Hey Gaiz!

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics has officially started yesterday!
And I'm so excited since I get to see athletes from around the world coming to my hometown.

The Olympics kicks it off with the Opening Ceremony last night and it was breath-taking. All the nice holographics, the performers, singers, and dancers, it was all epicz. There was a huge fail at the end though, with the lighting of the internal cauldron. All 4 mini-torches were suppose to come up from the ground and lit the main torch, but only 3 did. There was a problem with the hydraulics. Bad ending there Vancouver, but it was okai.

But it wasn't all fun and games that happened yesterday.....

A Georgia athlete died at a fatal crash at the luge yesterday morning and overshadows the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and plunged the whole country in mourning.

Nodar Kumaritashvili flew off the Olympic luge track at high speed and smashed into a metal pillar during a training run.

I was literally about to cry while watching a footage of the crash.

R.I.P Nodar, and may God bless you.

Disaster aside, I hyped out on how the Olympics will bring people from around the world together.

I mean, look at Vancouver! Who doesn't wanna go here?

We're a multi-cultural city, with glowing hearts.

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GO CANADA GO!

This is Paulo, proud to be waking up in the greatest city on the face of the Earth.

The olympics started? Isn't it kinda late? Opening ceremony fail XD

Omg that program ended at 6am

I watched the whole thing xD

GO RUSSIA! Lulz, I'm not Russian but I wish I was. Russians are awesome!! :P

It was very awesome. British Columbia and Vancouver are both very beautiful places. I like those BC ferries especially, they have sun decks, onboard video arcades, gift shops, you name it.The night of the ceremony at the BC place wasn't as exciting as it could have been since everyone was in such low spirits after the luge accident. The special effects were breathtaking, almost better than Beijing but on way less of a budget. When those torches came up, I couldn't help but notice how awkward they looked before I knew that one of them had malfunctioned. As a joke I said "One of those guys with the torches isn't going to get to light one. I wonder who it will be? The guy in the wheelchair?" Ironically, it was. That was just mean.

I thought you all would find that bit interesting. This is the first (and probably last) Olympics I get to go to. Luckily, I do have internet access and am staying with friends on Gabriola Island (near Vancouver Island) We were going to watch freestyle skiing at Cypress Mountain but some serious things happened back home and I have to leave way early. Such a shame too, I already have to go through another arduous 3 day car trip. Awesome...

I forgot all about the olympics XD

RIP nodar

this is the first chance for india in wnter olympics
GO INDIA GO

Go USA And Germany!

GO RUSSIA!!!

r.i.p Nodar Kumaritashvili.

*sad face*