YOG

I just realised I have not covered the biggest event to come to Singapore this year - The Inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Yes, you heard me right, the FIRST EVER. What an honour for Singapore~! It makes me even more proud to be part of such a great nation. Who would have expected such a small country like ours to host such a mega-scale international sporting event. All the venues, logistics etc were settled in around 2 years and in the blink of an eye, it was 2010.

But that is not what I want to talk about. This post is about what happened 11 Aug 2010. It was a moment I would never forget. The Olympic torch actually started its day at our school! The entire school was rallied to support the runner who was going to run around our school. I was just lined up along the road, around with my classmates. Then came a banner. No one around me took it. So I did. I admit it was reluctantly at first, but then I realised the significance of it, that it was once in a lifetime, even to be a lowly banner holder was a great honour.

But it ended as quickly as it started, and with a quick glimpse of the torch, it headed down the road, disappearing amongst the myriad of escort motorcycles ahead of it. Come to think of it, that torch was nothing special. It was the spirit that defined the torch.