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Why I'm glad my prediction was wrong

There was not as much hi-tech as I had expected, especially after watching the opening ceremony of the 2006 Doha Asian Games. The mythological figures such as Pangu, Nuwa and Houyi were nowhere in sight. They certainly would have wowed us - or the child in us. Was this a technological factor is an aesthetic one? The fast moving and sudden appearance of large props in a vast arena visible from all four sides no doubt presented a daunting task. On second thought, they would not have fit into the current theme, which seemed to be from ancient glory to future glory.

The show did make use of the vertical space, such as the flying dance girls, the astronauts, the giant globe, and the encircling panel in the ceiling that forms a clever "crown" where images constantly evolved to compliment the action on the floor. However, the best action indeed took place on solid ground, where both old-style shape formations and new surprises coalesced into one.

Now that I have listed my errors, I will run down the list of what I got right or almost right. Sarah Brightman is close to Celine Dion in terms of power ballads, and Liu Huan was on the shortlist I mentioned. It was a safe bet, which deprived us of the shock of seeing a Chinese folk-style warbler or a total unknown.

Harmony was brought up more than once, and emphasized in the Confucius and Taoist numbers. The image of thousands of Confucius look-alikes, the word formed by the human-formed movable type, the cosmic atmosphere of Lang Lang's piano solo, the doves, the sights and sounds of Mother Nature, the 2,008 smiling faces from all over the world - all pointed to the omnipresent force of harmony.