Month: September 2007

  • Vale, King of the high ‘C’s.

    Luciano Pavarotti, look 1935 – 2007 Technorati Tags: Pavarotti

  • Who wants to be a superhero?

    Captain Obvious We’ve had Survivor (1997 – yes, that old!), Big Brother (1999), Fear Factor (2001), American Idol (2002), America’s Next Top Model (2003), Beauty and the Geek (2005 – a favourite), amongst many, many others. Granted, the format’s nowhere near new, but there are now so many “reality” tv shows that the makers of…

  • Now That You Got It remix feat. Damian Marley

    I like Gwen Stefani, and I like Bob Marley. But Bob Marley’s um… not around, so it’s great that Stefani’s new single features one of his many sons, Damian “Junior Gong” Marley. Unlike Bob, Damian’s not a reggae artist. It says on wikipedia that Damian’s musical specialty is “Toasting“, which is the Jamaican style of…

  • National Days

    I was just wondering the other day that there were lots of independence days in August. We had ours, they had theirs, and they shouted Merdeka till they were hoarse. Then a couple of days passed and I thought it was a little late to talk about things happening in August. But then, fortuitously, I…

  • In My Time

    I’ve never been to an Army Open House because I don’t have kids to bring them to, and my family would scream if I asked them “hey you wanna go to the Army Open House and see Army gear and stuff?” and they’d scream, “We wash your Army gear every time you come back from…