Dubai......Impossible City

Have anyone hear about Dubai? If you have, you would probably be amazed with all the unbelievable, insane facilities, structures and buildings at there. Dubai is the fastest developing city in UAE. The city is changing rapidly in a very short time. All the planned development is beyond the limit in the technologies, engineering and architecture in the history of man kind. A lot of new engineering and technologies has been introduced in there, now all the main architects, contractors and engineers in the world are working there. We can see a lot of new 'things' which we never see or expect before. The construction workers in Dubai is more than the actual citizens. Currently, more than 25% of the world's cranes is in Dubai. Not only that, Dubai also break a lot of new records like the largest, the longest and the tallest. Dubai is indeed making impossible to possible. Some of the projects in Dubai have caught the eye of the world.

Burj Dubai, it's a name of the soon to be completed tallest building in the world. The construction of this super tower has began in 2005 and expected to complete around September 2009. With an estimated height of more than 800 meters, it is already the world tallest even though it is still under construction. It is currently the tallest man made structure ever built. This supertall skyscraper will have around 160 floors for multipurpose uses. The Burj Dubai will comprises of hotel, apartment and mall. The height of this building is so scary that at the top of the building, you can see the round shape of the earth.

Dubai also build a artificial island named Palm Jumeirah. It was completed and officially opened not long ago. Palm Jumeirah is the largest artificial island in the world. Three of the these islands will be built called The Palm Islands with the last one being largest of them all. This island is so large that it can be seen from the space. The whole island is look like the palm tree and is connected to the main land with a bridge. Upon completion, the resorts will have villas, hotels, shopping centres, theaters, with population of approximately 500,000 peoples. Besides The Palm Islands, there are also The World Islands project. This huge project will have 300 artificial islands in the shape of a world map. Each of these island offered for sale at a price of 15 and 50 million USD.

The world's first underwater hotel called Hydropolis is also planned in Dubai. The design of this building enable people to see fish and sea creatures in the building. It will divided into three parts, land station to welcome the guests, connecting tunnel to transport people to the hotel and the hotel itself. It is self-acclaimed to be a 10-star hotel. However, due to some problems, the project is currently delayed.

Dubai will build an entertainment complex twice the size of the current largest amusement park collection in the world which is Walt Disney Resort in Orlando. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet which include 45 mega projects and 200 smaller projects. Some of the mega projects include Legoland Dubai, Universal Studios Dubai, Dubai Sports City, Warner Bros. Movie World, Dubai Motor City and Mall of Arabia which will be the world's largest shopping mall.

There are also a place for snow activity in Dubai which is Ski Dubai. Ski Dubai is one of the largest ski resorts in the world. This mall resort is already opened and is part of the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping malls in the world.

Rotating tower is another new thing in the world. Rotating tower or rotating building is proposed in Dubai where the each floor of the building can rotate 360 degrees. The shape of the whole building can change during the day. This special designed building using solar energy and have special elevator for vehicles.

Besides all these amazing projects, there are other more crazy projects include Al Burj, a supertall skyscraper taller than 1000 meters, UAE spaceport, Dubai World Central International Airport, when it completed will become largest airport in the world and Dubai Metro system, largest fully automated rail system in the world. Dubai is making all the impossible become possible. The world is focus on Dubai now and they are making crazy and insane. I would like to go to the place to discover myself what actually is going on at there? They are like building a dream land.

First Krispy Kreme store in Malaysia

For all the doughnut lovers, Krispy Kreme has arrived in Malaysia with its first store in Berjaya Times Square. After J. Co and Big Apple, Krispy Kreme is considered as the third big doughtnut chain store in Malaysia. Now, we have more choice in choosing doughnut with our favourite flavour.

Krispy Kreme is a doughtnut chain store based in USA. Berjaya gets rights to develop and operate Krispy Kreme store in Malaysia. We can expect more store coming in the next few years where Berjaya plans to open 20 stores within the next few years. Development will continue in Klang Valley region before expanding into other major cities.

Here are some flavours of doughnut offered by Krispy Kreme: Original Grazed, Chocolate Iced Kreme Filled, Cappuccino Kreme, Almond All Over, Grazed Cruller, Powdered Strawberry Filled, New York Cheesecake, Green Tea Twist and Hershey's Cookies and Cream. Anyone want some doughnut now?

New speedy season

After a long wait for about 4 months, the new FIA formula one World Championship is finally here. After an exciting last season that we saw last year which won by Ferrari for the constructor champion and Lewis Hamilton for the driver champion, we now hoping for a brand new season which is expected to be more competitive following a new rule and changes introduced. Before that, here are the calender of this year:

1) ING Australian Grand Prix, 27-29 March
2) Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix, 3-5 April
3) Chinese Grand Prix, 17-19 April
4) Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix, 24-26 April

5) Gran Premio de Espana Telefonica Barcelona, 8-10 May

6) Grand Prix de Monaco, 21-24 May
7) ING Turkish Grand Prix, 5-7 June
8) Santander British Grand Prix, 19-21 June
9) German Grand Prix, 10-12 July
10) ING Magyar Nagydij, 24-26 July
11) Telefonica Grand Prix of Europe, 21-23 August
12) ING Belgian Grand Prix, 28-30 August
13) Grand Premio Santander D'Italia, 11-13 September
14) Singtel Singapore Grand Prix, 25-27 September
15) Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix, 2-4 October
16) Grande Premio do Brasil, 16-18 October
17) Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 30-1 November

The economic crisis last year had made some impact in the formula 1. The most affected was the Honda team which has to announce to withdraw from formula 1. However, their team principal, Ross Brawn had bought it over and renamed it Brawn GP for this year season. Besides that, Super Aguri F1 Team had also withdrew from the Formula 1 world and this make a total team compete this year to only 10 teams.

This year season we will expect more competitive fight between the drivers and teams for driver and constructor championship. For the driver championship, Hamilton is again the favourite to win this year but we cannot forget Massa who came so close last season to win the championship but luck had denied it. They are also Kimi, champion of 2007, Alonso and others who will fight for it.

In the team event, McLaren and Ferrari again are the favourite to win the championship but the great performance from Brawn GP in pre-season test make them come as blackhorse in this year. We can also expect good fight from Renault, Sauber and Williams. So, for all the new line-ups in 2009, let's hope for another great season of formula 1. Are you ready!

Magnificent....skyscraper

I have been follow up the development and technology of buildings around the globe for some time but I like skyscraper the most. I think that skyscraper can change the world. They are build to show off the wealth and ability of a country. For example, Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia had become a identity for the nation and now, it still going on. Recently, the race to become to build the tallest building in the world has heat up. Too bad, due to the current economic crisis, a lot of projects have put on hold. The country feel the most is Dubai in UAE. They have a lot of projects that Hopefully, the condition will recover and let the development continue.

I would like to share some of the skyscrapers around the world that amaze me including skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. One of the most awaited project that will be completed at the end of the year to overtake current world's tallest, Taipei 101 to become world's tallest is Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE. Even though this building is not complete yet but it already broken many records and now is unofficially the tallest building in the world. Other skyscraper projects include Freedom Tower; the replacement for World Trade Centre in New York and just completed Shanghai Financial Tower in China.

Burj Dubai

They are few rumours claims that they will be the building taller than one kirometre. I think that the building taller like this is insane to build and it challenge the ability of man kind to reach that level.

Although Malaysia has the world famous Petronas Twin Towers, I think it's not enough especially for the glowing country. However, when we though that KL will not have another iconic building, they are rumours said that the building taller than Twin Tower will be built and is more than 100 storeys high. If this is true, it will chance the skyline of KL. I looking forward to some interesting projects in KL including Four Seasons Center, Lot C, The Capers, Platinum Park and Millennium Residence.

The Capers

Platinum Park

Lot C

Millennium Residence

Four Seasons Center

Breathtaking Waterfall.....Lata Kinjang, Perak

Recently, I hard to find a free time for myself as I was busying with my tonnes of works. Somehow, manage to find some time here since this weekend got 3 days holiday. Like what I said, this week was a busy week for me. Yesterday, because of my work, went to find a old timber house with my coursemate to do research few kilometres outside Kampar. So, we decided to stop by the Late Kinjang waterfall where is the place we heard before but never visit before. We took this oportunity to go to the waterfall. On the way, we found some old timber houses which are suitable for our assignment but we decided to go to the waterfall first before come back again.

It took about 20 minutes to reach the waterfall from Kampar. We can see the waterfall on the way to the place from the road. This waterfall can be seen from the North South Highway and the road lead toward this waterfall will pass by a small bridge on the highway but we cannot access to the road from highway straight. You can take a Tapah exit follow the signboard to Chenderiang. The road to the waterfall is clearly indicated in Chenderiang town.

There are not many peoples when we reached there. We took photograph at there and visited the whole place. There are a suspension bridge at the waterfall and just follow the concrete steps and you will reach the bridge. From the bridge, we are like in the middle of the waterfall, we can see the half waterfall on top and bottom. Overall, it was a nice visiting. I recommend to people to come to have a look at this waterfall if you passby Tapah, Perak. If you are purposely want to visit this place from very far place, I think it's not worth it because it's just a waterfall but it's a must visit place if you pass by Tapah.

The best ever...........the Red Devils

What else can use to describe Manchester United? they had won doubles last season by beating Chelsea in two finals. They lifted the Champions League trophy and Premier League title. I have to say that Man Utd won it with luck but they deserve it. Man Utd win it because other team didn't do as good as them.

Champions League final in Moscow, we saw Chelsea going to win it but thing changed half way. John Terry, the Chelsea captain himself miss the crucial penalty kick. Man Utd would not have won it that time. Sometimes, football need a little luck to win, just like other sports.

Man Utd's doubles last season proved that they deserved it last season in this season. They already won the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in December. They are now in the last sixteen in Champions League, top of the table in Premier League, quarter final in FA cup and final in Carling Cup. Man Utd has the best team ever in history. Even Sir Alex himself describe the current squad is the best ever team he ever had.

Man Utd's Van Der Sar clean sheet record show that he has the better of Peter Schmeichel back in 1999 Man Utd winning team. Overall, Man Utd has all the great player needed in all position, from goalie to striker. Man Utd's best ever centreback combination of Vidic and Ferdinand is the best in the world. They help a lot especially in denying a goal. Evra, the left back, who is also attacking type of player, is the very good player with good footwork. Evra can be described as one of the best left back in the world. All the youngsters like Rafael, Evans, Nani and Anderson showing good improvement in game. They have what needed in a champion team.

Michael Carrick, Fletcher with Man Utd all time legend Gary Neville, Giggs and Scholes are solid in their respective position. All the old members of Man Utd 1999 treble team help a lot with their priceless experiences. Not to forget FIFA player of the year, Ronaldo. He is the engine of the team. He is so crucial in the team like last season where he 's the one help Man Utd win the doubles. The current strike force of Man Utd; Berbatov, Rooney and Tevez was fabulous. This is wonderful to watch Rooney and Tevez play togther with their style of playing. With all the good player, Man Utd look irresistible at the moment.

UTAR campus in Kampar, Perak

UTAR Kampar campus is located in new town, Kampar in Perak with mountain and lake around the campus. It is a nice campus overall. In the campus, you can find beautiful scenery like africa-like field, mountains with a lot of mist, a small island in the middle of the lake full with birds and lake with a lots of water lily. One thing that I don't like is the weather in Kampar. It's extremely hot on normal day. However, it's a nice place overall. Here are some pictures in the campus: