Olympics 2nd week

Well, it’s official yesterday, that Michael Phelps is the greatest Athlete ever in Olympic history, 8 Golds, 7 World Records and 1 Olympics record. He is the man with the most Gold won in the history of the Games ever, 14 golds all in total out of 16 medals. He has received his recognition of his achievements in the last Gold medal presentation ceremony too. He came close to losing the challenge in the Butterfly 100m where he win by 100th of a second, he got the styles, he got the beat and in his quest he is the ultimate entertainer with every possible condition thrown to him and he prevail from the adversity. He is the best Athlete ever. Now of course, fame aside he is still that person that came from Baltimore. Everyone will be excited to see what is he going to do next and in the 2012 LondonOlympics. And I guess his next quest will be to maintain his performance is the games and be the person that have most Golds in most Games ever. HAHA! But i guess now, he just have to rest and enjoy the ride.
Of course this week we also saw the only contingency that have a chance to win gold for Malaysia in the Badminton. But it seems the quest have come a bit short when Lee Chong Wei Fell short and lose the final in 2 sets to world’s number one player. Still it is a good try another silver for Malaysia.
China continues to dominate the Diving event. And with last night’s event, the swimming has come to an end and all that’s left in the Water Cube is Diving for Golds. We see the Chinese Gymnastic having a bad day at work in the Gymnastic events. But some great moment in Wrestling.
We see the shifting of golds for various events like rowing, Fencing, sailing, shooting and weightlifting. All event are going well and on it’s way.

olympics day 8

to keep you all up to date.
Michael Phleps just won his 7th Gold, equalizing the most gold won in one games and one sports, and I think this would be the most record broken by one person in one games too. although today Michael just manage to broke through the Olympics record and not the World record in the 100m Butterfly, yet still it is an impressive and unprecedented record. 7 Gold, 6 World Records and 1 Olympics Records and personal 13 Golds. He can be now truly called incomparable.

Today At the Movie! Enjoy the Weekend Guys!

This week it will be a battle between the Animations. Wall –E is finally on the board so do the Star Wars Saga – The Clone Wars Animated.
So which one will win the battle? Will it be the heart warming Wall –E from the Animation Giant Pixar? They have been promoting this gem since the beginning of last year. Plenty of preview. Love story between 2 robots and the adventure of a garbage cleaning robot on earth into outer space. It’s a definite that the picture will be fabulous. but are there anymore than just that. I’ll tell you all about it after today.
What about the Clone Wars. Will audience be willing to go back and watch the much talked about continuation of the Star Wars saga. The greatest battle ever fought in the history of the cinema in animation? It will be another spectacle. Lucas Film going into Animation? Well, I’m willing to go in for the new film. It’s worth it to know what’s Mr. George Lucas got install for us this time.
Of course being in the Ghost month of the Chinese Calendar, there’s no doubt plenty of supernatural, thriller to choose from.

We even have a comedy, “You Don’t want to Mess With Zohan” in store here. An Israeli Secret Agent that’s a legend gone to America to be a hairdresser? And then of course being so famous, the far east terrorist speculated his present and start plotting to kill him. A Comedy worth the laughter I think.
Mirrors a adaptation of the Asian version of ghost story staring Kiefer Sutherland. So the evil being is using his house as a portal and all hell break loose when they come through the mirrors. So Keifer is again a cop in the movie. But this time it’s meant to scare the hell out of him and not excite him HAHA! No joke. Watch it and be scared.

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Well, it seems that the records are being shot down like flies

Michael Phleps go his 6th golds today and a new world record in 200 IM. 2 more to go to get to break the holding record of most gold won by an individual in one games. he's already broken most olympics title hold by an athlete ever.

Congratulation to Ryan Lochte on the Backstroke win.

All the best to all athelete

Olympics 7th day

Yesterday is a day of small excitement and some pretty sure disappointment after a week into the Games, athletes are showing their tiredness and tension about winning.
With Michael Phelps missing in the Water Cube, the swimming competition may loses a little bit of it’s previous days glory but not that there’s no amazing surprises and up roar.

China finally broke the gold draught in the swimming event. Of course China has been dominating all of the Diving gold so far.

Today we’ll see if it’s another Gold and world records for Phelps which will add up by now to his record win to 6 gold. 2 more to finishing his aim to break the record of most gold won in one game, current record of most gold is 7. And in his way in the 200 Men’s Medley is his team mate Ryan Lochte. I’m sure in the spirit of sports this will be a fantastic games to watch.



Gymnastic has proven itself to be the most exciting and the hardest to achieve perfection this year. Yesterday we’ve seen the return of the China in this game of perfect strength, control and grace. China has dominated this game that have been in China’s long winning history, which they only missing on the gold medal ring for quite a while in previous couple of Olympics. I sure hope that one day I’ll see Romania return with a bang too. Well, as we all know that yesterday Gymnast seems to be a bit under the weather. This might undermine the success of the gold medal winner but almost everyone in the stadium in one of the apparatus. In first place we see the winner go away with the gold with minimal mistake and consistent performance except for high bar in the last rotation. In this rotation we see the ultimate come back of the Japanese young Athlete Uchimura, dominating the apparatus with an almost perfect and totally difficult combination of performance. Uchimura has fell from the pommel horse twice in the second rotation and lost a lot of ground to chase, yet building up the advantages, from one rotation to another he finally got to the final with a bang. We see the Chinese with the least mistake in all Apparatus, the true all-rounded Athlete begin the celebration with the roaring cheers from the crowd. Hambuchen have tried to recover from his previous mistake but couldn’t and fall from the podium contingency in the last apparatus, high bar. Yang Wei’s group seems to be the highest ranking group and been the pursue of the other groups since the beginning of the All Round Men’s final. One person that finally sneaked up on that group is the French men Benoit Caranobe that go away with the Bronze medal in the end and this will be the first medal for the French Gymnastic since 88 years ago. It’s a clear celebration at the French camp. It is a clear celebration for the medal winning team and of course disappointment of some of the great names in the games like the German, Japanese and Russian. I hope whatever that’s bothering the athlete will not continue to the coming event. All the Best guys!

One of the most interesting events to watch is the Fencing. In previous years we’d seen the domination of Italy, of the French or even the Russian and the German. But lately we are seeing the coming of the Chinese, and the new century winning team of USA. I love fencing work. The art of fighting with sword translated into sports.
One of the much left alone sport is one of my favourite too. Rowing, my learning of the game starting with a Chinese culture, the dragon boat rowing competition, then from there we understand the magnitude of the game. It’s a representation of great physical work and team work on both double and team rowing event. Of course until now we have not seen any medal awarded in this event yet which is why there’s still no talk about it but there are plenty of legend in this event. Some athletes that have gone to almost 4-5 games and came back with medal and gold. It’s a perfect representation of the games spirit of endurance and strength. We are waiting for the sailing event as well, as there are event postponed for lack of wind and visibility.
One thing for sure is the start of finally the most covered game of the games that’s the track and field games. All the running and throwing and jumping medal will start their heats and final today. So go catch it. Who will get the medal for the women’s marathon I wonder. The event is starting as I speak.

Olympics 3rd day of Games

The story of the day, Could it be the win of the second gold from Phleps helped by his team mates on the first relay he’s in? Or is it the domination of the Chinese in the diving division. But I think the most heartfelt story of them all is Yao Ming’s fight with the USA team while still in recovery from a broken feet. Limping to play the games for the China and scoring the first basket.
The start of the Basketball event yesterday is the fight between 2 Giant, the home and the Deamteam. Regardless of who’s winning, Yao is the focus. The who stadium roar when he score the first basket. His pride, his joy, and I hope that the Chinese do realise how much he have sacrifice to be there. I hope that the team can win without him. It’s just heart breaking to see him work himself up like that. If he could take a rest.
Anyway moving on. My mistake, today is the final for the 200m freestyle men, where you’d see the fight between Phelps for his third gold and the contender, Park of Korea.
One side story is that tennis have already begun the run and Spanish star David Ferrer tumble on to defeat by Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia. Imagine the shock. Yeah me too!
Today’s we’ll also see the Gymnastic Men’s Team Final begins. Who will win? Could it be Japan, China, USA or Germany? Or will it be some black horse like Russia and France? It’s hard to say after a huge shuffle between the 4 years.
Women archery Teams we see Korea win with a new world record of 224 points.
India ended the draught of Olympian Gold Yesterday with the Win in Shooting.
**And Michael Phelps just claimed his 3rd Gold on 200m Freestyle just minutes ago, continuing his fight for 8 golds. China's takes home Gold for Men's team Gymnastic

The pivotal moment in my consciousness about going green is when I watched the movie “Free Willy”.
Although all of the concept have been thought to me when I’m in the junior but those to me always has been just theory. I even have teacher that actually convince me that the melting of the north pole won’t happen in a 100 year time. Yet, statistic proven that the melting are all going exponentially faster every year and in the period of the next 2 decade we all ice will be gone if we human do not change our ways of lives now or if the nature’s scale do not tip over one side and retaliate with ore vibrant natural reaction.
Free Willy, a story of an abandoned child (Jesse) and a whale (Willy). It consists of 3 movies all together in the series. The first teaches you friendship between human and animals and the possible of new hope for even the one that seems hopeless and the value of family doesn’t necessary comes from blood. How the met in the child’s rebellious act on a theme park and forming the friendship between to lonely strangers. And in the end the effort to run from the villain theme park manager that’s trying to kill Willy.
The second, is the one that actually thought us the value of natures. Oil spill one incident that trigger of all the agenda in the movies. Come of age, siblings rivalry, the sadness of loses and forgiveness and acceptance. How Jesse receive the news of the death of his birth mother, his existence and communication half brother when he have to live with his adopted family, when they went on a camping trip, the cove they are in and Willy living in was affected by a Crude Oil cargo spilling into the ocean. And in the end this time Jesse were saved instead by Willy in the end from the burning Oil that’s trapped them.
The third, will be a little bit off the mark as it tells the story of a father and a son. Family whalers, the struggle, the conflict between the idealist young ones and the effort to turn his father back to light. Jesse this time serve as just the mediator rather than as the main character
I know that all of this is a bid childish. I wasn’t exactly that old when the movies first came out. My breath was taken away by the beautiful movement and body of the orca. That lead me to foster an affection towards animals. Then which lead to nature and animal preservation effort discovery. And that is the beginning of my realisation.

1st Weekend of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Well with a beautiful start last Friday, what Olympics have in store for us this week?


Throughout the weekend, the road race for Cycling men and women have already finished. With the men’s race going on a sunny and clearer day smooth, ride to victory is Samuel Sanchez. And the women have really rough day, with the storm following them throughout the race, Nicole Cook took the lead and the title from the beginning till the end.
In the water cube we sees the most remarkable achievement from both diving and swimming, the China’s Women synchronize diving team retain their gold. Making them 5 times in a roll world champion for the past 5 years.


Michael Phelps started his venture to the 8 gold goal with beautiful start with 400m Medley men, breaking both the Olympics record on his heat and the world records in the Final. Will he be able to continue his streak of golden lane or is he going to be challenge by the first Medal and Gold winner for the swimming competition of Korea, Park Tae-hwan? The duel will begin in just a couple hours time.

Korean obtains their first Medal in swimming from Park Tae-hwan in the 400m Free Style. Will he be able to beat off Phelps and get his second gold in the free style event and repeat the success of Ian Thorpe?
Only in the Qualifying round of the Gymnastic event we have since plenty of lay off this year and a rough start for a lot of the athletes. Japan have a disappointment at the pummel horse nor did Russia with their strongest fall from the ring event.
We see a great performance in the archery where the semi final of the Korean and the French fight it off in the storm with Korean leading all the way and hitting 10s after 10s even in the storm. Perfect professionalism demonstrated.
China hit the weightlifting jackpot with their women’s team, obtaining their first gold in the 48g category.
And Korea Choi Minho win the Judo 60kg Category with a clean lift that ended the final in less than 5 minutes into the games, beating Ludwig Paischer of Austria, ending his gold draught for the past 5 years and that is Korea’s first gold in this year’s games. Beautifully done.
We’ll be expecting plentiful more spectacular showdown while the games continue for the next 2 weeks.

Beijing 2008 Olympics Opeing Ceremony

Yesterday’s night Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 29th Modern Olympics is spectacular.
Starting with the translucent see through hanging Olympics symbol, the globe of the hanging performer to the finishing touch of the flaming torch.
The show started with 2008 performer performing the modified electrical ancient Chinese Drum, counting down to the last minutes of the beginning of the biggest games ever. With start the performance of the celebration start, of course announcing the beginning of the event is the first most bombastic invention of the Chinese fireworks. With over millions dollar worth of fireworks, the show comes with the giant fireworks feet coming to Beijing Bird nest across Beijing city of every know path the torch of walk through for the past month. Then the Transparent hanging LED Olympic symbol light up and started hanging into the air.




Introducing the production of the paper in the ancient times, a huge 3D LED that’s shaped as the ancient rolled parchment begin to unroll and revealing the longest and largest LED screen I’ve ever seen. Dancer’s started dancing and drawing on a piece of white parchment the size of the performance stage with ink, which depicts the same Chinese ink drawing with only ink and water. Then we enter the second introduction of the ancient Chinese invention, The block letter printing system. With the rise and the falls of the block (wholly performed by human under the block), they forms the shape of Chinese character “Harmony”, some hill top and the Great Wall.


Next we come to the performance of a beautiful dancer performing the ancient art of Chinese dances wearing one of the most valuable commodity of ancient times. Silk, we begin the silk road to the Maritimes route of the silk trade and also brings in the last invention of the Chinese the compass. The ancient act is both laid and interwoven with some of the most tremendous Chinese culture, from the Chinese opera to the Chinese instrumental orchestra, to the Chinese puppet show.
With over 5000 performer, the show reminded me of the Seoul Olympics, the Asian Olympics is my first. They have the same huge human resources as Chinas. Just that the images is on the card board and not the LED screen and that itself signified the unity of people. As this years, the beginning of the 2008 drum are totally mind boggling-ly pound the floor and definitely creating and earthquake at the stadium. (Damn, I should’ve fought more for the ticket.) And then the printing blocks, and the huge ship of Cheng He’s legend of the Maritimes silk route. All are lays with the thousands of performers.




OK! Living the 3 millennia behind the astronaut brings the arrival of the 21st century with a touch on the LED screen and there comes the one culture that has continued from the ancient times.



Tai Chi, again over thousands performer performing the Tai chi, forming the symbol of the great circle of the heaven (universe) surrounding the square LED in the middle symbolizing the Earth. You could hear the shout of every performer throughout the stadium it’s totally stunning. I can’t imagine the craziness that’s going off in the mind of the London Olympics committee at the moment. One small touch is that the children now painting the parchment of huge water ink paint with color paint that signify the coming of modern times.


The performance again was performed with the volunteers, using the LED and lighting forming the shape flying dove, symbolizes peace and harmony, while Lang Lang, the most amazing pianist ever come out of China performing the modern orchestra now.
Then to complete the sets of the performance, the rises of the Globe, with people hanging on the 8 longitude of the earth signifying all walks of life, then appear 2 singers, A chines male opera and a british female operatic singer, Sarah Brightman, they sang the title song of this year Olympics in both Chinese and English, One World, One Family, which signify the real beginning of the games, the unity and the continuity of the Games from China to London.
With that comes more and more fireworks and the beginning of march of the Athlete. There is no fault in this opening and no doubt it is the most amazing ever. Combining the old and the modern. Aside from it all. How could you top the tradition of the Olympics that have continued for ages, to the lighting of the torch? The marching of the athlete was given a chance to add their touches to the same parchment by walking on colors they step on the bottom of the parchment forming the rainbow of the color of the Olympics and when the Athlete all entered the stadium, the parchment is turn into the natural and the immediate most creative stage ever, with every one’s present on the stage, literally speaking, signified by the parchment, the oath is taken on the same stage parchment. Then the singing of the national anthem of the republic of China by the young 9 year old child, harmonizes with every Chinese in the audience, in perfect harmony, including the president of the country. Singing with the proudest and max out voice they can. You’d be amazed by the site of the singing of over close to 90000 singing the same song as loud as then can.

Then comes of course the choir of Chinese children in the complete ethnics group of China singing in perfect Greeks is just awesome. Which reminded me of the scene I was in 4 years ago, when both National Anthem and the Games Anthem are sang in Greeks. It’s a totally perfect reflection of the vast spirit of the games from the western to the eastern, we unite under one roof and declares the greatness of the spirit of peace and harmony.
Then of course the entering of the torches. All the familiar faces of the world Chinese, the badminton player, the swimmer, the diver, the gymnast. So in the end how’s the torch is gonna light? And where is the torch? Will it topped the most exciting moment of Barcelona lighting of the torch with flaming arrow, or the Atlanta’s most heart warming lighting by Muhammad Ali, or the Sydney’s lighting of the flame under water? Nope, the Chinese don’t just signified, literally the sky is the limit this time, the flying man, suspended in mid air ran his last lap of the torch relay on the projection screen surrounding the stadium roof in a horizontal position, that projects the parchment of the list of every torch participants and the cities involves review on the screen while Li Ning, one of China’s most treasure Gymnast, run the whole length of the roof (the longest laps every ran by a torch bearer and of course the first ever laps ran with the bearer suspended in midair and on top of the audience on top of the stadium), and then at the end finally the revealing of the torch shape caldron. Li Ning lights the beginning of the lights with one small touch of his torch and a fire line that signifies the firing dragon rounded the body of the torch and lighting the top of it.




and that end the whole ceremony with the loudest Bang of all time that is lighten up through the length of the city from the stadium to the north and south of the city, announcing the beginning of the games and celebrates with everyone in and out of the stadium. and everyone in the audience is greeted with the performance from Jackie Chan and other Chinese performers to a concert.

Beijing 2008 Olympics is Starting today everyone let's celebrate the glory, the joy and friendship and the Spirit of Sports

Today’s at exactly 8.08pm will signify the beginning of the Beijing Olympics. This time with the speculation of the probability of a rain looming ahead. We will be anticipating a spectacular Games.

So what’s on the line. Will Michael Phelps get his finally break on the most gold won in a single event, or how many world records is he going to break, who in Australia will chellenge him and will there be any new star from China this year?


Will Tom Daley give Alexandre Despatie a run for his medal in the Diving event, or will Matt of Australia get a gold for Australia, or will China have a new Male Diver that could actually match them?

With Paul Hamm off the board of Gymnastic, will Humbuchen of German do better than when he is in Athens? He is fantastic at Athens. Or will Japan or China Deul it out this year to get champ. This will be a fight of the 4 biggest country of the century, China, Japan, German and USA. (we wish for Paul's swift recovery)
Cycling is always a great fun to watch but this year there will be a lot more excitement as it is the first time that the BMX race on dirt will be feature.
This year also marks the brief return of one of the most mystical sport in the games. Wu Su.
Of course Brazil will be back for the Volley Ball and everybody will be wondering will the Dream team take back the Basketball or the Beach Volleyball.
Badminton and ping pong will see the domination of the hosting country so does diving for the women. Will any country be able to challenge them?

Amazing Story in life

I was on the TV on a documentary yesterday. Finally I got an answer to something that I’ve been wondering for a really really long time.
Blind, deaf, I often wonder when you actually losses the 2 sensory that majority of us use to communicate with the outside world, how would a person live?
The answer was so inspirational that I was stunned by it. I saw in the documentary, this person actually living well, happy, communicating well with the people around him. With a job and a married life with a daughter. And I thought, Wow! Anything is really possible. This person actually could speak a little bit learning to speak with vibration recognition training.
It is a small thing yes. But this question have been inside my head since the day that I am really negative and the first thought that come to mind is like everyone’s, you can’t survive. I’ve even heard that the parent have come down to the choice of letting their children go at an early age to minimizes his suffering.
Now my thoughts are, if a person that virtually have no means at all to communicate with the world can actually do it. What else is not possible.
Throughout my year since the beginning of last September I was as if given a new life. I’ve seen plenty of impossible possibility that trigger me to reinvestigate and re-examine my own life.
If a drug addict and dealer could be forgiven and become a religion leader and be respected, if a blind, deaf person could come out with a way to communicate with the world and actually get married and have a great life, if a bankrupted person is happy than the richest man in the world and eventually got rich, what gives really? Why are we frowning out faces and creating so many wrinkles everyday?
The answer it seems is that we don’t have to. Any of it doesn’t really ever really matter as much as we thought they are.
I was discussing with my boss the other day about this book that I’m reading. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.... and All is small stuff. And immediately she would retaliate that not all stuff is small stuff. And list out all the “stuff” that’s important to her. Yet while she is talking about all the stuff. The money, the office politics, the office structure...... it may be important but they are not exactly life threatening to me. They are in the end the job of the boss to worry if she wanted to. It is none of my business nor my authority to bother about such issue. So to me, they are smaller than small stuff to me.
So look clearly and you shall find that many a things that we consider emergency or just have to do or talk about are nothing but something we shouldn’t have bump our head into in the beginning. Be conscious and catch yourself early if you are doing it. and then shift your focus back to what’s really important and move on.
Enjoy guys. May you have peace and happiness in your life and be inspired always.