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See ah, start at #15 also can win, okay? Thought today's headlines should have been 'Alonso wows world' instead... Oh well... Although he said after his disastrous qualification outing that his chances were more or less in the longkang, he did go in with a proper game plan - and not just to show his face - and used his brains and the situation to his advantage. And so there he was at the end with the odd-looking trophy, listening to his national anthem. Picture from AsiaOne In TODAY, Massa was reported as saying 'I went to the guy (who made the mistake) and gave him even more motivation, because we need him and we need everybody together for the last three races of the season.' Also, it quoted the CEO of Ferrari Asia Pacific saying, 'We are achievers and we never give up... The Ferrari spirit is about competition, and we always want to win.' The mentality of champions and the spirit of teamwork... Hope some people learn these... Well, on Saturday, F1 report...

There was an article in yesterday's ST about the lack of local buzz about this Sunday's historic race. I fully agree with the journalist that this is partly due to the lack of publicity directed at us locals (there was a clip of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber visiting a hawker centre, looking at the circuit from up high, etc on Eurosports but has there been anything more than what's in the daily news broadcast here?) and the way the F1 race has been presented as little more than a big economic opportunity. Hope no one crashes into here and our pre-F1 heritage can be preserved for posterity We all know there are many, many speedsters on and off the expressways but this doesn't necessarily translate into a very large number of F1 fans. And if one isn't an F1 fan, one just isn't a fan. How to be interested in something one is not interested in? Even if you had the World Cup (soccer) or Olympics here, some people wouldn't care two hoots. The fact is we rema...

Speaking about yesterday's Gospel (Matthew 20:1-16), Fr Richards addressed the seeming 'unfairness' of the vineyard owner who paid everyone one denarius, regardless of how many hours they worked that day. I must confess that I always had a problem with the 'unfairness' thing in this story as well as in the prodigal son tale. I mean, the prodigal son's brother was rather poor thing what - did the right thing all the time and his father never celebrated that. Fr Richards said that these stories, while appearing 'unfair' to our human minds, show God's generosity and love. He loves us with the same love He has for Mary, the apostles, saints, martyrs, Mother Teresa, etc. Hence, the same wage of one denarius for all. After all, the prodigal son's dad did tell his brother 'everything I have is yours'...

There were some letters today about the poor attention given to our Paralympians. A Mr Leong Tuck Meng wrote: 'Yip Pin Xiu has done Singapore proud by winning Singapore's first Olympic gold medal. It may be the Paralympic Games, but a gold medal is a gold medal. I am appalled at the amount of media coverage and publicity this has been given... My children were very excited about Singapore's Paralympic achievements and wanted to watch the swimming on TV. Alas, there was no footage, only a short note on the news teletext... How sad that a momentous occasion in Singapore's sporting history is relegated to a footnote. We should have given the same amount of airtime to the winners of the Paralympics as we did to our silver-winning table tennis Olympians.' Mr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee wrote: 'I am glad that MediaCorp screened the opening ceremony of the Paralympics last week and started broadcasting an hour-long daily summary on Channel 5. I do wonder, though, why plans were n...

Ha, Andy Murray is definitely in the mix now! Not a bad Grand Slam finale, I must say, and not too bad a season ending for the top guys. I didn't really think Nadal had anything to prove at the US Open and anyway, he did make it to the semi-final. He has already had such a good year. Andy, who has also had a good year, didn't have anything to prove either, and here he is in the final! I guess, of all the top guys, Federer has the most to prove now but at least he has made it to the final and has stopped sounding too emphatic about how nothing is going wrong. Ferrer, who remains in the top 6, didn't appear too distraught when he got knocked out and gave all the credit to the Japanese kid who beat him. Guess he's happy in general with the way things turned out for him these 2 years. Certainly Davydenko and Djokovic are the biggest casualties and maybe somewhat distraught. The happiest of men must be Gilles Muller, ranked hundred-and-whatever, but who whacked his way into ...