QVB Chistmas Tree
Finally, here is the QVB huge chrsitmas tree , the one i mentioned a couple days before. This huge Christmas tree features :
-Swarovski 15,000 crystals,
-40,000 shimmering lights,
-8,000 glossy baubles,
-1,700 branches,
-400 bows-to name a few.
It took : 4 semi-trailers to bring the decorations to QVB, 2 Forklifts, 1 Scissor lift, 30 decorators, 8 riggers, and 9 Security guards to assemble the tree.
And i also wanna say :
Merry Christmas 2006 and Happy New year 2007 to all of you !
Enjoy your Long holiday guys! Have a great one!
QVB in the past and now
If you never see how QVB ( Queen Victoria building) sydney in the past looks like, then please have a look at the photo which i took a couple days ago when i went there to take photo of the huge christmas tree there. I will post the huge christmas tree as well shortly, meanhwhile i wanna share this qvb photos which was taken long time a go( i cant remember when excatlly is that). You can compare it with how it looks like right now.
Gizmoz Talking e-card
I just found gizmoz site and give it a try to create a talking ecard. The result quite amazing and nice. You can record your own sound or just type the text and the avatar will pronounce what you type on the text. I try to use Borat, the Kazakhstan’s comedian character, and then i type some season greeting message. You can have a look the result here: http://www.gizmoz.com/video/337587_teddy
Here’s what they said in their website:
Gizmoz Talking Headz can become your “virtual selves” known also as Avatars – graphical representations through which you can experience online relationships.
Gizmoz is a new innovative way for you to communicate through 3D Talking characters, animated by text, voice and emotion. You can express yourself through Talking Headz and your friends, and online buddies will come to know you through these amazing emotional online representations.
Go ahead and choose an expressive emotion-conveying Talking Headz from our rich menu of famous people, mesmerizing cartoon characters, bizarre animals, etc.
You will see that the appearance of your Gizmoz Talking head is striking!
Vodka.com sold for us$3m
I just read a new that saying the domain name www.Vodka.com has been acquired by Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko. Roustam Tariko, Russian entrepreneur behind Russia’s biggest vodka maker has paid $US 3 million (around Aus$3.8million ) to buy the vodka.com domain name. The transactions is done using the service of domain name broker sedo.com. This price might be one of the the highest price ever paid for acquiring a domain name. Can you imagine if someone want to buy your domain name for Aus$3.8 million? Even for Aus $1million i would say deal straight away , without thinking too much. I know some people buy a heaps of domain name and they hope one day someone will try to buy from them with good price. Some of them can earn money, but some of them finally have to stop registering the domain name because keep loosing money. It just about luck and how good you are in choosing and predict which domain name will become famous one day.
As i know, Here are some other domain name sold for extremely high price:
- www.diamond.com sold for $US7.5 million
- Business.com sold for $US7.5 million in 1999
- Sex.com sold for around $US12 million
Oh yea, one thing that really amazed me is the logo of the company/products. Very nice logo! And For you guys who own a lot of domain names, keep praying…maybe one day will offer you $1 million… hahaha….
Christmas in Myer
I went to Myer in city the other days and i notice that in the 3rd level on the corner section got a lot of kids and their parents there. Curious about what’s happening there, i went closer to find it out. Apparently there was an opportunity to take a photo with Santa which cost around $25, and also there is a small train going inside the artificial tunnel for kids. Its quite fun though, kids these days are very lucky compare to the time when i was a kids. Not too many toys or as many fun / entertainment available at that time.
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