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Beijing Bickerings Yesterday was Olympic Day and I was looking forward watching the opening ceremonies. I knew beforehand China would be well prepared and equipped and able to display all the pageantry and pomp of their heritage and culture via special effects, choreography or acrobatics just like what we see in those ostentatious Chinese movies. Viewing these presentations is very entertaining and makes you escape for a while from all the harsh realities that now exists around each one of us. The pageantry displays the wealth, the royal bloods, the elegant production designs, the exhilarating crowd scene, those magnificent costumes, spectacular fireworks etc. etc. etc. and other ingredients of the Chinese creativity. I was assuming that I will have the chance to see these things again on the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. I started to take interest on the Olympics events during my high school days when it was held at Munich in 1972. The Munich Olympics was noted for Mark Spitz’s brilliant performance in the swimming events which rewarded him 8 gold medals. It was also during this event that terrorists killed Jewish weightlifters while they were resting in their quarters. This is the famous Black September. After 4 years, the event was held in Montreal. The 1976 Olympics was marked by the performance of Nadia Comaneci of Romania in the gymnastics. She scored the perfect ten, a feat that would make Nadia famous and an overnight sensation for being the first gymnast ever to score a perfect ten. The 1980 Moscow Olympics was marred by boycotts from the USA and her allies because of political issues against Russia. Then in 1984, Los Angeles had its turn for hosting. From 1984 up to 2004 , I had seen all the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and without effort, all of these events are very accessible to the Pinoy viewers. Except for this year at Beijing, I was actually flabbergasted why there was no information or announcements of the time and TV station. Only later at past midnight when I saw it at the Solar channel. Unfortunately for me, the ceremony was about to wrap up although I had the chance to watch that lighting of the torch which I think was very original and magnificently executed. Be that as it may, I was still frantic I need to catch up the earlier portions which will consist mainly of the ceremonies proper, the display of pomp, the spectacular pageantry etc. . . I thought there could be a replay but the Solar channel is already presenting to viewers a few games like soccer and women’s weightlifting. They were not announcing a replay. The You Tube website did not also provide a hope for the viewers. All entries that will present the opening ceremonies had been pulled out of the website due to copyright claims by another party. Why was I exerting so much effort? Where as in the past olympics, the opening was very available to anyone because it was sponsored by popular TV stations and wealthy commercial establishments. I am not sure but I was thinking that access is so expensive and considering that the venue is China, home of the millions of enterprising citizens. It is so pathetic and pretentious to think of a slogan which goes ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM. Oh, come on! 
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