where's Brunei?

I sat diligently in front of the tv along with my family to witness the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympics Games.

The performances were very impressive indeed. I liked the intro and the part where the boxes(controlled by humans) went up n down part. haha

Nvm that, then came the athletes' march.

Of course, the country I was looking forward to see during the march was our beloved nation of course.

Slowly one-by-one, countries marched out...

Wa! Kirilenko holding the flag!

..wait..

Is that Dirk Nowitzki? Yes. He looks so damn happy hahaha

..phew..

Commentator says "90++ countries out already"

.. be patient..

Wow.. Kazakhstan seemed to have the most beautiful female athletes! LOL

.. walao so long..

Team USA! Kobe!

.. ... ..

Commentator says, "10 countries left"

.. ah.. must be close already! ..

9,8,7,6,5,4.. Commentator mentioned the names of the last 3 countries and the team I had been waiting for the whole evening ain't on the list!

!!! I must have missed it during the toilet breaks.. argh

Then decided to google "Brunei Olympic March". Who knows if someone already uploaded the pics on our march.

Guess what? The results:-

Link 1
Link 2

!!!

They did not register in time for the opening march! LOL.. What happened? Their registration form masuk longkang when they wanted to submit ah?

Nah.. nvm lah.. Not that important.

Then.. I spotted this line.

"Brunei is now the only IOC member not competing in the Beijing Games which will now see 204 participating nations."

!!!

What does that mean?! Brunei ain't gonna compete??

Guess the answers will(or maybe not) be on tomorrow's papers. I wanna know what is going on!