Monday, April 21, 2008

Sports Nation


Last weekend was quite a good weekend for us. We went to Padang UTM Jln Semarak to watch KRS Premiere League Finals on Saturday. My kid really enjoyed it, although for me it was just a time to catch up with my friends, seniors and juniors from SAS. FYI, ASAS won 17-5 vs COBRA BLACKS. Congrates ASAS! Afiq & I went for a quick swim on Sunday morning at the pool at our place, while my wife went for hill-climbing at Bukit Melawati with her office mates. Weekends full of activities!

That remind me of our sweet memories while in Australia. Sports in Australia is popular and widespread. Australia seems to be the sports and outdoor activity capital of the world. Flip through the newspaper and you'll find an event to go during the weekend. From motorsports, footy, rugby, just name it. What more important is, they enjoy the sports as a family. It's the time for the family to spend time together, it's the time for friends to enjoy their weekend, it's the spirit of the sports that bring them together. Do we share the same spirit in Malaysia? Well, to certain extent. We need to work harder to be at the same level as them. We need to go out more. Enjoy outdoors! Yes bring your kid, bring your family out to the field, and let them experience the adrenaline rush watching the teams fighting for scores. Let them feel for the game. Spend less time at the shopping malls...what's the point of window shopping? Yea you don't need to tell me that kids do enjoy browsing though the toys section. Mine too but trust me, they'll enjoy more by being outdoor, they'll appreciate more about sports, about team spirit, about spending time with family. And hopefully they'll do the same with their family later in their life. Bring our sports to a higher level, true.. the athletes should do their parts, train harder, perform better, but we can help them by cultivating 'sports culture' in our country. We can discover more excellent athletes when we have a large pool of athletes to choose from. Get out more!

2 comments:

Jingga Studies said...

"we'r the pride of south australia, we're the mighty adelaide crows.." yeaaaa mark rucuitto + darren jarmen + of course tony modra! hahahaha

weh ko main rugby lagi ke??? teringat la pulak masa main kat st. morris tu...ganas giler ko ..

mslaysia punye sports pun EPL je la boring giler! ..tu pun import punye aiyaaaa... baik tengok wrestling!

Celik's Blog said...

kakakaka...tak la mana main lagi. Aku pi support team old boys je. Sambil2 tu pi ambik gambar. Aritu x puas ambik, aku bawak 80-200, tak cukup reach la. This Sunday kalau aku pi aku nak bawak 100-400 la, baru puas hati. Bulu hidung pun boleh nampak! Aku punya stamina mmg off la skarang, lately baru start balik swimming dgn pi gym bawah rumah aku kakakak.