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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2008, 02:14:26 am »
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watched it till the end

it was absolutely sensational. the way they lit the torch~

I'm so proud of China =]
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2008, 02:26:51 am »
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very grand :)

... but I'd have to say that the Australian uniform wasn't that great. They looked better with the green blazer.

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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2008, 10:47:56 am »
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lol. Why did Australia have to be effin last. It's just not fair :(

It was good anyways. Yeah the clothing didn't look crash hot. Meh.

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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2008, 11:09:26 am »
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lol. Why did Australia have to be effin last. It's just not fair :(

It was good anyways. Yeah the clothing didn't look crash hot. Meh.

Coz 'Australia' takes a lot of work to write in Chinese ;)

At least our athletes weren't stuck under those sweltering lights for too long.
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« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2008, 11:20:59 am »
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the flag bearers and onwards part was just LAME. I nearly died of bordem, like that's how shit that was. But before that the ceremony was quite interesting indeed. Especially when those drummers were all playing in a synchronized motion.

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« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2008, 12:37:36 pm »
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The drummers were fricking awesome - so amazing.

And the typewriter - very cool. I was the first in my family to say "I don't think its electronically operated. I think it's done by people. Look! There are little feet". Mum didn't agree till the people's heads popped out of them. Must been very hard to breathe under those things.
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #36 on: August 09, 2008, 01:28:02 pm »
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lol. Why did Australia have to be effin last. It's just not fair :(

It was good anyways. Yeah the clothing didn't look crash hot. Meh.

Coz 'Australia' takes a lot of work to write in Chinese ;)

At least our athletes weren't stuck under those sweltering lights for too long.
澳大利亚, yeah... it's a bit long :P

i got bored at the parade of athletes as well, but that's the same as always :P there's no single olympics that has an interesting parade, haha.

but i'm so glad i kept awake until they finished. the final torch-lighting was AWESOME
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #37 on: August 09, 2008, 01:42:33 pm »
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It was fantasic, the months of preparation and planning to execute something like that is mind-blowing. Yeah the parade was boring, but it's always like that. Overall, it was spectacular.
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2008, 02:50:46 pm »
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Japan received no cheer, lol, typical xD
LOL I was sniggering quietly to myself at how they were holding the most Chinese flags ... suck up much? xD

I'm so proud of China =]
Oh same! I've never been so proud to be chinese :)


I hated the Australian uniform though ... who the hell designed it? ugh


Oh and when the Chinese Taipei team came out my parents just went completely silent and the temperature in the room dropped several degrees I swear LOL
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #39 on: August 09, 2008, 03:05:02 pm »
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The Australian olympics uniform looked like the University of Melbourne uniform! Seriously, all it had was blue fading into white. Bleh. Its good for UoM though xD weee

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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #40 on: August 09, 2008, 03:26:19 pm »
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Japan received no cheer, lol, typical xD
LOL I was sniggering quietly to myself at how they were holding the most Chinese flags ... suck up much? xD

lolol, every nation held the Chinese flag :P

Oh and when the Chinese Taipei team came out my parents just went completely silent and the temperature in the room dropped several degrees I swear LOL
hahhaa! LOL! are they THAT serious about it :P
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #41 on: August 09, 2008, 05:22:10 pm »
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Japan received no cheer, lol, typical xD
LOL I was sniggering quietly to myself at how they were holding the most Chinese flags ... suck up much? xD

lolol, every nation held the Chinese flag :P

Oh and when the Chinese Taipei team came out my parents just went completely silent and the temperature in the room dropped several degrees I swear LOL
hahhaa! LOL! are they THAT serious about it :P

Those attitudes are sickening, and almost justify my irrational self-hate of my heritage.

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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #42 on: August 09, 2008, 05:34:16 pm »
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which attitudes?

that japan received no cheering?
I'm sure if your grandparents were nearly killed by the invasion of another country [and at the same time something close to 11 million were reported killed, including the massacre at Nanjing], hatred would be fairly justified.
at the same time, do you also criticize the fact that north korea and south korea requested not to march one after another? that Isreal is still fighting with Palestine? that some members of the Jewish community are still very anti-Germany?

that every nation held the Chinese flag? it happens at every olympics, participants hold the host's flag as well as their own. at the end of the day, they could've chosen not to hold the flag [i remember seeing a few middle-eastern and african nations who didn't hold the chinese flag]

that Taipei received glares? hell, at least their cheering was a lot more than Japan.
if Western Australia decided that they should declare independence from Aust. Govt because they can, do you think it will be granted?
the main reason is that during the civil war/japan invasion, the Republican party chose to ignore the killings in Northern China, and turned its attention to the Communist party, who must be irradicated in the principles of "宁肯错杀一千,决不放掉一个" (rather kill 1000 innocent people than to let one communist escape). are you telling me that hatred in this case is not justified?
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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #43 on: August 09, 2008, 05:43:31 pm »
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I wasn't talking about holding the Chinese flag.

The attitudes towards Japan and Taiwan are silly. The descendants of those you originally hate are not the same people. It is not justified to bear a grudge against an entire family if their sons and daughters were not involved.

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Re: 2008 Olympic Games - Beijing
« Reply #44 on: August 09, 2008, 05:47:15 pm »
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at the same time, do you also criticize the fact that north korea and south korea requested not to march one after another? that Isreal is still fighting with Palestine? that some members of the Jewish community are still very anti-Germany?

Irrelevant. It may be a matter of consistency that I should criticise some of these, but it's not what I'm discussing right now. The topic wasn't about Israel or Palestine.

However, the fact that a vast majority of the Chinese population have deep feelings of resent towards the Japanese compared to a smaller fraction of the Jewish population (who understand that today's Germany is not the same) suggests something about the bigotry that the Chinese population have been taught.