Cure For Insomnia

After all the brouhaha about "Malaysia Boleh", "Malaysia Can", "Malaysia is a friendly country" and "Malaysia has the tallest building in the world", we’ve still only managed to bag 9 golds from China Games. I mean Asian Games. Yeah,whatever it’s called. Those Dog Eaters wins everything anyway. And then second there are Dog Eaters II, with 3rd place occupied by Sushi & Whale Hunters Ltd.

Altogether, those 3 nations won, like, 5 out of every 6 gold medals contested.

So despite outnumbering Singapore by 25 million people, we outgoldmedalled them by one.

Makes you proud to be Malaysian, doesn’t it?

And yet the local news presenters went, "Kita di atas Singapura berdasarkan pungutan pingat… Majulah sukan untuk negara.."

Which brings us to the bowling squad, to be known now as "Esther Cheah and the Others" as they contribute a grand total of, er, 2 golds. Now, that’s funny, because I’ve watched the telly a lot and i could have sworn that I saw esther win at least 5,479 golds! Of course, the way she’s won it is the same everytime, the interviews she gave after the wins are also the same, and the way her father butted in about how he is "very proud of my daughter" is also the same everytime. Seriously, how many times can you possibly show the same person winning the same gold in the same event over and over again?

But in true Malaysian style, that was exactly how we celebrated all our gold medal wins. i’ve seen Koo Kin Keat-Tan Boon Heong defeat Indonesian Guy A-Indonesian Guy B about 20 times, Rufina collecting her medal 10 times, Zandra Azzzz… Oops I mean Aziela thumping her fists with her teammates dozens of times, Nicole David, Beng Hee, oh… My brain keeps saying, "I’ve seen this. And this. And that one. And this one."

Thus I wonder, how does China, South Korea and Japan celebrate their golds? Do they even? I’m sure they’ll have more medals in a day than Malaysia has in a century. Heck, those people from JaPants are complaining because they finished behind South Korea! What the hell do they want anymore? They have the longest life expectancy in the world, they eat fresh salmon and tuna everyday, they have guys who look like girls and girls who look like anime characters…

Some people are just never satisfied, eh..?

Off topic, to those from Ling Ling’s class, especially the USJ bunch and some of the KL-ites, Ling Ling’s Thai dinner would probably happen at the 13th of January. At a Thai restaurant somewhere. I dunno. I’m just a messanger (How the hell do you spell messanger?) and Ms. Vampie has the details.

Until then…

We’ll meet… Again.