Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
My dad loves watching the NBA. It must be something about those tall black American players with their 3 point shooting and slam dunk moves. Myself; I remembered following the stunning debut of the American ‘Dream Team’ basketballers at the
Back in August last year I wrote a short entry on a new movie about Beijing’s attempt to learn English for the Olympic Games 2008. The movie was titled “Mad About English!”, and I finally got round to renting the
Here’s one of the most amazing panoramic shots I’ve seen… like ever! Someone created a 360 degree view of the Beijing Olympics stadium just before the 100m finals: Link right here.:) Use the SHIFT, CTRL, and hold-mouse to zoom in
I was humming along while the American national anthem was played during the awards presentation for another gold medal win at the Olympics the other night. Ling then turned and asked if I knew the words to the anthem, and
One of the most delightful comedies I remembered watching as a school boy was Mind Your Language, a British comedy series about a class of foreign nationals learning English. The cast included the late Barry Evans who starred as the
Of the lot of sporting events in the Olympics this fortnight, the event that Ling seems most interested in is the woman’s gymnastics. How’s that? Well, she was a school gymnast herself you see. As for myself, I’ve run a
One of the things that Ling was a little sad about during our Singapore Botanic Gardens flowers shoot a few Sundays ago was that she didn’t have her own camera to take pictures with. We’ve had several compact digicams now
The two of us have been watching more TV in the last couple of evenings than the whole of a typical month put together. Yep you’ve guessed it; it’s been the Beijing Olympics and just prior to that, we both
Faster, higher, stronger—or so the Olympic Games motto goes. It doesn’t feel so long ago when I wrote an entry here about the 2004 Summer Olympic games in Athens. This was during my doctoral program in Perth, and I followed
Amidst interviewing work that just started a fortnight ago for the fourty-something players and developers I’m speaking to again in my study, I’d been watching the events in the Athens Olympics. While the two channels often broadcast events that were
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