Sunday, August 15, 2010
YOG Opening Ceremony
The YOG Opening Ceremony was awesome.
Now, I must admit that there were several flaws, but it was simply because some idiots decided NOT to attend rehearsals and eventually screw the actual ceremony up. And the organising committee kept having to making last-minute changes, thus affecting people who ATTEND rehearsals like us.
If you can spot the segment where the drummers were rehearsing for the FIRST time on international TV, kudos to you!
If you didn't like it, you might enjoy the fact that you could be burning in Moscow instead, had they won the bid. (: And to quote Mark Twain, I'd send you a fan if I could.
Sometimes, before you criticise and say "how disappointed you are", just be realistic and expect the expected when it comes to money. But 20000 volunteers are involved. Who knows how many thousands of performers were there. We stayed awake for 36 hours and rehearsed at 4am for the ceremony to be great, not to hear you whine about how some foreign athletes walked in the wrong direction.
Singaporeans. If you didn't watch the ceremony live or aren't involved in the YOG process, don't complain. You're not entitled to. THIS IS OLYMPIC HISTORY.
Now, I must admit that there were several flaws, but it was simply because some idiots decided NOT to attend rehearsals and eventually screw the actual ceremony up. And the organising committee kept having to making last-minute changes, thus affecting people who ATTEND rehearsals like us.
If you can spot the segment where the drummers were rehearsing for the FIRST time on international TV, kudos to you!
If you didn't like it, you might enjoy the fact that you could be burning in Moscow instead, had they won the bid. (: And to quote Mark Twain, I'd send you a fan if I could.
Sometimes, before you criticise and say "how disappointed you are", just be realistic and expect the expected when it comes to money. But 20000 volunteers are involved. Who knows how many thousands of performers were there. We stayed awake for 36 hours and rehearsed at 4am for the ceremony to be great, not to hear you whine about how some foreign athletes walked in the wrong direction.
Singaporeans. If you didn't watch the ceremony live or aren't involved in the YOG process, don't complain. You're not entitled to. THIS IS OLYMPIC HISTORY.
# posted at 4:24 PM
