Here's where it all started:
Presidential announcement speech in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 2007
For full text of speech above click on this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/10/AR2007021000879.html
He beat early favorite Hillary Clinton in the hard-fought primaries from Jan-June 2008. This is then followed by his acceptance speech at the DNC 2008 where he spoke to an audience of 84,000 at Mile High Stadium, on August 28, 2008 in Denver, Colorado.
For full text of speech above click on this:
http://www.demconvention.com/barack-obama/
Finally, the decisive moment when he beat Republican's John McCain handily on Tuesday, Nov 4, 2008. Here is his memorable victory speech at his hometown in Chicago, Illinois.
For full text of speech above click on this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl135
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
KIMCHILAND KOREA ~ ANYEONG HASEYO! Part 4
The Air Asiana stewardess were very pretty! Their smiles were captivating. They warmly greeted us "anyeong haseyo". We got our Korean English newspapers; it was either Korean Times or Korean Herald. We got into our seats. So nice. So comfortable. So cool!
As standard procedures, the stewardess did what other airlines do... formal welcoming and then safety instructions (with the help of video). After that, they went to the rear area of the plane, and reappeared with their smart red aprons ready to serve beverages and food! (I remember that MAS or AirAsia did not have such attires for their air stewardess.)
I think I had a couple of orange juice. And when they were about to serve our "dinner" it was already 1am! To eat or not? Well, to make my money worth the traveling expenses, I would take the meal. We were about 30,000 feet above sea level and somewhere between north of Borneo and Palawan Island in the Philippines. I think I had Korean fish for my meal; and that was excellent, and the "kimchi" (yes, my first ever!) was exhilarating! Some passengers opted to skip meal and went straight to dozing off. I saw a girl had her toothbrush with her headed to the restroom. Hmm, I needed to do that too later after meal, I thought. But I did not have my toothbrush handy. It was in my checked-in luggage.
Interesting to note here is the video panel that folded down from the ceiling in front of passengers seats. It provided not only infos of safety instructions but also entertainment videos and flight infor such as altitude and journey time. It also showed map of where the plane was and how far more it had to travel. And we also had our earphones for musics, news and video voice.
Amazingly I did not sleep throughout the journey from KK to Seoul. Everything was crazy exciting for this ole boy from Putatan. I guess I need to travel more and actually I do have a deep passion traveling to see the outside world. We shall see.
As standard procedures, the stewardess did what other airlines do... formal welcoming and then safety instructions (with the help of video). After that, they went to the rear area of the plane, and reappeared with their smart red aprons ready to serve beverages and food! (I remember that MAS or AirAsia did not have such attires for their air stewardess.)
I think I had a couple of orange juice. And when they were about to serve our "dinner" it was already 1am! To eat or not? Well, to make my money worth the traveling expenses, I would take the meal. We were about 30,000 feet above sea level and somewhere between north of Borneo and Palawan Island in the Philippines. I think I had Korean fish for my meal; and that was excellent, and the "kimchi" (yes, my first ever!) was exhilarating! Some passengers opted to skip meal and went straight to dozing off. I saw a girl had her toothbrush with her headed to the restroom. Hmm, I needed to do that too later after meal, I thought. But I did not have my toothbrush handy. It was in my checked-in luggage.
Interesting to note here is the video panel that folded down from the ceiling in front of passengers seats. It provided not only infos of safety instructions but also entertainment videos and flight infor such as altitude and journey time. It also showed map of where the plane was and how far more it had to travel. And we also had our earphones for musics, news and video voice.
Amazingly I did not sleep throughout the journey from KK to Seoul. Everything was crazy exciting for this ole boy from Putatan. I guess I need to travel more and actually I do have a deep passion traveling to see the outside world. We shall see.
WHY NOT LRT?
Is Sabah heading towards modernization? But why is the railway track from KK to Putatan seemed to be that of a "vulcan" track? I would like to see that in the next 5-10 years, Putatan be part of the greater Kota Kinabalu or KK metropolitan.
If that is the case, then Putatan needs to be urbanized, and urbanized fast! Time is running out. One of the things that the authorities can do is to install now infrastructures for LRT.
Come on. Stop treating Putatan like a kampong - it is no longer a backwater. It is a fast developing suburban or satellite area of KK.
We no longer need this:
or this:
to ply from KK to Putatan, or even from KK to Papar.
What we really need is this.
Here take a look:
Stop giving lame excuses such as no money and no sponsors to build and maintain the LRT operations.
If that is the case, then Putatan needs to be urbanized, and urbanized fast! Time is running out. One of the things that the authorities can do is to install now infrastructures for LRT.
Come on. Stop treating Putatan like a kampong - it is no longer a backwater. It is a fast developing suburban or satellite area of KK.
We no longer need this:
or this:
to ply from KK to Putatan, or even from KK to Papar.What we really need is this.
Here take a look:
Stop giving lame excuses such as no money and no sponsors to build and maintain the LRT operations.
KIMCHILAND KOREA ~ ANYEONG HASEYO! Part 3
It was boarding time.
We checked in. My wife and I witnessed how this elderly Korean lady got into trouble with the Malaysian airport customs as she was trying to carry in with her what seemed to be little bottles of some kind of jam or jello. She was furious and all the customs people could say was that "no, ma'am you can't take these in". Her family tried to calm her down. We left the scene not knowing how it would end.
We got to another area where Korean immigration personnel checked our passports. I tried again my "anyeong haseyo" greeting. Got a friendly reaction, I think. Then it was to the waiting wing. Some photo-takings near the moving floor. Stopped by the restrooms. Then walked down to the waiting lounge. There was Teo and he said that he was looking for us at the airport departure lobby. Sorry Teo, we got in first. He later told me that his son saw us in.
I waited anxiously for our flight. Super excited as it was my first overseas flight in 15 years. We chatted with Teo. I looked through a printed material of Seoul. And asked Teo about some things that he might know about South Korea and Seoul.
Then it was about 15-20 minutes before departure and we finally get to board Air Asiana (a Korean Air subsidiary). That was a really cool feeling... walking through the aero-bridge and headed into the plane.
Yes, I am flying on a jet plane!
We checked in. My wife and I witnessed how this elderly Korean lady got into trouble with the Malaysian airport customs as she was trying to carry in with her what seemed to be little bottles of some kind of jam or jello. She was furious and all the customs people could say was that "no, ma'am you can't take these in". Her family tried to calm her down. We left the scene not knowing how it would end.
We got to another area where Korean immigration personnel checked our passports. I tried again my "anyeong haseyo" greeting. Got a friendly reaction, I think. Then it was to the waiting wing. Some photo-takings near the moving floor. Stopped by the restrooms. Then walked down to the waiting lounge. There was Teo and he said that he was looking for us at the airport departure lobby. Sorry Teo, we got in first. He later told me that his son saw us in.
I waited anxiously for our flight. Super excited as it was my first overseas flight in 15 years. We chatted with Teo. I looked through a printed material of Seoul. And asked Teo about some things that he might know about South Korea and Seoul.
Then it was about 15-20 minutes before departure and we finally get to board Air Asiana (a Korean Air subsidiary). That was a really cool feeling... walking through the aero-bridge and headed into the plane.
Yes, I am flying on a jet plane!
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