I still had some photos from Africa and America Squares. Apologize for posting them so late. I was little busy, then sick, then lost the motivation to post. Then again got busy

Well, now let me continue with my posts. I will start with Africa first.

Oil Nations:

Nigeria

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Libya

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Angola

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North African Nations:

Algeria

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Tunisia

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Egypt pavilion surprised me big time. It was in some sort of sports style, I think.

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… and the host of the FIFA World Cup 2010 – South Africa

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Well, this was it for Africa. Not many countries were represented in Africa Square.

Let’s continue to America Square.

Argentina

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USA had quite big pavilion as well. And the security level was pretty high as expected.

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Peru

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Colombia

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The host of the next FIFA World Cup 2014 – Brazil. Even the pavilion is in football style.

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Canada

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Chile

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Mexico

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Venezuela

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Cuba was the last pavilion I visited that day. And I got lucky that when I reached Cuba pavilion, they started letting people in.

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Inside Cuba

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The walls were in typical Cuban style – lots of stuff written on the wall. There were about 10 pens and pencils on the floor near walls. People were simply taking them and writing some stuff on the wall.

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Ilhom Rasulov

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Well, today is my birthday. Can’t believe the time is passing this fast! Nothing special is planned for my birthday. So, I’ll see if anything comes up by the end of the day.

Hopefully, I will be back on posting new materials soon. Just need to finish some stuff that I’m currently busy with these days.

All the best wishes to ME I’m AWESOME!!!

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Europe Square had lots of amazing buildings and structures as well. Some of them far beyond imaginations. You will see what I mean, when you go through the photos.

So, by the time I reached the Europe Square, my feet were already in pain. It was just too much walk for one day!

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The first one was Portugal.

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Belarus

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Czech Republic

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Slovakia

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Bosnia & Herzegovinia

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Hungary

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Some of the countries were represented under one roof. I guess, its either because of less funding or maybe these countries joined the club later, and there was no space available.

Malta, Republic of San Marino & Cyprus.

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on the other side of the same building, there were Macedonia, Albania & Azerbaijan.

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Norway

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Ukraine had pretty colorful, attractive pavilion.

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Turkey

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Ireland

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Greece

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Sweden

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Denmark – it was something like a bicycle track.

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Finland

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Lithuania

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Latvia

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Estonia

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Iceland

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Couldn’t find Bulgaria, but found this cafeteria:

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Monaco

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Serbia

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Belgium

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Spain had amazing pavilion in Europe Square.

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This one was the only building that I couldn’t find which country it was for. There were no signs, nothing around it.

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Poland

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Germany

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France

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Italy

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UK

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Netherlands had a wonderful pavilion! Happy Street!

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Romania

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Croatia

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Luxembourg

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… and finally – Russia! Russia and Spain had the biggest pavilions in the Europe Square, I guess.

Ilhom Rasulov

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I actually got lucky with this one. Because, there was a long queue, and they weren’t letting anybody in. I think they let in people at certain times. So, the time that I joined the line was the time they started to let people in. I managed to get in within 5 minutes.

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It was a bit tough to take photos inside, as people were blocking everything. Whatever I want to take, there’s always someone’s head, or hand, or leg, or something else in the pic. So, pardon me for that.

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These are the projected Uzbek houses. I tried to take better, but the glass was not giving me any chance to make that.

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Uzbek Fashion

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Chinese kid

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As you exit the building, you can see national stuff on sale, mostly for women. I saw lots of Chinese trying them on and buying at least 2-3 items. I hope they weren’t made in China

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And after one month, I had a chance to travel to Shanghai. I just came back to Dubai this afternoon from Shanghai.

As soon as I reached the hotel I found out the information about the expo, and the next morning I, after 4 hours of sleep I went to explore.

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The hotel provided one-way shuttle bus to the expo at 09:00 in the morning. It took us about 25-30 minutes drive until we reached one of the metro stations close by the expo.

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From that point it took me about 15 minutes walk until the Gate N5 entrance.

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As you can see, the whole area was divided into 3 areas. The biggest one was Asia Square. Of course, it should be. Asia is the biggest continent in the world

It was about 9:45 in the morning. The streets were full of people, mostly Chinese, heading towards the expo.

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When I reached the Gate 5, guys were redirecting people to other side of the entrance. I acted like a typical “smart-a**” tourist, pointing at the paper that hotel gave me, and kept on repeating “Is this the Gate 5?”, “I need to enter from here”. After about a minute they gave up, and let me in the shortest way. I think it was VIP pass. I managed to jump this long queue:

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I passed the security screening, and went into the expo. The first pavilion was for UAE

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Well, this one is Morocco. I don’t know how it became part of Asia. But, anyways, it was there.

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Qatar

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Our neighbor – Turkmenistan

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Israel’s pavilion

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Sultanate of Oman

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Sri Lanka

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Pakistan

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It was a really hot day. About 40 degrees Celsius. No wonder all the Chinese people were carrying umbrellas. Some of the areas had this kind of cooling humidifiers.

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This building is for Saudi Arabia. Quite interesting design. Really wanted to go in and see. But when I saw the amount of people in queue, I changed my mind.

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South Korea also had nice stuff. Pretty impressive.

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I will post separate material about Uzbekistan later. I went inside this pavilion to see what my country was showing to visitors.

Right next to Uzbekistan, was our another neighbor – Kazakhstan. I couldn’t find Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Somewhere I saw Mongolia, Tajikistan and two more countries. They were all under one building.

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North Korea

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Lebanon

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Iran

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I forgot to tell about the ticket. I bought the ticket at the hotel. It cost me 160 Yuan. Its better to buy it there, in order to avoid staying in the queue to buy a ticket here.

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The entire expo area was massive. So, to help people go around, they had these small passenger vans. I don’t know how to call them

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Hmm… The expo had the flying saucer – UFO landed in the field

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It was massive and giant! I decided to go inside this building.

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But it wasn’t that easy. Queue was very long. This is just the beginning for me, and almost the end for these guys on the photo. I was heading the opposite side, about 3 times longer than this queue to the other side, and back.

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There wasn’t much interesting inside. Couple of restaurants, cinemas, shops and arena. I went up to the observation deck, which is middle point of “two saucers”. View from the deck:

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China – the biggest and tallest one in the expo. I didn’t even bother to go to see it, considering the fact that it was Friday, and it was packed with people.

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Steam Fountains

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This building had Information desk, souvenir shop and toilets.

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By this time, I was sweating, dehydrating and feeling hungry. I wanted to buy a cold bottle of water, but they didn’t have it. Apparently, cold drinks are sold out, and the replacements weren’t getting enough time to get chilled.

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Kingdom of Cambodia and Indonesia next to each other.

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New Zealand

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Malaysia

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Drinking Water

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Brunei

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Singapore

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Philippines

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Thailand

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Australia

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Well, this is it for now. I will post the rest of the photos within these two days, hopefully once I’m done with processing them. Want to see what’s in Europe, Africa and Americas? Do check again these days.

Ilhom Rasulov

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Well, at first, I was like, what kind of video is that? I thought it was a song. Then, as I continue reading the message, it became clear that it was a short film shot by young guy from Uzbekistan.

So, I went to Umid‘s Facebook page, and loaded the video… The first thing I recognized was Umid and then his voice in the background!

The short film is named “Ant”. The director of the film is Yuri Khan. Please, watch and tell me what happened in there. I still can’t get it 100%.

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Yuri Khan

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David (Ioan Natura) – ex-security guard

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Salim (Umid Alaev) and Yuri

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Velna (Irina Doroshkova) – Salim’s girlfriend

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Thomas (Emil Todorov) – Victim

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This is the video itself from Youtube:

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For those who have problems with Youtube, I uploaded the video into the my website itself. To view click on Play. If right click with your mouse on the video, then you can choose your Zoom options, including watching it in Full Screen mode.

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ANT – Short Movie by young Uzbek director from ILHOM RASULOV on Vimeo.

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You are more than welcome to comment about this movie, and any suggestions are welcome.

Ilhom Rasulov

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Its so cool to fly over them. You can see how massive they are. Some are with snow on top, some without. You can see the rivers flowing across the mountains.

I took about 45 photos, and have chosen only 9 of them. Photos were taken over Himalaya Mountains.

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The latest music that I’m listening to:

DJ Smash – Ptitsa (The Bird) (Volna4ever Mix)

Dream City – Lift You Up

Dream City – One Love

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Some people deactivated their accounts, lots of status updates about Brazil, Argentina and Germany (World Cup).

One of the best one was “Argentina – you may still catch up with Brazil at departure gate…” Well, I guess they took Paraguay with them too!

Another good thing was this photo below. Someone apparently uploaded it into Facebook for fun and tagged a lot of people. One of them was my friend.

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Sometimes, when we go to restaurants, cafes, we are peaky on the food served in there. Well, we are customers, we are paying for that, and we certainly, do have the right to choose. But, how often it happens that we go to a restaurant, we check the menu, and tell the waiter/waitress “I want this meal”. Sometimes, they say that its not available on that day. What face and attitude do we show in response to them? “Ahh… I can’t eat anything else. The rest is crap. I don’t feel like eating this… or that… Let’s go to somewhere else, where they have everything they show in the menu”.

Hey, stop! YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO CHOOSE! But there are people, including lots of kids, who DO NOT HAVE THAT CHOICE!

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The next time you feel that peaky, think again! Be thankful that you have a chance to choose and eat what you want, or at least 90% of what you want. And, do your best to HELP those who don’t have a choice!

Remember! Your or my pity is simply not enough for them!

Ilhom Rasulov

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I was browsing through the internet and came across with tons of fun stories, stuff, and pics. I saved some of them.

These are the ones that I saved long time back. I would say, about a year ago, maybe?

Enjoy! Hope you like it!

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Have you ever thought of these???

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