Well, I am not that rich to actually buy the tix and went downtown to catch the show live. I watch it from my television comfortably on my couch instead. Prefer the later better. : )
Despite the smaller scale ceremony (as compared to the Olympic games), it was simply spectacular. I especially love the design of that stage. It wasn't the conventional gigantic stadium with the boring oval stage. It is a floating platform on freakin' sea! And behind it is the beautiful night skyline of Singapore. The night sky, the stunning sky-crappers, the calm blue sea, and the dazzling stage all merged together perfectly, gosh, the whole scene was just breath taking.
I love the mascot for YOG. Merly and Lyo. They are so much better than our Orang Utan back in 1998 Commonwealth Game.
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| Which one do you like? I like both! |
Below is some photos that I stole from other photographers. No copyrights infringement is intended.
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| The Olympic Flame came to my school on Thursday....while I was playing truth and dare with Kev, Win, and Maggie at Holland V's Starbucks. LOL. |
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| The show begins! |
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| Look closely, the Olympic rings are made of human. And they are splashing water. LOL |
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| Cultural performance |
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| Mass dances (dancing to different songs from the past to the present, wile the backdrop was "performing" the progress of Singapore from a fishing village to a modern city.) |
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| The gigantic story book at one side of stage unfolds as it tells the story of a young athlete (a boxer to be precise) |
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| A monster took the center stage as it was terrorizing the young boxer. |
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| The monster symbolizes fear in each and every one of us. In this case, "fear" takes form of a 20-feet monster. |
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| Err.......Oh something shiny! Bunch of people that looks like they are lost from the set of Lady Gaga's music video are joining in the fight against the monster. The monster (fear) was finally defeated by the young boxer after all. |
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| Hearts...oh...so sweet... |
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| The small lil' girl who play with fire..... (she's cute!) |
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| ....and she set the stage on fire. Various fire-motive performances were going on simultaneously. |
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| The fire performers on the stage finally comes together and form a fiery, fire-breathing dragon. As you can see here, the school of carp is forming the dragon body, it was later joined in by other pyrotechnic performers. I couldn't find a decent photo of the completed dragon. Imagine the body of the dragon is lined with fire. It looks absolutely stunning on TV. |
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| Oh something shiny...again! |
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| The most anticipated moment of the night. The arrival of the sacred Olympic flame. The torch bearer came across the sea on a phoenix, while a dozen of dragon boats paving the way for the magnificent creature. |
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| The final torch bearer run across the water towards the cauldron. I love the idea of having a pool of water on the stage, it adds to the mysterious of the performance. |
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The grand cauldron is lit! The YOG 2010's cauldron takes form of a firehouse, which is appropriate, considering Singapore is an island after all. The photos are great, but it couldn't much of yesterday atmosphere. There were seven chapters of performances, and I could only post up photos for a few of them (too lazy to dig up all the other photos..) I think Singapore has done himself very proud yesterday. Despite the ahem...ahem flag parade, which was quite disastrous (but nevertheless quickly forgiven by the amazing show), everything else was great. It was an awesome opening ceremony and I hope people would stop comparing this to the Beijing Summer Olympic 2008. It is simply not fair. Singapore has limited human resources, limited space, limited budget and limited time in organizing this event (as compared to Beijing 2010). FYI, Singapore could only start planning for this event as early as only two years ago. To be honest, I doubt if any other country in the region could have pull together such an amazing show in the given condition. Great job, Singapore! You have done Asia proud! ( Did I mention that I have huge Asian pride?! Now you know, lol) Enjoy the theme song for YOG 2010 Ciaos~ |
