Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
This was posted up here on the 14 Feb 2001, shortly before the release of Michael Bay’s turkey of a mess Pearl Harbor movie. Another commonly made observation of the Pearl Harbor attack was that most pundits believe it was
Another short entry I wrote, which was originally posted up here on 6 Oct 2000. The source of the story in Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s tour-de-force motion picture on the second world war, was in reality based on a
The recent movie by Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima, makes a passing reference to the death of General Yamamoto during the war. Here’s a short but well-known story about him that I originally posted up on the 13 Feb
Here’s the first of the many stories I wrote during the earlier years of keeping this web site. The source for this one is from Citizen Soldiers by the late Stephen Ambrose, and I put it up on the 6
Visitors to the site may have noticed the frequent visual changes to our blog over the several days. Yep, that’s all me. Since I was done recovering whatever posts I could, I figured I might as well redo the theme
Our blog met with a bit of a disaster this afternoon. The entire blog database was lost from a terrific crash caused (apparently) by plug-in compatibility issues. I’m right now in the midst of piecing together what used to be
The Chinese has a saying which goes something like this: “Failure is the mother of all success”. Well, I have asked myself recently how many times it takes one to fail in order to taste the sweetness of success. Twice
What once used to be a quiet road is now a heavily used, almost-highway for many motorists travelling in the eastern part of Singapore. For me, it has been almost a daily affair to use this road to drive darling
The both of us will be heading off for our much-deserved Honeymoon tomorrow evening, and we decided on South Korea and Jeju Island. The blog entries on foodcourt dining in Singapore will continue; I’ve written enough of them to last
The pictures from our wedding on the 18th November were finally ready a few days ago, and Ling met up with Desmond Ho, our AD photographer, to pick them up. About 700 pictures were taken, with about 94% of them
Both Ling and myself are pretty much still feeling amazed at how well our wedding ran on the actual day. We’d both heard quite a few horror stories of things gone wrong from others before. Even our officiating minister, Reverend
The weekend has been terrifically busy for the both of us: on the day before when we were rushing about making final arrangements, the actual day, and the day after when we were going through the post mortem. The pictures
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