Fireworks Light Up for the World’s Tallest Tower ‘Burj Khalifa’
With over 10 minutes of great fireworks display, Burj Dubai which was renamed to Burj Khalifa was inaugurated by H.H Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
Here is a video from CNN of the Burj Khalifa opening day.
After it opening celebration which was 5 hours ago, I still see until now real time search results in google for the term Burj.
And for TLD for Burj Khalifa as well as from free hosted blogs were all taken just after an hour the tower was renamed.
The Burj Khalifa in numbers
828m - height
57 - number of lifts
169 - number of floors
1,044 - number of apartments
31,400 - tonnes of steel used
330,000 - cubic metres of concrete used
$1.5bn - estimated cost
95 km - the distance it can be seen from
10C - cooler at the top than the bottom
158 - floor where “highest” mosque is planned
76 - floor of “highest” swimming pool
12,000 - number of labourers who toiled
$5 - daily wage of a labourer
$3m - price of a 80th floor one-bedroom apartment in 2008
1000 dollars and an idea to start a business?
Yes. This was what Fred Deluca had when he started his business Subway. And now Subway has 30,500 franchisees in 87 countries with 56 restaurants in U.A.E.
We all know that now someone needs more than $1000 to start a business.But who knows, you might have a great idea that will only costs you this much or a little more. Read more
Dubai joins the global Twitter Twestival
Tomorrow, February 12th, Dubai will participate in an event called Twestival. In more than 175 cities around the world from Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, North and South America and Middle East, a global meet up for charity will be held.
Twestival enables people from Twitter to connect offline, network and catch up socially while supporting a good cause. Twestival is 100% volunteer organized with all proceeds going to charity which is Charity: Water. Read more
Toyo Tires 24 Hours of Dubai
The Toyo Tires 24 Hours of Dubai will start the qualifying race today and I will be there tomorrow for a little work. Team crews started were preparing early as Tueday as more than 80 containers of cars arrived Dubai Autodrome. Cars like Ferraris, Jaguars, Porsches, BMWs, Mitsubishis, Renaults, Nissans, Volkswagens, SEATs, Audis are among the cars that you will see on this endurance racing series Toyo Tires 24H of Dubai.
This will be my second time to watch a real race. My first was the Asia GP2, Speedcars and FIA GT3 held last December. Kamui Kobayahsi won the Asia GP2 Series, V. Liuzzi UP Team for Speedcars, Arnaud Peyroles and James Ruffier for the FIA GT3 race.
