| Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
| the more we get together, the happier we'll be |
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are here!
I'm damn excited about it! I've just spent the whole of the last day or so camped with my books in front of the television, watching event after event. Starhub has an amazing coverage of the games, with a total of 6 different free channels just dedicated to showcasing different types of sporting disciplines that are being held at the same time, and with such an extensive coverage, its hard not to be distracted by all the amazing sporting action. Which is not good because I really should be studying for my up and coming end-of-posting-test... and doing the loads of reading up that I have to do for Internal Medicine. But the Olympics comes once every four years and it'll be awful to miss it.
I must say that the Opening ceremony was spectacular! I was watching it with my parents and we all agreed that China has outdone itself. I never thought that they had the technology and capabilities to pull off such a fantastic show because it had all the elements of a high tech visual wonder that it didn't resemble any of the previous old-fashioned, highly unpolished presentations of old time China. In fact, after watching the Opening ceremony of the Games, I found it excruciatingly painful to sit through this year's National Day Parade. Our NDP looked like some school production compared to the amazing ceremony put up by the Chinese. Quite sad considering that we've been doing this for 43 years now and we should be experts in putting on such big and fanciful shows. But oh well. I suppose China has the numbers to put on a more stunning performance. I hope the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympics would be something of better caliber than NDP though...
I wish I didn't have school. Then I'll stay home for the next two weeks and watch the Olympics all day! But the games sure are looking good and so far, China looks like its doing a good job hosting it. Which is quite a surprise really, but I hope they keep it up to prove the massive hordes of detractors wrong.
Oh and on a totally random note, this is my 300th post on this blog address!Labels: sports |
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