Somehow, during Beijing Olympic Closing ceremony it was not showcasing the world its BEST.
Somehow, they splashed out 42 Billion USD on a sports event but were too stingy in getting a plane for the athletes to board.
And they are fake athletes!
Now I supposed the Chinese government will do anything just to make everything perfect.
A great ending for the most successful Olympic event ever staged.
Thanks to Matt Sebek at JoeSportsFan.com for the screengrabs.
After two weeks of intense rivalry and competition, at last, the road is heading to its end.
080808, the day where the Olympic flame gloriously brighten in front of close to 10 Billions viewers, the world has stunned, the day where we all have been waiting impatiently has came, the Olympic stage by an emerging economic powerhouse, set to take over American status as the world No.1. This is the aim and objective of the Communists authorities, looking to expand the long surviving Chinese culture that set to emblazed the world with its rich history. Doubted as one of the most expensive and successful Olympic ever hosted by any other country, China has sent a strong message, ‘We are going to aim for the No.1′
Indeed, they had proven their determination in the sports, sending close to 700 of athletes to the Olympic games and planned to overhaul American as the sports powerhouse. Two weeks gone and they won the game, they won the glory and honour, but still it came at a price, scarification.
But this is what the Chinese has been wanting for so long, to prove the world its capability and ability to dominate every single in the world. The hunger to succeed is there, and they are even hungry now. They have prepared all these for so many years, spending so many public funds in the process to show the world and they can, that they could, that they believe in IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. Grass root talents were being picked up since young, and the gold medalists now there standing proudly are the product of their own efforts and hard work. Training hard close to 8 hours per day just to ensure perfection, and they have bear their own fruits. The nation are proud of them, and so do the world too.
Today, it all comes to a close, where the flame will be brought to another economic powerhouse, London 2012. The Chinese has proven to the world in all aspects, and hope the Brits will do well too!
The Chinese believe in their own dream, and we can dream too.
Together we dream, One World One Dream.
Looking back through the Olympic to where it all started, the Bird’s Nest stadium, I felt a sudden rush of glory. Being a Chinese, though I have no relationship with China, the sense of proudness towards my grass root country being able to stage one of the biggest event in the world, is, err, indescribable.
Same goes to the athletes who competed and still competing in Olympic, to win a gold and being an Olympic champion is no easy task. It takes determination, effort, sacrificial, and much much more to be able to stay on the podium and have the national anthem being played out. I tried to imagine, while I was standing on the podium, winning the badminton against Lin Dan, trying to portray myself as Chong Wei. I would not smile, but tears will flow down uncontrollably, as all these sheer determination had paid off. *Back to here now*
While I was watching the highlights of the games, the athletes were being presented their medals and flowers. not many smiled, instead they cried. As I said earlier, to be able to stand on the podium is no easy task. How many people who actually know what they did behind the scene? They trained 7 hours per day, scarifying the time with family just to brush up their skill, had to put aside their friends as to concentrate on the task, getting countless injury. How many people ever realise that?
We want to be Lin Dan, we want to be Usain Bolt, we want to be Messi, we want to be everyone! But then what differs us from them is their mentality. To be able to fall and stand tall after the fall. To not disappoint the nation by delivering the best. After so many years of hard work, they, able to stand tall glorifying among us. Able to boast about the glory of having the chance to compete in Olympic.
They cried when they win. They cried when they lose.
We can learn something from them. The self-confidence they have, the self-belief that they have nothing to lose. They did more than everyone will do. They sacrificed more than everyone will do. They believed themselves more than everyone will do and in the end, they prevails!
Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. To win is one thing, to believe in yourself, is what matters most.
One World One Dream.
My eyes were glued to the TV in front of me. Trying to get a closer glimpse on what was going to happen next. It was merely 20 seconds, precisely 19.30 seconds before I had even realised that it all ended. It was like a lightning bolt, a gush of wind that soared past my eyes. Whew~~Before I got back to my feet, he was already cheering like a clown, holding his national flag and ran across the Bird’s Nest Stadium. Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome the Earh fastest man, Usian ‘Lighting’ Bolt!
True to his nickname, he’s practically a bolt, lightning bolt. Everything happened so fast, and the next thing I realised was that he won the men 200m final, and with ease. With the replay kept playing again and again, I analysed the whole track. No flaws, perfect start, perfect run, perfect finish. Not his typical style of showboating at the end of the run just like what he did during the men 100m final and humiliating Tyson Gay and his counterpart, Asafa Powell. The silver medal holder behind him was like almost close to 0.60 second! Damn, not even one can compete against him? In 4 days he has beaten and recreated 4 records. Two being world records and two being Olympic records. Forget about Micheal Phelps, this is the guy that we should truly saviour on.
He is just so damn fast! 100m for 9.69 seconds and 200m for 19.30. I remember that I used to run over 15 seconds for 100m. Too embarrass even to mention 200m.
Screening through the newspaper, at a time, I was stunted at one small tiny, and really tiny section depicting a horror news. There was no pictures included, no up skirts, no bikinis, no naked babe, just tons and tons of boring and unattractive words. What attracts me was the tittle- Avril Lavigne concert canceled due to persistent protest from PAS youth. I was stunted! Saliva dripped from my lips and the eyes were popped out for one moment!
What the F**k?! They canceled it just because the were some public outcry? And that does not even representing the mindsets of Malaysia youth! What the heck is the government doing? A few words from the opposition managed to make them cancel a show that could put our country on world map! Don’t them realise out there there are still people who think that Malaysia is on par with Zimbabwe? Kenya? They ruined it without any proper consideration. And why don’t the government release those Hindraf leaders that imprisoned under the ISA act even though there were so many protests before this?
Owh yeah, found out that the reason for this cancellation is due to some ‘glitch’ in communication between the organiser and the ministry. This makes my day! What a good joke when the minister said that he didn’t know any promotion about this concert when almost every single day Maxis send me promotional messages about Avril Lavigne. Owh~Sorry, government officers use Celcom. In line with Malaysia Boleh spirit mah! Btw, I can’t blame him for not spotting any advertisement running in the paper, he is too old and slow to spot it.
So, let’s move the blame to the other place. Yea, the ‘BAS’ youth wing! They deemed Avril Lavigne is simply too sexy and too tempting for the teens in Malaysia to resist! Well, let the readers determine which is sexy and which is not.
Okay, she wore a skirt, didn’t wear her ‘tudung’, didn’t cover her neck, didn’t cover her arm, a lil tummy came out. Now all that deserved a ban, don’t she? Maybe they (BAS) forgotten that Malaysia songbird Siti Nurhaliza did so too. (Ok, at least she didn’t wear skirt) But then this is such a modern country nowadays but their radical Islamic struggle has gone a lil too much. The world has changed, and so do the mindset too.
Avril Lavigne, I will miss you…
Images from Google.com
News : The Star
P.S: I don’t mean to discriminate any other religion. I’m just to pissed off with the way the authorities handle the matter! The writer will not be held responsible towards any offended person.
