Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Posted by admin at 10 June 2010

Category: Travel

While I was browsing the internet last night, I came across this site selling cheap ticket trip to Hongkong. I was thinking for a gift to give to my parents for this Holiday and I think a roundtrip ticket for two would be the best gift. I checked hotels in Hong Kong to book online and since I have never been there, I tried to find low-priced but in good quality hotel online that is near to all possible tourist’s spot.  Hongkong is such a nice place to visit too for Holiday. The only thing I know about Hongkong is its cheap and good stuff as my friends tell me it is the best place to shop. There are a lot of varieties of stuff and stores there and the stuffs are very cheap indeed.

Aside from Hongkong, another dream country visit for me is London. My friend is already in Ireland, London with her husband and her children get to visit her once a year. I also checked a plane ticket to London and found many options. I searched for economy class to canvass. I also checked hotels in London and am so impressed with excellent structures. It really has a touch of European and the hotel room alone is very relaxing with a view of city lights at night. I have been planning this trip for a long time now but my schedule to work just did not allow me to. There were too many times I planned to take a leave but it was not always a good time at work. Somehow, I think that out of the country vacation cannot be possible to put on top of everything else. And besides, my dream vacation to London is really costly. But if I didn’t grab the opportunity, I might reschedule my leave again next month… or maybe next year… so in the end,  I came up with my decision to get a ticket for three to Hongkong and I would spend my leave with my folks there.

Posted by admin at 1 February 2010

Category: Traffic, Travel

I love to drive cars our family cars. When we are going to the mall I am always a driver and I love it. When I am going to my friend’s house I drive our car and where ever I want to go. Because I hate to commute and I don’t know why. My parents always saying to me that don’t be care less and be careful in diving and also they said I am always look to the traffic signs. Every time I drive I always saw many kinds of traffic signs. In the streets, I always saw a traffic cones and I found it is very useful. Because they can warn us if there are hazards along the street, this cone is very easy to see, because its color is bright. In the parking lot I always saw an parking signs it is make us easy to see that in that area there are a parking lot or a parking space. Traffic signs are very important to know and to know what are the importance and uses of them. We are a driver and we are responsible for that. One time it comes to my mind that, what if I will buy traffic cones. I can use it in case I have a problem to my car along the road, it will be useful in case of emergency.

Posted by admin at 15 June 2009

Category: Life, Travel

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The wandering albatross, long a sign of good luck and source of superstition for sailors, could become a latter-day boon to them as the inspiration for a low-energy scouting aircraft. The albatross’s ability to fly for thousands of kilometers over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird’s lift-generating techniques.

The idea is that a drone could help trawler crews spot shoals of fish, or help border patrols spot drug-runners, but with next-to zero energy cost, says Tony Pipe, who leads the project at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) in the UK. The idea is the brainchild of Pipe’s colleague, Markus Deittert, who flies gliders in his spare time. The wandering albatross uses many tricks to gain lift and stay airborne for long periods. “They exploit the updrafts over waves and the shear-layers downwind of wave-crests,” says Adrian Thomas, a zoologist specializing in animal flight at the University of Oxford. But another ruse the bird uses is to harness “dynamic soaring”. Unlike thermal soaring over land – flying on rising columns of warm air – dynamic soaring exploits the big differences in wind speed that exist up to about 30 meters above the sea. It is this dynamic soaring capability that the Bristol team wants to harness in a 3 meter-wingspan unscrewed aerial vehicle (UAV).

The layer of air at the ocean’s surface is slowed by friction against the water, while the layers above move progressively faster. For instance, the air at an altitude of 2 meters may be moving at 7 meters per second, but layers above it move ever faster until, at an altitude of about 30 meters, it will be zipping along at 11 meters per second.