Why is it so difficult to leave someone.....

Early days of life are a world of fun,

You make friends and its time to learn.....

Thats when I first realized, how difficult it is to leave someone.....

My best friends father got a transfer and she left me and went,

I could not sleep the whole night as she really meant......

Then came the teens and I realized the fact of life,

Nothing lasts forever and I wish I could be nothing.....

From School to Junior College,

Junior College to Degree College,

And then from the Corporate World to the Married World.....

Life's been a fairy tale book,

Everyday a new chapter to look.....

I wonder at times and look back and see,

Do I mean the same to them as they do to me ?

Was always unable to know the need, 

But,I have not lived a perfect life unless I have given something to someone

who will never be in a position to repay me that deed .....

EXPERIENCE AT THE MARINA BAY SANDS, SINGAPORE

One feels between the clouds at the Marina Bay Sands. It is a masterpiece which is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. This property is developed by Las Vegas Sands, it is the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion. 

One cannot stop himself from playing at the Casino because of the atmosphere created in there. With the casino complete, the resort features a 2,561-room hotel, a 120,000 sq.m. convention-exhibition centre, The Shoppes mall, an Art & Science museum, two Sands Theatres, seven "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating pavilions, a casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines. The complex is topped by a 340m-long SkyPark with a capacity of 3,900 people and a 150m infinity swimming pool, set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which overhangs the north tower by 67m. The 20-hectare resort was designed by Moshe Safdie Architects. The local architect of record was Aedas Singapore, and engineering was provided by Arup and Parsons Brinkerhoff (MEP). The main contractor was SsangYong Engineering and Construction.

It would have been a pride to work on a Project that has created records in every aspect.The resort was officially opened in the year 2010 in parts and grand opening of Marina Bay Sands was held on 17 February 2011. It also marked the opening of the seven celebrity chef restaurants. 

The Engineering for the project was headed by Arup and Parsons Brinkerhoff (MEP/ELV). Arup had originally worked on such prestigious projects such as the Beijing National Aquatics Centre and the Sydney Opera House. In spite of their experience, they described the integration of the varied and advanced technologies as the 'most difficult to carry out in the whole world'.

The extensive background music system was installed by Singapore based contractor Electronics & Engineering Pte Ltd.

Marina Bay Sands features three 55-storey hotel towers which is seen from every corner of Marina Bay. It were erected in July 2009. The three towers are connected by a 1 hectare sky terrace on the roof, named Sands SkyPark.

In front of the three towers include a Theatre Block, a Convention and Exhibition Facilities Block, as well as the Casino Block, which have up to 1000 gaming tables and 1400 slot machines. The ArtScience Museum is constructed next to the three blocks and has the shape of a lotus. Its roof will be retractable, providing a waterfall through the roof of collected rainwater when closed in the day and with laser shows when opened at night. In front of the Event Plaza is the Wonder Full show, a light and water spectacular that is the largest in Southeast Asia. The ArtScience Museum and Wonder Full show opened on 17 February 2011.

The SkyPark has the world's longest elevated swimming pool, with a 146-metre (478-foot) vanishing edge, perched 191 metres above the ground. The pools are made up of 422,000 pounds of stainless steel and can hold 376,500 gallons (1424 cubic metres) of water. The SkyPark also boasts rooftop restaurants, nightclubs, gardens hundreds of trees and plants and a public observatory with 360-degree views of the Singapore skyline.

There are four movement joints beneath the main pools, designed to help them withstand the natural motion of the towers, and each joint has a unique range of motion. The total range of motion is 500 millimetres (19.68 inches). In addition to wind, the hotel towers are also subject to settlement in the earth over time, so engineers built and installed custom jack legs to allow for future adjustment at more than 500 points beneath the pool system. This jacking system is important primarily to ensure the infinity edge of the pool continues to function properly.

Moshe Safdie designed an Art Path within the resort, incorporating seven installations by five artists including Zheng Chongbin, Antony Gormley, and Sol LeWitt. The pieces are meant to play on environmental influences including light, water and wind, integrating art with architecture.

World Hold On.....

World is growing very fast,
Greenary and nature have become a past,
Encroachment and Resources are used in vast,
In a couple of years Concretization is what will last....

All beautiful things will have an end,
All beautiful things will fade and die....
Conservation is the need of hour
To let our children enjoy the beauty forever....

Is there someone we have forgotten?
Yes, our motherland needs to be taken care,
Otherwise this world will become a nightmare,
So lets save the world and be fair.....

                                               

THE LOUVRE, PARIS

As we all know Paris, the most romantic city is famous for its Art and Architecture. It is an Architects delight and one such structure witnessing this is The Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre. It is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine river. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square meters.
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace  which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace and during the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
Besides historic value attached to this structure owned by the French government, it is one of the master pieces in terms of planning. The Architect of Louvre Pyramid is the Chinese-American I.M Pei. His creation is already world famous and would certainly become a part of the architecture history of Paris. Pei is a Pritzker Prize winning architect and is known as the last master of high modernist architecture.
The 71 feet big pyramid in glass with its square base having sides of 35 metres (115 ft). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments, which rises in the middle of Cour Napoléon are surrounded by three smaller pyramids. The area between them is accentuated of shallow triangle-shaped basins in dark stone, which is lying a bit over the ground level. Fountains in the basins perfect the composition. The Pyramid was drawn to make light to the museum entrance below and brighten up the ground level and the stone front surrounds it. The realizing use of both material and colors allow the sky and the water become a part of the composition. The glass is a special design of Saint Gobain and was polished twice in France and Great Britain. It is fixed by a construction in stainless steel. The result is light and glistening, a balance between reflection and transparency against the heavy stone front, which is filled with the history of the centuries. This glass pyramid looks like a piece of topaz when illuminated in the night. It is so perfect with ample foreground and background space to view in every possible direction. The pyramid structure was engineered by Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Ltd. of Montreal (Pyramid structure / Design Consultant) and Rice Francis Ritchie (also known as RFR) of Paris(Pyramid Structure / Construction Phase).

The pyramid and the underground lobby beneath it were created because of a series of problems with the Louvre's original main entrance, which could no longer handle an enormous number of visitors on an everyday basis. Visitors entering through the pyramid descend into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings. Several other museums have duplicated this concept, most notably the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The construction work on the pyramid base and underground lobby was carried out by the Vinci construction company. The central courtyard is now occupied by the Louvre glass pyramid, which was completed in 1989. The entrance of the galleries lies below the glass pyramid. A very fascinating open lift for physically challenged and senior citizen is provided to take them to the underground museum. The museum in the underground level covers the complete area of the old Louvre structure.

The Louvre holds rich artistic heritage of the French people, ever since the early Capetian Kings through the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, to the present of this day.
Louvre's most famous piece is Mona Lisa. It was painted by the famous Italian renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. This is perhaps the most famous painting in the whole history. Few other works of art are as romanticized, mystified or reproduced as this painting. But works of famous artists like Rembrandt, Rubens, Fragonard and Titian can also been seen in Louvre. Besides art, Louvre also has many other types of exhibitions like archeology, history and architecture.