For the past two weeks, I've been watching olympics transmissions on my cable tv everyday after school. It's the activity that I look forward doing the most. It's the highlight of the day. After watching the nice competitions and cheering for China, I'll log on the to official olympics website to check out the entire day's medalists, the medal ranking, the day's events and results and the following day's competitions. During weekends, it's a near full day of olympics watching, with me doing bits of random homework in between.

Of course, during the entire Beijing Olympics, there were certainly a lot of highlights, not to mention our two olympics icons - Michael Phelps and Usian Bolt. And also, Liu Xiang's disappointing withdrawal from 110m Hurdles that sparked great controversy and also Team Singapore finally won a silver medal in table tennis team women's team event after a 48 years wait. Of course, I can't forget the night when Guo Jingjing, Lin Dan, Zou Kai, Xiao Qin and China women table tennis team all won gold medals respectively and I heard the Chinese anthem being played 5 times. Oh and this time, both Men's and Women's team gymnastics gold medals were taken by China (: And to sum everything up, China topped the medal ranking with 51G 21S 28B, a total of 100 medals!

Now, after the olympics, I do not know what to do. I have nothing more to look forward to each day ): You can say that I'm suffering from the post-olympics syndrome. Sigh. I think London 2012 will be very very very different from Beijing Olympics, because there's just too much cultural difference. It can be seen in the 8min performance by London performers during the closing ceremony. They had several hip hop dancers, a classical looking London red bus, that transformed into a small stage with Leona Lewis crooning away and Jimmy Page playing the electric guitar, turning the entire performance into a pop concert with not much meaning in it and then finally ending with David Beckham kicking off a football and me going "HUH?" No offence, but I seriously did not see what they wanted to portray in that 8min performance. I certainly hope that the opening ceremony of London Olympics will not turn in a pop concert. I think olympics performances should always portray a message. Most of the time it should be the theme of that current olympics, the history/culture of the host country, the praisal of sportsmanship, perserverance, tears, laughter, one world coming together regardless of race etc. Not really so much of our modern, materialistic, high tech world, if you get what I mean...

They're playing Singapore vs Korea women's team semis again on starhub. Actually I think Singapore was able to get a medal because of the following things:
(i) They were lucky. They did not face any Asian countries at all before the semis. They faced USA, Nigeria and Netherlands. What would happen if they had faced Nouth Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong or even China during the semis or before the semis? I think their chances of getting a medal will be much lower.
(ii) For the first time in table tennis, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles were omitted (I think it's due to China's dominance in the sport) and these competitions were all replaced by TEAM COMPETITIONS. Without team competitions, Singapore will definitely not be able to get a medal in women's table tennis, because it will be what happened during the women's singles this time. Li Jiawei of Singapore was the only player lucky enough to get into semis, with the rest of the other 3 players being all from China. If Singapore is against China, I can say without thinking that China will win. That is only because their standard is high enough for me to be so confident.
(iii) In the end, it's all China v. China anyway because all of the players from Singapore were recently "bought" from China, with Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei just getting their Singapore citizenships recenly this year.

But, I think they still fought hard and I can say that I'm happy for their achievements. But, I'm happier for Zhang Yining ^_^
Oh, not to mention for Lin Dan as well. Me and aoao are just going hua chi over him. We love to read his blog and oogle at his shuai and cute photos xD Lin Dan is so cute! His spiky hairstyle (爆炸头型) and his way of controlling each game is just absolutely stunning! Yay ♥ 超级丹! The only thing I do not understand about him is why he likes Xie Xingfang so much. LOL.