AMAZING RACE is back once again on its prime time Sunday nite viewing at CBS. As usual Mr. Phil Keoughan hosts the number one entertaining travelogue task show about racing the globe whoever comes to the PIT STOP at the end of hour show becomes the winner for that specific episode. At the end of the competition the winners win the ONE MILLION DOLLARS. What an incredible show travelling around the world all expense paid and all you have to do is to finish the tasks or what is required for you and your partner to do in a limited time.
I had a chance to have a glimpse of this show last night on TV. At first thought it was an earlier episode but turned out this is their latest episode for Year 2009. From Cambodia to Dubai. Wow! Dubai is now a fabulous site of the next tallest building in the world. Why on Earth they have to build super high buildings for? What do they get from it? Another tower of Babel? Or it makes the country famous? Oh yeah competition. They probably wants to compete with Taiwan's world's tallest building. Whatever! In the 60's the tallest building is Empire Estate Building until famous architects tried to compete with each other on who can touch the sky. Were they able to touch the hands of God after? Probably thunder and lightning for super skyscrapers are conductors of lightning to power electricity just in case they run out of it.
Anyway, Dubai is exhilirating. Remarkably superb in its structures of steel. My God! Do we still have steel underneath the Earth? With all the cement they used for the construction they could probably utilized almost half of the sand dunes. And when the desert arid lands are full of construction facilities, tall buildings and real estates you know right there the oil is no longer in that area. It moves. Their new oil is landscaping designed for at least millions of inhabitants who would like to stay in that are for good. It is a new hub for New Yorkers or people in Manhattan who love the sky high apartments and condominiums. There's a power change that America is now a site of oil drilling. Dirty jobs taking place in the once affluent country. That's how it is. Figure that out. There is scarcity in resources. Black oil, gas and other means of crude is hard to find now. Or you can start drilling in Calgary in the once open field where millions of cattle once roaming and grazing in its rich green pasture land.
Dubai has its own man-made ski resort. A covered ski alpine wherein you can ski, snowboard, build snowman of your choice. Temperature outside is over 100 F and at least 10 degrees C inside the man-made snowy winter wonderland. Fortunately Canada has its own ice pond and its now really covered. We can have snow here all over the island if we want to. However, how desperate are we to have the ice pond now? When we can wait for a natural snow filled island. You can go to Mount Whistler or Mount Washington if you can't wait for the snowflakes to drop. But I don't want you to stick your tongue on the pole while it snows. You know...
Dubai is great! There is not much trees or the kind of green forest that is present in our horizon here but the landscaping is really remarkably outstanding. Truly made by people who are artistically and professionally inclined. They know what they are doing and perhaps big capital or big financial budget helps in making that place a captivating beauty that is made by human hands. Money works. Money can make the world go round. You have money? You're in for the next amazing race.
