olympics part 1.

back to normality i guess. but this line kinda always bring the start of a new wave of emo. so yeah. tentatively. haha

anyway. was watching olympics quite a bit this few days cos of my passion in sports and the fact that i simply have too much time to spend in the medical center. and yeah. kinda impressed by quite a few athletes and teams. Always kinda inspired by this kinda event. the things it represent.

For me. this Olympics is a celebration of asian pride. Of asians reclaiming their rightful place in the world. For centuries we have been seen as an 'inferior' race, even after the end of the wwII. Asians or even more specifically chinese still have no place in the world. with many percieving us as slave and slavers, motivated by money and money alone. I feel that this Olympics have shown the world what we chinese are all about. Yes. We may speak your language. Yes. We may worship Bill Gates and Donald Trump. But Yes too we have cultural pride. How the west tried to deride the chinese about their rule over tibet, trying to cause internal chaos. and how the chinese of the world all stood up together in support of the chinese, rallying in almost every country which matters, every stage of the world torch relay.. Australia, America, England, all the chinese immigrants of the world, stood up. and did we win? well, Tibet is still under china rule isn't it. And then comes the olympics. and China put up one of the most spectacular opening ceremonies of all times. Its Grandeur and Majesty unrivalled. and yet again, the western newspapers critised it for being staged and deciding instead to focus on an injury instead of the whole show. And the measures to make this a 'green' Olympics. Are the chinese really oppressed? Well. If i was there, it would be one sacrifice i'm willing to make to help show the world who and what we are. And all the negativity surrounding the judging and stuff. If this was FM, i wouldn't have hesitated into clicking, 'sounds like sour grapes to me' and confirming it.

Kinda angry at the fact that this being one of the better games i've seen so far being bombarded and critised as though it was the worst ever. If a western country were to put in such an effort to make this happen, it would be said that 'immense national effort' has done it. but for china, it'll be 'oppression of the people'. For goodness sake, as the chinese, how many aren't proud of the olympics and how many are willingly being 'oppressed' so as to make the games successful. For me Beijing was much better than Athens, much better publicised, prepared and presented.

I am a fan of freedom, after all my comics, Captain America, Superman, Green Lantern. But yeah, i do know that there isn't any specific standard you could set for everyone. which is what singapore has been arguing all along when they said that we did not have enough freedom of expression.

kinda crazy rant. But yeah. result on reading online stuff bout the beijing olympics. I mean, I am chinese after all, different from chinese chinese but after all still a chinese. and an asian. A mongoloid if you may. And yeah. i do feel some pride for that. in fact quite abit. sure. It may not matter here in singapore. But i dare anyone who says that it does not matter anywhere to go for a stint abroad. It may only be as short as 2 months. But you will realise. We are asian whether we want it or not and we have to fight for that respect. every inch of it.

lol.
next post will be more moderate. sounds like some crazy communist.