China and Olympics - ctd

Continuing with my encounters with China and the Preparations / Atmosphere for the Olympics, here are some new updates from people I know and myself.

- The Husband of my boss works for the Hotel Industry as a manager in Shanghai. He gets a call from from his boss at midnight and informs him that his flight to Beijing is booked for next day Noon and he needs to be at Beijing for an indefinite period to help out the Hotels there for Olympics. No Notice, no preparation time, Nothing!. My boss was complaining that she needs to go to a business trip soon and who would take care of the daughter but no consideration from the boss / government. Its not an option to say no to the govt for anything to do with Olympics.

- People have been asked to Q up for the opening ceremony as early as 4 hrs before time and the ceremony would last for 4 more hrs., and need to go through innumerable checkpoints.

- As some of you might already know this, No Flights are to land in Beijing during the Opening Ceremony on 8th aug, 8 PM onwards.

- One of my friend's visited Beijing last week, and as per her, the atmosphere is not very lively there!, loads of security, less people everywhere, she said she cudnt feel the excitement and crazyness of a big event coming up. lets see hw the atmosphere is next week.

All in all its the biggest thing china has ever done, and I really hope they can pull it off as successfully as they have planned.

Ciao till the next update ;P

Nikunj