Beijing Olympics 2008 Opening

I was trying to find the full video of the Beijing Olympics opening in YouTube, can't seem to find it, only bits and pieces, or slide shows of the pics. So I suppose these pics will have to do for now.....

What an opening, the fireworks were awesome. I liked the first act, counting down with the electronic drums (above), it was really grand and impressive.
There were however accusations that some of the grand acts shown on telly were fake, especially the fireworks. Not sure how true this is, but I sure hope it isn't. The act with the little girl singing (above), we could easily tell she lip-synching, but apparently they said the original voice came from another little girl who was not allowed to go up and sing because she did not possess a 'cute enough' face. Just not sure how true are all these allegations, are they merely allegations from sour grape parties?





One thing's for sure, manpower is what China has, and manpower is what China used to the fullest to stun the world with their massive usage of human on their opening acts. Even the stage was hovered by human.This was another one of my favourites too, the gigantic globe, with human running all over it. And of course Sarah Brightman sang beautifully on the top of it, for her duet with China's Liu Huan. But one thing puzzled me, with Sarah dressed up glamourously in her gown, can't Liu Huan at least dress more decently rather than a horrid looking T-Shirt? Call it simplicity, but I call it not respecting the occasion (eyes rolled up)....

Well done, China...well done...

Silver Is Quite Alright, Chong Wei!!

I am absolutely not a sports-goer, let alone badminton, but I watched the finals in Beijing Olympics last night between our very own Lee Chong Wei and world number Lin Dan from China. Hopes were definitely high for our own Malaysian to win this only Gold for the country. Perhaps that's the very same thing dat dragged Chong Wei's mental strength down, and drove him to let Lin Dan smack him off straight two sets. Imagine the pressure of being the 1st to bring a gold medal home from the Olympics, for the very first time in the history of Malaysia, the feeling must be unbearable. I totally understand how stressful that must be for him. Not to mention the crowd was soaring for Lin Dan in nearly every shot.
What made most Malaysians disappointed was, perhaps they expected it to be a better fight, at least. In the 2nd set we can see Chong Wei totally worn out, pretty much without hope already. But hey, we got a Silver medal guys, for Malaysia. Whoelse can do that for Malaysia this Olympics? Let's cut him some slack, shall we....

Chong Wei - Lesson learned, we need to build ourselves with better mental strength and able ourselves to fight under the hardest pressure in the future.