Burj Al Arab, the only seven star hotel in the world

Posted by Phoenix on Feb 15, 2009 in Contemporary | 0 comments

I have heard many people saying they stayed in seven star hotel and did a seven course meal.

But they never had this idea, or Burj Al Aram, being the only Seven Star Hotel in the world,

I was also surprised that there is only one seven star hotel in the world. But I confirmed it by searching online.

And yes, Burj aAl Arab is the only seven star hotel in the world.

But, still few of my friends don’t believe me.

So, I decided to do this post and I’ll be sending the link to every friend of mine, who disbelieved me.

you can read about it here. However there are few seven star hotels which are under construction.

The Burj Al Arab

the Construction of Burj Al Arab began in 1994 and was modeled after the sail of a famous Arabian Ship, It is biuld on an Artificial Island. The appearance was created by using teflon-coated fiberglass and white materials that resemble a mast when viewed from a distance. It is a Masterpiece.

The hotel houses a mere 202 rooms, but each floor of the hotel is double layered. The deluxe hotel rooms range in size from approximately 1,800 square feet up to approximately 8,000 square feet. A room in the Burj Al Arab costs a minimum of $1,000 per evening and can increase in price up to $25,000 per night. The hotel is home to highly acclaimed restaurants, one of which is the home of the well known chef Kevin McLaughlin.

  

How things are interlinked with each other

Posted by Phoenix on Sep 18, 2008 in Contemporary | 0 comments

In this world everything is very much like a chained reaction. Everything has its pros and cons. And human experience both the side.Not just today but since the discovery of fire mankind also learnt the two opposite characters of any particular invention. The irony is that mankind also gained knowledge of using both the sides for his own interest.

Just think of the innovation that scientist made from the matters that radiates energy. Madame Kurri invented the way to use this radiation in a positive manner. Whereas the war mongers used the same radiation from the uncontrolled atomic reactions to annihilate the populace of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For instance when the BPO culture arrived in the heartland of the metros of India it was kind of a boon for the large no. of unemployed youths present in the country. Little knowledge of the general aspects of the computer, training to parroting English in a particular accent and you’ve got a job. In the end of the month you are earning some cash. So this becomes the major attraction and sometimes fashion for the youth to rush in for such job in their spare time. Well we got the picture of beaming face of the shining India in the BPO sector on the roadside hoardings and feel the same appeal to be dressed in branded jeans, gelled hair, trendy T-shirts etc etc. But under the lamp it’s always darkness. A major force of the youth is serving for other nations now. Their biological clock of them is disturbed in such way that they become good for nothing. It just simply causes a rot in the social fabric in the metropolis.

Till the human civilization exists on the earth innovations will take place. Things with pros and cons will allure us always. And things will be always interlinked. But the world is a looking mirror. What we will have to yield to push our generation must be lying with our conscience. And conscience is what it makes us feel what it to be human is.

A new world of hunger

Posted by Phoenix on May 4, 2008 in Contemporary | 0 comments

So the time has arrived at last when we are talking of hunger, we are talking of basic food necessities like two ends meal. Since childhood we had been said that those days are gone where generations were lost due to famine, people shifted to cities for food and died there like insects. We read about the famous Bengal famine of 1776 where the majority of the population of south Bengal were wiped out due to scarcity of food. I think few readers know the fact that this famine also inspired famous writer Bankimchandra Chatterjee to write ‘Anandamath’. We again get reminiscent of the classic flick made by Satyajit Ray about the famine of 1942 which also affected the then Bengali generation badly. The whole Calcutta was painfully haunted by the horrifying scenes of stick like mother-child figures roaming around door to door and begging with the words ‘Fan(the water remained after cooking rice) dao’ . So many days streets had witnessed their corpses piled up on them and Vultures and crows greedily took out fleshes from their bodies. Amartya Sen famously researched on this famine and concluded that people don’t die as there is no food but because they don’t have money to buy them.

Well we are the post-generation of green revolution; we just can’t imagine such dreaded scene in front of our eyes. But this is painfully true we are forced to talk about the new world of hunger these days.

Now the specter of world hunger is looming, with sharply rising basic food prices and unnecessary food shortages sparking food riots in places like Haiti and Egypt. Officials with the U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) are alarmed. The WFP has put out an emergency appeal for more funds, saying another 100 million humans have been thrown into the desperate hunger pits.

Well first it was US secretary of states Condoleezza Rice and then the most unpopular US president ever George Bush attacked the appetite of Indian Middle Class with the words” There are 350 million people in India classified as middle class ..When you start getting wealth, you demand better nutrition , that causes prices to go up”. Wow! What an observation by an American President. Probably he also doesn’t know that 70% of the total Indian Population live on 1$ per day which is even lower than the poor nations like Haiti where food riots continued for 7 days. But lets take account of the US president role in solving the issues rather than putting charges on the developing nations.

Directly under Bush and the Congress is the authority to reduce the biggest single factor boosting food prices—reversing the tax-subsidized policy of growing ever more corn to turn into fuel at the expense of huge acreages that used to produce wheat, soy, rice and other edibles.

Corn ethanol is a multifaceted monstrosity—radiating damage in all directions of the compass. Reducing acreage for edible crops has sparked a surge in the price of bread and other foodstuffs. Congress and Bush continue to mandate larger amounts of subsidized corn ethanol.

Republican Representative Robert W. Goodlatte says: “The mandate basically says [corn] ethanol comes ahead of food on your table, comes ahead of feed for livestock, comes ahead of grains available for export.”

So Mr. Bush first you decide should we change our diet and instead of chapattis or daal chawal we should have ethanol prescribed by you?