doom for failure

i was too busy recently and hence couldn't really find time to blog.
was a bit surprised that this is my 193th entry. wonder when will i hit the 200th entry, given my hectic schedule since the mid-term break. nowadays, i slept for abt 4 hours plus per day. there were days when i slept for 5 hours plus cos i was simply too mentally exhausted. despite sleeping so little, i was amazed that i still couldn't finish my work. i wondered if the workload was simply too much or that i have became less efficient. only god knows.

recently, my tkd president told me that the proposal of getting a MP to grace the NTU TKD Open 2008 was rejected as the event wasn't a big event and there will b too much costs involved.
i was abit disappointed and i can foresee the start of a real downfall in tkd in ntu at least.
it has always being our pride that tkd is considered a ivp-level sport. however, it was removed from the ivp list a few years ago. ntu tkd were stripped of all its ivp status and priviledges like guaranteed hall places. this is despite the fact the we have being winning the competition ever since it was considered an IVP sport in early 1990s.
i told the school sports director that if we want to get back our ivp status, we must make the competition great and make it important. 1 way that i thought of is to name the NTU TKD Open Challenge trophy after a famous person and invite the VVIP to grace the competition.
my reasoning for that is as follows: ntu dragonboat and soccer team are accorded the ivp status since their sports are classified under the IVP Status in Singapore Sports Council (SSC) despite the fact that they are not a consistent winner in the competition year in year out. their challenge trohpies were named after the Prime minister and the President of Singapore. With such a strong backing, i don't think SSC will ever dare to withdraw dragonboat and soccer from the IVP status. so ntu tkd will stand a better chance to regain their ivp status if the competition has similar backings.
therefore i was disappointed by the lack of initiatives and tons of excuses from the school. really too disappointed.
wonder if you guys are aware of the Singapore University Games competition. As the name suggest, it's a competition that only the Singapore University can take part and it consists of a few games like soccer, basketball etc. i think that competition is crap, a total waste of money cos only 4 schools can participate as of now. i don't think that we will ever see a total participation of 10 singapore university, simply because of the fact that we will never ever going to have 10 local university, given our pathetic land resource. therefore i questioned the rationale of having such a competition when there's alr an IVP level competition for them.
i think it's a stupid policy and perhaps that's one of the reasons why Singapore can never go far in the world sporting arena. i hope im wrong. i will be really happy and surprise if such policies can really make spore a sport power-house in the world and perhaps qualify for the World Cup (3 more years to the 2010 World Cup aim, let's "HOPE" we can make it)