I am sure by now many of you already read in the news or around the blogs on the issues surrounding Beijing Olympics spectacular opening ceremony footage. I was browsing Negaraku.net and I saw some blogs wrote about it, namely my life 4 hire and teddY-risatioN.
It is true, China even admitted shamelessly and see nothing wrong with to have parts of the spectacular, over the top Beijing Olympics opening ceremony faked to put on a flawless, impressive show to the world. If this is not hypocrisy, I do not know what it is.
In order to put on a a perfect Olympics, Beijing has swept its streets of fake designer handbags, pirated DVDs and phoney corporate logos. That dedication to authenticity apparently does not extend to Olympics ceremonies.I f you watched the opening ceremony in front of the television, you were duped into believing it was filmed live.
Olympic Fireworks Faked For TV
The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird’s Nest stadium - except they were watching a computer animation.
Even the giant television screens within the stadium itself broadcast the fake images.
Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter.
But in reality they were watching a 3D graphics sequence that took almost a year to produce.
It even included a ‘camera shake’ to mimic the effect of filming from a helicopter.
The dupe was revealed by China’s Beijing Times. Speaking to the paper, the man responsible for the animation said he was pleased with the result.
“Seeing how it worked out, it was still a bit too bright compared to the actual fireworks,” Gao Xiaolong told the newspaper.
“But most of the audience thought it was filmed live - so that was mission accomplished.”
The designers even added some haziness to simulate the polluted Beijing skyline.
Organiser said that the footprint fireworks were there for real, but thought it unsafe to try to film them - so they recreated them instead
Here is my take:
1. If you could not get the real footage, forget about broadcasting it. Forget about saving face, I think Chinese are preoccupied with this ’saving face’ culture and will shamelessly resort to anything to maintain a ‘good, pretty, presentable face’. Image over substance, the end justifies the mean. It is really sad to hear what I saw on television and went gaga over it was nothing but a make-believe effect. Where is the pride of the Chinese people ? Down in the drain.
2. Some of the commentators at the blogs I visited equated criticism against this issue as ‘China bashing and another attempt to degrade China, especially by Western press’. It was China’s Beijing Times that first reported this ‘dupe’.
Furthermore, with this kind of revelation, you cannot help but to feel angry no? Anyone being deceived would feel the same way. Wait, I hear you. One by one please.
- We watch $200 million even more fake spectacular movies like Batman, Independence Day.. and we still enjoy it very much.
That is because we KNOW and we are willingly spend our hard earned money to watch the FAKE movies! See the difference? Unless China put a disclaimer before they put up the footage, then it’s another story. The organisers made billions of people thinking they were watching the real thing when they were not! After billions of people singing praises and glory about the stunning remarkable opening ceremony, then we know it was not real.
- Oh it is better then, they put up CGI effects instead of real fireworks, so it is even better! Less air pollution! Less fire hazards esp during the HOT summer now.
Huh?? Ehem, the firework WERE FIRED OFF! The fake fireworks were not replacement for the real ones. China feed the ‘perfect footage which took them almost 1 year to produce’ to international broadcasters after firing the real fireworks.
We I just do not see the need for them to recreate the whole fireworks display for the sake of grandeur and perfection. Utter crap.
That is not all, apparently the very cute girl singing to the song ‘Ode to the Motherland’ was merely lip syncing to the song. Not so bad right? Considering many singers nowadays cannot even sing live and always do miming, but what is more outrageous was, the girl is not the original singer at all!! She was lip syncing to the song originally sang by another not-so-cute girl!! The organisers kept mum about the issue, never even bothered to give ANY CREDIT giving any credit until it was leaked out yesterday and now China enforced a media blackout on the fake song issue. Typical of China.
Left: Original singer, the less cute girl - Yang Peiyi, Right: Lin Miaoke - the cute girl
Chinese media blackout on faked Olympic ceremony saga
BEIJING (AFP) - China enforced a media blackout on the saga of the faked Olympic opening ceremony song on Wednesday and all references to the story were removed from Chinese Internet sites.
Beijing’s Olympic organisers admitted on Tuesday that nine-year-old Lin Miaoke, who was seen by millions around the world singing during the ceremony, was actually miming a song that was pre-recorded by another girl.
The show’s musical director revealed the real singer, seven-year-old Yang Peiyi who has uneven teeth and a chubby face, was replaced by government order because she did not present the right image of China.
Ridiculous! What ‘right image of China’? So this is the right image of China? Resorting to lies and deceptions in order to have that ‘right image?’ Hilarious! It is disheartening and sad, they ruined an otherwise pretty awesome ceremony with those fakes. Little that we expect, for a big country like China to display symptoms uncannily resembles those countries suffering from inferiority complex syndrome.
The issue here is honesty. If China has been honest about all this before first hand, I do not see any problem for people to accept the facts, especially on the ‘fake fireworks’, as it involves safety issue and requires great planning, efforts to film the real fireworks. I have problem with China ’sidelined the less cute girl and presented a cute girl miming to a song, without giving due credit to the original singer - the less cute girl.’
Now, instead of being honest and apologetic over the issue, China made some ridiculous statements and this only add oil to the burning criticism against China, especially after the Tibet and Taiwan issue. Opportunists and China detractors will pounce on this issue, that is for sure.
It is not uncommon to hear remarks praising Chinese people as ruthless, conniving, greedy and materialistic bastards
This ‘fakes’ issue certainly does not help to change people’s perceptions about Chinese people. Lastly, (ehem, to save my sorry arse I need to have some sort of disclaimer, seeing so many off topic comments at other blogs writing on this issue) before you blast me for highlighting only the negative things about the opening ceremony and brand me as an anti China bastard, think again.
I acknowledged the great, spectacular and stunning feats by many performers during the opening ceremony especially the part where Li Ning ‘running’ across the CGI scroll to light the Olympic flame. I was stunned, totally impressed when they showed suspended performers ‘running across the continents on the globe’ and of course, the beautifully choreographed dances.
But, this post is specially done to highlight China’s hypocrisy on the ‘fakes issue’ and not to write a summary on positive and negative things about China, or to present a balanced view on China. Neither that I am writing to impress you.
His blog is at blogspot - ‘Demi Allah, Agama, Bangsa dan Negara‘. Allow me to puke for a while. I am utterly disgusted reading his blog title. Please don’t drag your God, religion, race and country in this anal affair of yours. He has 3 posts so far, first entry on July 7th, then July 20th and last entry on August 1st.
Hmm, for someone under police protection and a ‘victim’ of sodomy, he sure has a lot of free time, logging on to his Friendster account sending threats and blogging. His antics are far cry from what we normally expect from a butt-rape victim. Look at him, smiling and smirking when his photo was taken by photographers, he acts more like a celebrity than a victim. Body language tells you a lot of things.
Well, no matter how you look at this anal affair, one thing is sure. This Saiful bugger is sure cheap. Why?
1. IF he is part of a conspiracy what so ever, it means he has been bought off - cheap enough to sell his ass dignity for a price.
I have a fickle mind. It is a weakness. Sometimes I can’t be sure what I really want. For instance, I will try many shirts and pants before deciding what I want to wear. When I buy something, I will scrutinize and test everything before I decide, or I may end up not buying. Indecisiveness. I think some who knows me well can testify for that.
I am also the person that when I want something, I want it at that time, if possible. I do not like to wait when I can get it/do it and this is another weakness. I always do things hastily and sometimes I didn’t put much thought and consideration when doing it. Spur of the moment thing. Yeah, carpe diem heh? Seize the moment by the balls. For some people it is spontaneous and fun, but after much self evaluations and reflections, there are many things that I regretted doing. If I could turn back time, yes I would change all that. I never talk much about things that I regretted doing, only to people I really close with. Perhaps it is time to share some stories.
KUALA TERENGGANU: State exco members and senior officers started using their new Mercedes-Benz E200 Kompressor cars today.
The state bought 14 of the luxury cars for RM3.43mil to replace the Proton Perdana V6 Executive cars that had been purchased in 2004.
The new cars are for the exco members, the state assembly speaker, the state secretary, the state legal adviser and the state finance officer.
The new cars with tinted windows carry the state emblem with the wording “Exco Kerajaan Negeri” embossed on the number plate.
State Secretary Datuk Mokthar Nong said the decision to use Mercedes-Benz cars was made several months ago.
The state took delivery of the cars earlier this month.
He said the German cars were bought for the safety of the state officials who had to travel extensively and to reduce the cost of maintenance.
“After much evaluation, the state felt the Mercedes-Benz cars are more reliable for long term use. It was also time to replace the Proton Perdanas,” he added.
1. Proton Perdana not safe and maintenance cost higher than Mercedes!!!!!
2. It was also time to replace the Proton Perdanas - bought in 2004.
3. It seems like the state new exco members’ life are more precious than the previous members and probably their safely also more important than Pak Lah himself. Pak Lah is driven around in his No. 13 Proton Perdana.
4. Cakap tak serupa bikin.
Opt for locally-made products, says Abdullah
PUTRAJAYA: The people must have confidence in using locally-made products to renew interest in research and development of local technologies, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday.
“If we do not buy local products, there will be no interest to develop research and the technology used will be wasted,” the prime minister said
5. Compare BN-led state and Pakatan Rakyat-led state.
“In comparison, during the first weeks of new governance, the present Penang state government has decided to cancel the orders of new official cars for exco members placed by the previous administration”
“State Secretary Datuk Mokthar Nong said the decision to use Mercedes-Benz cars was made several months ago.”
Several months ago? Since March 8 only a few months ago, this is likely the most important decision made when the new state exco was appointed. Then in today’s paper, Terengganu’s MB defended the purchase of the 14 new Mercedes E200 Kompressor - a whooping RM3.43million:
MB on why Terengganu bought Mercedes cars
KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government has defended the purchase of 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressor cars at RM3.43mil for the use of its state executive councillors and senior officials.
Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the state government had planned to purchase the cars for a long time now to replace its Proton Perdana V6 Executive fleet in a move to cut cost.
“Please understand that the Proton Perdanas go through continuous long-distance journeys. It’s costing us a lot of money due to high cost of maintenance.
“We are not saying that the national car is not good but in reality we are coughing up more money for maintaining the Proton Perdanas, particularly the gear boxes,” he said.
Ahmad cited the example of the Proton Perdana of state Commerce, Industry and Environment committee chairman Toh Chin Yaw, which has twice undergone expensive repairs costing RM50,000 within 36 months.
“In the long run, Mercedes cars are cheaper to maintain and could also save us fuel costs.
“This is the state’s long-term plan – we are farsighted. The cars could also fetch a high market price, when sold as second-hand cars.
“We studied all angles before deciding to buy the Mercedes E200 cars,” he added.
Ahmad also denied that the oil royalty money was used to buy the cars.
“In the first place we have yet to receive the oil royalties from the Federal Government.
“The funds to procure the cars were from our own coffers and has nothing to do with the oil royalties,” he said.
Long distance journey? We all aware they travel by jets or MAS business class all the time. Oh? Mercedes cars are cheaper to maintain and could save fuel costs, that’s something new.. to me.
I wonder what kind of parts can cost RM50k, we were talking about Perdana, not Porche or BMW. Probably the repair costs marked up as well?? Fishy.. Or probably Terengganu exco members are big fans of Pimp My Ride?
ps: |1f34|-|1r3 aka Life4Hire is not happy he’s not getting his Mercedes. He’s jealous and he called them suckers. Read it here.
Pak Lah, why must you open your mouth? It was all good and peaceful in Malaysia that you kept quiet for the past few days.. (well, there are always some other idiots making noise anyway..) then you started to open your mouth again thus showing what an idiot you are. People would never know you are ‘less smart’ if you just keep quiet and do not make any noise.
The authorities require a fresh DNA sample from Anwar Ibrahim because the sample extracted 10 years ago is too old, said Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today. - Malaysiakini
I suggest Pak Lah or people around him to read up Wikipedia and use Google wisely.
1. Researchers retrieved DNA from the teeth of a Neanderthal man, that’s 40000 years old teeth. Google, Wikipedia
There are many more examples, go and look them out yourself. Eh wait, being the government they always say Internet = Lies, no wonder they never bother to look up these ‘lies’.
10 years DNA sample = Old?? What a lot of crap!
This reminds me of Nordin Kardi, another ’smart pant’ that couldn’t keep his mouth shut and was trying to be smart only to be the biggest butt joke of Malaysians. Read Noktah Hitam’s post here. Vice Chancellor? Nah!
Just another day there was this guy on Facebook, on one of the topic in the discussion board, he called me and my friends ‘idiots’ and presented his ‘facts’. Needless to say, his idiotic comments/arguments/facts received much ‘love’ from us. We debunked his ‘facts’ only for him to relentlessly provided more ‘facts’. He loves to talk economy, which seems to be his ’strongest’ point. One of his facts, I quote:
“eh… i also just imitate anwar only maa.. he also need to take up economics 101. I wonder where he get all his figures.. No country in this world is 10 times richer than malaysia. Norway is just 4 times richer!! and 8% inflation? did he just blurt it out with no backup? Com’on la.. all his points are lie!! why you people believe in such a blatant lier?”
HSBC economist Robert Prior-Wandesforde estimated that the fuel price rise, which took effect on Thursday, would push annual inflation in June to 7-8 percent, which could hurt the economy.
Nevermind.. everything on the internet, especially blogs = LIES
Conclusions: Idiots love to make themselves known. They love to display their idiocy. They love to be famous. Hmm.. they are pretty narcissistic too, alright. Narcissism is necessary!
ps: Narcissism describes the trait of excessive self-love, based on self-image or ego.
1. Deny Barisan National A 2/3 Majority in the Upcoming Election!DONE!
2. Save $$$ to buy a new wife (read = car)
3. Get a kick-ass laptop!
4. Maintain this blog religiously
5. Make more friends
6. Make more 'moolah'
7. Get out from Bolehland for a kick-ass holiday
8. Get a kick-ass tattoo on my back!DONE!
Then in today’s paper, Terengganu’s MB defended the purchase of the 14 new Mercedes E200 Kompressor - a whooping RM3.43million:
Read it 
Well applied, dude….well applied! 
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