Well peeps they have finally unveiled the icon symbol for 2008 it is the chinese character jing as in beijing in the shape of a running athlete

anyway what is your opinion of 2008 i personally will go there for sure but who else has plans to go?

It's going to be in Beijing? That's news to me. I would go.... If I didn't live so far away ! What do you mean of our opinion of 2008?

Anyone got a pic of it?

by "what do u think of 2008", i THINK he means what do we think about it being in Beijing... i guess i don't mind... but umm... why would we really be against it? my dad said something about human rights but i didn't really get the whole thing

Well, Its nice to go to Beijing in 2008 , As For me I hope I had money by then.

hey, I'm new to this dicussion board, here is the pic u guys want~~

haha thats cool. thanks and welcome to the forum guoyp!

Yes, Very beautiful and Chinese!

Ouuuuuuuuu! I got to start saving cash for that event.
2008? That's plenty time to save. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

just thinkin bout 2008 ..make me feel so old allready...

Freakin.
me feel old already.
bad and good it is.

Ohh the pic is very nice,
and very "chinese"..

ok, i think i will be like i dunno, old when it's 2008. But anyways, i might go back to actrually just watch the whole thing^^

Cool symbol.....................yup 'very chinese'............!!!

wonder wat character that looks like???

i think it's a symbol..

the sun, great wall and yangtze river perhaps...= MAN

it has a unique meaning...but i think it dun look ttthaaat great..it's fine...

yea............i think , but thank god they didnt sth abt the dragon again, i mean everytime they r doing these kind of events, they going to put sth abt dragon on it, over a long period of time, it gets boirn g, ya know?
anyways, go chinses, bejing olympics 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The emblem is actually based on "jing", the second character of Beijing, which means capital. For those of you who are fluent in Chinese, "bei" means north therefore Beijing literally means "northern capital". :-)

oh icic, thx anyways, does jing means gold, ? than y is it on the olympic logo?

color no it's not gam 金....it's buk geng--->北京...

man if it's jing it looks really mutilated ...but yeah i sort of see it..

oicic, beijing, n voodiak, ur pronounciation is wrong, it's buckking

Oooo...people make mistakes...

so anyways does anyone know when the olympics are usually held? ..forgot..

so in beijing ?/?/2008....

No jin means gold and i think they should have the olympics in spring because beijing is freaking furnace in the summer.

yet i believe they r going to be on the summer, cuz every olympic is

IORI look carefully at the picture...does it look like 金 to u?,,,

as that kulong guy said it means capital 京...

What? What's "buckking"?

Beijing is fine during June and July if not breezy, it's August that's like an oven. Weird enough, September starts to cool down.

KULONG ARE U BLIND OR JUST AN IGNORANT FOOL?...

it's mentioned above it's just the pinyin form of beijing in cantonese

Neither. I'm someone who don't speak Cantonese.

But thanks for pointing out that someone explained what Buckking is. It's 4:16 AM, my eyes are getting blurry. :-)

Oh, yeah, take a chill pill.

don't worry i didn't mean that..geez why are people so serious here...voodiak dun go mad at crap like this

and yes goodnight

This is online and not the real world. Even if you add emoticons, it's still difficult to tell whether someone is being serious or just kidding because the lack of tones and facial expressions. There's really no need to "kid" or "joke" online because most of time, it's simply not funny. But if you really must, try using emoticons and make it obvious that you're kidding and not being serious inorder to prevent misunderstanding. It's just basic online etiquette.

waaa...gee...explain the whole thing to me...I ALREADY KNOW THAT..tsh..u serious person..

smile

If you already know then why do you still do it? It's like a person knows killing is bad yet he murders anyway. I'm a serious person? You're right, I am pretty dang serious when it comes to serious matters.

ur scary....


anyways back to topic kulong... ...

hmm 2008...i'll be....yayy i prolly can go....

wow......................2008..............long time.
Anyways, i believe since beijing is hosting this event, i think china will get more medals that year

hey color...u'll be old enough then....then u can go too

well, support the captial

well, i think i will be old enough by the year 2008, anyways, i think i may go

I'm actually in Beijing right now.

It's interesting to see just how much Beijing has changed since I was last here a 18 months ago. Although one can see construction sites and cranes on top of soon-to-be skyscrapers all over major cities in China, Beijing has changed the most, maybe except for Shanghai (I'll see in two weeks), because of the Olympic games. At this rate, I'll barely be able to recognize this city by 2008 ;-)

wow, right now, for wat? i do not think that you are preparing for the olympics, or are u?????jk, hehe, anyways, y r u there?

Same here i was there like last year.

may i ask one question, y would u go at the yr 2008?

Yeah, I'm going to camp outside the front gate for the next 5 years.

Guys, we should have an AF meeting there!! Haha.. we can appoint a specific place and time and meet there!! Then we'd finally get to see everybody! lol

nah..

i sure dun wanna meet some ppl from here..

heck...there is still 4 years to go till the Olympics...

Yet, i do think people are preparing for this now, because it's a famous international event

I think it's pronounced as "pakking".

To call Beijing by it's Cantonese pronounciation is as stupid an inappropriate as calling Hong Kong by its Mandarin pronounciation, which is Xianggang. Go anywhere and I'll guarantee if you ask for "Beijing" people will be very likely to know where you are talking about. Ask about "Bukking", they would think you're cursing at them.

I'll be working by then so hopefully I can go to cheer for my team Australia.

Well, the whole world is using the word "Beijing", so live with it, i call it beijing, and i am a cantonese.

Exactly. When typing in English, I never type Xianggang over Hong Kong.