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Olympics are here, it is finally here. After 7 years of hard preparation, the Chinese finally gets the chance to host the Olympics. 7 years is a long time, it is not easy for them from opening themselves and changing their way of culture to be presentable to the rest of the world. As it is a public holiday for us, we went out because we didn’t want to stay at home on such a happy day. Olympics main purpose is to compete in various sports but another important thing is to bring everyone together, bring peace to every corner of the world. Representatives from over 200 countries are all gathered in Beijing right now, this is the 29th Olympics and the motto still never changes; World Peace. It is rather heartwarming to see people from every part of the world to come together to compete in the same goal, regardless of skin colors, languages that they speak religious, political wise, etc. Maybe every Olympics, only then, I am able to see a united world. At night, which is the opening ceremony of Olympics, 08.08.08, 8pm, we went to a church gathering to watch. Over there, there are people from various countries.
The feeling isn’t same from watching at home. We saw TEAM Singapore, 52 proud members; I hope the best for them. Bring glory back to our little red dot. After the ceremony ends, we went out to flag taxi back. Though the place doesn’t have any crowd but the security is tight, China is really putting a lot of effort in this big event. I sincerely wished that nothing goes wrong too because no matter what happen, it will be very crucial to China. It is not easy as everyone was doing so. However, lady luck is smiling at us, gave us two taxis as we got 5 people. I wrote this immediately after I got home. Just want to write every singly thought as my mind is still fresh. It is because; I am somehow involved in Olympics. Not like just at home, Singapore, watching LIVE telecast. Our Singapore is having birthday tomorrow, I wonder which ceremony will be grander.
Friday, August 08, 2008