Beijing Olympics

I have been watching the Olympics these days. One thing I noticed is that the US media counts the TOTAL medals in their medal table, while the rest of the world count the gold medels. It's also interesting to find other people have similar observations as I do. A message left on BBC online is about this.

with the official olympic medal table, i assume that it is compiled firstly on the number of gold medals, then a mix of the silver and bronze medals? as on the official olympics website, and on the bbc site also, the table is assumed on this theory.

whereas on espn, sports illustrated etc. in the states, they focus on the TOTAL medal haul. is this because they know they will win the most medals (gold, silver and bronze) and thus ensuring they finish (in their minds) top of the medal table. because as it stands at 13:41 CET, china lead the table in the worlds eys, but team usa lead the way in those rose tinted lenses that the americans wear.

Mt Adams and China

I summited Mt. Adams, the second highest peak in the Washington State, last week. The weather was very nice and the view was great.

My friend, Amenda, organized it. We have a team of seven. We left Seattle at 4:30 on Saturday morning. We camped at the 9000 ft the first night. The second day 5am, we started our summit attempt. It was my first time to use crampons. Surprisingly, it wasn't bad at all. We summited at 10:45am. Going up was easier for me than coming down hill. We got back to the car around 6:30pm.



By the time we got back to Seattle area, it was almost midnight. I had to take a flight to China at 2:20am. My schedule was so tight that I didn't have time to go back home to have a show before I went to the airport.....