Saturday, March 21, 2009

Week in Picture: March 2009, Auckland, New Zealand, David Lim

Pygmies from Cameroon's Baka tribe perform for the Pope in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, before his departure for Angola.

Purple sky at night: New York is captured in all its glory, silhouetted against a dark sky.

Queensland's Ashleigh Reid competes in the women's heptathlon long jump event at the Australian athletics championships in Brisbane.

A US marine on patrol near a poppy field in south-west Afghanistan.


Students protest at the Dupont Circle fountain in Washington DC to mark the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war.


Actress Natasha Richardson, the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and wife of star Liam Neeson, died in New York from head injuries received in a fall while skiing in Canada.

Austrian Josef Fritzl received a life sentence for imprisoning his daughter in a secret cellar for more than 20 years, fathering seven children with her after raping her more than 3,000 times.

A fighter jet takes off from a US aircraft carrier off the coast of South Korea, as part of a joint US-Korean military exercise.

Monday, March 16, 2009

The Young Billioaires of the World, 2009 (David Lim, Auckland, New Zealand)

Sergey Brin, 35, Google co-founder, $12bn

Larry Page, 36, Google co-founder, $12bn


Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, 39, Abu Dhabi ruling family,
$4.9bn


Daniel Ziff, 37, Ziff Brother Investments, $3.5bn


John Arnold, 35, Centaurus Hedge Fund, $2.7bn


Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis, 25, $2.1


Kenneth Griffin, 40, Citadel Hedge Fund, $1.5bn


Chu Lam Yiu, 39, Huabao International, $1.5bn


Jerry Yang, 40, Yahoo co-founder, $1.1bn


William Ding, 38, Netease founder, $1.1bn


Andrey Melnichenko, 37, MDM Bank founder, $1bn


source: Forbes




Car wash at Dominion Road, Balmoral, Auckland, New Zealand (April 2010)

Wash my car, it was two (2) years since I wash it!





Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Amazing 3D Pavement Art!

Look so real, hun? (Click on picture for larger view)