was watching the opening ceremony in the tv room with some friends.

a sign of how badly my grammar has deteriorated.

speaking only in sentence fragments.

fragments................

anyway, it was very inspiring to see the chinese showing off to the world how the most important inventions that together are the foundation of the modern world, paper, printing, the compass, and gunpowder, were all products (original products) of ancient china.
a far cry from the china of today which is more known for its bootleg exports than original creations.

as a chinese, i'm kinda proud.
the ceremony was well planned, well rehearsed, creative, and nothing short of spectacular.

just one little hitch.
they got a male, most likely european, commentator who was almost completely ignorant about chinese culture, and he didn't even speak good english.
worst of all, he sounded like me, a monotone.

and the female commentator was no better, she sounded like a chinese who took five weeks of english lessons.

seriously, if you could spend so much money to plan a ceremony on such a grand scale, at least get people who can comment intellectually on it.

i could write more, but i just decided to condense my grousings into handy bullet points.

- the olympics are just a chance for a country to shake its weiner in the face of other countries.
- the olympics are not fair to the little guy
- the olympics are a huge waste of taxpayers money.
- the olympics are just another ad campaign for mcdonalds so they can fatten you up, thereby decreasing the likelyhood of another olympics

yob out.


side note on dota
i've been playing invoker and invoker only throughout ver 6.53
and suddenly in ver 6.54, they reworked (read: nerf, but hard) invoker
the cooldown on chaos meteor is now 70 seconds.
deafening blast is now 40 seconds

the other (small)buffs don't nearly make up for this huge loss

don't know if anyone still comes here

well, not much to say

settling in at my hostel in nus.....
unpacking my (overstuffed bag)
attending talks etc

a lot has happened
but very little to write


and happy birthday to lcy