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    fluxusmaximus
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    I am writing this in the midst of feeling incredibly [censored] and
    indignant. You see, I'm from Singapore. We've just celebrated winning
    the rights to host the Youth Olympics in 2 years time.

    I sent in an application to the Singapore Sports Council for a grant to
    take part in Ride the Lobster a month back. Today I received a
    rejection call from the Extreme and Adventure Sports division.

    The lady called but didn't manage to reach me the first time round so
    she sent an email. Very kind of her. A sentence stood out -

    -"We have received your application. however,my department is handling
    adventure and extreme sports projects. "-

    I called her back and asked what the reason for rejection was. She said
    that "single-wheeled bicycling" is not in the realm of extreme or
    adventure sport. I asked what would be one and was told that "adventure
    racing or sports like rock climbing" would fall in the categories. I
    nicely told her that unicycling has always been portrayed in the media
    as an extreme sport and we've received quite a lot of coverage for
    that. Also, an 800km ride is pretty adventurous in my opinion.

    She told me rather sarcastically to provide references to such media
    publications to which I said that I have and they are all in the
    appendix section of the proposal I sent her.

    And her reply was a winner - "Oh, I've already passed that to my
    colleague at bla bla bla and I can't look at it." Then she cut me off
    and told me that her colleague at some Youth organization would get
    back to me in a week or two and I was free to call her up again if that
    doesn't happen.

    I have spoken to the people at that particular organization before and
    was told that they can't approve a grant for us because we're not a
    registered organization - that's a good reason to give.

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  2. unisteve
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    I guess you can't expect everyone to take unicycling seriously, but that
    still sucks.

    Can you re-apply or are there any other organizations that would give
    out a similar kind of grant?

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    fluxusmaximus said:

    I have spoken to the people at that particular organization before and
    was told that they can't approve a grant for us because we're not a
    registered organization - that's a good reason to give.

    Actually that's often the case in countries that have such grant monies
    to give. Of course, instead of saying a bunch of lame stuff to you in
    the first place they might come out and say that first. Could it spark
    the beginnings of a national unicycling organization for Singapore? 🙂

    Anyway, sucks not to be able to get the grant. Now you'll have to do
    what most of the rest of the participants will be doing -- paying their
    own way there. Of course the option of getting there by car is way out
    of the question... 🙁

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  4. ridingwithscissors
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    grrrr... I really -hate- people like that. 😠

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  5. keg
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    Whilst trying to find out the sports equipment limitations for Singapore
    Air I found this link:

    http://tinyurl.com/2b77vd

    Might be worth a try?

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  6. fluxusmaximus
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    Keg: Thanks a great deal on that link - we were going to try asking for
    a sponsorship from them but I didn't know that they had this scheme
    going.

    John:we do have a national unicycling community here but we aren't
    registered because with that comes a whole new set of rules that we
    need to adhere to as stipulated by the law. Well, I guess if we start
    off now by car and boat, we could reach by June...

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    Maybe they would give a grant for an adventure race to get to Nova
    Scotia and the starting line for RTL. Getting there would be an
    adventure and it would be a race to get there in time.

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    Someone has already shown the way...

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  9. manon1wheel
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    U-Turn said:

    Someone has already shown the way...

    the joke of the day.:p

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