I hereby declare this new association set up and accepting members. Do you remember playing this computer game where a frog had to brave its way across a road and a pond to his lily pad. How nostalgic!Now anyone who remembers and want to belong, please pay me $50 for the love, and become a fully certified frogger.Unlike other people who just set up a website and claim to …

I thought very hard about this. Should I just shut up and let yet another false preacher off the hook? Just live and let be? Or should I let people know about this kind of thing that goes behind closed doors in the so-called "righteous" Christian worldview?Then I saw the light. If they cannot tolerate the light, why should I help them hide it?And so without further ado, this …

I am curious why the latest Mediacorp film is titled “Sing to the Dawn”.The original story is about a girl, Dawan, from a Southeast Asian village who wins a scholarship to study in the city. The central plot is about growth of determination in a girl. The themes are anti-sexism, upholding of traditional values, and ...

The miller, his son and the donkeyby Jean de La FontaineArt being our inheritance, we’re in debtTo ancient Greece for the fable-form; and yetThe field has not been harvested so cleanThat late arrivers can’t find ears to glean,For the world of fiction is full of empty spaces,And every day our authors plant new places.Here’s a ...

Just back from following the twitter feed on #awaresg. Good News: The vote of no confidence in the new ExCo passed 1414 for 764. So according to the constitution, themembers are now fully empowered to ask the new ExCo to resign.Score one for the sense, and zero for the religious fundies, that have hijacked the AWARE, ostensibly in the name of suspressing homosexuality.I am …

One Straits Time reader commented: “If you won’t sell your kidneys, would you buy one if you have kidney failure?” (Sorry, I am not linking to a website whose links expire.) The implication is that if you were a sufferer, you would not hesitate to spend money buy an organ.Let’s be clear about this argument. ...

This is not science fiction, but I feel that I should review this. One of this things you will notice about my blog is the reviews on popular culture events. In Singapore, this movie is important. Thus, you will have to excuse me for taking a break from my SF musings to blog about this ...

Sam is an astronaut on the Moon, mining Helium 3 to solve the energy crisis on Earth. He has been there for 2 years and more, and is two weeks from the end of the three-year contract ... or so he thinks. He has only a robot assistant GERTY to talk to. The communications tower has been damaged, and his link to Earth is intermittent. While trying to repair a harvester truck, he …

Before I continue, you should know that all vampire stories are silly. Even Dracula, the old classic, couldn't escape being silly in being repeated. What matters is execution.And this movie, about an adolescent female vampire, is very well executed. What is successful about the movie is the images. The innocent countenance of an adolescent is smeared with blood, and the …

I have picked up a collection of Jean de La Fontaine’s Selected Fables. La Fontaine is a French poet that wrote poetry inspired by Aesop and Paedrus and others. This is source of many an encounter of a fox with lion, wolf with pigeon and others. This is where the story of the Miller, his ...