leader vs follower...

its baseball finals.... the korean series has started... my team - Samsung Lions are in the K-series~! but they lost the first game today....

today while i was watching tv, someone was talking about being a leader amongst the group as to being the follower in the group.... which in turn (in korea especially) comes down to... are u the oldest in the group, or the youngest in the group..

i guess in any case, if ur in the middle of the social hierarchy, its a lot more comfortable... some who boss u around, but some that u can boss around.... i guess when i have family gatherings in korea, thats where i am... im "Cho 4"... out of 6... so i have 3 sisters bossing me around from above, yet 2 younger brothers to boss around below me....

but thats just twice a year... and day in, day out... my job is to be the oldest/leader/teacher in the class.... its great in a sense that the kids are like little robots in this country that pretty much do everything u say.... if they dont, they are scolded, and next time, they are put back into line...

yet... amongst the teachers that i work with... im the youngest... and that in itself has its ups and downs.... and on the weekends, im in 2 baseball teams.... and somehow i've found myself in the position where im the youngest in both teams.... not only that... there a couple of guys around 2~4 yrs older than me... but other than that... its like a 8~10+ year age gap....

being the youngest in korea has its own role.... ur like the little joker/jester.... which funnily enough seems to suit me more than being the oldest in a group.... also being the oldest/leader does have its tendency of making me super lazy... i realised that im more active and alot less lazier when i am the youngest in a group....

well, in other news....

my dads in korea at the moment.... been here.... 10 days now?? leaving on tuesday.... but i had to frantically clean up my house when he gave me an 11th hour notice that he was coming to korea... again.... its funny how healthy and organised my life gets when i have parental units around....

maybe im not so good at living alone.... or im TOO good at it.... its definitely not a healthy option for me.... is it time to find a roommate? or move in to my uncle's place? girlfriend??!! psht~ nah... thats just silly~ haha.... we'll see....

so far, so good... enough...

the commonwealth games.... 5 days of competition....

what has happened??

the GOOD thing is... no terrorist attacks...

that, and the fact that australia is dominating everything~!!!

besides that.... we have had construction falling apart.... scoreboards falling down.... we have an alleged contaminated swimming pool which is making the swimmers ill... the smoggy pollution is so bad, u can barely see 100m in front of u.... yet... the marathon runners will have to suck it all in for over 2 hours over 42kms...

we have had a couple of pathetic moments of aussie athletes being sore losers.... a wrestler and a cyclist that gave the officials a finger gesture because they didnt like their judgements.... poor effort~

aussie sprinter was disqualified 4 hours after winning her 100m sprint.... considering it is a 11 second race.... and she false started by 7 thousandth of a second.... the electronic pads give the indication that she false started instantaneously.... yet.... she was allowed to run her 11 second race, do her 20 minute lap of honour, and 4 hours later, while she lines up for the medal ceremony, she is disqualified.... the comm games admin needs to take a look at themselves.....

there are no fans anywhere.... and the fans who do attend events such as the swimming, archery, and other events dont know when to shut up and be quiet.... we have had swimmers false start and complain that the indian crowd cant stay quiet during the start..... pathetic.....

on BBC today, they even said that new delhi and india were nowhere near ready to host the games.... the only reason this game hasnt been a total disaster is that people expected more disasters.... but for an international sporting event, it has already exceeded every aspect of being an unsuccessful event....

i hope the aussies keep the gold coming, and we can out number ENG + IND + NZL + CAN gold medals combined~

Grand Final~!! finally~

the AFL, NRL grand finals were played out this week....

and really they were full of teams that i dont really care about....

collingwood magpies thrashed st kilda in the AFL grand final replay... it was so lop sided it wasnt even fun to watch.... last week's draw was so good... this entire week was anti-climatic....

the NRL final was interesting in the first 20 minutes... although once again i didnt care who won.... the dragons ended up thumping the roosters 32-8... so the last 30 minutes of the season was just a boring grind again....

the interesting thing i found today though was the Commonwealth Games website....

on the official page mind you~!!

the guy who makes the internet explorer header wrote commonwealth as two words... Common Wealth Games..... i heard there were groups in india who were going to riot the games coz the indian govt shouldnt spend money on the games, and should inject that money into the social welfare of the country.....

so its quite ironic they would call this the Common Wealth games....

it has also been tagged as the "shame games" coz the stadiums were still construction sites a few days ago, and a pedestrian bridge collapsed.... monkeys and snakes and filth in the village....

it starts in a few hours with the opening ceremony.... i hope all athletes are safe.... including the cricketers.... who are also in india.... funny... there werent any cricketers pulling out of going to india... not a single word was spoken about it.... yet u would think the commonwealth games was being held in a war zone..... damn exaggerating media....