08/08/08

Yesterday's Beijing 2008 Olympics opening ceremony was superb. The Inti China student's association organised the screening to be held in two lecture halls. At first quite messy because they assumed that CCTV would be screening but that was not the case. In addition to that, the Astro dish in the lecture hall is not subscribed to Supersport. Guess who came to the rescue - it's RTM 1! This one really Malaysia Boleh..lol! When Astro's not working, there's always good old TV1 to depend on. =p About a quarter had actually left while the China students were busy fiddling with the channels. But anyways, I was part of the three quarters that stay to watch the opening ceremony at TV1. Lol, the Digi advertisements that were spammed in TV1 were quite funny and creative.

The performances and shows during the opening ceremony were something of a gigantic massive scale. All of them were colourful and some of them were really beyond the audiences' wildest imagination when they think about the scale of creativity that is involved. My favourite part of the Olympics has always been to watch the part where the different countries march past the stadium crowd. The costumes that were worn by some of them were certainly very interesting and colourful..lol. Not only that, a portion of them also tend to syiok sendiri or zhi high and they started dancing or making funny faces at the camera. Got lots of pretty gals that are flashed on the screen, cos some of the atheletes really look great (and exotic..haha) while excelling at their sports and not to forget the background China cheerleaders (or dancers?). I wonder how they keep on doing the same action for 2 hrs and kept the same smile on. The music alternates between 3 types - the backpipes "Scotland the Brave", some well-known Chinese folk songs and then the African drums. Interestingly, the lecture hall did cheer at various countries that marched in. Taiwan is not one of them..lol. BUT Hong Kong was the first to receive the cheer from the China students..haha. Heres the list - Hong Kong, Malaysia (of course), Canada, USA, Australia, Singapore, UK, Spain and China. Quite a peculiar list and I leave it to the readers' opinion on why the lecture hall cheer at this set of countries..haha.

The other part I'm looking forward to is the lighting of the giant torch. Beijing does it uniquely from the rest of the other hosts. This time, they had an old apek suspended in mid-air and air running around the stadium at a height of about 20 storeys high!! When he reached his destination and lighted the fuse, the gigantic torch erupted into a giant ball of flame. And the fireworks pyrotechnics were awesome too! It's a wonderful sight to see. Now, let the Games begin!