Canada Golden in 2010 Vancouver Olympics

2010 Vancouver Olympics

• He shoot, he scores! Team Canada beats USA in the overtime (final score 3-2), wish I could join the parade of celebration everywhere.
• Olympic hockey final draws big audience north and south of border (80% of Canadians watched part of the game, average 16.6 million viewers)
• I am so proud of our Canadian Olympics team in every way
• Final medal count for Canada is 26 medals (medal winners)
• 14 Gold
• 7  Silver
• 5 Bronze
• I am touched by all the Canadians connecting and cheering for our country, this is our Canada!!
• National Post had this article "Vancouver Olympics: Was it worth the cost?" To me, YES!

Weekend Activity

• Attended the Toronto Symphony Orchestra: La Pasion, thanks to the $8 ticket. Sitting in the 3rd row is way too front though
• Dinner at Ivory Thailand. It was a good Thai food, except the $2 small bowl of rice :(

Tzu Chi 慈濟

• Myself and Wendy attended the volunteer seminar on Sunday, and had fun :)
• Tzu Chi Newsletter 慈濟美國電子報

A Weekend With Disappointment of Olympics

• 16.725 China > 16.725 USA? Nastia only won Silver despite having the exact same score as China. This is where another controversy is created, again after 2004 Athens. Why couldn't they just give out 2 Gold medals?
• Phelps did his job, making history - 8 out of 8 for Gold medals in Swimming
• Yani Tseng from Taiwan lost her lead in CN Canadian Open and finished with 3rd
• Only good news is Blue Jays blow out Boston Red Sox in the 2-game series, winning 4-1 and 15-4

More Olympics, more Sports news, and last season of ER

Olympics

• 3rd night in a row, sleeping at 1 am, only to watch more Live Olympics on NBC

• Michael Phelps won his 6th GOLD Olympic medal last night (he is 6-for-6 so far)

• USA women gymnastics tool home the GOLD and the SILVER medal, down to the last rotation. It was a game of deductions, game of perfection, game of decimals of scores. What a night, to watch Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson put it all out on the floor (literally) with no regrets.

In other Sports news

• There were around 5000 empty seats at the Buffalo Bills vs Pittsburgh Steelers NFL game last night in Toronto, and that scalpers couldn't sell the tickets. I actually feel bad for them
• Toronto Blue Jays puts Vernon Wells and John McDonald on Waivers. This was a surprise to me, not that it's unusual for a team to put players on the waiver at this time of the season, but I would not watch Blue Jays if there was no Johnny Mac (and Roy Halladay)

Last shocking news from the NBC commercial - Next season of ER will be their last season (15th season), after 14 years (first episode aired in 1994). I wouldn't know what to do on Thursday night anymore, I have watched ER since Taiwan - Dr. Green, George Clooney, Carter, and now .... it'll all become just memories

I was fortunate enough to get some Stratford Festival tickets for this coming weekend (Saturday for Cabaret the musical, and Caesar and Cleopatra on Sunday). Looking forward to it

McDonald Olympic Glasses

McDonald is selling Olympic glasses for $1.99 each. They are quite cute, we have collected Blue & Red thus far, now just need the remaining 3.

Correction: just picked up the Green one, so down to Black & Orange

Follow up with my collection photos