I received an email from Anand, a fellow Toddycat, about the relative size of Earth compared to various heavenly bodies (not the Scarlett Johansson kind. Although the word globes comes to mind). I’m not sure where Anand picked up the graphics, but I googled and found them at The Size of Our World. Those illustrations [...]
Month: October, 2006
Contrast
From The New York Times. Quite eerie for two reasons: One, the amount of electricity being used in South Korea. Two, that North Korea looks like it’s stuck in the early to mid 1800s. The irony of our times, eh? The bright spot must be Kim Jong Il’s palace house.
SCC Rugby Sevens, 4 & 5 November
We’ve lost the International Rugby Sevens to Adelaide. At least we still have the Singapore Cricket Club Rugby Sevens. It’s been going on every November for as long as I can remember. Always great entertainment! You never know… some future star of international rugby might be playing. =) From the mailer:
6ixth
Found out about this from Tan Pin Pin‘s (of Singapore GaGa fame, DVD out on 30th Oct, btw) blog. In her words, “Photography doing what Films can’t because of the Films Act which prohibits ‘political films’…. A void deck never looked so good.” I’ve reproduced the press blurb below. Mr Chiam will be present at [...]
Game on
Even that incendiary figure, Sir Alex Ferguson, has appealed for an end to the bitterness that, unlike United versus Arsenal or Rafael Benitez versus Jose Mourinho, does not spill out on to the pitch whenever Liverpool and his team meet. “It is always a fiercely fought encounter but, considering the intensity, also one fought fairly,” [...]
