08/08/08:
I was about to head home from gym after work then I took the usual route through the mall which leads home after passing a couple of car parks and 24 hours "mamak" (Indian Muslim) stalls ... then as soon as I went out from the mall, right inside the parapat of the mall, the Republic was attracting groups of people, because in a usual case, it could have just been some football tournament shows having displayed on their 6 sided plasmas hung on top of their bar counter together with a big projector screen next to it... and not to forget with obviously fewer customers scarcely sitting here and there for dinner or sips of beers.
So yeah, anyway, today was different, I saw groups people flocking around then my curiosity level went straight up... so I had nothing to lose, tomorrow is my day off from work and now the night is still young... so I stood and had a look at what they were eagerly watching in awe...
Oh wow, it is "Beijing Olympic" live on TV ... hmmmm I am not sure whether I should support China like right now after all the things that they have done to us... but anyway, it was really impressive and it gave me shivers down my back while watching it...
Then right at the point where the center stadium splitted into half then the centerstage which resembled our own earth appeared with green continents displaying on it... something struck me very hard and waves of emotion swept through me right across... I was panicked trying to hide my sudden emotion which had brought me to near tears... something just went on in my mind... that particular something...
Could it be the touching Olympic theme song sung by the singers on stage? No... well may be it had helped me transported to the past with its melodius yet melancholy tunes and vocals...
I was just reminded some "promises" made between me and my friends 4 years ago... that wherever we might be in the future, whatever lots which had been fallen onto our lives in different corners of the world that we live, we would meet each other again in Beijing 2008....
well THAT was a promise... but then I found myself watching it live all alone surrounded by the unfamiliar faces around me on the very opening day of 2008 Olympics by chance from almost about to be heading back home from work right in Malaysia.. the rest of my friends who had made that same promise also must have been watching this in England, Singapore and Burma through their everyday's struggle just like myself... what a life!
But I was consoled because later on when I was writing this blog, then I met one of those friends of mine online and the first thing I asked was this: "Hey you know what I'm thinking rite now?"
The truth was he knew what I just meant.
Then I was told that he was thinking and feeling exactly the same thing while watching the opening ceremony and he sounded sad too... so at least we all might be feeling the same emotion at the same time right at the moment which made me feel better but nostalgic...as friends who had not forgotten our past promise though it was impossible for us not to break it...
Well another final thought came into my mind... that today is also the mark of our 20th Anniversary of the mind-boggling, teeth-gritting and mainly sad event of my own country whereby exactly 20 years back today, 08/08/88 (THE FOUR EIGHTS) when I was 4 years old, a lot of our country's students (future leaders) and civilians were massacred by the military maddogs of whom China is currently supporting whole-heartedly by all means of weaponries which have bled thousands and thousands of innocent lives... And now China has just finished launching the grandest of all opening ceremonies of Olympic which represents peace on earth... on this "THE THREE EIGHTS"... when the rest of us from my roots are half mourning for the loss of lives and love from the past 20 years... ~~..~~..~~ that was my final thought of the day before a new day begins...
My deepest condolence and a tribute to the 20th Anniversary of our country's one of the most sorrowful events...
