Poem that intrigued

Saw and heard this from a Channel News Asia advertisement.. will reveal more of its meaning shortly...

I saw a peacock with a fiery tail

I saw a blazing comet drop down hail

I saw a cloud with ivy circled round

I saw a sturdy oak creep on the ground

I saw a *pismire swallow up a whale *[ant]

I saw a raging sea brim full of ale

I saw a Venice glass sixteen foot deep

I saw a well full of men’s tears that weep

I saw their eyes all in a flame of fire

I saw a house as big as the moon and higher

I saw the sun even in the midst of night

I saw the man who saw this wondrous sight

‘A Person of Quality’, Westminster Drollery (1671)

The stories we haven't heard

Singapore has won the first ever Olympic medal ever since our independence in 1965. Thanks to the table tennis trio, we've broken the 48 year wait for this medal...

As usual, there's a lot of discussions about being Singaporean and Singapore citizens, about importing sporting talent and all that...

yet I'm sure a lot lies behind each of their decisions to come to Singapore... and this was actually covered in a China CCTV program that interviewed Li Jia Wei and Feng Tian Wei and traced their table tennis journeys right from their childhood...

http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=426895254

very inspiring... and definitely makes me wonder that despite all the glory they have brought back, we as Singaporeans have never seen this side of their stories...