Sea Games – How to Create an Ultimate Record?

Sea Games memadamkan obornya kelmarin. Walaupun kalau sesiapa menyaksikan upacara perasmian last weekend akan perasan semasa last runner bawa obor Sukan Sea dalam stadium, obor tiba-tiba terpadam. She acts cool and teruskan larian. Half way, an official came and gave her new torch. Rasa nak gelak pun ada. Satu lagi aku nak sebut, walaupun official website nampak cantik dan update selalu. Tapi all the news just concentrate for Thailand visitor and there is almost no video footage at all. Lame…

Malaysian performed quite well la. Best ever result outside Malaysia. As usual host country clinches the overall title. Don’t know because of bias judging, semangat, ridiculous sport like Muay THAI or any other reason, but host country selalunya akan johan except for minnows like Brunei or Singapore…. I repeat… SINGAPORE, even with all the import athletes they still not a powerhouse and will never is. Dah la surrenders the chance to host the Games. Yes, sepatutnya this year Singapore turn, but they pass it to Korat. Bodoh.

So, I believe for next Malaysia host Sea Games (2015) we can plan something to make sure not just we become overall champion but we also broke the number of gold medal harvested by any participant. Lazy to check the record, but obviously if we managed to bagged around 300 to 400 gold medals I believed we good to broke the record. Total number of gold should be around 4 to 5 hundreds, so if we collected 80% of the gold surely we will become the best ever performer in Sea Games history.

Ok… here my ideas.

1. Concentrate on Our Favour Sport
As everybody has in mind, we should maximum our potential in our favourite sport. Let say, field hockey, we are a class above the rest of ASEAN countries. So, bukan sahaja kita include both men and women categories. But, also maximize it. Lelaki, perempuan, campuran, 5-a-side, 7-a-side, 9-a-side, indoor, outdoor, best flicker event, ball juggling, fastest hitter, etc. Senang-senang kita boleh dapat lebih 20 pingat emas. Same thing goes for squash, diving and equestrian. Kalau betul-betul plan kita boleh dapat lebih 100 emas dari tactic ini.

2. Introduce New Sport
Previous Sea Games they introduced funny swimming sport. Berenang pakai sirip. Host nation swept away semua pingat emas. So, we should do the same. Introduce all our traditional sport; galah panjang, congkak, dam haji. Martial arts sports like Taekwondo and Karate always offer more than 20 gold medal each, imagine we introduce sukan beladiri macam silambam, SilatCekak, Silat Gayong, Tai Chi. We can easily get at least another 100 gold medals. Not to mention if we dare enough to introduce seni tarian seperti zapin, dikir barat, mak yong. But we need to check 1^st, and make sure Indons not good at those events. Or worst then sue us for claim their heritage. Funny Indons. Also we can start create new sport now, so by the time we host the Games in 2015 we will has plenty of new sport to introduce.

3. Buang Acara yang Kita Hampeh.
Bolasepak 1^st in the list. Bina badan, golf, tennis, weightlifting. Semua ini kita jangan pertandingkan. Make a bold move; simply replace those sports with sports in point 1 and 2. Dengan ini kita bukan hanya jadi johan keseluruhan, tapi kita juga boleh memperayam-ayamkan negara lain, just like what Thais did to our futsal team this year. After lead 5-0 and few minutes before final whistle they play with no goalkeeper. They brought in outfield player to replace their goalie. How rude is that? So, we must make sure we eliminate all other countries gold potential and tunjukan sifat angkuh secara maximum. Squash for example, we sent Nicol to play in men category, or include few under 12 players in our hockey squad, we the host we can bend the rules. Hahahha…

4. Prepare Better Incentive Scheme.
Instead of few thousand ringgit of money, Malaysia should come out with more lucrative rewarding system. Endorsement deal, front page of Mangga, dinner with Mawi or their own talk show since I believe our athletes love those things.

5. Dirty Tactics.
(Since above mentioned strategy not dirty enough). Other tactics include ban other countries's top athlete to enter our country. Curi passport mereka, relate them to any illegal movement, we got plenty in ASEAN. Abu Sayyaf, Gerakan Acheh Merdeka or even Hindraf or BERSIH. Also we should start planning right now by sending our judges to apply citizenship at other ASEAN countries. So, by 2015 even their judges will support us. If thing out of control, by that means still their athlete manage to make it into the starting list, we always has ISA to detain them. How cool is that?

This article inspired by this news report:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_sports.php?id=302868

P/S: Please, hope nobody will leave a comment and said how stupid I am. I knew there is an organising committee, host country need support from participants countries and not simply alter the Games to suit them.

Azalina… Oh Azalina

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's sports minister, a Muslim woman with a martial-arts black-belt, likes to lead by example: she does not wear a headscarf and insists that Muslim sportswomen do not have to cover up either.

Azalina Othman Said, 43, believes women offer the best chance of glory for a modern Muslim nation hungry for sporting success -- but in trying to encourage more girls to take up sports, she is quietly holding the line against conservative Islam.

Wearing a tracksuit-top and pants, Azalina told Reuters in an interview in her office on Tuesday that Muslim sportswomen were free here to dress just like their non-Muslim rivals, whether in the pool, on the diving board or in the gymnastics arena.

"It's never become an issue in Malaysia," she said, declaring that women of all ages should, and do, feel free in this country to "wear shorts and jump around".

"I mean we have Muslim gymnasts wearing tights and it's never crossed anyone's mind about how athletes are dressed. I am quite thankful that the people of Malaysia are still open-minded."

Complete article: http://in.today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=sportsNews&storyID=2007-07-11T123828Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-284159-1.xml

This is quite an old story, published in Reuters on 11 July 2007. Some blogger and forum already highlight this issue. I also found it while surfing through forum page.

My 1^st comment is, what the hell andartu ni fikirkan? Is she stupid or what? Dia dengan tanpa rasa bersalah menyatakan woman do not have to cover their hair while playing any kind of sport. Maybe she not means from Islam perspective, but when we talking about covering hair, menutup aurat…. tidak boleh lari, we talking about Islam. Or in Azalina words, conservative Islam. Aku malas nak membebel panjang pasal benda ini, bercerita pasal Islam, tapi kalau aku ulas panjang lebar it will end up aku mencaci, mengutuk, mengeji dia and membuatkan diri sku sendiri nampak bodoh. I just like to ask few questions:

1. Si Azalina ingat dia tu siapa untuk mengajar wanita Muslin agar tidak perlu menutup aurat semasa bersukan?

2. Adakah kita semua terlalu lemah sehingga Azalina dengan terang-terangan berani mengeluarkan kenyataan macam itu?

3. Penyokong-penyokong BN dan UMNO buta ke sehinggakan kejahilan pemimpin kanan mereka ini boleh terlepas pandang?

4. Penyokong-penyokong BN bodoh ke, sehinggakan kejahilan pemimpin kanan mereka boleh dibiarkan?

There are few BN’s supporters said, BN dan UMNO tak salah, cuma ahli-ahli dan pemimpin-pemimpin sahaja yang teruk dan busuk. BN dan UMNO adalah organisasi yang suci, bersih, tulus, memperjuangkan nasib orang Melayu, menyatukan kaum, kongsi kuasa..bla..bla..bla..mereka yang menganggotai pertubuhan itu sahaja yang menyalahgunakan kuasa, yang berakhlak teruk dan yang sibuk mengenyangkan perut sendiri. Memang la perlembagaan BN dan UMNO bagus, it is impossible for them to indicate, for example;

Fasa 2.2.3

Segala kontrak-kontrak kerajaan mesti diberikan kepada ahli atau saudara-mara ahli UMNO dan/atau parti-parti lain dalam gabungan Barisan Nasioanal sahaja.

Takkan la nak tulis dalam perlembagaan macam tu… Bodoh…!

Soalan tambahan kepada golongan-golongan bengap ini:

1. Kalau pinggan emas, diisi dengan tahi yang paling busuk, kau nak ambil tak pinggan tu? (Knowing that impossible for you to throw all the shit and only took the gold plate)

2. Penjenayah-penjenaah seluruh Malaysia create an organization to protect their rights and interest, you want to join the group?

I make this conclusion beberapa tahun dulu and I still stick with it; hanya ada dua golongan manusia yang sokong UMNO/BN:

1. Orang pandai yang dapat kepentingan dari menjadi ahli atau penyokong UMNO/BN.

2. Orang bodoh yang kena tipu dengan golongan 1.

Dari cerita Azalina keluarkan fatwa berkenaan aurat, aku dah melalut jauh…. Hahahaha…

Yup.. damn good posting...! I know... Thank you..

Update (23/07/07):

Thanks to Roslan SMS sebab ulas panjang lebar isu ini di blog beliau.

Member aku (supporters BN/UMNO) sms aku. Dia cakap Azalina sebenarnya berniat baik sebab dia nak beritahu kepada media asing yang rakat Malaysia open minded. Maksudnya kalau wanita Islam tak tutup aurat pun masyarakat tidak akan pandang serong. Kira negara M'sia bebas untuk kita buat apa-apa, nak pakai apa-apa pun. Ermmm... maybe it is true what her intention but aku malas nak semakkan fikiran pasal benda bodoh ini. Walau apa pun niat dia. Dengan mengeluarkan kenyataan macam itu menunjukkan betapa bangangnya dia. Full stop.