@Na: Yeah, the closing ceremony wasn’t as interesting. The tower thing was only interesting to me for a minute or two. After that I just felt like it dragged on. My favorite part of the whole closing ceremony was when the athletes entered and then each group waved to the camera and did random things. Then it suddenly hit me: Damn, these people are BEAUTIFUL! I think it’s the mix of the happiness, nice bodies, confidence and energy.

Closing ceremony wasn’t as interesting as the opening. The only thing I really liked was the tower at the end.

Number 10a) Asthmatic puppeteers will remember to keep their inhalers within reach whilst performing long monologues.

Haven’t watched the closing ceremony yet. NBC is waiting for prime time to show it, and it’s only 4pm in the Pacific Time Zone at the moment. Probably won’t have as many thoughts about it though…

I did see the ethnic costumes, but didn’t pay much attention. I think at this point I started to tire of watching the ceremony. You’re right, it’s pretty much the done thing to have kids in costumes to represent harmony and acceptance – probably why I wasn’t paying attention at that point!

@Na: Well, I guess my dreams are awesome. As for the lip-sync, I think what was really controversial was the fact that the girl wasn’t lip-syncing to her own recording, not the fact that there’s lip-sync. I was talking to my family at the moment so I didn’t pay attention that much, but many people had said that they knew straight away that she was lip-syncing. When I watched the clip again, I thought it was obvious too, but by that time I was biased already. But as for the other controversy, which was the 56 children wearing traditional clothing of 56 ethnic groups. When I saw it, I was just thinking “yeah, there we go again.” Dressing kids up as different ethnic groups to symbolizing harmony and unity… yep, they do it all the time. I’ve never thought they were actually children from 56 ethnic groups. It’s like elementary school kids dressing up as people from different country for their social studies class. You know they obviously are not from different countries (well, some might really be, but not the entire class). Maybe Chinese people all look the same to some people, but as someone that grew up in Asia, I knew that these people look like the same race simply because they are. When they showed that, I just felt it to be really cliche, but I didn’t realized that they actually told people that these kids are from 56 ethnic groups. I mean, it’s one thing to dress kids up in different clothing for a fashion show, and it’s another thing to tell a lie. Hm, not really the point of this post, but those are my thoughts.

Personally, I don’t like the fact that they lip-synched (although I watched and I knew straight away that it was), but everyone is so up in arms about China doing it because she wasn’t cute enough. Yeah, like that doesn’t happen in Hollywood every day, the cute girl getting the job while the ‘ugly’ girl gets passed over.

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