Month: August 2010
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Very full now, just ate my words
I watched snippets of the YOG opening ceremony, and spent another hour on the Youth Olympic News Channel on Starhub TV watching interviews and re-runs and wondered why they didn’t have that on earlier. I learned many things about the Games and the athletes participating which should have been in the local media but wasn’t.…
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My National Day Parade
I remember National Day Parade 1990 the most because it’s the NDP I was involved in. It was held at the Padang, and it featured the most impressive mobile column display since independence, involving all the military hardware and soldiers (like us) of the day. At the beginning of that year, my battalion mates and…
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Support YOG, wear this t-shirt
Tired of people saying you should be interested in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games? Then wear this t-shirt and support our organisers! Buy this and other apparel and accessories at my cafepress shop made specially for the occasion. Proceeds will be donated to a charity which I haven’t decided on. What are you waiting for?…
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At La Petite Cuisine with le petite canard
Four years have passed since Naomi and I first dined at La Cuisine – when she was still my fiance – and I had a chuckle reading that blog post about it. Neither of us smoke any more, the maitre’d has since mellowed, and the restaurant itself has since transformed itself into a much more…
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Is the YOG really a shambles?
For a world’s first ever event, the PR efforts are really really poor. I had to ask around several times where the opening ceremony was (because I have a nephew visiting from Canada, and he’s really into his sport), and no-one knew. Some said the Padang, some said the National Stadium Oh Wait They Took…