Thursday, May 12, 2005
Title : The distraction of guitar
Time : 3:19 pm
Earworm: It's all about you~~McFlymy econs tutor recently sent an email to my mum about how my performance was only average this year compared to the 'fabulous' job i did last year. which i was a bit puzzled by coz my essay marks were still hovering around fail or scraping past whereas my DRQ scores have improved. maybe it's coz i stone more and answer less readily in class? but that's also coz the topics are getting harder what... so generally u need more time to analyse/understand as well. so she goes on to blame it on guitar, saying that im distracted by it coz of SYF and now the upcoming concert on 27th may. can't say that i agree to that, but she was ready to pounce on me for questions and when my answer is a tad delay she'll go 'what's happening to you??' that's not to say she's not a nice teacher but she gotta lower her expectations for me i think! but i admit, i haven't been preparing so well for her lessons. like when she asked me to do some homework on budget airlines, i totally forgot! haha so here's some BBC news item to alleviate some of my guilt.India gets new budget airlineIndia's newest budget airline operates its first flight on Monday from Mumbai (Bombay) to hi-tech hub Bangalore. The country has forecast that its airline sector will grow at 20% a year amid growing economic prosperity. Kingfisher Airlines, which held a lavish launch on Saturday, is run by Kingfisher beer owner Vijay Mallya. Models work as flight attendants on the airline while its planes have seat-back entertainment systems. Its rivals include Jet Airways and Air Deccan.
"We have extremely attractive and well-trained flight attendants," Mr Mallya, chairman of United Breweries, told Agence France Presse news agency. "We have a brand new fleet of aircraft. We have individual entertainment systems where every single seat has video screen." Mr Mallya also predicted rapid growth for the airline, saying: "I will have 11 aircraft in the air by this year itself. "We will have another six next year. By 2010, we should have 55 planes flying. My vision is to make Kingfisher the largest private sector carrier." Other companies planning to enter the Indian aviation market in the coming year include Spice Air, Go Air, Indigo, Indus One and Air One. Aviation minister Praful Patel predicts that passenger numbers will rise to 50 million in five years. Air Deccan, which has been in the Indian low-cost air travel market for a year-and-a-half, responded this week by announcing fares as low as one cent. On taking delivery of a new Airbus A320 in April, Kingfisher Airlines said in a statement it would introduce it in May and add a new A320-232 aircraft every month during the remainder of 2005. oh also found out from the beta board today that im in for bouldering during the sports carnival. wanted to join rockclimbing but then it's on friday (guitar concert day) and the prez doesn't allow us to join =( sad... on tues also it rained and its the last week of PE elective (yep, bouldering) so we couldnt climb the rock wall. and i was this close to finishing one route but alas... not with jelly arms.
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