the money back?

Nobody seems to remember,

they bitched and moaned

about paying income tax

on their prize money.

Yeah, they played their hearts out

for Singapore,

and after taking the money,

they won't pay tax,

won't give anything back.

These Singapore government guys

simply don't get it.

Perhaps they never will.

Singaporeans are Singaporeans.

No amount of money you throw

at a foreigner,

will turn him or her

into a Singaporean.

You just given them

a NRIC

and lots of money,

but you did not make them

a Singaporean.

Now our preparations

of London Olympics 2012

are all shattered,

because of a bunch of people

that this government said

played their hearts out

for Singapore.