Watching the Olympics and listening to all this talk about Beijing makes me really miss that place! All I hear and see is Beijing this and Beijing that and I hate that I’m not there to explore all the really cool things that they did just for the Olympics =( I even missed out on trying out the new Beijing International Airport by a week!! 天天听着看着中国的旅游 hotspots ，新和旧的东西我全部都想看！非常可惜！

I can’t help but tune myself into the Olympic events everyday, especially now that we can watch it on CCTV! The problem with Channel 7 is that they give a lot of air time to swimming and other popular Australian sports, concentrating on the Australian athletes because that’s what our Australian market demands of them.

But this time around, CCTV gives me the choice of what to watch. I don’t think I’ve ever watched softball, equestrian, weight-lifting, judo， badminton， 乒乓比赛 什么的 during the Olympics before…

虽然我可以看别的运动，我还喜欢看游泳比赛，diving (especially synchronized diving), gymnastics… mainly the sports that involves a lot of gravity defying and/or contortion of the body O_o; The least favourite for me has to be the equestrian competition and the white water rafting.

我很像北京。。。 我想见我的北京朋友。。。

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On a side note, I’m starting to get really frustrated with always hearing 中国加油，《insert athlete name》加油，《insert team name》加油，《insert country name》加油. My goodness, how many times do they have to say “Jia You!” at least mix it up a bit… isn’t there something else in Chinese besides 加油??!

I thought I would use the Beijing Olympic Games as a good excuse for me to blog a little in Chinese…

BUT my vocab prevents me from writing about just how crazily fantastic the Olympic opening ceremony was! Only in China can you get a HUGE mass of people performing in sync with 99% accuracy. I enjoyed playing ’spot the mistakes’ during the performances just because it would be unfair if there weren’t any mistakes at the Beijing Olympics… it’ll make the Australian Sydney Olympics look bad!

Sydney 的奥运会不必北京奥运 Opening Ceremony 好。其实 Sydney奥运会已经过了八年，我差不多都忘了。。。 我才记得我们有 lawn mowers 和 Nikki Webster， 别的想不起来。

The Beijing Olympics though, there are some performances which I doubt I’ll easily forget. I especially loved the performance with the mass of drums which lit up in sync and the moving columns which was so in sync that I almost believed it was computerised.

我最不喜欢的是 the order of which each country entered the stadium! 我每次等澳大利亚队出来才坐别的东西。因为澳大利亚第一字是 ‘a’ 应该在前面的，可是这次澳大利亚差不多是最后出的！！My dad had to explain to me that countries were entering in order of number of strokes in their Chinese character… STROKES?! Poor Australia has way too many =(

Anyways, like I said great ceremony. Even the lighting of the Olympic flame was cool! Although, it would have been cooler if there were no mistakes…

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P.S. 过了几个星期，北京语言大学才挤过来我的 transcript, 等了差不多五个月才收到! 我的考试分都不错，我的听力比口语好的多。我觉得这是因为我看很多戏，不少没有英语字幕和dubbing所以我用汉语听，猜一猜戏的意思。

Yum! Green Tea Birthday Cake!!

What can I say 姐？Good choice in cake, if only I was here to eat the Lychee one! =P

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken

I’ve been thoroughly distracted from blogging for a while, one of the excuses is the Food Fair held at Fremantle for the Burma Cyclone victims. It was on the Sunday (yesterday) and thankfully the weather was perfect! I was a bit worried because a few days earlier the weather was terrible with the wind blowing around fences, uprooting trees, causing power cuts and throwing debris all over the roads.

As per usual, mum took up the roll of manning the ice kachang machine. Since it’s a charity event, I think it’s the first time I’ve paid for an ice kachang! It’s funny because I still have moments where I convert to RMB and just about faint at how much I’m paying for food here… $8 for a dosai seems decent but 52RMB is totally killing me! I could eat for a whole week with that money in China!! Anyhow, it’s all good because it’s for a good cause =)

We didn’t get there until two in the afternoon, and we found that a lot of the stalls had sold out of their popular dishes =( The lines at the satay and dosai stalls were massively long so I was pretty lucky that I got my hands on some of their food without waiting too long (knowing people in the line always helps =P).

The event seems to be successful considering a lot of the stalls sold out on food, the turn out was really good since the weather was so nice, and it had a pretty good atmosphere too… Well, that was before the sun started to set and the wind started feeling a little too chilly… Overall, it was a great food fair =) I wish Perth would have more throughout the year!

Today is my nephew (cousin’s son), Christopher’s full moon! And to celebrate, we ate lots of food (including the traditional red dyed eggs) and played games =) I can’t wait until Chris gets big enough to play with, all he seems to do at the moment is sleep, cry and secrete bodily fluids….