I was browsing on Yahoo’s homepage for tidbits of news and I read this lip-syncing story about the Beijing Olympics opening night. Officials of the ceremony admitted that they chose Lin Miaoke to appear for the performance of Ode to the Motherland while lip syncing to the voice of one Yang Peiyi. Apparently, the latter was not cute enough. Aw I feel bad about this; of course she’s cute, she’s a 7-year-old girl. How can they snub a little kid? Chen Qigang, the general music designer of the ceremony, said that they did this because they “wanted to project the right image”. Haha and what kind of image is that?

I also liked the part where the article says that the interview with Chen “appeared briefly on the news website Sina.com before it was apparently wiped from the Internet in China”.