November 12, 2005

Mascot of 2008

The official mascots for 2008 Beijing Olympics are unveiled exactly 1000 days before the event. They are called as " Five Friendlies". Guess what each ' Five Friendly ' mean ???

The mascots were presented as Bei Bei, Jing Jing, Huan Huan, Ying Ying and Ni Ni - which, put together reads in Chinese "Beijing welcomes you!" read more

6 comments:

Kaps said...

they seem to be an interesting bunch of characters....hope they live up to the expectations

Devilish Angel said...

good one...

exasparater said...

really?

Me too said...

Cute mascots! Saying those names sounds so musical!

Einsteinophile said...

You kno wat...English Dictionaries were sold like hot cakes in China....cos they wanted to be "English-Literate" before the Olympics.Cool Attitude na?
Esp with the fact tht,the entire country agreeing to it!

sai thilak said...

# kaps,ganga,vanathi,me too : really cool mascots but have meaning behind them too...

# exaparater : if you go thru the link you could know yourself :)

# einsteinophile : that piece of info is good ;)