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Apr. 30th, 2010 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkJust finished watching the opening ceremonies for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China.
I want that hour of my life back.
What I got from it? Chinese people really love using kids, lots and lots of young, cute, and small little children. I wonder what they're trying to say about it? They even got survivors from the Tibet earthquake to parade around (they did not look very happy to be there). And they still love the color red. And gold. And fireworks. Lots and lots of fireworks.
I wanted to kill myself for a while there during the way too long and way too excessive fireworks display. God, I get it. China has awesome fireworks! I think the world realized that during the 2008 Olympics. And the music they used during the outside portion was so classical... I was so happy to get something modern at the end of it that when the classical started merging with it, I was like, go, modern music, go, don't let the bad classical music take you over!
Since I only saw the last hour or so of it, I probably missed the good performances... Which might have raised my interest in it because light and water shows aren't exactly my thing. Especially when set to classical music. And since we were watching a streaming live feed from some Chinese network, it was all in Mandarin so I didn't understand a damn thing. I should have just used the time to watch more Dear Boys...or sleep since it's like 7:30 AM now... Gah, I'm tired.
Okay, sleep now.
I want that hour of my life back.
What I got from it? Chinese people really love using kids, lots and lots of young, cute, and small little children. I wonder what they're trying to say about it? They even got survivors from the Tibet earthquake to parade around (they did not look very happy to be there). And they still love the color red. And gold. And fireworks. Lots and lots of fireworks.
I wanted to kill myself for a while there during the way too long and way too excessive fireworks display. God, I get it. China has awesome fireworks! I think the world realized that during the 2008 Olympics. And the music they used during the outside portion was so classical... I was so happy to get something modern at the end of it that when the classical started merging with it, I was like, go, modern music, go, don't let the bad classical music take you over!
Since I only saw the last hour or so of it, I probably missed the good performances... Which might have raised my interest in it because light and water shows aren't exactly my thing. Especially when set to classical music. And since we were watching a streaming live feed from some Chinese network, it was all in Mandarin so I didn't understand a damn thing. I should have just used the time to watch more Dear Boys...or sleep since it's like 7:30 AM now... Gah, I'm tired.
Okay, sleep now.
