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| This team is not a team anymore. I say this with a lot of sadness and disappointment. There is no combined willed, no more co-operation, no more love for the sport. Its more like a club, where people come and go, where opinions are contrary to the captains. sigh.. this has been bothering me as the season progresses.
It's not easy to run a team. Unlike individual sports like track and field, canoeing or tennis, we have so much more stakeholders to answer to. Just to conduct one training, you have to answer to a whole lot of issues- coach, sports officer, juniors, seniors, coxwain, numbers, timing, school timetable and worse, the weather. Without one of each, its almost impossible to have a session.
You have to balance out all the options and the interests involved, which many people do not see. Now i understand how the ex-captains felt. I wished I was more proactive when i was junior. Sadly as we progress, many have their opinions. No longer are we one in mind. Yea sure, we all want to win the PM cup but along the way how do we do this?
First it was the new kayaking programme, now it's the fragmentation of the seniors...
As for the current team situation...I always believed that democracy ends when the captain is elected. If you have an opinion or interest or agenda or feel so strongly over certain issues, you should have already stepped up to run the team. But once you have chosen the people, there shouldn't be dissenting voices. trust and commitment is important. At the end of the day if u don't believe in your captain and work with him, then we will never win anything. I know I have said before the importance of diversity and accepting it. I still do. I said it in the context of human nature and character. While we must learn to accept each other differences/habits/characters, they must also learn how to conform to certain team standards in order for the team to function effectively.
As for me, I have chosen those path and i will gladly stick to it for the rest of the season. my commitment is sealed as I look forward to help bring back the cup for the team. I love the team, i love the sport better. | | |
| Lee Kuan Yew once said in 1956.
“Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they’re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.” | | |
| Lee Kuan Yew once said in 1956.
“Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they’re conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.” | | |
| argh! sometimes time is moving so quickly and so many things to do that i wished i can just ignore everyone and everything else and do what is in front of me. there is so much business to attend to do that i have left out so many personal stuff.
my apologies to friends and love ones for all that i m missing and neglected! i really do miss connecting with all my friends. | | |
| This week.. or rather the academic semester has come to an end rather badly. Well, my grades for various assignment sucked and the impeding exams means that I must work doubly hard. it sucks even more considering that I am doing 1 less module than my other classmates. Sigh. I feel rather jaded about SPLAT! but still happy to contribute whatever I can. And somewhere somehow a part of life is going change and I might just lose a love one. The only thing that probably went well this week was that I clocked a decent timing for my run despite my fitness. | | |
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