Sports Career- short lived?

I was going through my "News In Week" papers a few days ago and saw the blog prompt about parents discouraging their children from a career in sports as they believe that the children will never go far. Thus, I decided to write a post on this topic.

Firstly, let's face it. No self-respecting kiasu parent is ever, ever going to allow his or her kid to pursue a career in sports as chances are slim that it would be a long time career. Is there any chance that a parent would allow his or her son to pursue a career in oh, let's say football, when the monthly income would be the same as what he could earn in a private company in a week? No.

That's mostly what the Chinese parents would do. As for the Malays, they believe that if any career would bring in a monthly income, it would be fine unless it is illegal or wrong. After all, Mr Fandi-Ahmad-I-Played-Football-For-Singapore-But-I-Am-Rich is a role model to any football playing kid, isn't he?

And thus, with all this, the results can be seen. In 2001, in the pre-qualifying World Cup match, not a single football player in the starting X was Chinese. Even now, how many Chinese football players do you see competing in the S-league? Furthermore, with the known fact that Chinese make up more than half of the population in Singapore, we have to admit that we are indeed a kiasu lot. I myself know well. My parents always remind me about how important that sheet of paper is in society these days, and how I am likely to suffer without it. I am sure the same goes for many of my classmates

In conclusion, I would like to hear your views on this post. Thanks +)

Some Random Facts

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(hardly seems worth it)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(There must be another way to lose my calories)

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
( I have no comment)

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.
( What a wste of effort, time and energy)

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
( I'm sure people have better things to do)

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
(Happy Birthday)

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
( Now that's interesting)

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
(Just like us humans)

Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries. (This fact should make a Guiness World Record)

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
(Aha! Hear, hear)


How about some facts about Bill Gates?

1.Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2.If he drops a thousand dollars, he won’t even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would’ve already earned it back.

3.The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4.He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
5.Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
6.If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7.If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.! But you have to make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8.Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he goes to heaven.

To Conclude
If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time theircomputers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankruptin 3 years !!

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