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I do feel proud as a Chinese for what China did for the Olympic ceremony. One World One Dream is really a dream of Chinese in 100 years. Today is the day to show national power of China. 21st century is in China.

The whole ceremony is about history, culture and the civilisation process of China. All these ideas were shown in visual form focusing on the theme of Chinese philosophy - The Sky is in round shape and The earth is in square. It was the biggest Olympic ceremony in the history with 15,000 performers. It was also the most expensive on record. China had been preparing it up to seven years. The whole performance was absolutely amazing. It’s such a spectacular show of the century. China does make a great improvement and a big step forward towards the world being opened and welcomed. Yao Ming was holding the national flag in front of the whole Chinese team with a little kid accompanied him. The kid was the survivor of Sichuen earthquake who saved lives of his mates during the tragedy. He is only few years old. A little kid can be allowed to walk with the person who carried the national flag in the ceremony that shows the significance of Chinese attitude towards the new age. It means China is willing to accept the new thought with open minded.

Former gymnast, Li Ning was lifted with the torch to light the Olympic Flame in the last part of ceremony. It was brilliant. He was running against the wall of Bird Nest in the air. I was so touched and moved by seeing this scene. It was such a heartfelt feeling. I believe many of Chinese would feel the same as the way I did. It’s the scene of showing future of China towards the brightness and the glory. This scene was directed by a Hong Kong movie director.

The whole performance was organised and directed by Zhang Yimou. He is a great director of many international movies. You certainly feel like watching his films while you are watching the open ceremony. The ceremony was full of his typical movie elements such as elegance costumes, colourful lighting, artistic ornaments and Chinese philosophy. The major idea of the whole ceremony is to make Beijing unforgettable, and to express the new of China, not the backward.

I watched the live broadcast “China welcomes world leaders” in the morning. When Bush walked close to Hu Jintao for handshaking, he naturally put his left arm around shoulders of Hu Jintao acting very FRIENDLY but the rest of Presidents didn’t. He posted for photo section immediately in front of all the cameras. All the cameras kept flashing. All the camera men were just waiting for this photo I persume. I was waiting for it too. It’s so typical of Bush by acting friendly in many ways he can.

One more interesting news about Olympic! Chinese of Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong are always looking for special days of getting married or having child born. It’s no exception for Beijing Olympic. Wedding and having babies born on 888!

For those who want to watch the open ceremony earlier, then you may go to CCTV. I mean for those who don’t live in Asia. Due to the time difference, some of you probably need to see it in the next day if your country doesn’t do live broadcast. CCTV did live broadcast for the open ceremony on internet. I think they will do live broadcast for all the events in the rest of days.

Haha…What an interesting article I found on Yahoo - 7 Ways Your E-mail can get you fired

Be honest! Who doesn’t? Don’t be kidding!

I won’t say everyone does, but I am sure most of us do. What about you check your personal mail with your own BlackBerry at work? I guess it’s not all that bad, and completely affect your work performance if you do it with some limits. For those, who check up personal mail all the time at work, then I am not surprise you will get fired. However, this article sounds like your boss is looking for chances of firing you.

BTW, regardless how many times you ever access to personal mail account such as yahoo or hotmail that the records can definitely be tracked in the central system of a company. My boss of my previous company did such set up in the central system, then he could find out who was chating on messenger, and how many times we accessed to our personal mail accounts. Nasty, isn’t it? Boss….mate!!!…:p

Just saw it…….I wonder who had such idea originally?? It’s kind of funny and creative though is cruel….lol It’s actually about human right, something to think of.

The Origins of the Beijing Olympic logo

It’s typhoon today. Kit Kit usually likes visiting the balcony once a day, but she just can’t do it today. She likes sitting by the balcony, watching, eating and smelling our plants….

It’s absolutely proud of being a Chinese. Chinese people have been waiting for long of this world event being held in our capital, Beijing. Beijing Olympic is approaching in three days on Aug 8, 2008. 888 is the lucky number of Chinese, is the meaning of bringing all of us a good fortune.

I have just watched a programme about count down Beijing Olympic on CNN. The journalist recently has been Beijing for viewing the overall preparation works of open ceremony. There are issues foreigners do still pay concern during their upcoming Olympic visits.

1) Pollution problem

2) The heat

3) The hygiene

4) The language problem

5) The transportation

The sky still looks dull in Beijing due to the polluted air especially under such exotic weather. Weather of Beijing is up to 34C during summer, which is equivalent to 93F. Overall, the general hygiene of public bathrooms has been properly improved in the past year, but there are still public places that need to be paid attention. People of Beijing have been encouraged and supported by the local government to learn English in order to enhance the international image of Beijing. The journalist of CNN asked several people simple questions on the street of Beijing in English, but still found problems of communication. It’s hard to learn proper English in short term for those who have never been learning much of English but I believe the local people have already paid enough efforts for the participation of English learning. Some local Chinese families do provide the Olympic Homestay with lower accommodation cost for travellers who visit the Olympic games during August. (Somehow, the number of Homestay guests doesn’t turn out that many as expected 6 months ago before the Olympic week due to the problem of visa issuance caused by the new policy.) Those families need to learn English for about a year before the Olympic starts. They are awarded with a certificate by showing their competence of English course, and the achievement of meeting standard service requirement of hosting foreign visitors. At least, simple English such as coke, orange juice, pasta, food and towel are words that needed to be remembered. The journalist of CNN also took a trip to the underground, and found difficult to read the instruction signs in English. Translation (Chinese - English) problem is always a major issue in Mainland China. You can always find funny sign written in non sensible English around public areas included hotels and restaurants.

By the way, I always wonder what about English problem of Japan. I don’t mean to be judgmental, but certainly Japanese hardly speak a single word of English in Japan included those living in an international city as Tokyo. Foreigners don’t find difficult to hang around in Japan I presume, however, I need to admit that Japanese do have good sense of instruction guiding Japanese non-speakers. If you happened to appear in Beijing Olympic game, don’t forget to bring two things with you.

1) The handy paper/electric fan that against the heat

2) The English - Chinese dictionary, definitely does help!

Hope that there is no more such news happening within this week. It’s sad to have 16 killed in the border of Xinjiang. Hope that the long term internal tension between Chinese government and people in Xinjiang/Tibet will be solved without violence sooner or later.

I can’t wait to see the open ceremony!!

New idea, new design for this summer……Something for changes!!!

Sparkling Summer!

They are on Etsy!