Saw Fusion View's Tweet about watching the Olympics online, with coverage from NBC and BBC. Irish tv network also have live broadcasts at their RTE site. Youhave to give credit to RTE, they have made leaps and bounds with streaming live video and audio to everyone online.
I'm sure you have heard about the girl who is not pretty enough to appear in front of the world singing her heart out at the Olympics opening ceromony. Now that does not help anyone's confidence, right? It's not even show-business-related, is it? I've posted and written some stuff about Chinese and Materialism, and judgemental, they can be. Sticks and stones... and all that, well, it's just not true. It takes a long time to get rid of that kind of humility psycologically.
...it's the infamous Blue Screen of Death, and it appeared in the Olympics opening ceromony. Someone has it on their Flickr account as well. If only I stayed till the end watching, I know nothing goes perfectly, but it's not everyday you see BSOD on such a big and important event.
It's nice to see the Chinese getting into the whole Olympic mood, like the Chinese in Dublin (The Irish Times online).
Flags, friendship and a buffet of traditional cuisine were the order of the day as over 100 members of the Chinese community, as well as a host of friends from elsewhere, gathered in the Melody Bar and Restaurant on Capel Street to mark the event in style.
I, myself, only watched as far as the Irish atheletes arriving out into the stadium, it was a very long procession of countries, my excuse... to get back to my thesis project. It was a great ceromony though, can see so many people put so much work into it.
In other news, babies and couples tying the knot was the big thing on 08/08/2008 (including the chef working in my family's restaurant down in Limerick).
Between midnight and midday yesterday, there were 35 births. Only 13 were natural deliveries, with the remaining Caesarean sections to ensure that most auspicious and treasured of babies - an Olympic baby.
A record number of people got married - 16,400 couples from Beijing's eight districts and, when you factor in the suburbs, 20,000 couples.
It's amazing what superstition does to Chinese people.
I've been so busy with my final project work, I have not being paying much attention to the Olympics like before.
I am getting a bit irked by some stuff in the news with people taking pot shots at China around this big event. It's not suppose to be a political event, is it? People are always spoiling events. Let the atheletes compete, the only thing about that though, I wished there was a non-drugged athelete competition. I'm pretty sure all the atheletes there have some sort of drug or another to take advantage of the competition. Apart from being busy, I think I miss watching it with my father, it's something I won't be able to do ever again. Maybe that is partly why I don't really read up on the Olympics each day. So the countdown to the 08/08/2008 in Beijing. I hope everything goes well for China and all atheletes who are attending this big event.