Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Part II of Global Village is written on a Northwest Airlines flight flying between San Francisco International Airport and Narita International.:) Everything’s big. Think: every meal you have is the upsized version. No need to tell the server you want
I’m writing this at the San Francisco International Airport. I arrived 2.5 hours early, got through baggage check quickly enough (though I had to remove shoes and belt), and now I’ve got 2 hours to kill before my flight to
Not everybody gets to enjoy the comfort of companionship all the time – I suppose. I know of students who felt friendless and helpless in a new school environment. I’ve heard of young kids who felt lonely when their siblings or parents are
The Game Developers Conference here at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center isn’t just a conference where bespectacled geeks gather and talk about video games. It’s a festival and celebration of technology, the visual arts, story telling, sound and music –
The pictures speak for themselves.:) And here’s the best part: they were not shot on the Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 lens – the one that costs a bomb. I took them on my el-cheapo USD180 Nikon 18-55mm LOL. It was an
It’s a funny feeling; until today, I’ve never seen the Golden Gate Bridge in person, but the landmark has been so widely seen in films that going under the bridge would have felt too familiar. That said, this world’s largest
The second museum we checked out on Tuesday 24 March was the California Academy of Sciences. This was a really slick and modern museum; they’d apparently moved into their home at the Golden Gate Park just last year, and that
There aren’t many school going children in Singapore who haven’t gone to the Singapore Science Center at least once, and most likely twice during their primary and junior years of education. Two such science museums in San Francisco are the
I had my one and only free morning on the second day of my San Francisco trip. There was one ‘tourisy’ attraction I’d been wanting to visit – The Aquarium of the Bay. I’d advised my students that the place
One of the more special places in San Francisco is the Cartoon Art Museum located at Mission Street. This museum was one of the places on the official itinerary, so after I met up with my group of students on
The six of us – five students in my entourage and myself – arrived in San Francisco at 8:30 am this Sunday morning. The flight from Singapore to Narita was very smooth, but from Narita to SF bumpier, with the
I’m just about to head off to the airport for the 6 am flight to San Francisco. The flight is 17 hours with an additional 2 hour stopover at Narita airport. Weather is a cold 4 to 20 degree celsius
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