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Remember That great Moment

Lisa — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:21:43 +0000

After the great Opening of the 29th Olympic Games, I had some correspondence with my younger sister in Britain. I'd like to share some pieces as follows:

I wrote to her at that Saturday morning just after I heard some comments by the news: "We have had a very good time last night. The opening was great and wonderful! All comments came from in and out of China are "Amazing", "Unbelievable", "Very smart director", etc... I also heard that even British people started to worry about how it would be in London in 2012... haha.. We are all very proud of being a Chinese!

Have you had any chance to watch it? "

My sister wrote: "Everything here has been overshadowed by the fantastic Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Who will disagree with you? The whole show was unbelievable. The design and the imagination; the size and the light; the discipline and the dedication of all involved, are just beyond the comprehension. David and I were even moved to tears. I only watched from 12:50 to 14:00 UK time (the first 1.5 hours) at work and I was hard to find any word to express my excitement.

When I went home about 5pm, David was still watching (starting from 12:30) TV with tears in his eyes. You know what he said to me, "I was so deeply moved that I stood up for the Chinese Anthem." I said to him "You are not Chinese and you don't have to stand up." "I couldn't help it." was his answer."

I present the above to share it with you all. I can never forget that great moment!

Kobe Bryant joins Italy if the U.S miss the gold medal?

Aw Guo — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:25:09 +0000

I've been a basketball fan since 1999. I was watching NBA and loving Indiana Pacers crazily in 1999 ~ 2002. I also regard basketball as my favorite sport game.

I'm really looking forward to enjoying the American Olympic team compete, particularly with our Chinese team. Tonight, China men's national Basketball team is going to confront with the "8th Dream Team" at 22:15. That would be very interesting and exciting! Many NBA stars as well as Chinese super star Ming Yao will present us an amazing game!

There are also a funny tip just now, from the basketball star Kobe Bryant. Kobe said, if the U.S could not get the gold medal, he will give up the U.S citizenship and join Italy with a new name "Kobe Giova(not sure)"

Anyway, let's enjoy this wounderful game!

This is a picture of Kobe in China found in Baidu.com (Aug, 10)

The history of Bird Nest, with 10 pictures since 2001 from Xinqiang Xu

Aw Guo — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:15:26 +0000

Thanks to the great work of Xinqiang Xu (徐信强). There're now 14 pictures of the Bird Nest since 2001.

Let's take a look:

From none to done.

27 Pictures about the 2008 Olympic Games from China

Aw Guo — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:41:25 +0000

The pictures are taken by Qian Li at Xiaonei Community.

At last, let's bless for this girl:

She's just too tired.

Bloggers report Olympic Games tagged as #080808

Aw Guo — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:01:07 +0000

Flypig, Webleon and Junyu started a very meaningful campaign: Reporting Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with a "080808" tag.

There are now already tons of tweets at twitter tagged with 080808. This event is even reported by Twitter.com officially! I am also enjoying the "opening ceremony" now. Almost everyone is talking about this great game now in China. And I can even see the light from Bird Nest ( I'm currently not far away from Bird Nest )

Just hope the world can be more and more beautiful!

Update: As the Chinese Delegation enters the stadium, the whole Bird Nest is crazy! People are shouting "中国加油" (Come on, China!)

FYI: The young boy besides Ming Yao, survived in the horrible earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan on May 15, 2008.

Beijing Olympic Games Theme Videos from outside China

Aw Guo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:02:07 +0000

It's very hot in Beijing now, not only the temperature but also the people's heart. Everyone is looking forward to the great games. When I was driving from UIBE to Sina.com some days before, I saw there are thousands of people around "Bird Nest" to take a near look of this great stadium. However, there are only 2 days to go and I collected some great videos for this great game from outside China. Now let me share these here to you all:

Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie - BBC Sport
Beijing 2008 Olympics on Stadium Astro
A video of Fuwa Huan Huan and Ying Ying visiting us in South Florida at the Chinese Festival Feb 21, 2008.

If you know more, just feel free to ask me to add.

Some funny pictures from China about the Olympic Games

Aw Guo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:25:13 +0000

Here I found some funny pictures about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The first is how the waitress are trained to smile. As we can see, everyone one is taking a pencil in her mouth. Thus to make sure that only 8 teeth are shown to the others.

The second one here seems to be a "balance training". Everyone is taking a book on her head and keep it there. As we can see from this picture, even when having a book on head, they are smiling so sweet ;)

Anyway, I don't quite understand how to explain this picture in English properly, maybe you can give me some tips?

Then, the last one (Fuwa girls), just for fun:

PS: One more for fun (Fuwa comic version) ;p

FYI: Most of the pictures are originally from club.163.com, some are from xiaonei.com.

The "World of Warcraft" version of "You are welcome to Beijing" song

Aw Guo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:56:13 +0000

A couple of weeks before, Celia at ifgogo translated this great song to English here. However, now I found one even more creative than the original MTV. It just takes advantage from the characters in a world wide famous game: World of Warcraft and then made up the whole song a brand new MTV.

It's really so funny in another style, enjoy it :)

(Though I tried my best, I still have no idea about who created this great video)

Helicopters over Beijing

Aw Guo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:42:30 +0000

I heard very big noise when I was sleeping this morning. I am a little scared for the noise is really too big, just like some "big stuff" floating right above me. Then a roommate told me that they are helicopters.

People at SMTH (A very famous BBS in China, especially among people lived in Beijing) are also talking about this issue. They said it could make people feel more safe – that they are protected even from possible air attack?

However, I really hope there would be no terrorists and the Game would be successfully held. As the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games coming sooner and sooner, it's really a crisis time for everyone in Beijing.

FYI: Today is August 1st, also known as the 81th Army Day of China.

Saying Something on Iraq back to the Games

Lisa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:13:28 +0000

I am very happy to hear that the ban on Iraq competing in the Beijing Olympics has been over-turned finally!

I kept an eye on how it went ahead for days since I heard of the Ban. I firstly felt sad with the Iraqi athletes who took years for the great Games but then they would lose the treasurable opportunity. Some of them even cried heavily for it, and I seemed as if I could see the tears.

Then I was puzzled with this principle relating politics. It is originally to protect the Olympic Spirit but people's feelings was hurt by it somehow. At least I felt very sorry to the Iraqi people and its athletes who was just recovering from the disaster of the War.. In another word, since the Olympic Games is a game for all countries in the world as well as all the people in the world, why should it miss one country as well as its athletes? So, I think such politics oriented principle would be a dilemma indeed when it is being carried out.

Anyway, like the news paper said, this final agreement is the victory of all! My only wish now is to give the other 5 Iraqi athletes more chances to get back their qualification for attending the Games.

Am I right?