At last, good things have to come to an end and the Beijing Olympics 2008 is no exception. I had just watched the live telecast of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics 2008 on Starhub and every single bit of the show made me felt so proud of being a Chinese although after a while, that feeling abandoned me as I realised that I'm not a true blue China Chinese.
I'm a Singaporean Chinese but watching the Beijing Olympics has made me feel as though I'm teleported to China. The whole ceremony was so cool and beautiful. International stars such as Wang Lee Hom, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and even David Beckham came to the ceremony.
FYI, Beckham came with the contigent for Great Britain as it will be the host for the next Olympics Games, which is to be held in 2012 in London. This shall be the third time that London has hosted the Olympics Games and the world waits in anticipation on what it will bring, especially after the unexpected tremendous success of the Beijing Games.
Tonight truly belongs to the Chinese people and it will be remembered forever as having the best Games in history of the modern era. Several world records and olympics records were broken throughout the 16 days of glory.
1 man shall be remembered as the greatest olympian: Michael Phelps with his 8 golds haul.
1 country shall be remembered as the greatest gold medals holder: China with 51 golds to boot.
1 team shall be remembered as the second best in table tennis: Team Singapore, which won a silver medal in 48 years.
Everything about the Olympics 2008 has been nothing short of fantastic and everybody knows it. It shows a brand new China to the world. Now it's up to the world to embrace the new China of the modern day.
For remembrance sake, I had taken pictures of the ceremony showing on TV. Go to this album for the shots. They aren't great but at least I'm happy that I have got something to show for the next generation. That I've got a piece of history with me.
Enjoy... Cherish.
And now, onwards to London 2012.
=D
Showing posts with label august. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
NDP 08 Preview Fireworks Video
All right, I finally got one of my fireworks files to upload onto my blog. Hope it works.
This video clip is just a short portion of the total fireworks display. My other bigger file is simply too big for any websites to upload, with its size tipping the scales at 278 MB.
Yep. It's a very big file due to its longer duration of 3 minutes and 50 seconds. That is truly awesome with lots of fireworks exploding in the night air, with the financial business district in the background to complete the picture.
Hope this small video is able to share some of the nationalistic atmosphere to the reader.
Happy National Day! Cheers! =)
This video clip is just a short portion of the total fireworks display. My other bigger file is simply too big for any websites to upload, with its size tipping the scales at 278 MB.
Yep. It's a very big file due to its longer duration of 3 minutes and 50 seconds. That is truly awesome with lots of fireworks exploding in the night air, with the financial business district in the background to complete the picture.
Hope this small video is able to share some of the nationalistic atmosphere to the reader.
Happy National Day! Cheers! =)
My National Day 2008 Preview
Finally the day has arrived!
The day where I will be catching the National Day Parade live for the 1st time in my life as an audience. My effort in balloting for the NDP 08 Preview tickets for the 1st time yielded good results.
And so, I went to the preview with my friend, Mayi aka Angeline Chew yesterday. We met up early in order to go the venue early so that we can get the best seats possible. From our viewpoint, we figured that we got quite a good seating area as we could see the stage in whole and we were able to get good shots of the stage.
It was a long wait before we could get some relief from the hot weather. The sun shone non-stop during our wait and it was hard to get comfortable in a cramp seat for long period of time. Furthermore the girl sitting on my right kept poking her umbrella onto my shoulder which hurt a lot. I can tell you that it was truly a test of my patience when the girl just refused to be considerate when using her umbrella. I really felt like committing a murder there and then. Damn her....
I took loads of photos during the preview and posted them onto my Facebook Photo albums, which can be accessed by public. My photography skills are not quite up to scratch and my Casio Exilim EX-70 is not an excellent camera for long shots so some of the photos don't turn out quite nice. So sad sia...
When the Comex comes at the end of this month, I'm gonna invest in a good superzoom camera which is also able to take good shots in dim light conditions. That's for sure.
All right. The urls for the public albums are listed below:
Part 1
Part 2
Yup. I also took videos of the fireworks which are the main highlights of the show. I'm still uploading the videos onto my web pages and it's taking forever to finish uploading, at the rate it's going.
Nonetheless, the fireworks was simply amazing. They took my breath away, literally. I was so awed by the beauty of the fireworks that I wish that I could set off my own fireworks. If only fireworks are legalised in Singapore, that would be a totally different story altogether. *sighs*
Anyways, once the preview had ended, both mayi and I went for dinner at Sushi Tei at Raffles City. I still prefer the outlet at Vivo City as the food and service are much better than this Raffles City outlet.
I didn't ate that much as mayi's mum was around and I wasn't exactly comfortable with her. Not totally, you know what I mean? Hmmm....
So, after the dinner, I went on to meet Veron and my other colleagues at Party World KTV at Shenton Way for a singing session, though I didn't sing that much. Having sung so many national day songs earlier on had sorta tired me out. Heehee...
Yep. That's all for the day. Enough rabbling. I'll post my fireworks videos as soon as I can get them up. See ya!!!
=)
The day where I will be catching the National Day Parade live for the 1st time in my life as an audience. My effort in balloting for the NDP 08 Preview tickets for the 1st time yielded good results.
And so, I went to the preview with my friend, Mayi aka Angeline Chew yesterday. We met up early in order to go the venue early so that we can get the best seats possible. From our viewpoint, we figured that we got quite a good seating area as we could see the stage in whole and we were able to get good shots of the stage.
It was a long wait before we could get some relief from the hot weather. The sun shone non-stop during our wait and it was hard to get comfortable in a cramp seat for long period of time. Furthermore the girl sitting on my right kept poking her umbrella onto my shoulder which hurt a lot. I can tell you that it was truly a test of my patience when the girl just refused to be considerate when using her umbrella. I really felt like committing a murder there and then. Damn her....
I took loads of photos during the preview and posted them onto my Facebook Photo albums, which can be accessed by public. My photography skills are not quite up to scratch and my Casio Exilim EX-70 is not an excellent camera for long shots so some of the photos don't turn out quite nice. So sad sia...
When the Comex comes at the end of this month, I'm gonna invest in a good superzoom camera which is also able to take good shots in dim light conditions. That's for sure.
All right. The urls for the public albums are listed below:
Part 1
Part 2
Yup. I also took videos of the fireworks which are the main highlights of the show. I'm still uploading the videos onto my web pages and it's taking forever to finish uploading, at the rate it's going.
Nonetheless, the fireworks was simply amazing. They took my breath away, literally. I was so awed by the beauty of the fireworks that I wish that I could set off my own fireworks. If only fireworks are legalised in Singapore, that would be a totally different story altogether. *sighs*
Anyways, once the preview had ended, both mayi and I went for dinner at Sushi Tei at Raffles City. I still prefer the outlet at Vivo City as the food and service are much better than this Raffles City outlet.
I didn't ate that much as mayi's mum was around and I wasn't exactly comfortable with her. Not totally, you know what I mean? Hmmm....
So, after the dinner, I went on to meet Veron and my other colleagues at Party World KTV at Shenton Way for a singing session, though I didn't sing that much. Having sung so many national day songs earlier on had sorta tired me out. Heehee...
Yep. That's all for the day. Enough rabbling. I'll post my fireworks videos as soon as I can get them up. See ya!!!
=)
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Some interesting facts!
I had received a very interesting email from one of my friends describing the prediction of the Sichuan Earthquake.
Here's the full context of the email although it's all in Chinese:
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四川大地震死 亡人數持續上升
其實李白早在唐朝就知道今年奧運會地震
北暮蒼山蘭舟四，
京無落霞綴清川。
奧年葉落緣分地，
運水微漾人卻震。
前四個字---北京奧! 運
後四個字---四川地震
1月25日>>>雪災=天災
3月14日>>>藏獨=人禍
5月12日>>>地震=地災
1+2+5=08
3+1+4=08
5+1+2=08
08年08月08日奧運會
巧合嗎??
Basically , it described about how the famous Chinese poet Li Bai had composed a poem in which the events of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as well as the recent Sichuan Earthquake were predictions that came from the poem.
Then there were the dates of disaster events that added up to 08 August 2008. Plus the numerical 8 keeps popping up everywhere in relation to the Sichuan disaster that were simply too fascinating.
I wonder who actually had the time to come up with this listing. That person simply has too much free time on his/her hands, man. Hahaha!!!
Do you believe in the deductions made above? Hmmm....
Here's the full context of the email although it's all in Chinese:
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四川大地震死 亡人數持續上升
其實李白早在唐朝就知道今年奧運會地震
北暮蒼山蘭舟四，
京無落霞綴清川。
奧年葉落緣分地，
運水微漾人卻震。
前四個字---北京奧! 運
後四個字---四川地震
1月25日>>>雪災=天災
3月14日>>>藏獨=人禍
5月12日>>>地震=地災
1+2+5=08
3+1+4=08
5+1+2=08
08年08月08日奧運會
巧合嗎??
1月25日，雪災=天災
3月14日，藏獨=人禍
5月12日，地震=地災
1 +2 +5 = 08
3 +1 +4 = 08
5 +1 +2 = 08
08年08月08日 ---> 奧運會
地震果日係仲有88日就到08月08日
奧運會 = Olympics係有8個英文字母
- 四川在北京 8點鐘 方向。
- 四川 一共有 8劃。
- 四川係8級大地震!
- 四川個四字入面有一個八而個川字可以砌出2個八字
5月12日係 初八
- 5月12日是陽曆年的第132天（閏年是133天），離一年的結束還有233天。
2+3+3=8
-5月12日四川地震 512係8的倍數8X8X8=512
- 四川發生地震的時間是2008年5月12日14時28分=下午2時28分
2 x 3600秒 + 28 x 60秒
= 7200秒 + 1680秒
= 8880秒(反返轉就係0888
- 四川地震後，汶川八個鎮幾乎都已夷平,八成人罹難
-地震震央汶川係 北緯 31, 東經 103
3+1+1+0+3 = 8
如果準些 ，去到三個小數位
北緯 31.099 東經 103.279
3+1+0+9+9+1+0+3+2+7+9 = 44
and then 4+4 = 8
-2008 年 是8 的倍數
2008 / 8 = 251
2+5+1= 又是8
-2008年5月8日中國國家登山隊成功地登上了海拔8848米的珠穆朗瑪峰，並且成功點燃了奧運聖火火炬!
8848米 = 8848 是8 的倍數
8848 / 8 = 1106
1+1+0+6 = 8
仲有
一個福娃頭上是風箏，代表濰坊，於是山東火車出事了；
一個福娃頭上是西藏羚羊，於是西藏出事了；
一個福娃頭上是聖火，於是火炬傳遞出事了；
一個福娃頭上是熊貓，於是四川出事了；
好可怕..都是巧合?
現在還剩一條魚... !!
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Basically , it described about how the famous Chinese poet Li Bai had composed a poem in which the events of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as well as the recent Sichuan Earthquake were predictions that came from the poem.
Then there were the dates of disaster events that added up to 08 August 2008. Plus the numerical 8 keeps popping up everywhere in relation to the Sichuan disaster that were simply too fascinating.
I wonder who actually had the time to come up with this listing. That person simply has too much free time on his/her hands, man. Hahaha!!!
Do you believe in the deductions made above? Hmmm....
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