Olympic Games

It's good to have another day of leave after a holiday. Instead of dragging body (and mind) straight back to office, today was a day of re-tuning and rest, doing all the packing and stuff.

And it's good that starhub has 6 channels showing Olympics live! Although how I hope that they are more consistent with their show schedule!!!! ST stated that they were showing GB vs Argentina, followed by Auz vs Spain at 10.20am on Channel 605. So I managed to watched the last 9 mins of the first game, and then saw on the hockeyroos and the Spanish team warming up on the pitch on tv screeen. So quickly went to do all the stuff that I need to do..and was waiting with anticipation by 1015am. then at 1020am sharp, they starting showing commercials, and then the channel closed. WTF??!!!! ;((

Went to starhub website and this is what they say :
"Due to the frequency of show updates, programme schedules are subject to change without prior notification."

ARGH!!! It was so irritating.

So it was between gymnastic men's finals, beach volleyball men's prelims, weighlifting...so I went to watch men execute highly difficult stunts in all awkward positions :p

Like diving, I always find it amazing how the gymnasts can execute highly contorting movements with seemingly little effort, and it's nice to watch a gymnast finish his/her routines with grace and finese. And also the tense moments as the scores are tallied and the team knew how far ahead/behind. The Chinese definitely completed their routine with aplomb. By their last station, they were riding high knowing that they were leading by a good 10 points than the next better Japan team. They must have felt real proud to do so well in front of their own people.

What caught my eye was the 3rd placed USA team. Cos other than the usual Americanized names, there was a "Tan", a "Raj" and a "Artemev". Alongside the other teams, which are homogeneously Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German etc..the lineup was the interesting bit.

But otherwise, I was awestruck whenever a gymnast execute his twirls and twists and backflips...I can imagine how much time and effort they have been spending for the past 4 years waiting for this day, to showcase to the world what they have got in their bags.

Talk about effortless..this should be the classic.



Sports is a beautiful game.

If only I can be on leave the next few days..