Olympic 2008

China proudly presents to you Olympic 2008 =))

With such glam event dated 08.08.2008,

i hav no regret for sacrificing my beauty sleep to watch the opening ceremony via live broadcast (thankfully tv one nz provide such services...)

Frankly, I am truly amazed by such fabulous opening ceremony held at Beijing this yr... I assure you...those who miss it, u shall regret... the set up is beyond description...such super grand event shall nvr be missed...Too Awesome indeed! this yr ceremony was indeed different, colourful and splendid!

I truly admired those n salute them who came out with such creative ideas that connects the whole programme flow of the ceremony...

with the lucky number of 8, Olympic 2008 choose to held its opening ceremony at 08.08.2008 at the time of 08.08pm...sounds bit supertitious here.. hehe but u know...chinese alwiz like the number of 8 which symbolise the incoming prosperity!

The ceremony kick up with the 2008 performers hitting the ancient chinese percussion instruments... can u imagine there are so many of them hitting the instruments in such synchronised manner, perfect man!

the fireworks are so cool as well...nver 4gt that china is famous with its creation of gunpowder! with the bird nest stadium was specifically built in the same line with the Forbidden City and the Tianan men Square, the firework in a series of 'footprints' began with the 1st 'footstep' from the forbidden city (cant believe the firework design is a footprint! SO COOL la!) till the 29th footprint 'firework' ended up at The Bird Nest Stadium.. WHy there is 29? bcoz its 29th Opympic Games this yr...

The 'footprints' changed into cluster of falling stars which gather to form the olympic rings.

The whole ceremony depicts the history of China in 15 mins. Added up with the advanced technology of laser, the whole thing is reflected perfectly... Especially the part when a large scroll opened up in the middle of the stadium which represents Papermaking is one of the big invention of China!

n follow up with the performance to symbolise the movable type printing which creates fonts of chinese character 2day,

the Silk Road which represents the important passage of economic and cultural exchange between China and western countries, the story of Cheng Ho voyage to the west, create Maritime Silk ROute...

With so many colourful attires presenting by the performers, the whole arena is full of ambiance, spirit and happiness! All things appears to be so large scale in that ceremony, the tons of people doing the kung fu performance, the dancers doing various traditional dances n acrobatic, the people formation of pyramid!

Confucius's 3,000 disciples

the graceful dancer=)

Tai ji's performance again presented by 2008 performers

the People formation which later 'transform' into small scale of Bird Nest Stadium

The elevating globe which took a yr to complete. As you noticed, there are very brave performers performing various stunts around the globe...fantastic! On top of the globe standing the 2 famous singer Sarah Brightman and Liu Huan singing the Olympic song: You ANd Me

This yr the sequences for parade of contingent goes according to the chinese characters of each country's name..

The lighting of torch was lead by China's gymnast, bringing the torch 'floating', bringing the torch go around the stadium till finally the Huge torch is lit up!

I heard there are lots more entertaining performance after that but TV one at Nz just broadcast till 4.30am ...so sad of missing out that...

I salute the person who organise this! Looking at me, for just a M'sian Nite, i ady finding hard to get evythg on track...i cant imagine a big event like this which took how much preparation, commitment, people, ideas, sweats n tears which eventually make this whole thing come true! perhaps i shud emulate their spirit hidden within such successful event~ =)