YOG Food Controversy
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wa...lucky never participate..
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Anyway, its quite a bad move to give the volunteers such a poor nutrition meal... At least you should have given them better food. A KFC or MacDonald's meal would have been healthier and comes with a drink. Better than those junk plastic box food!
After all, they come forward to volunteer, and spend hours doing escorts and standing under the hot sun. Certainly they deserve more.
And I believe most will feel that they were not appreciated at the end of the day, giving them a poor impression of the country and how politicians run events here.
They could give allowance, but problem is some location is so ulu that's there's no eatery nearby i.e. Sengkang has only Mc..So ends up some corner ppl kp abt not enough allowance, some got excess.
Tat's why e fresh ration idea came.
But if e volunteers gotta sweat it out and get diff food from e paid officials, then it sounds a bit of MINDEF/ SAF style of food.
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In the attempt to show off the event to the whole world. they have neglected taking care of the volunteers that helped to make the event possible.
It is also a irony that the lunch box incident have become more famous than the actual event.
This is how short sighted the organisers are.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
In the attempt to show off the event to the whole world. they have neglected taking care of the volunteers that helped to make the event possible.
It is also a irony that the lunch box incident have become more famous than the actual event.
This is how short sighted the organisers are.
budget. everything got budget one. organisers must have a low budget for volunteers.
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eh????why the food at yog so rotten??
u be lucky the volunteers at yog dun end up as public protestors shouting "DOWN WITH THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT!" after being dished out with starvation rations for meals .
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if food is so bad the soon we will probably see yog volunteers throwing rocks n stoners at yog meal provider during lunch time.....and see his vehicle overturned and on fire wiv huge black smoke for miles!
think best they get the yog atheletes to buy their own food.
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u dunno how the finance dept work meh? they will do the approval once budget is submitted. if the budget is high, they will tell you to look for cheaper alternatives. so LL lor.
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I heard that while the lower level volunteer were eating that, the upper level were having BBQ + alcohol party. To the extend that the drunkard almost pick up a fight with the pte security guard.
It was finally covered up with a meditator buying kopi to shut the matter up against the press.
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I cannot imagine the situation where a lot of citizens who are being forced to become volunteers simply walk out of the venue during YOG.
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why dun the dumb ass organisers of yig go buy nasi lemak n chicken rice for the yog volunteers instead???
u tellin me the stupid idiot big time organisers are not willing to spend $2 chicken rice for the poor starving "volunteers'???!!!
who is the yog organiser???!!!i want him with an apple in his mouth roasted at east coast bbq pit tomorrow!!!!
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this is a bad press spore doesnt need. will the foreign press go write and report on this?
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yog volunteer:wheres
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yog volunteer:wheres my
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chicken rice?
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yog caterer:no chicken rice....food is based on merit...there are no free meals.....
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hmmm......poor kids.....
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I think army food better than the picture. lol.
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Originally posted by trolol:
I think army food better than the picture. lol.
Our current army food operator is the same company which caters for the YOG.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
this is a bad press spore doesnt need. will the foreign press go write and report on this?
prolly so.they cannot report abt this in sg (u noe why.)
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
this is a bad press spore doesnt need. will the foreign press go write and report on this?
Actually Australian news did report on inadequacies for the YOG few days back.
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Six young athletes receive scholarships from inaugural YOG
SINGAPORE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Scholarships were awarded to six young athletes from different NOCs here on Friday as part of the legacy of the first-ever Youth Olympic Games.
The scholarships, presented by Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as part of the country's commitment to the Olympic Movement, aim to encourage the pursuit of excellence and the forging of friendships among young generations. Six fully-funded scholarships to the Singapore Sports School were given to athlete-students from Botswana, Guyana, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore and Thailand.
Some 30 National Olympic Committees (NOC) submitted a total of 54 applications for the scholarships between early this year before the short-listed candidates were invited to Singapore for interviews in May and June, and recipients were informed of their selection in July.
"Singapore is a small open and cosmopolitan city with no natural resources. The key determinant of our future is our people - in particular, our young people," said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, who funded the scholarships with operational support from the Singapore Sports School, the Singapore National Olympic Council, the Olympic Solidarity and the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee.
"This is why we invest so heavily in education, transmitting values that have stood the test of time, enabling our young people to reach across cultural boundaries and equipping them to seize opportunities in a rapidly changing world. These scholarships represent our commitment to share these opportunities with top talented students from the Olympic Movement," he added.
"Singaporean youth will benefit from a more diverse classroom environment and increased opportunities to learn from their new international schoolmates, reinforcing the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect."
The inaugural Youth Olympic Games, featuring young athletes aged between 14 and 18, will be held in Singapore from Aug. 14 to 26. The quadrennial sports gala for the youth will receive some 5,000 athletes and officials from the 204 NOCs, along with estimated 1,900 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers and 320,000 spectators.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sports/2010-08/13/c_13444210.htm
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Originally posted by Disman:
Six young athletes receive scholarships from inaugural YOG<!-- end_t -->
SINGAPORE, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Scholarships were awarded to six young athletes from different NOCs here on Friday as part of the legacy of the first-ever Youth Olympic Games.
The scholarships, presented by Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as part of the country's commitment to the Olympic Movement, aim to encourage the pursuit of excellence and the forging of friendships among young generations. Six fully-funded scholarships to the Singapore Sports School were given to athlete-students from Botswana, Guyana, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore and Thailand.
Some 30 National Olympic Committees (NOC) submitted a total of 54 applications for the scholarships between early this year before the short-listed candidates were invited to Singapore for interviews in May and June, and recipients were informed of their selection in July.
"Singapore is a small open and cosmopolitan city with no natural resources. The key determinant of our future is our people - in particular, our young people," said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, who funded the scholarships with operational support from the Singapore Sports School, the Singapore National Olympic Council, the Olympic Solidarity and the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee.
"This is why we invest so heavily in education, transmitting values that have stood the test of time, enabling our young people to reach across cultural boundaries and equipping them to seize opportunities in a rapidly changing world. These scholarships represent our commitment to share these opportunities with top talented students from the Olympic Movement," he added.
"Singaporean youth will benefit from a more diverse classroom environment and increased opportunities to learn from their new international schoolmates, reinforcing the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect."
The inaugural Youth Olympic Games, featuring young athletes aged between 14 and 18, will be held in Singapore from Aug. 14 to 26. The quadrennial sports gala for the youth will receive some 5,000 athletes and officials from the 204 NOCs, along with estimated 1,900 media representatives, 20,000 local and international volunteers and 320,000 spectators.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sports/2010-08/13/c_13444210.htm
Revealed... where the money goes....