Google Earth

I accidently stumbled upon this super cool website.

http://earth.google.com/

U can feel like a spy for once.

as the name suggests, its actually a virtual earth right on ur computer. Its basically a series of satellite photo graphs taken and put together on this program, that u can download for free!

Its a broadband program, which means u need to have a fast enough internet access to have a good access to the globe. None of the maps are stored on your computer. The program streams the map onto your computer while u are actually scrolling around.

So what have i seen over the last few hours on this?

I "went" to Regina and Moose Jaw both in Canada, and i could zoom in up to car level. Yes thats right. I could see cars on the street. And i even saw the canadian aircraft parked at the apron.

And so i found regina airport and the moose jaw airbase, and i clicked on the "how to get there" function, and the map started highlighting roads i caould use to get to my destination.

Not only that, it also highlights what ever i search. For example, i typed "car" and it started marking out places where car dealers and rental were located, and some even had the contact number!

And so i went to Australia Pearce airbase, and although i could not see any S211s around, i did see our cars parked nxt to our bunks, no not nice cars but lousy daewoo kalos.

And so i was bored, tried finding the great wall of china and pyramids, but the countries were too big for me to even attempt to find it. Well, if anyone finds it, please tell me the lats and long of these places.

U can't really see anything in singapore. I think they scientists in google can't be bothered to zoom in deep enough into singapore for a good view. Never the less u can see details up to buildings level.

Go check this out!

NDP

Over the weekend, i kinda accidently stumbled upon the national day parade rehearsals, or maybe it was the preview. Almost everyone in the stands were kids.






Pictures of the flag parties. There were 3 flags flying circling around the CBD right from the start!













Army and navy flaunting their stuff.










The airforce! The airshows were too fast to be captured on camera.....











A night shot!

How kwanyi and kahsian, Look at the flight suit name tag! Nice right.






Alot of people wonder what aircraft are we flying in Canada. Do we have a Singaporean detachment there? here is the aircraft we are flying and nope, we are not flying a singaporean aircraft.











Anyway, petrol prices just went up again. Pretty depressed. At this rate, after i come back from canada, the petrol prices will be $2 a litres, and i won't be able to afford to maintain the RX-8 i've always been so crazy about buying. So are alot of people. Petrol prices are gonna be astronomical it won't be funny.

I've another 12 days in Singapore. Its been a very very eventful 1 1/2 months spent here in Singapore. All the shopping sprees, all the spending on food, all the splurging on stuff i always wanted, but the high light of it all is meeting Belle. =) u reading this? Another story for another day.

And so after all that spending, its time to come back down to earth! its time to think about the money i need to bring over to Canada. God help me!

Crappy blog entry again. What ever la its my blog. byebye!