opportunity costs

Well as one might have guessed i've spent a good deal of the past two weeks watching the Olympics coverage on tv, thanks to scv and their six whole channels of coverage. Quite extraordinary actually - the opportunity to actually be able to choose between sports to watch was quite a novelty, and to that end i watched stuff i'd never watched before like rowing/canoeing/kayaking and women's weightlifting (scary stuff, that).

Come to think of it though, perhaps i overdid it quite a bit where watching was concerned - how ironic that the world's biggest multi-sporting event is enjoyed by millions all over the world like me sitting on their butts watching it on tv and not working any muscle save maybe the fingers (when changing channels) and the glutes (well, since that's what is sat on...). And that came at the expense of tackling the ever-increasing pile of nie work that has been silently accumulating - come to think of it, up till now i'm still not exactly sure what work i've to do - can't say that even if there were no Olympics i'd have been any more motivated to do it though...

Been pretty bummed as well cos i've had this real bad dry cough over the past two weeks, which has kept me from realizing any lingering desire to exercise. And it's really quite bad, and starting to get me somewhat worried. It sure doesn't help that with my meticulous elimination process where possible food choices at nie is concerned, and given the real limited choices there, there's practically nothing i can eat which may not aggrevate the situation... Anyways, tomorrow morning, i was intending to donate blood, since they were setting up one of those mobile centers at nie (as much as i believe in donating blood, i normally only go about with it if the center comes to me, rather than me going to the center). But then i just read their guidelines and they say that if you've had a cough in the past week (and i'm coughing as i type this), you can't donate. Ah well, another time maybe...

Rather randomly, my current bone to pick (and boy, do i ever run out of them?), is with LBW, the stta president (how did she even land the post in the first place?). I must admit that i've never been a fan of the stta's recruitment policies and over-reliance on foreign-born players, as good as they are - but in any case i can't deny the fact that they've achieved remarkable success over the past decade or so (let's not get to the dubiousness of that success). And then here saunters in LBW (who btw i never had a good impression of since her use of crude hokkien jamban-related terminology in parliament, in spite of her uncanny knack for appearing by the side of grieving relatives of at least two separate people who had died tragically, not long after their deaths) and by the end of one month at the helm she's succeeded in throwing a huge spanner into the works of a system that by and large has worked very well (and right after achieving the pinnacle of its success thus far, nonetheless), not only unnecessarily shooting her mouth off to the media after a major but nevertheless hardly life-threatening mistake, but also firing the manager and head coach just like that. And the worst thing is that she can say stuff like "let's move on" or that she doesn't want to be drawn into the fray. I find that so incredulous, especially when she was the one who started it in the first place... Sigh.