the entry of silver medals

so after 48 grueling years of waiting, singapore finally did it.

we managed to upset the netherlanders, the south koreans, and landed in the final two spot in the olympics table tennis games against mighty china. akin to david versus the goliath, only in this case, david (a.k.a singapore) gets his rump kicked instead. indeed, what a recipe for a thrash-ismo catastrophe.

the chinese (china) opponents proved to be a pernicious threat for our chinese (singapore) counterparts. it was actually quite painful for me to see our representatives, li jiawei, feng tianwei and wang yue gu, getting steamrolled by their opponents. as much as they tried to distract their competitors, li jiawei with her sulky pouts and feng tian wei with her chicken dance after dropping a game time and again, it did little other than entertain the google-box viewers.

it was definitely a tall order to defeat china in their home ground, on top of the fact that these china girls were the top seeded players. throughout the match, the china contenders were an expression-less trio, as though they had suffered a stroke. perhaps it was this steadfastness and aggressiveness that made li jiawei and gang lose their nerves. nevertheless, the singapore flag remains unfurled, proving to the world that we're resolute in the face of adversaries, and that we're good at talent-scouting too.

but foreign talents aside, i am just glad that we won a silver medal.

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