Back in Singapore on Monday. Same number, but lost my phone so I don't have your numbers! Text/call if you'd like to meet up. x

Looking for origami pieces I can do for the kids, I found this:

CRAZY! This man is Kamiya Satoshi and the video shows him folding a phoenix. He made a dragon using 2m x 2m paper:

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Interesting, if not very PC, article about beauty, mainly focused on Dove's latest campaigns:
Another Dove ad, focusing on girls’ insecurities about their looks, concludes, “Every girl deserves to feel good about herself and see how beautiful she really is.” Here, Dove is encouraging the myth that physical beauty is a false concept, and, at the same ( Read more... )

Justin Timberlake's new MTV starring Scarlett Johansson. As hot as he is, even he can't pull this off. The 'acting' bits are PAINFUL. And when he says 'you get what you deserve', Scarlett Johansson gets into a horrible car crush?! WTF serious. The whole MTV seems like an excuse to make out with Johansson - no wonder Cameron Diaz broke up with him! ( Read more... )

Senior citizens have a moral and social obligation to take care of themselves

THE report ‘Ministerial panel to tackle concerns of the elderly’ (The Sunday Times, Feb 4) clearly shows that ministries are trying to pre-empt the impending problem of our greying population. The Government is trying to defuse this ticking time-bomb but the senior ( Read more... )

Let's all bash Singapore

Feb 8th 2007 | BANGKOK
From The Economist print edition
The rich little place that the others love to hate

SINGAPORE won South-East Asia's football championship on February 4th in a final against Thailand that was mostly peaceful, despite a bad-tempered first leg in which the Thais stomped off the pitch and sulked for 15 ( Read more... )

Why Did We Watch? The Answer Isn’t Pretty
By CARYN JAMES
Published: February 10, 2007
Becoming famous is relatively easy: Anna Nicole Smith was born with a beautiful face, a big smile and a voluptuous body she was happy to bare for Playboy. Staying famous for nothing much is hard work, and that is the real story of Ms. Smith’s ( Read more... )

Gifted children

Bright sparks

Feb 8th 2007
From The Economist print edition

Not everyone's a genius, but don't say so in front of the children

BY the time Laszlo Polgar's first baby was born in 1969 he already had firm views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written a book called "Bring up Genius!" and one of his ( Read more... )

Does anyone have suggestions for easy, cheap arts and crafts projects ( Read more... )

Recently, Senator Joseph Biden described Senator Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”. Lovely huh? The NYTimes has a great article on it.

This site, allegedly made by a white couple to show how much black people love them, is hilarious. But what's most hilarious is the ( Read more... )