Event AhBoon | 28 Sep 2008
Singapore F1 Grand Prix – First Night Race in Formula One
Singapore residents and visitors have succumbed to Formula One fever as the city-state hosts its first Grand Prix and the sport’s first night race this weekend.
As the cars lap at speed against the backdrop of a stunning skyline framed by 1,600 light projectors along a circuit that winds through the business district, excitement is growing ahead of Sunday’s race and the island’s nightlife is thriving.
Felipe Massa took pole for Formula One’s first ever night race by a whopping 6/10ths of a second in qualifying under the lights on the streets of beautiful Singapore.
The Ferrari driver, just one point behind Lewis Hamilton in the tight point standings, took provisional pole after his first run in Q3, but briefly lost the place to Hamilton’s McLaren in the closing seconds.
Kimi Raikkonen was third in the second Ferrari. Robert Kubica claimed fourth for BMW, ahead of Heikki Kovalainen in the second McLaren, with BMW’s Nick Heidfeld completing the top six.
Event AhBoon | 25 Sep 2008
The Astounding North Korea Mass Game 2008
Mass games are a form of performing arts or gymnastics in which large numbers of performers take part in a highly regimented performance that emphasizes group dynamics rather than individual prowess.
Today, mass games are regularly performed only in North Korea where they take place to celebrate national holidays such as the birthdays of rulers Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. In recent years, they have been the main attraction of the Arirang Festival in Pyongyang.
The Mass Games in North Korea
With up to 100,000 gymnasts, dancers, acrobats, singers, musicians and trapeze artists performing in the Mass Games, the awe-inspiring spectacle can be explained as state ideology set to music. By cultivating a group mentality among participants, and by exhibiting to the audience the impressive results of thousands of people striving in unison for a common goal, the Games encourages the subordination of individual desires to the needs of the collective. Kim Jong Il himself has decreed, “Mass Games is important in training schoolchildren to be fully developed communist people.”
Festival AhBoon | 21 Sep 2008
Ramadan – The Holy Month for Muslim
Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan
Ramadan is the Muslim religious observance that occurs during the 9th month of the Islamic calendar (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th), believed to be the month in which the Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. It is the Islamic month of fasting (sawm), in which participating Muslims do not eat or drink anything or even smoking from true dawn until sunset. when the fast is broken with the evening meal called Iftar.
Local customs define varying traditions, including differing types of food used to break the daily fast. The fasting is meant to teach a person patience, humility and sacrifice, to set aside time to ask forgiveness, practice self-restraint, and pray for guidance in the future.
Olympics & Sports AhBoon | 09 Sep 2008
Spectacular Opening of 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, is being held in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. It was opened by Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday during a stunning ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. In the three-hour spectacular show, 6,000 performers and 4,000 disabled athletes from 148 countries took part in front of 91,000 ecstatic spectators.
The opening spectacular featured a number of disabled actors and actresses, focusing on themes of space, time and life.
About an hour into the extravaganza, a female spectator broke through the security cordon and made it onto the main arena. She was immediately removed by security staff.
Hou Bin, an amputee athlete and Paralympics gold medallist in athletics, lifted himself and his wheelchair up to the couldron with a rope before lighting it.
With the theme of ‘Transcendence, Integration and Equality’, the Paralympic Games reflects the yearning and quest of persons with disabilities to build a better world, together with other people.
Shocking AhBoon | 02 Sep 2008
American Soldiers who Survived in Iraq War
There are no heros in war, only victims. A look at some of the US soldiers that came back from the Iraq war and each of them definitely has their own story to tell. Their tragedy will only be life reminders of how ugly war really is.
I have a post about ‘Steve Saying Goodbye to a Brother Who Off to Iraq‘, and there will be more and more stories of this kind. Let’s Make Love Not War Please!!
