No no no, its not the HORRIBLE song by Taiwanese boyband 5566, but a nicer song that features multiple artistes. I think its one of the songs in the running to be the official theme for the Beijing Olympics and its called "北京欢迎你". I actually think its quite a nice song. It has a tune that's super easy to remember, (although it gets boring towards the end because the tune basically repeats itself for over 7 minutes), the fact that many of my favourite singers performed it makes me like the song even more. I mean there's Yanzi, there's Leehom, there's Eason Chen, there's Karen Mok, there's Gigi Leong, there's Fanfan, there's JJ Lin... So many of my favourite artistes! I especially like Yanzi's part right at the beginning. Her voice has this quality that's quite enchanting and it makes me happy. Seriously. Seriously seriously happy.
ANYWAY. I know lots of my friends in Medicine hate China. But the fact is, I don't. I've always felt that I owe my life to 3 countries: Singapore, because obviously, I was born and raised here; The UK, because I've always been educated and inculcated with the good old traditional British values and morals that originated there, and lastly China, because that's where my ancestry lies and where all that rich ethnic culture remains. I know China doesn't have a good track record and that well, she hasn't been the most perfect country to have ever existed, but then again, no country is perfect. I know that China can appear a tab bit uncouth and irritating sometimes, but then again, you have gotta give them some credit and respect for being able to advance and develop at such a rate that's really incredible for their size. Sure Singapore managed to do it, but I assure you, its easier to develop a small island nation than a huge landmass like China. Its not as if the Chinese don't have the capabilities to refine their act, its just that they have been so busy playing catch up with the rest of the world that they have had no time to inject the necessary refinement at all. So the end product is this huge prospering nation, who has just began to embrace the wealth and power that capitalism and industrialization brings, but has absolutely no idea how to package and turn themselves into something more classy like the Europeans or trend setting like the Americans. And thus, we get the rather unrefined Chinese running around, irking everyone with their rather non polite ways.
I think its best that we give China time to develop into something that's more refined, more civilized. Give it time to open up, to liberate itself, to refine itself, to turn itself into a 1st class act. That's the only way China will grow and eventually 'get there.'
I am not here to support China and its supposed lack of human rights. I am not here to comment on whether Tibet should be free or not. I just think that such business is something that is entirely China's own business and should not be linked to the Olympics. The Olympics should never have been dragged into this muddy quagmire of internation politics. Sure, we've seen previous incidents where the sanctity of the Olympic flame has been abused by political activists and players to further their respective goals. We've seen Hitler using his Berlin Olympics as an attempt to showcase Aryan supremacy. We've seen Soviet and US led boycotts in Games held during the Cold War. We've seen Islamic terrorists killing Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics. So yeah, shouldn't it be time that we STOP using the Olympics as a tool for politics?
I think its very sad and disappointing, despicable even that activists all around the world have decided to raise the Tibetan issue now, just when China is about to do something that she is immensely proud of, something that she feels will make her part of the world. Like what our PM said, the Beijing Olympics IS China's big coming out party. And we are spoiling it by making all these noises and squeaks and suggesting that nations boycott the Beijing Olympics. Why now? Why now when you know the Chinese government cannot do anything drastic to tarnish her image just as she prepares to host the biggest sporting event in the world, an event which preaches peace and tolerance and friendship among all nations? And all that talk about boycotting, now that is a very foolish thing to do. If nations of the West DO boycott the Beijing Olympics, it'll achieve nothing but probably another generation of unhappiness and hatred between China and the World and when the Chinese finally overtake the USA as the world's superpower within the next 5 decades or so, we would all reap the punishment and hard life that we so obstinately sowed.
I've been waiting for the Beijing Olympics since 2002 when it was first announced that Beijing won the bid. I just pray, and hope, that it'll be a peaceful, trouble free, and spectacular one.
*Update* OMG, there's an EVEN NICER SONG! Apparently, this is the official song for the Olympic torch relay! Its nice and has Yanzi and Leehom in it! Woot!
Name: voldemort33
XY, 01/06/1987, s'porean typical geminian free-thinker moody & eccentric thinks far too much for his own good med student (be afraid. be very afraid!) demon45_6f@hotmail.com
crazy craves
music (jazz, rock and lounge) day-dreaming drawing & photography animals (sheep!) chocolate and tea! seafood, noodles and soup!
pet peeves
noisy crowds over-possessive, insecure, whiny people two-faced hypocrites housework and homework being called 'rich' rushing to do stuff crying, pesky kids
deepest darkest desires! (aka wishlist!)
to be a doctor (with a heart of gold!) a dog my own condo apartment a driving license and my own four wheel drive my own comic line someone to hug
