xvii: 加油! 加油! 加油!
Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 2:48 pm ♥ Filed under Beijing 2008
Remember that one time I started a blog, hoping that I would update it regularly? Hmm, about that. 
Anyway, Olympic frenzy is well and alive here in Beijing. The Opening Ceremony last Friday was very A+, by the way. Zhang Yimou did a really great job that I even sat through all four hours. (Yes, including all 200-some countries.)1 If you missed it, I recommend that you look it up on YouTube; it’s really something spectacular! As for events, I’m most excited for swimming, gymnastics, diving, and track/field. (Unfortunately, CCTV is absolute crap when it comes to airing them.2 And even worse, I have to miss most of those events because I’m in class during the morning and afternoon. What I wouldn’t give to stay on the couch and watch TV.) And speaking of, I got track and field tickets, Fuwa merch3, and Beijing 2008 flags —- so I’m set!
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footnotes:
1: I’m mostly talking about the actual performance, since the procession of all the countries took … a while, to say the least. I thought it was cool how they went in order by taking the first Chinese character of each country name and going by number of character strokes, but I think that novelty eventually wore off. What can I say, it made a really interesting Chinese lesson; now I know more country names than I ever did before.
2: Case in point: Saturday night, I was frantically flipping through CCTV because swimming took place from 6:30-9:30 pm. And none of the CCTV channels were airing it at the time, so I refreshed the Olympic pages on the Internet every five minutes just to find out if swimming was indeed happening. They finally started airing it at 9:30pm, but the excitement was kinda lost, since I had already gotten all the heat results from the Internet. Sigh! And they aired the fencing semifinals but didn’t air the fencing finals, which is such a shame because HELLO, USA MEDAL SWEEP?! At least Sunday morning’s swimming finals got aired at the right time.
3: Fuwa are SO cute. I want to buy out the entire Olympic flagship store, because they have everything Fuwa-related. Chopsticks, towels, crystals, backpacks, you name it. Betcha can’t guess which one’s my favourite.
OMG HI CINDY. I was wondering what happened to you!
And I totally agree with you about the opening ceremony. It was A+.
I hope you get to see some of the events soon – they’re quite spectacular, believe me. Especially the gymnastics event, IMO.
And your Fuwa merchandise is ADORABLE. Truefax.
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Cindy, on August 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am, replied:
Nitya, how I miss thee!
Yeah, what happened with the TV broadcasts was a one-time thing, so I ended up watching most of the events I wanted to see. And I agree, gymnastics is really quality stuff.
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alsdfjalsdf the opening ceremony was INCREDIBLE. And LOL, I’m glad you know lots of country names now. I didn’t sit through the whole thing, sadly, but it was so gorgeous and well-orchestrated and just wow.
Ah, yes, I’m most excited about swimming and gymnastics, but diving was cool, too, and I would love to see some other stuff, like fencing and track and field.
Sorry that CCTV is such fail. D: But yeah, the fencing sweep was incredible, too, though I didn’t get to see it. :O
Aww, it stinks that you have to miss events because of classes. D: But alskjflasjd I LOVE your merchandise, haha.
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Cindy, on August 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am, replied:
Ahaha, I don’t think you missed too much during the country procession. I hope you got to watch most of the events though!
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Interesting point of view. I’ll consider changing my mind about this but for now I still don’t see things the same way you do.
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