Beijing 2008

Second day into the games!
The Opening was fabulous! The lights, technology and special effects and basically just the planning of the entire thing was great! Nice opening drum performance. It must really take a lot of effort to get that many people in perfect synchronisation especially since there wasn't background music involved so nothing to hook onto except for themselves. For the marching in of the countries, it is apparent that China has the biggest team, all of them in red and yellow with Yao Ming carrying the flag and a little boy who saved the lives of two men during the Si Chuan Earthquake walking beside him. (Yao Ming is freakin' tall!) What was different was that instead of going in alphabetical order, they went by the number of strokes there was in the Chinese form of the country's name. Thus, Singapore was around the last few to march in with Lee Jia Wei carrying the flag. During the march, many athletes had cameras and some were even talking on their handphones, probably calling their families to say," Hey! I'm here! Do you see me?" Haha, ain't that just cool?! It must be such an honour to be there representing your country. Right now, I can only dream to be a member of the audience XP
I saw Quah Ting Wen compete in the IM. She was leading all the way until the breast stroke :( I guess it was pretty apt for the commentators to say that breast stroke is the point where the competitors start widening the gap as that was seen in other groups as well where the person leading eventually fell slightly behind during the 100m of breast stroke. But of course, there were those who kept strong throughout the entire event such as Stephanie Rice of Australia. Really strong competition there in Beijing... Anyway, GO EVERYONE! If you don't make it this year, don't give up cos there's always the next! Oh and Tao Li got into the FINALS!!! For 100m butterfly. AHHH! In the Singaporean manner of speaking, got chance, got chance (for a medal)!
So far I've only watched a bit of Women's Volleyball (like seriously a bit, I only managed to catch about 5mins of it, Italy vs some other country... Shoot, my memory is deteriorating) and men's Gymnastics. I missed the Women's one today :( Hopefully there's a repeat. The gymnasts are scary good. I was all like how the heck are they doing that?! They can do so many flips in just one jump into the air and land properly afterwards. I can barely do a split jump and can't finish a pirouette properly. How pathetic is that... (No, don't answer that.) Then, look at the muscles those guys have. Wow baby. It's really kinda scary and it sorta makes some of them look a little distorted... No offence. The Pommel Horse (At least I think that's what it's called) is really nice to watch though, and the High Bar, if they do well. Actually, everything is nice to watch :) I like the horse thing because it just looks so smooth. It's amazing where they get the arm strength from. Basically, I think I spend most of the time watching swimming events that can go on for two hours or more straight. I've watched the IM, 100m Men's Breast Stroke, 200m Men's backstroke (or was it 100m, or was it women's??? Dang, I can't remember...) and a little of women's 400m freestyle so far...
I am so making sure that I watch Rhythmic gymnastics this year, and diving.

The commentators of channels 601-606 were really good. Great job guys!

No school tomorrow, gives me a bit more time to study for the PPAs...