Dream Team USA & OZ

As you would expect, having Ames here means endless meaningless stupid fun. We stayed up watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony while drinking champagne with kiwi slices and trying to decipher the "Chinese Alphabetization" of countries in the flag ceremony. Yes, we watched the whole thing. The reason we were so obsessed was that we heard Australia was last in the "Chinese Alphabet," and Amii's obsessed with the Olympics. Finally, English is my second language has paid off, because that means Chinese is my first language. With the help of online dictionary and my grade school Chinese lessons, it tuns out the alphabet they were referring to was the number of strokes in the first word of the country's name. What complicated it was they were basing it off of simplified form as well (a form I detest because it looks more Japanese than Chinese; nothing against the Japanese I merely mean simplified form looks foreign to me). Not to mention, a country name could have less strokes in simplified form if one existed. Unfortunately, Australia did not have a simplified form. The only outstanding question for me was if multiple countries had the same number of strokes, how do they break the tie. The answer seems to be random. So it does not appear there was true "alphabetization" of the countries, but I think only 0.5 other person on this earth cares.

Our commentaries for the evening:

P: Omigod I’m going to have a seizure those drum guys are all going to pass out and seizure.

A: No they have their eyes closed.

P: Eyes aren’t light proof.

A: Look at how synchronized they are, how do they rehearse this?

P: It’s way more fancy than marching band.

(Ames kicks and giggles in excitement.)

A: Dude all the guys have the same haircut. This is so communistic.

P: Dude that’s why we (Asians) all look alike. That one’s gay.

A: Where? I missed it. One in ten.

P: Oh there’s another one. They all look like Chow yun fat.
P:We are so starting an Olympics Opening Ceremonies fund.


Possible items the Olympic stadium resembles:
Giant toilet seat
Giant two toned life saver candy with cobwebs on it.

Note to self. Need to paint yellow stars on my red couch to resemble the Chinese flag. It’ll be hot. Then I can sell it on Ebay and say it’s an Beijing Olympic Commemorative item. We sat on it while watching the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony and probably other events.

We got curious as to how much an Opening Ceremony ticket cost. We googled it and found it was about $700 for the best seat in the house and someone auctioned it for $27,000. We decided we’d buy 4 tickets and sell two to cover our costs and our trip and accommodations rather than save for a fund. FYI. 2010 winter games in Vancouver go on Sale October 11, 2008. I love the internet. Heart.

P: I am hating the commercials. I bet we are missing some good stuff in the ceremony.
A: Why are the kids wearing book bags.

P: To symbolize they are school kids and not orphans.

A: Why don’t they just wear uniforms with uniform book bags.

P:Good point. They are so not with the communist spirit.

A: Watch the tai chi guys and how synchronized they are. Watch them run, I can’t believe they’re not running into each other.

P: Is that special effects?

A: NO! Ohh watch how fast they have to go to get into their spots. That guy’s late! They’re so going to execute him after the show.