Saturday, July 14, 2007

First Ever Global Election

15th July 2007 (Sun)

I felt so outdated. Didn't even know about the new 7 Wonders of the World until yesterday.

Anyway, the new list was announced in an Official Declaration ceremony on 07/07/07 in Lisbon, Portugal which turned out to be a pretty big even actually. Stars like J. Lo and Christiano Ronaldo were present as well.

The means of voting includes worldwide online, SMS and telephone voting. And for this reason, I believe, they claimed this process to be the first global election which sounds cool to me. But then I kept thinking, "Does it take that long for this world to have its first global election?" Aha, it struck me that the World Idol voting process was pretty global as well. Wasn't that the suppose to be the first? Maybe it didn't cover all the countries around the world.

Back to the list, behold.... the New 7 Wonders of the World:-

The Taj Mahal, India

The Roman Colosseum, Italy

Chichén Itzá, Mexico

Machu Picchu, Peru

Christ Redeemer, Brazil

Petra, Jordan

The Great Wall, China

Some interesting facts to end this entry with

"7 Wonders were chosen because the original list of Ancient Wonders, drawn up more than 2,000 years ago, contained 7 and because 7 has been shown time and time again to be the number of things that the average person can remember. "

"The Pyramids of Giza also were honored by the New7Wonders project as the only remaining of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World."
(Source: http://www.new7wonders.com)

Thanks for reading!

7 Comments:

Blogger Amanda Chan said...

Interesting =)

The 4th one sounds like Pikachu xp

Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 1:46:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger syyeam said...

Oh ya..now that you've mentioned it =)

In fact, the pre-evolve form of Pikachu is Pichu!

Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 8:25:00 AM GMT+8  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aiks.... I like the old ones, the hanging gardens, oracle, and many more... the new ones like ....Neh...
Oh ya..... If you played a game called civilization, u will notice that there is actually more wonders of the world.... these include The great Library, the lighthouse, the hanging gardens, oracle...... Love that game man... go try it

Monday, July 16, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM GMT+8  
Blogger Danial Jaafar 🇲🇾 said...

man, honestly, i thank you for this post coz i didnt know theres such thing as global election for new 7 wonders of the world! so pyramids of giza are no longer 7 wonders of the world?? *blur*

Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 8:59:00 AM GMT+8  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how can they leave out the famous pyramids?

Friday, July 20, 2007 at 5:27:00 PM GMT+8  
Blogger syyeam said...

To Rhun Kiet,
Haha..duwan..scared i'll get addicted =p

To Danial and Peifei,
What to do..ppl's votes =(

Friday, July 20, 2007 at 9:55:00 PM GMT+8  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

haha, it's coming out already. Before many of my friends and I voted for this new 7 wonder, coz we all want to keep the Great Wall in it~~~!! Although the Great Wall is kept, the result is not good enough. I prefer the old 7,2.

Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 11:34:00 PM GMT+8  

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