UPDATE: Another funny one on how they built this great stuff (though not the same, haha):
As we know that the Bird Nest (Beijing National Stadium) is a must-visit place in Beijing for the great Olympic Games 2008, there are also some funny pictures of it. Here I find one of them in Xiaonei.com:
I guess it's made by some Chinese farmers. The farmers in China are really of great creativity :)
FYI, more about the real Bird Nest Stadium (via Wikipedia)
The stadium can seat as many as 91,000 spectators during the Olympics. The capacity will then be reduced to 80,000 after the Games. It has replaced the original intended venue of the Guangdong Olympic Stadium.[5] The stadium is 330 metres long by 220 metres wide, and is 69.2 metres tall. The stadium uses 258,000 square metres of space and has a usable area of 204,000 square metres. It was built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a combined weight of 45,000 tonnes.[5] The stadium will cost up to 3.5 billion yuan (≈423 million USD).[5]
ifgogo.com is getting more and more entertaining :D
Olympic is a Game :)
Now we have two big stadiums in Southern China and Northern China, but what for? They collected tons of money, and transform them into tons of iron and concrete. Then? Is people's health level or live expectancy improved? I don't think so.
These giant buildings just display the insecurity of Chinese people - they try to do everything they can do to impress others, and seek validation from others.
Yes. You are right. I think our gov should pay more attention to the ordinary people and their daily life.
A stadium is much less important than our people.
Right..INsecurity and UNconfidence.
I agree with the above comments..
Though China is now more developing, we still need to carry on the principle of frugality!
I am trying to upload my photo here for comments
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=40
I read the explaination on aw's recommended website, and did follow its instruction of just putting the code as the above in my comment loop...., but no picture showed here,.... lol
I guess I misunderstand it. Aw, help!:)
i tried again for uploading my image onto comment loop, based on register at Gravatar....I think I did successfully.
So, I am now just put some words here again to see if my image can show here or not....lol.
Alas, why the image is still null here?
just look forward to the Olympic Games
I can't wait to see the openning of the Bird Nest.
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