Happenings 312: One World, One Dream...... Olympic Beijing 2008

The Olympic games is once back again, and this time it was held in Beijing, China. The tremendous game hit off the opening in the "Bird Nest" stadium on 08.08.08 at 8.08pm. The Chinese always believe that the number 8 will bring good luck, and coincidencely in the year of 2008, there was this day which has the combination of so many 8's, the day of 8th in the month of 8th in the year of 2008th, which gave this unique combination of 080808.

China did the best work for the opening, it was really remarkable. It started off with drum performance, where the whole stadium floor was arranged with square drums. Then they told about the great invention of ancient China, which was about the making of paper. They have very great visual effects, and the whole digi-graphic of a scroll was projected on the stadium floor. Really amazing... Not even on the floor, they even have visuals projected to the walls and seats creating this whole 3D visuals. I'm not sure about watching it live in the stadium, but I can get a very nice view from TV. And the best part is that the Olympic logo was raised and it was built with lights, and it glowed in the dark as if it was formed by thousands of stars.