Women can’t read maps
And it’s actually science – I kid you not – that claims to prove just that. According to this source, the male ability of spatial orientation comes from the testosterone gene he inherited from his ancestors, and it didn’t get
My First Mother’s Day
The usual poo-poo and stuff. Nothing ceremonial la. Hee hee. :P I got a little surprise though. Hannah’s teachers from her infant care centre got the infants to make hand-prints on paper and then they transformed these hand-prints into a
Entertaining Kids
Over on Saturday evening, we drove back to our family home at Lentor for a get together dinner. I think that this was also to had been a mother’s day sort of celebration but that might have got lost somewhere
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (2010) – at AMK Hub. There’s a string of upcoming blockbuster films this and next month that’s gonna hit the theaters. The first was Iron Man 2 that we caught at a late morning screening over the
11 months old!
One more month for Hannah to the big ‘One’.:) Major developmental activities: she’s been getting much better at pronouncing ‘daddy’! Still loves kiwi fruit: Her first baby tooth has also become more visible too.:) And she just got her first
C261 Cosplay
Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It’s a sort
New Look, Old Blog
I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 3
Continued from the last post. The two leads are supported by a cast of lesser-known actors but who over the years grow to fit their characters so well that many of them will for a long time to come be
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 2
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
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 1
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
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
Weekend Activities
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
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