Rapping for the Beijing Games

If you’re having trouble catching the Olympic spirit, watch pedicab operator Sun Dingguo do his rap in the video above.

My office assistant, Hua Li, spotted Mr. Sun outside the Water Cube aquatics center yesterday and found him curious. Before long, he was singing and dancing for onlookers.

Sun, it turns out, is a 30-year-old pedicab operator from Hangzhou who pedaled all the way to Beijing for the Olympics. He began his journey a year ago and arrived last month after passing through 45 cities, including Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin.

Hua Li says Mr. Sun collected 300,000 signatures for the Olympic Games en route and was helped “by a lot of warm-hearted people. Many companies and media supported him with money and material. At Jiaozuo in Henan province his tricycle broke down. A nice man helped him repair the tricycle in the rain. In Shijiazhuang in Hebei province, people gave him medicine for a serious toothache.”
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As I write this, it is beginning to rain in Beijing. This morning awoke clear (by Beijing standards), so I grabbed my camera and took a picture out the office window.

You can actually see part of Tiananmen Square in the distance.

This is news because the Olympics begin in only 10 days and the past week has seen progressively worsening air pollution in the city. Yesterday, the air pollution index finally nudged at bit below 100 level, which signals moderate pollution but is more than six times what the World Health Organization considers safe clean air.

Perhaps the weather is breaking, giving Beijing a break as well.
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The new national uniform for Chinese Olympians is coming under some public criticism. It is being called the “scrambled eggs and tomatoes” uniform. The Chinasmack.com blog first noted this phenomenon and comments from readers have poured in. Turns out that many Chinese feel the uniforms are indeed, er, rearend-ugly.

Comments

[A B]

You didn't Photoshop that picture for the Propaganda Department's benefit, did you?

[Stan]

CCP was blue,just as blue as could be.
Every day was a cloudy day to see.
Then good luck came a-knocking at their door.
Skies were grey but they're not grey anymore.

Blue days.
All of them gone.
Nothing but blue skies
From now on.

They should care if the wind blows east or west
They should fret if the worst looks like the best
They should mind if they say it can't be true
They can't smile because of what they do!

With apologies to Irvin Berlin

[Marvin L Foushee]

I am not sure why the Chinese did have in the Olympics in the Naxi Provence in stead of Beijing. The Olympics could have have blue skies and a green dragon in a Yellow sun.

The Jew Klux Klan in America would have had protests against the shamens of heaven, but the celebration of cultural diversity is what the Olympics is all about.

[stan]

Hey Marvin.
I sent AB to your cell to see if you kicked the bon bon queen habit.I guess he failed.You are one sick puppy.Who gets you dressed in the morning?Go and haunt some other blog you creep.

[Mike]

I have seen that guy before near the Olympic stadium. I agree the Chinese uniforms don't look too stylish. It's a weird pink/red color and it doesn't go well with yellow. Yao Ming certainly stands out in a group.

[Rich]

Is there a Web site that accurately tracks/reports the air quality in Beijing?

[noncommunista]

WE SHOULD NOT BE ENCOURAGING COMMUNIST CHINA TO ENJOY WESTERN PRIVILEGES OF THE FREE WORLD WITHOUT A FREE CHINESE STATE

The thought is plain and simple.

The country in question is not "China" it is "The People's Republic of China" or to some "Communist China".

The Chinese people are complicitous in their defense of their "Big Brother" state and take harsh offense to any outsider who levies criticism of their hypocritical capitalist / communist attitudes and schizophrenic identity.

Instead of wasting the rest of the world's time by hosting the Olympics, Communist China should be more willing to do some heavy lifting and address the root causes of its fumbling international policy and its profound social failure: in effect, the dismantling of The Communist Regime.

This will not happen because the people of China are willing participants in the Communist Chinese propaganda machine. While China failed to create a Marxist Utopia it successfully developed two generations of hardened contempt and loathing for The West.

In the end, free nations need to continue to challenge our Communist Nuclear Enemy that if China wants to be treated on equal footing with free and independent nations then it needs to officially denounce Communism, write a meaningful constitution and hold open elections. Only then will China be free from the shackles of Maoism.

Until that time, remember that Communist China has nuclear missiles pointed at the US and Europe. Their people are such tools of their own government and propaganda that they have not earned the right to issue a single comment about the free world. And we should all be more guarded in our acceptance of a China that is not truly free.

[Nexpider]

Quite interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing.

[UK Website Design Company]

The Chinese Olympic committee (COC) is a non governmental, non-profit, national sports organization of a mass character. Really good information to share.