Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Continued from the last post. Stylistically, the series often doesn’t feel very futuristic. In too many sci-fiction series, problems typically get resolved through very fantastic and sci-fi ways. BSG doesn’t rely on technological mumbo jumbo as cop-outs. Instead, the series
While I’ve blogged briefly about the Battlestar Galactica series in a couple of posts here, I haven’t done an extended series of posts on the recently-ended TV series yet. Time magazine has described the series as “a gripping sci-fi allegory
Brothers (2009) – on rental. Besides the box of Battlestar Galactica – The Complete Series blu-ray discs that I picked up over the weekend, a couple of other films also arrived on rental. One was Gamer, the violent virtual world
Weekends are fast becoming our much-looked forward to opportunities to load up on photographic and video recordings of Hannah growing up.:) Ling has been able to get Hannah to clap her hands on occasion. One trick we’ve discovered to keep
Hannah reached a bit of a developmental milestone yesterday. We discovered that she’s started teething – finally! The time period in which teething begins is normally about 6 months onwards; it’s relatively late in Hannah’s case then since she’ll be
Back in early 2003 I was in the starting stages of my doctoral degree program and still figuring out the areas I could get into, one work I read was on video game addiction. The short paper by a Canadian
I’m usually up at about 5:15 AM every morning so that I have more time for my morning routine activities before I wake Ling up just after 6 AM. Hannah gets woken up at about 6:25 AM for a diaper
Many of the news regarding home helpers in Singapore these days aren’t flattering. On too many occasions, they’ve been on misdemeanors either on the part of the home helpers, or of their employers abusing their helpers. So, when the below
There are two really bizarre incidents covered in the newspapers these days. One of them is the still unfolding Apple vs Gizmodo drama over a misplaced iPhone prototype, and the other is a more localized issue. Thanks to messed-up competitive
I received news earlier this week that a trip I’d been planning is indeed going ahead. The year-long project is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my institution, and it’s being co-investigated by an MIT researcher and
While reading up on some legal precedents in defamation suits, I came across a story that’s in equal parts both hilarious and also just plain bizarre. A family of South-Korean immigrants, the Chungs, were running a Pop-Mom laundry shop ‘Custom
Amelia (2009) – on rental. There were a couple of female heroines from history books that I read about in picture books and admired as a child. One was Helen Keller, another was Florence Nightingale – and the third was
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