Emerge 2008 so far was great, although I'm a bit tired, I'm a happy man. Anyway, the talent time was held yesterday. The talent time was divided into several category - vocal, song-writing, band, dance, and free style. Here are a few photos of a few bands that I really enjoyed.
The lighting was great as shown in this photo ( I forgot who's the performer here, haha )
Ambrosia (vocal : Joey) representing Local U cluster !
Hunter from VU cluster in the song-writing category. I really liked the song and I managed to find a video of Hunter performing his song during their semifinals.
This girl has really great vocal, she was competing in the vocal category
This guy was ultra-cool, during the entire song, he didn't even smile for a bit (vocal category)
Not forgetting some artsy-fartsy photo. Exposure 1 second (yeah I can hold my hand steady for 1 second)
At the time of writing, the winner hasn't been announced, it'll only be announced during the Emerge Grand Finale. Woohoo..
As an aviation nut, I bookmarked Airliners.net and check for "cool" photos on the site everyday. This week, I drooled over some interior shots of Emirates Airlines Airbus A380. The pictures of economy class are nice, but honestly who really likes economy class ? Frankly, I was having plane-gasm when I looked at those first class suites' photos.
For those aviation illiterate, A380 is the latest and BIGGEST double decker passengers airliners. Here are the photos :
Whenever I played Flight Simulator (on my pc), I usually leave it on autopilot while cruising and then go to take my bath, sleep or doing my chores. Well, before A380, whenever you are traveling long-distance, you have to sit down on your seat the entire time and the only thing that you can do is either sleeping, eating or watching some crappy in-flight movies. Let's say that you are a CEO of a multinational company and you forget to take your bath before your flight to New York, fret not, now you can take your bath in flight.
Let's compare with
Double bed, checked, free flow of champagne, checked, BUT no sex allowed ! Only God knows what those Singaporeans were thinking.
Moving on, after being impressed by the Emirates Airlines A380, I decided to pay their website a visit.
The frontpage of Emirates website
So, I remember I have holiday during the month of November, so maybe I could travel to New York for two weeks ?
From Dubai (DXB) to New York(JFK) on the First Class
The price quoted was AED 36530.
Of course, they have this thing called currency converter which converts AED to MYR which showed RM 32081.
Then when I wanted to proceed to confirm my flight itinerary...
Dang, blame the Emirates IT team for their loss of RM 32081 worth of business deal.
It's not that I do not like Michael Phelps or something, but it's just seems like something is wrong with the current Olympics. I mean, Michael Phelps got 8 gold medals from swimming alone while for soccer (the most popular sport in the world) the winner only get 1 medal for them to share between 11 guys (plus the reserve) ?
Anyway, do you want to know why Michael Phelps won so many golds ? Because it was all the same thing. It turns out that he can swim real fast when he swims one lap, two laps, four laps - alone, or when 3 other guys go right after him. You want to win multiple medals, fine, join another events. By another events I mean something other than swimming, like gymnastics or judo.
Photos from Mark J Rebilas (check out his site, damn artsy-fartsy olympic photos and great travel stories)
To improve the competitiveness of Olympics, the International Olympics Committee, IOC should introduce the "shame-dal", which is for the worst three athletes in each events. The country with the most "shame-dal" will be kicked out of U.N., stamped "loser" on the passport for the next 4 years wherever they go, lose any war they're currently waging(if any). On the other hand, the winner of the Olympics should get something more realistic, e.g. the citizens can visit another country without visa, the rights to put it's flag on each airplanes in the world, permission to own nuclear weapons etc.
And to determine the best Olympians or the sportsman or whatever they called it, all the athletes will have to live under one roof and complain about one another to the cameras. The athletes with the most complains will be the best Olympian.
