Only got a few clicks in before my battery spluttered. Same thing happened in Toronto (don’t like the oddball wall plugs/charging incompatibility in North America).
It kicks like a sleep twitch!
Is it just me or is there some kind of resurgence going on? So many songs sound reminiscent of something from 10, 20, 30 years back? Electropop and dorky club anthems and indie-dance-rock and 80s-inspired stuff are busting out all over popular music. Anyway, whatever is going on for the most part I cannot not have MTV wailing. Approve of the simplicity of this video – the grit-teeth crazed-but-focused guy running (really belting it out) in the darkened bland warp of some anonymous city.. exit the scene.. butterfly escape. Papillon! Once you hear the Tiesto remix though it’s hard to go back to listeing to the (slower) original!
I am seriously tiring of Beyonce though.. supersaturation. And I hate Pink, hate her, dancing muppet, dreadful voice, gah!
Really like the music video for the Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway too, and a whole bunch of others..! Awesome to watch in HD.
A jolt, a revelation, a possible ephiphany!
I looked and I found: IATA (International Air Transport Association). Mission statment: to represent, lead and serve the airline industry. 230 airlines. Thrills and tingles.. overexcited, omg. Aviation Studies, available as self-study. It seems perfect for me.. I’m terrified of finding a snag, a catch I can’t throw, but.. wow. I wonder why I didn’t find this until now (think I’ve been on the pages for GCAA, the FAA etc)..? How speccy that it’s offered through distance education, I thought for something as niche industry as aviation that wasn’t even possible! No more unhappy deliberating over property or building or town planning study that is never quite right…
IATA provides a diploma in aviation studies, and can be completed with a self-study method. You complete four courses (Airline Customer Service; Ground Operations Management; Introduction to Airline Industry; Airport Operations; Introduction to Air Transport, Airline Marketing.. I would do all of these!) within a 3-year period, send the certificates to their Singapore centre, and they issue you with the diploma.. It’s one exam per course just like OUA.. I would take planned leave or days off and fly to one of their centres, the closest ones to me are in Singapore, Delhi, and Beijing. And we fly to all of those!
Also, there’s regional training centres in Cairo and Amman (both even closer) but I’m not sure what the difference is exactly? And if Nourhan can get emergency leave for her exams in English lit or whatever it is, I ought to be able to get in when my study relates directly to my job industry! I can easily afford the fees, and it doesn’tlook at though there’s any prerequisites. In fact – these courses are designed for entry-level people in the industry (hellooo, that’s me)! My head is filled with possibilities – I could do this diploma while working and then maybe somehow take time off to specialize in something further with some money I’d saved. IATA also has training centres in Montreal, Geneva and Miami.
I’m always looking, little life blocks, slots of days, of ‘going through the motions’ followed by a block of manic frustration trying to figure out the next move. It’s unbearable to not have dreams, to not having an ideas to follow! I need something to work towards, please. I’m a tracker but not a compulsive planner- I’m the last person you’d find with one of those five-year, ten-year plans. Life in the now, the present, is so important and still, the road’s gotta lead to somewhere, something. Progression is a big deal and the thought of having achieving little is my dogma. So, I look. Look really hard for this somewhere or something. Travelling,work, is the most important thing I’m doing and it helps, although I still have to learn how to extract better from trips and take everything as an opportunity.. and it’s wonderful because every few days I get that start-over. Throwing past failures out the window. Screw it – all there is to do is rewrite it as ‘experience’ and either try it again or begin something else.
I want to enrol right now! Pay is in in a few days, which is good – it will give me a little time to ascertain which course I should start with. I won’t mention it to my PM until I have the exams coming up on the first one. Better that way.
I desperately want this to be what I’ve been looking for.
Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down. This presumed susceptibility to damage also gave it the nickname Burnham’s Folley. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase “23 skidoo”, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women’s dresses being blown up by the winds swirling around the building due to the strong downdrafts.
Often, I ‘tourist’ backwards, finding something by chance, by vague direction and ambiguous means, then fill in the details and story post-find. Put simply, this is me starting with a general idea of where I should probably walk, coming across something that might make me cry a little or at least provide some bubblechills, then I’ll google around when I get home. It’s not the better way to sightsee in every situation, but it can work wonderfully, like with the Flatiron (formally Fuller) building. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! Until I was up on the top of the Empire State building the night before and the audio guide voice pointed it out to me, I hadn’t heard of it, and the next day I walked right to it without even meaning to (not surprising as it’s on 5th and Broadway) There is such major profound satisfaction in seeing such a gorgeous man-made structure like that – of course it’s a city icon! Times Square can eat my face, it can’t compare. I get way cheesy from hereonin, beware. The style descriptions, the stories of the construction etc, are lullabies to me..
I found myself agape, admiring a skyscraper — the prow of the Flatiron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the late-afternoon light.
—H.G. Wells, 1906
On the captions on the framed pictures inside the foyer I recognized the Burnham name (the designer of the building) from the 1909 Plan of Chicago, aka the Burnham Plan. So, planner and architect. 
His other commissions include other buildings in Detroit, Washington D.C, Chicago, Pittsburgh.. which is funny as this is most of the US cities I want to see for their urban planning.
The acutely angled corners give the building an exaggerated and dramatic perspective. As the city’s “first” skyscraper, New Yorkers worried that it would topple over. In the over 100 years since its construction the Flatiron’s only problem has been that city grime has settled into the crevices of the terracotta flowers and Grecian faces decorating the building. Even this has only served to accentuate its details.
Located at 175 5th Avenue, between East 2nd and 23rd streets. Completed 1902. 87 metres high and 22 floors, with the rounded narrow top end only six feet wide. Consists of a steel frame covered with a non-load-bearing limestone and terracotta facade. Beaux-arts architectural style; combined elements of French and Italian Renaissance styles.
Today, the Flatiron Building is frequently seen on television commercials and documentaries as an easily recognizable symbol of the city, shown, for instance, in the opening credits of The Late Show With David Letterman. It is depicted as the headquarters of The Daily Bugle, for which Peter Parker is a freelance photographer in the Spider-man movies.
It is a popular spot for tourist photographs and also a functioning office building which is currently in the process of being taken over as the headquarters of publishing companies held by Macmillan. Macmillan is renovating some floors, and their website comments: The Flatiron’s interior is known for having its strangely-shaped offices with walls that cut through at an angle on their way to the skyscraper’s famous point. These “point” offices are the most coveted and feature amazing northern views that look directly upon another famous Manhattan landmark, the Empire State Building.
In January 2009, an Italian real estate investment firm bought a majority stake in the Flatiron Building, with plans to turn it into a world-class luxury hotel, although the conversion may have to wait 10 years until the leases of the current tenants run out.
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http://commkey.net/daniel/flata.htm
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GRP/GRP024.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_Building#Architecture
http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=114793
Images from thecoolhunter.com.
Somehow a combination of innate and environmental experiences have excavated the way for me to find transport provocative, come-hither. I’m the moth, looking for the floodlights. Elevated highways are rainbow roads with pots of gold. Asphalt can prop me up for hours on a cloud of contentedness – walking by a construction site and witnessing a wet dark concrete mix being rolled on onto the ground, slate-gray beautiful, an infrastructural ground-level sunset.
The transportation tag on The Cool Hunter isn’t exactly an incentive to think a bit more about it, but it’s a bit of the web full of saturated photos of beautifully designed things like imagined livery on a VA aircraft by TCH; the ‘part muscle-car part fighter-jet’ Dodge Challenger Vapor for the US airforce; German-made Shocker Bikes.
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Everyone wonders what they are ‘meant’ to do. It’s one of those questions on a lazy Susan rolling around at multiple intervals of your countertop life (I’m full of bad metaphors). An invisible yet ever-present inquiry on a porcelain saucer.
Me? I want to revolutionize commerical aviation (not sure if that’ll be before or after I buy a nice piece of property in Spain).
I have the exact same one (but with the 407 winter colours – Ombre Eclat) and this.
I am now inside the makeup bubble. Luxury brands are so hard to resist because they produce such irresistible products. I went on a semi-shopping binge yesterday and got an eyebrow pencil from Helena Rubenstein, and an eyeshadow palette and concealer from Guerlain. I already adore Guerlain without trying it because everything they make is beautiful, and comes in soft velvet cases, which is so good because you don’t want to go around buying lovely new things and then have to put them in with all the other stuff to get scratched and grimy now do you? 
I still need a whole bunch of items – mascara, Shu Uemura underbase, tanning lotion, face moisturizer/tinted moisturizer, some nail colours, red lipstick, gloss. And.. I really need a haircut and a perfume or two.
Saw this on music chart show a few days ago in Brussels (where I went out for the famous mussels and chips, and cherry beer at a bar called Delirium Cafe). Ths song is average but I like the outfits in the video, and I want to use the hairstyle of the girl approx 35 seconds in for work! Marton Solveig reminds me of all the French expats dancing in Shanghai clubs.. and I’ve always liked Dragonette.
