Tuesday, January 30, 2007>
i don't know how many people had been reading this blog of mine, i don't think there is many out there, but i should update it anyway...
There isn't much happening to me these days (good or bad thing?).... and so had been sleeping, eating and playing the whole time....can't help feeling guilty whenever i went out, seeing others in school uniforms, studying hard (although
I've saw many at shopping centers after school hours..does that counted as studying?) while i'm playing and enjoying life........ -.-"
it seem that most will not understand what i previously wrote here so i think i'll just remove almost every and put in a photo gallery instead.....
The list of ships of the class:(BB- is the US navy prefix for Battleships)
(USS= United States Ship)
(Its a tradition in the US Navy to name battleships after US states)
BB61- USS IOWA
BB62- USS NEW JERSEY
BB63- USS MISSOURI
BB64- USS WISCONISN
BB65- USS ILLINOIS--(canceled)
BB66- USS KENTUCKY--(scraped)
Comission date (the date they enter service of the United States Navy)
USS IOWA - 22 feb 1943 (64 years old in 2007)
USS NEW JERSEY - 23 MAY 1943 (64 years old in 2007)
USS MISSOURI - 11 JUN 1944 (63 years old in 2007)
USS WISCONISN - 16 APR 1944 (63 years old in 2007)
despite such age, these ship is still the few of the world most powerfull ship standing only in slight second place while the first is taken by the even larger US aircarft carriers, and US nuclear submarines.
Note the size of the ship and if u look closer, u can spot a car on the left and compare it with the ship...
the following pictures and from: http://www.battleship.org/index.htm
The USS Iowa fires a 15-gun broadside (nine 16 inchers and six 5 inchers)
USS Iowa off Costa Rica, 1986
USS New Jersey enters Pearl Harbor in 1986
USS New Jersey fires her big guns in the Atlantic Ocean in 1968 (This is a rare color photograph of all nine big guns going off at the same instant. After the 1980s refits, the big guns fired three at a time at one-second intervals)
USS Missouri at sea showing her fine handling qualities
A view of the main battery firing from the bow(front)
USS MISSOURI (top) *compare it with USS ALASKA (middle) Lager Cruiser and a world war 2 Escort carrier (bottom left), and wrold war 2 size destroyer (bottom)
USS IOWA firing a full broadside, 1984
USS MISSOURI firing 16" guns of two forward turret at night, 1944
USS WISCONISN (BB-64)
The following pictures are from : http://en.wikipedia.org
USS MISSOURI refueling at sea
A low-flying kamikaze plane (top left) which penetrated the curtain of MISSOURI's anti-air shells and fire and crashed on the starboard side (right side) just below her main deck level, but yet the battleship suffered only superficial damage.
Of all things that happened onboard USS MISSOURI, the most important is the signing of the instrument of surrender of the empire of Japan, thus offically ending wrold war 2 (above is the japanese delegation on aboard, 2 spet 1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ussmissouriplaque.jpg
USS NEW JERSEY at sea in the Pacific during the Vietnam War.
some interesting parts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?video_id=okKQeQZeJts&l=96&t=OEgsToPDskLO849CJKrEP5Sm5llm3nir&fs=1&title=USS Wisconsin 16" guns
http://www.youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?video_id=b_l9LrN1C84&l=331&t=OEgsToPDskJIp39fISiUKFxy9AL1IHgV&fs=1&title=BB - U.S.S. Iowa Class - Battleship
hopefully you'll get the idea...
At the age of more than 60 years, these ships had seen and fought through major conflicts and wars, like World War 2, Korean war, Vietnam war, and the the first Gulf war. these is the only few ships left in the US navy that had high overall armor protection that even till today cannot be matched by any ships afloat. They could survive almost any damage, from any weapons used at them from high caliber shells, to heavy anit-ship cruise missiles, these ship can take the damage and still fight back hard.
However powerful these ship are the US navy no longer believes in them and since the change of policies these ships were regarded as no longer need. 2 were decomissioned for that last time after the first gulf war and the other 2 were placed in inactive status and finally decomissioned on march 17, 2006.
For more information on these ship and if u don't mind doing some heavy reading do vist these sides:
Sunday, January 21, 2007>
well...back again..like it or not.....
Mich was complaining about the
previous post not having a single picture of myself.....
I didn't put in any becasue i don't feel there is a need to...and i'm not that shuai....later your computer moniter will crack...but still i manage to find a safe verision of a picture of myself...
the guy in green....this is me... happy now?....
Thursday, January 11, 2007>
well updating now as promised....
you know most people says tha a picture worth a thousand words..... so i'm going to present to you all(whoever know this blog existed), the photo essay of my family holiday to bangkok... do enjoy as there isn't refund of the ticket if you did like it....
the christmas at Singapore changi international airport....
the christmas tree at bangkok new Suvarnabhumi international airport... (note the difference in size between the 2 trees...)
The views from my hotel room....
i shared the room with my sis, my parents had the room next door.... my bed is the one in the foreground..right in front of the TV!!....but truly my sis's bed is better... also got a good view from the tv but also the great view of the outside world....
well only one word can use to describe the this hotel room... BIG...in this picture, the living room is behind me, the bedroom is on the left of me, in the fornt, the first turn to the left is the storage area, the end of the corridor to the left again is the bath room...
the living room...
the great views from the hotel's observation deck....
you must have wonder what kind of hotel that has a observation deck... it none other than the Thailand's tallest builing.. the Baiyoke Sky Hotel.....
some facts:
- total 88 storey high
- the main lobby is at the 18th storey
- a 4 star hotel
- 673 hotel rooms altogether
- sited in the middle of the down town area...(right outside the hotel is full of shoppings)
my mon and sis.....
my pa and mum...the 'toway' and 'toway-nu'
the night views from my room....ok i admit.. my photo taking skill isn't any where near good....
quick knee down and pray....
this may look like a palace but its actually the royal temple...its big.....and what you know.. there is some large stone figtures standing by some of the door... some of them looks like the chinese 'door gods' (translate it to chinese word for word)... and guess what.. those WERE made by the chinese... during the late Qing empire era...as a gift to thailand....there is even one figture that wears a top hat and used a cane overall looked very western.. the guide said that it is made by the chinese to depict marco polo....believe it or not....
i don't remember what these were called.. but they have the same function as a tomb stone.. and such big ones were built by the past kings of Thailand....however these did not contain any ashes....
the famous 'sleeping' Buddha
another famous landmark.. the four face buddha...the picture a bit blur?.. thats because there is too much smoke from all those joksticks that was burning...
one of the newest shopping centre in downtown bangkok ..its big, and beautiful...its so new that most shops wasn't ready yet....however i'm done with my shopping in others shopping centres already...
well when booking the Baiyok sky hotel my floks feel that we may visit other places so we didn't book the hotel till the end of our stay... however we changed our minds when we reached the hotel.. we wanted to extent our stay.. but its fully booked!! 673 rooms and its fully booked...-.-"
well with no other choice we when looking for other hotels with the help of the travel angency and got the Royal Princess Hotel....and much smaller.. but its grand... quite grand.... with 50 years of history....the above is my room..as again parents is right next door...
went to the floating market... first by tour mini bus (1and 1/2 hrs ride) then a short nice trip by the 'floating bus' above...
on the floating bus...
the floating market...
after the floating market we went to a snake farm when they had a snake show...nice...
the thailand cobra forced to insert its teeth into a cup in order to extract the venom......anyone thristy? want a drink?
don't be fooled by this cute little thing...
it have snakes for lunches....however this is only a show the snakes are put in for a short while to show how deadly is 'tiny little thing'..in the picture... the animal is heading for the snake's head...orch...
one man ...VS... three snakes....
and man wins.....2 caught by hand.. the last one by mouth.....wow.......
well thats it for my trip to bangkok..it started on the 21st and i'm back by the 25th(christmas!!).... there are some other things i had done there.. like shopping...and the transsexual show.... however i didn't take any pictures of it... so might as well omit it...
well thats it for now...it took me 3 hrs to make this...hope u like it.. thank you for ready and looking... :]
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tug assisting USS MISSOURI into the channel, 1944
