PART 1: Red Army of Passion
PART 2: Flame of Passion
After the opening ceremony, the relay starts with running around the field of Dataran Merdeka. Then, I started to pack up my camera to proceed to my next stop when I saw a bunch of photographers gathered in one spot. So, me too went to see what really happened there and I saw Dato' Mohd Yasin Mohd Salleh holding his torch posing for the photographers...
PART 3: Relay of Passion
The torch...
Dato' Mohd Yasin Mohd Salleh happily waiting for his turn...
KL Mayor passing the flame to Dato' Mohd Yasin Mohd Salleh...
Before I moved to my second stop, I managed to take a shot of Samsung Promo-girls...
Red Army marching to their next stop...
At my second stop, Jalan Hang Tuah...
List of torchbearers...
Special bicycle...
The matured Samsung Promo-girls...
And Lenovo Promo-girls...
Mr. Jalani Sidek getting ready for the relay...
Mr. Jalani Sidek starts his relay after Mr. Fu Chee Cheng successfully passed the flame to him...
Lim Yee Chung (林宇中), Malaysian famous artist, waiting for his turn...
Lim Yee Chung (林宇中) responding to his fans...
The Protector of Flame guy turns on Lim Yee Chung (林宇中)'s torch...
Mr. Jalani Sidek passing the flame to Lim Yee Chung (林宇中)...
Then I moved to my last stop, KLCC park. The sky started to rain when I reached there. The place was so crowded and cannot take good photos here :( ...
Crowded KLCC...
H. E. Cheng Yonghua running in the rain with his torch to the closing ceremony stage...
Balloons released mark the end of the torch relay...
China supporter getting ready for a photo session...
China babe...
Closing ceremony performance...
Interviewing OCM Secretary General, Datuk Sieh Kok Chi, toughman in Malaysian sports...
The Protector of Flame team leaving with the Olympic flame (Can you see the flame?)...
I had some thoughts (sorry for my poor English :) )...
After observing what happened during this event, I can see that people of one country can become real strong and patriotic when their country became the target of world's criticism. What triggered the Chinese (mostly students) to come out so strongly in the countries which host the later stage of the torch relay, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and South Korea, is from the aftermath of what happened in London, San Francisco and especially Paris. The demonstrations and protests by Pro-Tibet and Pro-human rights groups in these cities had forced the Chinese in foreign country to come out to 'protect' the Olympic flame from being disturbed by the groups.
I asked myself...Why the Pro-Tibet and Pro-human rights groups had to go to the extend of putting off the Olympic flame?.. Why can't they hold a peaceful demonstration?.. Is Tibet getting anything from the demonstration held by the groups?.. What's wrong if China have bad records of human rights, while other so called democratic countries have same bad records of human rights?.. Is attacking a country (by so called democratic country) with lame reasons, not violating human rights?.. Why other people need to be so busybody of one country's human rights record, when one country have their own law system in determining what's correct and wrong?.. Why can't China have a peaceful Olympic Games?...and the questions go on...But frankly, there's don't have any obvious answers...
I know, you knows and hopefully everyone knows that China and Chinese people, openhearted-ly and sincerely, welcomes the World to Beijing. Let's all just put aside the 'Politics Games'...and let's enjoy the upcoming Olympic Games...BEIJING 2008
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PART 1: Red Army of Passion
Other than what you saw in Part 1, there are also some goodies and pre-opening performance prepared by sponsors...
Samsung is one of the main sponsor...
Everyone can be torchbearer...
Dragon...
Recycle performance by Coca-Cola...
The opening ceremony starts at about 2:15pm...
PART 2: Flame of Passion
Mr. Wang Ji (China students' representative) marching to his torch change point with the torch before opening ceremony starts...
Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) President, YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Tuanku Ja’afar giving his speech...
BOCOG Vice President, Mr. Jiang Xiaoyu giving his speech...
The Protector of Flame(PoF) team carrying the torch and lantern contains the Olympic flame...
The PoF team looks so tough...
Olympic flame burning in Malaysia...
The first torch...
Mr. Jiang Xiaoyu holding the torch...
Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia, His Excellency Cheng Yonghua holding the torch...
H. E. Cheng Yonghua passing the torch to Tunku Imran...
Tunku Imran proudly holding the torch...
Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay officially inaugurated by Kuala Lumpur City Mayor, Dato’ Abdul Hakim bin Borhan...
KL Mayor looking at the flame...
KL Mayor passing the torch to first torchbearer, Tunku Imran...
Tomorrow I will post up the relay of this event...
PART 3: Relay of Passion
2008-04-25
Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay, Malaysia Leg: Part 1
On 21st of April 2008, Malaysia, the 13th country to host the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay event from 21 countries chosen outside China was held peacefully and without much problem. The event was held in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. The 16.5 km long-relay began from the historic Dataran Merdeka, passed in front of several city landmarks before coming to an end at the iconic Petronas Twin Towers. Among the landmarks the Olympic flame passed next to were the Parliament House, Masjid Negara, KL Tower and Merdeka Stadium. A team of 1000 personnel from the Malaysian Police Special Action Squad guarded the event and escorted the torchbearers. There were a total of 80 torchbearers, comprising corporate figures, sports personalities and patrons of sports organizations. Cheah Soon Kit, Yap Kim Hock and Nicol David were among the torchbearers. The last time an Olympic torch relay was held in Malaysia was the 1964 Tokyo edition.
Source: Wikipedia
On this historic day, I took a day leave take some photos of the Olympic torch relay event and the torch itself as a remembrance for myself as such event may not happen again in the coming half century. The outcome was really good where I get to touch the torch from some really nice and humble torchbearers (except cocky Nurul Huda Abdullah) and get really close to the flame to feel the passion of the Olympic (how I wish I could go to see the Olympic in Beijing...).
I will stop the crap now and let the photos I took do the talking...Enjoy...
The opening ceremony stage...
When I reach Dataran Merdeka at around 1.00pm, the atmosphere there was like Pro-China demonstration...
PART 1: Red Army of Passion
One China Forever...
Support Olympic, Support China...
Tourists from China also stopped by to support the event...
Banner full of signage of people who love Olympic...
Beijing Olympic...
Either she loves Mickey Mouse...or hate it very much... :)
China babes...
Stop discrimination on Chinese...please...
Remember people...No politics in Olympic...
Sea of Red...
China Superman...
Serious...
One World...One Dream...Olympic...
Olympic flame spread throughout the world, Chinese undividable...
I will post up the next two parts of this series in very near future... Do visit back!!! :D
PART 2: Flame of Passion
PART 3: Relay of Passion
