This apartment complex set to be built in Singapore has (or will have) 38 stories, an offbeat shape and a cool pool on the ground floor.
It will also have a cooler pool on the 38th floor.
Dude!
It’s called Sky Habitat and boasts green areas on every level and on the 3 bridges connecting the 2 towers.
Via the official website:
Sky Habitat, an iconic and architecturally distinctive development right at the heart of Bishan. Relax at the Sky Pool on the 38th floor, where a rooftop oasis awaits as you enjoy panoramic views spanning city to park.
Take a dip in the infinity pool, enjoy your very own living space that opens to the sky, set up a picnic on the terrace for the family or cultivate a garden corner. Sky Habitat is your sanctuary in the sky, providing the perfect escape without having to the leave the creature comforts of home.
“The pricing is attractive and the design is iconic,” said Madam Lilian Teo, 40, who works in the energy industry. She bought a 1,249 sq ft three-bedder for around $1.63 million or $1,304 psf.
Another buyer, Mr Lau Yuk Mun, 54, said he picked up a one-bedroom plus study unit as an investment after seeing the redesigned showflat for the 710 sq ft apartment.
“The showflat optimised the usage of space and showed that it could be well utilised… The price is also more attractive now,” he said.
He paid $1,411 psf or slightly more than $1 million for the unit, and said he hopes to reap a rental yield of 4 per cent to 6 per cent.
Mr Mohamed Ismail, chief executive of real estate agency PropNex, said the solid sales show that buyers and investors are “not ready to buy if the price is not right”.
CapitaLand has pared prices at other projects before.
This is why Fox News is #1, folks. It cannot be denied.
I don’t even like the schtick here (I was over the “talking to something that doesnt answer” bit in 1999) and I still can’t deny that this is quality television.
I dont even like currently; and was never a fan of the Ninja Turtles despite being prime age in the early 90s for the craze, but I still have principals over media works that show reverence to their subject matter and this is just not okay. The Turtles in this new Michael Bay movie look like dogsh#t. There is no good reason to not have made them resemble their source material better/at all.
Some artist whom I was unable to track down (email me & i’ll update to add credit) fixed these screenshots from the trailer to show how simple and legitimate the changes that should have been made would have been. Pity. Lost opportunity.
Paternity Court is a talk-show judge-show hybrid that I just heard of when a friend shared this clip and my “just wow” reaction to it meant you needed to see and know about it as well.
This is a bizarre format to package a Maury Povich style talk show as a court show but it works here and is fascinating. It is the traditional Maury format of telling personal stories involving questions that require taking blood tests and adds a more intense and obviously more literal prosecutorial angle to it.
This segment is so bananas that your potassium levels will increase after watching it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysrFruJRwBc
Gut punch to the Feels hearing the daughter repeatedly defend and proclaim the fact that the man in the court room was the one there for her all those years and thus is her father no matter what. Bravo for her.
That Arrested-Development-mom lookin skank of a mother can go to hell.
A specific gentlemen used to service an area of my house months ago until the route that included my area was shifted by his company to someone else but he came back today and, having been friendly previously, we had an extended conversation that included his life background.
He is originally from Honduras and had a bunch of tales of run-ins with immigration ranging from outrunning an overweight Immigration Officer who caught him and was yelling at him to stop, to just playing it cool on a Greyhound bus that was boarded by Immigration to crossing the border by covering himself with plants and dirt and slowly crawling under the noses of the tower watchers and drones (who can be avoided all together by border-crossing on rainy, windy or even cloudy days). But one of the important staples of his tales was how harsh Immigration is everywhere and how the Central American countries treat the issue and its offenders less compassionately than America’s.
The U.S. gets all the heat because hippies who live here in the closest-to-perfect Governmental structure and system that exists thus feel twice as outraged on the gaps between that level and perfection while ignoring the far larger gaps elsewhere but it’s important to note.
I mentioned to him my long held annoyance with our immigration system that makes it so damn hard to just enter to work or enter as a candidate for citizenship and was surprised to hear that met with caution from my friend with years more experience dealing with the various systems. He said that there are a lot of bad people trying to get in and that the security makes a lot of sense. This – from a guy who had to cover himself in dirt and plants to crawl into this country at more than one point. Something to consider.
Forget “Jesus Juice”. Did you know you can get drunk off of pure, uncut, all-natural/organic Christ?
People who get really entranced by music, whether on a substance influencing their chemistry or not, really freak me out. This goes double for religiously entranced people listening to words talking about their religion. These things give me the creeps because they are humans checking out from the dimension we share and existing somewhere in their mind openly for a few moments. It’s like they’re sleepwalking because they’re physically inhabiting our public space but their mind is completely somewhere else.
Music doesn’t send radiation into the human receiver and manipulate anyones chemistry to put them in this alternate reality state and neither does religion. What both offer is a platform for the human mind, self aware and multi-layered as it is, to launch into a train of thought and emotion combined with a focus that tunes out other senses making you more isolated from the stimuli of your environment.
Our minds are able to tap into the physical control panels in our brains and dial the faucets that produce the chemicals responsible for joy, elation, sadness/depression, arousal, happiness, serenity and so on. When someone is being impacted by the profundity of a musical beat, lyric or speech from an impassioned pastor, they are giving themselves a low-level but mind altering drug in some form.Could be in dopamine or Gamma-Aminobutryic Acid (GABA) or testosterone or something else depending on the setting, but they are getting a brain bath of some chemical for sure and its a different mixture for each individual.
There are some fringe churches in the frozen American Northern mid-west who offer “God highs”. The God-drug-addicts claim to experience physical highs from God in this process. Mostly they go through the motions of drinking something or inhaling from something and experience positive effects. Most people probably think they’re just fooling themselves, but don’t realize that fooling oneself has physical biochemical effects, as I described above. So that leaves the freakiest conclusion of this matter, which is that this is very easily a real thing.
They don’t explain the process of what is happening to them in the way I did, and I don’t know if they make any actual claims that anything other than what I described is happening (I don’t know if they are claiming that God literally enters your body through magic if you pretend to inhale him) but they mime the use of an imaginary pill, blunt or pipe and get themselves high through their imaginations.
It’s bananas, for sure. They even do group sessions where they all do imaginary drugs and get drunk on “Godka”. This is not a joke.
For more info, check out the micro documentary below…
Take-away quote: “But really how weird is it compared to any other religious experience?”
I’ve been a long time admirer of the Nest thermostat that I first got for my mother a couple years ago and then one for myself last year. It’s a pretty metallic ring with a nice circular screen that dials temperature up and down and/or connects with its own app on your other devices or your account on Nest.com to have actions performed from wherever you are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TkhHgkBsg
Then the company came out with this smoke detector, which is cool, but needs to do more than it does (which is just allow silencing by motion and monitoring levels by phone). I want to see surveillance models of all their products (same version but with cameras inside to view your rooms), too.
Anyway: It was formed by an ex Apple employee, reeks of Apple design (which is a pleasant smell) and just has Apple written all over it. I’ve been waiting for Apple to make a damn offer and open up a whole series of house products that connect with the forever-upcoming Apple Television Set and others. For some reason, Apple wasn’t interested and Google stepped in instead. $3.2 Billion later, Nest becomes a Google company.
While Apple, Google, and Microsoft dominate PCs, mobile devices, and car consoles, no company has taken control of the house yet. The connected home has long been tech giants’ white whale of every tech giant; nearly every Silicon Valley player, from HP to Dell to Intel, has detailed its vision for the future of the connected home. But the fantastical future vision videos created over the years have amounted to nothing more than impressive displays of CGI–Nest, on the other hand, has actually started to execute on the promise of the connected home by creating a standard protocol for the house. If Nest is able to get there first, it’ll force other future players to build on its platform–if anyone wants to make some connected smart refrigerator or TV or toilet, the devices will have to speak Nest’s language. That’s the kind of leverage that could make Nest (and now Google) a major player in the industry.
“From the beginning, our vision was to create a conscious home. A home that is more thoughtful, intuitive–and nice to look at. No one had cracked the code and we were confident we could do it with the right product, the right team, and focus,” Fadellwrote today in a blog post. “Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone.”
Perhaps the more compelling part of the deal is acquiring Fadell‘s talent. One of the most prominent characters in the Valley, Fadell helped usher in the mobile era at Apple before leaving to start Nest. Arguably more than any other Apple veteran, Fadell has built his startup with an Apple-like DNA, infusing Nest’s products with a strong sense of design, brand, and purpose. It’s certainly a huge coup for Google, one of Apple’s fiercest rivals. (Apple was reportedly not a potential bidder, whereas Google Ventures, the company’s investment arm, has long been an investor in Nest.)
As part of deal, according to Google’s statement, Nest will continue to “operate under the leadership of Tony Fadell and with its own distinct brand identity.”
UPDATE: Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs’ biographer says on CNBC that Tim Cook is vulnerable and his deal with China takes a back seat as far as big-deals go to Google’s gobble of Nest:
Meanwhile, Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller unfollowed Nest CEO and the Nest company on Twitter. At first glance it may sound like petty high school popularity politicking, but it actually shows the reality that Nest is an Apple enemy now. I don’t get why Apple didn’t want to buy this company and why they didn’t. It makes no sense to me.
As the protector of Apple’s brand, Schiller’s unfollowing of Fadell and Nest is perhaps unsurprising. With the Nest deal, a source says that Google will gain approximately 200 former Apple employees. The majority of Nest employees worked at Apple over the course of their careers, with many being involved in high-profile projects like the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. The design of the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect have also been compared to the designs of Apple products, so the fact that Nest’s products are now under the umbrella of Apple’s fiercest competitor may not be a pleasing sight for Apple’s marketing head.
This is not the first time that Schiller has publicly taken the stand against Google products. The Apple veteran has blasted Google and its partners on Twitter for issues ranging from hardware benchmark claims to mobile operating system security. Schiller’s practice of taking small jabs at competitors also goes beyond Google. For a couple of years, the then-exclusive-to-iOS Instagram app was heavily promoted both on the App Store and by Phil Schiller. After Instagram expanded its business to the Android platform, Schiller closed his Instagram account.
We have so much to thank Japan for by way of television game shows alone but a major gem in this treasure from our friends in the far East is this game where the people have to find different realistic-looking objects that are actually made of chocolate in a room…
Nope…that’s a shoe…
But THIS one is chocolate! WIN
NOPE. Just a picture frame.
Gotta think more outside the box of chocolate. The table legs, perhaps?
WIN!
And finally, check out this guy take a chance on the door handle only to think he failed only to find out he really won…
Every one of these bold amateur photographers is a hero deserving of a Major Award. From pregnancy decorum to “mother of the year” nominees to bathroom privacy violations and insanity – each is unique and wonderful and deserves commemoration and remembrance.
I hate the word “selfie”. We don’t need a cutsie word for “a picture of ones self” and its usage should not be encouraged.
I can let that policy slide for these though because their absurdity warrants the silly term.
Ladies, are you tired of spending literally your entire lives in the kitchen where you belong only to have your delicious cookies you bake get all the attention? How many times have you wished you could just be one of them so someone would notice you and maybe even dunk you in some milk and tell everyone how good you are?
Finally, your hopes and dreams have been answered at Hexa’s Spring-Summer 2014’s presentation during Fashion Week in Paris, France. The dough-tan garment even sports a quail face-pendant because Reasons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZ0PnDZdZk
Photo via