Everyone in World is Having a Party, Except for Us

Beijing pulled off a fantastic olympic opening ceremony. In fact, the best i’ve seen next to Sydney. However, all of this is marred by the fact that it was announced that Brunei was excluded from the march and the olympics because they could not register on time.

I watched countries, like the Cayman Island, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Eritrea. Countries that are either too pissed poor to develop or are smaller than Brunei. As poor or as lowly populated as they are, they have managed to send in at least 5 people to every olympics to participate in several events. Olympics after olympics, we’re sending in only 2 or so. In this olympic, we’re not sending any because we’ve failed to register. As the IOC has put it “the IOC tried until midday Friday to have the National Olympic Committee of Brunei Darussalam register its athletes, but to no avail.” – China News

The IOC were the ones who tried to contact Brunei? we’re not even trying! This is ridiculous! Why are we the only IOC member not competing?

If we can’t even organise ourselves for this, such a simple thing to do, we could afford it even. What in the world can you do? You need a damn good explanation, especially that this bungle was witnessed first hand by his majesty in Beijing.

No more dodging issues, no more finger pointing, no more “sshh.. sensitive issue ni, diam diam saja”. Hard straight facts are needed and we’re not a bunch of nodding thumb sucking monkeys, oh no no no.

If it is incompetency, someone needs to go out.