BEIJING 2008 and Beyond

First of all let us give tribute to our Muslim brothers and sisters who started fasting for this entire holy month. I wish you all the strength and will to carry out your resolve and may you achieve those virtues that is desired.

Back to the Beijing Olympics...definitely with much fanfare and excitement this chapter of the Olympics is undoubtedly the best and grandest of all. From the opening right until the end we have seen how well China has managed the show. As many would agree, a good start is already halfway to success. A grand success, the Beijing 2008 opening ceremony and the closing event is.

Negative incidents aside, the whole theatrics was as magical as it was spectacular; way to go China! To me the Beijing Olympics captured and exudes the true spirit of the Games.

I will really be looking forward to the Olympic relay to London 2012 and hopefully be as amazed.

The Games represents a venue for respect, a hope for friendship and a pinnacle for excellence and endurance. It is not about winning or the lack of it. It is the coming together of a world divided by borders, land, sea, and air as one. A coming together of people of multiple cultures and united behind the Olympic ideal.

Beijing 2008 One World, One Dream.