Memories...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Up now for some Champions League action..finally!
Cleared an essay on Monday..yeah man. Many more projects and assignments to go though.
Been busy making lotsa lotsa calls e past 2 daes for ISIS Gala..really looking foward to it =)
Went for the SIA recruitment talk just now.. it was undoubtedly the biggest recruitment talk i have been to so far..and i didnt realize that SIA has been the top company which most NUS and NTU students expressed interest in working for (according to some survey), for the past few years. Citibank was the 2nd, while IBM, P & G, HSBC, ranked among the top 5...
The movie "300" is coming out on Fri. I m def going to catch it man. Looks like it ll be the movie of 2007... Its bout the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history.
(From Wikipedia): A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks, revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers. Though they knew it meant their own deaths, they held their position and secured the retreat of the other Greek forces. The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses, extremely disproportionate to those of the Greeks. The fierce resistance of the Spartan-led army offered Athens the invaluable time to prepare for a naval battle that would come to determine the outcome of the war.
The subsequent Greek victory in the Battle of Salamis left much of the Persian navy destroyed. Xerxes was forced to flee to Asia and left his army in Greece under Mardonius, who was to meet the Greeks in battle for one last time. The Spartans and other Greek allies assembled at full strength and decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Plataea, putting an end to the Greco-Persian War and with that, Persian expansion into Europe.