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posted : Sunday, August 22, 2010
title : YOG
I have been constantly dreaming about athletes and YOG both when concious and unconcious. It says alot about the kind of effect volunteering in the YOG has left me.
I learnt about things from different people from different lands. It changed not only my perceptions of people but also of myself. I learnt to accept myself for what I am and especially how I look like. It was an amazing experience, one I will forever remember and possibly dwell upon. It's different talking to foreigners and to locals. Foreigners always add in a kind of excitement when I'm talking to them cause of their different views on things. As Singaporeans we take things for granted. Just like how Singaporeans (myself included) thought the opening ceremony was ill-prepared. The foreigners just saw it as being amazing, awesome etc. And they have this kind of positivity which honestly makes me happy and not feel weird talking to them. My friends always tell me stuff like "How are the athletes, are they hot" or somewhere along the lines of them being good-looking more often than not. That fact is undisputable. They are gorgeous. But what I'm trying to say is that looks is not at all the thing about them that matters. If you were put in that kind of place, all you'd want to do is to ask them about their country and culture, and how's life. You know, like something you can ask over a casual cup of tea. You'd also like to learn about how the people are like, not how they look. I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, probably not. But what frustrates me is how people do not at all bother to learn about other people. They just throw themselves at certain people (i.e good-looking people) and take pictures without even engaging in a proper conversation. I understand that your hormones are raging but please have a certain degree of dignity. I'm not surprised though that many of these kind of people exist. I saw a bunch of girls who got athletes to sign on the back of the t-shirt which I thoroughly see as a ridiculous attempt at trying to get attention. Not only that, their bra strap was showing when they bent a little. They even got the athletes to pull the thin fabric of their shirt just to sign on it. It thoroughly disgusts me. What does it say about the kind of people in Singapore? This is why I am not really anticipating the arrival of the germans at my school. I know I'm bitter, really bitter about this but I just don't want people to give foreigners the false impression that Singaporeans are cheap and desperate and would just throw themselves at people for the sake of it. |
