| Saturday, August 09, 2008 |
| 29th OLYMPIAD! |
The day has finally come! 08.08.08 MONEY MONEY MONEY to the chinese that is. ;) Apparently in China an estimate of about 40,000 chinese couples got married on this day. Talk about luck and superstition...
Anyways, i just finished watching the opening ceremony...thought it was 3 hours, but found out it was 4!!! The highlight of the night was the participation of Brunei Darussalam. Well the non-participation of Brunei actually (whats the opposite of participation kan?).
About an hour into the ceremony, the commentator says "We just got a notice that there are now 204 countries participating instead of the initial 205. Brunei Darussalam has been disqualified from the games as they failed to register their athletes on time." (something along those lines.) As soon as i heard, i felt so embarrassed for Brunei. I looked it up on the internet and it says that Brunei is the only IOC (International Olympic Committee) member that is not participating in this year's 2008 Olympic games! What a shame!
There were two athletes that were supposed to represent Brunei. Maria Koh for swimming and Mohd Yazid Yusof for shot put.
Here's a BBC article about this. (Just to prove im not lying. haha.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/7549559.stm
6 more days boobs... still quite a long way to go.
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isa -keluar |
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