Team Hoyt
If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama downloads, or you are simply inured to so many otherwise moving things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt. Rick Hoyt was born severely disabled and his parents were told he would live in a permanently vegetative […]
Bookmarks from Holland Village
If you’ve ever been to Holland Village lately, you’d probably have been approached by one or two flers trying to sell you something, and you might or might not have stopped to find out what they were hawking. It was one of those days where I had a bit of time, because Naomi and I […]
Local hero: Fandi Ahmad
e333lizzz nude sites16 July 1982: Ajax Amsterdam offers Fandi a three year contract Fandi Ahmad got his first pair of football boots when he was 12. You’d think he’d have owned a pair earlier, or even been born wearing them. But early in his career (he started playing for school at 10), he wore hockey […]
Earth Hour
At lunch on Good Friday, my mother’s friend spoke about how her younger son’s school was going about teaching the kids about being environmentally friendly. It’s all good to teach them the message, but this is apparently what happened in practice. The younger son had have a set of folders for class, and thinking that […]
Talent scouting
Irony Rijal Yadri Jumari was ‘talent-spotted’ to be a future JI leader. How does one ‘talent-scout’ or ‘talent-spot’ a potential terrorist? I suppose the talent scout comes up to you on the street and says, “Hey, wanna earn some extra bucks as a terrorist? You look like the sort. That crazed look in your eye, […]