I just saw it coming when Eighth Wonder's IR proposal was rejected and when Genting's Aquarium-themed entertainment park was accepted. Look, we're living in a realistic world; No matter how may people are starving to death or how many animal species are being shaved off the existence list, we're still hungry for the money. It's a huge shame, I guess, that the idea of a huge tank with a whale shark stranded in it is applauded and the Pele academy was put down. So now we know why 1. the whale shark is endangered and 2. Singapore's sports industry will never take off in another 100,000 years' time.
I was silently rooting for the Pele academy. It would definitely bring sporting talents in from all over the world in anticipation to this major project by one of soccer's legends and, hopefully, we would just stop emphasizing scholastic achievements and go ga-ga over sports. That, I foresaw, wasn't going to happen. Thus in Doha, I didn't see the need for a 6-8 gold yardstick. Where's the need for this make-or-break attempt to make our local sports scene sound so rosy when it's all a facade?
Oh, and speaking of animal conservation. Perhaps we're just too curious over certain things, such as a live whale shark and an aquarium full of traumatized sea creatures in full view. Wow, I grimaced. Yes, I'm a detractor of such 'efforts to conserve wildlife'. So shall we carry on with the conservation efforts?
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