Beijing 2008 – Faking It

Liverpool end last season empty handed, Perak now in deep financial crisis and I can’t blame Perak players for not performing well. Tak dapat gaji 4-5 bulan, cam mana nak main bola dengan hati yang senang. The only option for me as sport fans now is to concentrate supporting Malaysia at Beijing Olympic.

But thanks to several weak displays by our athletes aku percaya sukar untuk aku bergembira. Sekarang tinggal Lee Chong Wei dan pelumba basikal sahaja yang boleh diberikan harapan untuk dapat pingat. Aku totally agree with sports minister, he said there are no ‘kalah bergaya’, kalah adalah kalah. Tak kira pecah record kebangsaan, baiki catatan peribadi or other minor achievement, pergi sana balik dengan tangan kosong, kau memang loser. Sebelum start Olympic, athlete semua memberi harapan menggunung, semua gelap mata nak menang sejuta ringgit. Wong Choo Han beats defending gold medalist, Taufik Hidayat. Dan pasangan Koo – Tan beats their Japanese jinx rival. Aku semakin percaya badminton will deliver more than one medal. Rupanya semua adalah harapan palsu.

Talking about palsu, last few days after the official opening ceremony people start talking about organizer faking the fireworks display during the international broadcast of the event.

The firework that looks impossible actually is computer generated. Memang ada pertunjukan bunga api pada malam itu di stadium sarang burung, but tidaklah seindah yang dipancarkan keseluruh dunia. Pergi search di google atau yahoo keywords yang berkaitan pasal firework display during Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, akan jumpa banyak sites yang mengutuk organizer. Mungkin China desperately tries to tell rest of the world that they are the best firecracker creator in the world. Since sejarahnya memang bunga api dibuat di China, tapi in recent exhibition tournaments, wakil dari negara lain dah mula mendominasi.

Still about faking, beberapa hari yang lepas syarikat tv US berjaya dapat berita yang organizer juga tukar penyanyi cilik untuk majlis pembukaan Olympic kerana penyanyi asal kurang cute.

Pihak penganjur merasa budak yang mempunyai suara lunak dan pandai menyanyi itu tidak cukup cute untuk dipaparkan ke seluruh dunia, so they picked cuter young girl and ask her to miming during the performance. Suara yang didengari still suara penyanyi asal yang tidak cukup cute itu. Macam-macam… Aku tidak rasa organizer switch penyanyi simply because she not cute enough, since orang yang betul-betul hodoh pun make up artist boleh jadikan cantik. Maybe because budak tu ada nervous ke, tak sihat ke, or any other reason. Yang peliknya berita seterpencil itu pun wartawan US berjaya dapat. Kagum betul aku.

Still cakap pasal topic ‘fake’ dan related dengan Bejing Olympic. Aku nak kutuk rakyat Malaysia yang pura-pura jadi Malaysian but support negara China. Yeah… you guess it right all unhappy and unthankful Malaysian Chinese who still believe they not racist walaupun support negara China di Olympic.

Rakan sekerja aku sendiri tanpa segan silu claims he support Chinese athletes. Aku still remember few days before opening ceremony dia cakap:

“Malam 08/08/08 nobody kacau me, what ever happen, do not call me. I want to concentrate watching Olympic, I know China will show the best opening ceremony ever…”

Then, beberapa hari lepas tu dia still talking about how great the event. China bagus, pandai, the best… bla...bla…bla…

Then, about computer generated firework show and switching the young singer, aku baca di banyak blog milik Malaysian Chinese yang totally sokong organizer. They strongly believe there is nothing wrong with that decision, not a single tiny little wrong at all. Why they have to be over defending the organizer? Specificly defending People Republic of China? Kenapa? Semangat Asia? Nahhh... tipu ahh. Some of the blog’s owner even declares they support Malaysian athlete and Chinese athlete… Kenapa mesti nak support atlit negara lain?

I know this kinda sensitive issue, I also realize ada beberapa Chinese bloggers expecially from Nuffnang yang baca blog aku. Sorry lah, as i mentioned few time in this blog before, I can’t tahan with all this fake Malaysian yang believe they not belong here. I hope you guys understand my view on this.

But, fikir-fikirkan balik… aku tidak puas hati ada Malaysian Chinese support China athlete, but kalau cakap pasal football aku tidak pula kisah ramai Malaysian yang sokong negara lain.

Selamat berhujung minggu. Hopefully Lee Chong Wei tidak memberi harapan palsu. Harap pelumba basikal tidak menipu kita dengan recent good performances build up to Olympics. This weekend aku busy attend wedding. Sorry, aku tak sempat nak reply komen beberapa posting sebelum ini. Busy sikit. Aku cuma sempat baca je komen-komen tu. Aku akan cuba curi masa untuk reply nanti. Posting ini pun aku tulis offline dan kelam kabut post masa di office.


Update (7:35 pm)

Chong Wei memastikan pingat perak untuk Malaysia. Harapnya dia boleh tukar kaler ke gold...