Monday, June 22, 2009

THE WEEK THAT WAS IN PICTURES


Naif Hazazi (right) of Saudi Arabia executes a bicycle kick while playing against Ri Kwang-Chon and Ri Jun-Il of North Korea. North Korea secured their place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a goalless draw in Riyadh.


21-year-old male sealion Rook, wears sunglasses with his trainer Hideo Yamabe in preparation for the solar eclipse next month at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo.


Ellen Pontac (L) and her wife Shelly Bailes celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary and the one-year anniversary of a California Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages. On June 16, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled providing a constitutional right to same-sex marriages went into effect, only later in November for it to be overturned by voters. The courts then announced a ruling on May 19 upholding Proposition 8, which banned gay marriages in California; but also upheld the marriages that had been performed before the proposition passed were still valid


Two baby Flamingos take their first steps at London Zoo. The one-month-old pair of birds called Little and Large were being hand reared by keepers using a pink Flamingo style sock puppet.


Cirque du Soleil performers wait outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas for a Guinness World Record stilt walking attempt to mark Cirque's 25th anniversary. There were 1,926 Cirque artists and employees expected to participate at the same time in Orlando, Fortaleza, Brazil, Macau, China, Moscow, Montreal and Las Vegas in walking on stilts for at least 300 meters in less than 15 minutes to break the record


Demonstrators at a protest in support of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi


A woman looks into a three dimensional drawing of a canyon on Regent's canal towpath in London. The artwork is part of the TwoTings safety campaign aimed at getting cyclists to slow down when using the towpath


US First Lady Michelle Obama and some 36 fifth grade students at work in the White House Kitchen Garden.


A Romanian woman and her child are escorted by police into the Ozone Leisure Centre in Belfast. Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness rapped 'racist criminals' who forced over 100 Romanians to seek refuge in a church hall after a series of attacks on their homes. The families, including one with a five-day-old baby girl, spent Tuesday night in the Belfast hall after the situation climaxed with an attack on an anti-racism rally Monday when youths made Nazi salutes and threw bottles. McGuinness said the attackers were 'racist criminals' who he wanted to see arrested and taken to court


A firefighting airplane drops water on a fire that broke out in southern Athens.


The River Simple company founder Hugo Spowers poses for photographs with his new design of hydrogen car in London. Powered by hydrogen fuel cells and featuring a composite body, four electric motors, no gearbox or transmission and regenerative braking the 'River Simple' car will be leased rather than sold. The design will be published on the Web for anyone to collaborate in the design under an open source licence.


A protestor holds up a hand covered in blood during a rally as Iranian supporters of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi demonstrated in the streets of Tehran.



Jesse Flores loads a truck carrying a bust of President Barack Obama in Illinois. The sculpture, created by Houston artist David Adickes, was being transported to Presidents Park located near Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota



Sukhdev Baba Santi, a sadhu (holy man) displays his hair which measures 15.5 foot in length at Kamakhya Temple. Hundreds of Sadhus visit Kamakhya Temple during the Ambubachi festival. The festival is organised, every year in June, to mark the menstrual period of Goddess Kamakhya. The traditional belief behind the festival is that the days of the Goddess's menstruation signify fertility


6 comments:

Unknown said...

As usual, an elegant selection of the best pics for the week. Artistic, colorful and a story to be told in each pic...

Thanks, Ocho-Onda. You must have taken a long time to make this selection. Great effort.

Have a wonderful week and stay in touch.

Warmest wishes,
mws

SFGEMS said...

Chanced upon your blog and noticed the spanish name.

Catchy!

Will browse other entried later when I have more time!

:0

ocho-onda said...

Hi ladies, you are most welcomed ,though I admit I am guilty of being off the radar these days - not good at multi tasking,I guess !

Esrelita, are you by any chance related to the Soliano brothers and Julie ? I was just a kid then but I remember they were household names in those days when the airwaves were ruled by RTM !

You are right though a lot of people mistook "onda", which is also Japanese, but I am Malaysian with Peranakan roots.

With a name like yours, there is perhaps a Spanish/Filipino connection as well ?

I had a chance to glance through your blog which I will re-visit in time. I am pleasantly surprised that you are also into Latin American culture as I have travelled to quite a few places in South America a few years back. Cheers.

SFGEMS said...

Yes, I am the daughter of Tony Soliano and Julie is my step-mother!

Hardly anybody remembers them today, so I'm quite surprised that their name has stuck with you! :)

So what's with the Ocho-onda? In spanish, it has a meaning.

:)

ocho-onda said...

It is supposedly Ocho-ondas as in eight waves in Spanish but intentionally Ocho-onda as there is only one of me, lol.
I am always fascinated with the magnitude and fluidity of waves.
But the true essence of the word "onda" itself varies, depending on where and how it is used.
Generally, it can mean ,"what's up" as in "que onda" and in Mexico,"Asi es la onda mexicana" means "That is the Mexican way" !
However there is a reason why I chose Ocho-onda to name my blog. The figure 8 symbolizes femininity while the wave - "La Onda (Chicano)" - the Mexican Woodstock,was a 1960's counter cultural event and also the name of the prison gang in Taylor Hackford's 1993 film, "Bound by Honor/Blood in Blood out" which revolves around the lives of three Mexican cousins living in L.A.
Btw, one of the actors was Benjamin Bratt, then, a promising American Peruvian actor before he met Julia Roberts !
So, yeah, La Onda is something I can very much relate to, as I was quite a rebel in my youthful days. Cheers.

SFGEMS said...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Now it all makes complete sense. Thanks for that. I did want to mention that there should be a final "s" but it's your blog and I'm only a visitor. Have to mind my manners!

Great blog name! :)