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I feel the presence when I mug. It's like someone just sitting right across me looking at me. And then I will feel relaxed and motivated.
I should do this more often. I really hope it works in making my productivity a lot higher. At this rate, I desperately need a new surge of motivation.
Anyway, I totally despise London 2012. This is their first REAL shot at redeeming themselves from the awesomely awful logo when all the world's eyes are on them. All they had was this indian girl come out of the double-decker bus, take a ball and then go back in again. Then Leona Lewis sings and bops around with an old man and then Beckham appears to get another at Hollywood fame and all he did was kick the ball straight at some chinese guy. Sydney 2000 showcased their aboriginal culture. Athens 2004 highlighted their Greek mythology and ancient civilization. Beijing 2008 was a tribute to Chinese art, culture and spirit. And then London took their few minutes in the closing ceremony to have a few people dance with newspapers and briefcases, and then there were a few people riding bicycles around the double-decker. If the double-decker bus and busy urban working class is the epitome of British culture, then I am not sure how Great is Great Britain.
Honestly, even USA had Red Indians raise the American flag in the opening ceremony of Salt Lake City 2006. USA has NO culture. American culture is capitalism. American culture is likening the olympic cauldron of Atlanta 1996 to a Macdonald's French Fries holder. If they can still have something like Red Indian raise the American flag, then the British needs to seriously rethink about what they are trying to portray with their own olympics. Already people are despising the logo (and I don't blame them). I don't think angmohs would wanna admit defeat to the Chinese so easily.
Anyway, Beijing 2008 had ended and I am very sad. I wanna see more Fuwas dance. I wanna see more gymnastics. I wanna see my athletes cry. Damn it.
Anyway, I think a great part of why I like the Beijing olympics so much is because of the gargantuan amount of artistic work that had been devoted to the games. From the very meaningful logo, to the architectural grandeur of the Bird's nest, to the opening ceremony, medals, costumes, torch, mascots... they are all such artistic pieces of work. These things are gonna be forever identifiable to the people of the world and are true examples of the fusion of ancient chiense culture and modern times.
Anyway, to accentuate my despisal for the angmohs in UK, I will show you the London 2012 logo.
Some defended the logo and said that it is what people feel about London. It is hip and young and full of people blending the traditional culture with the new technology savvy world today. Some people said that there is a torch imagery somewhere that I cannot find. Personally, since I am an avid supporter of things like the olympics, I felt a strong need to justify why the logo is like that when I first saw it. I actually thought it looked like the Griffin, which would tie in quite well with the whole ancient culture meets modernity theme. I was actually quite determined to think that it is a Griffin that also happens to look like the number 2012 until I read Wikipedia.
"It was noted that the logo resembles an image of the cartoon character Lisa Simpson performing fellatio"
And now I cannot get the imagery out of my head.