Amazing opening ceremony that made all others in the past looked mediocre. Personally, I thought it was definitely a statement made by China to the world (US particularly) what they are really about. London will have a hard time  in 2012 to match anything that China did on 08-08-08. It was definitely a day that made citizens of China proud. It was also cruel reminder to me to look back at the progress making in our own Nepal. Will there be a historic moment in my own country that I will ever be proud of in my lifetime? I guess not.