Archive for June, 2007

The naked mile and peer pressure

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

It’s this time of the year that the naked mile usually held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The
Naked Mile is a tradition at the University of Michigan where
graduating Seniors run through campus naked the evening of the last day
of classes. It started in 1986 and finally was banned in 2004.

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Global warning

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

"Who will fix the world?" Ben, my four-year-old son, asked while I was trying to explain what global warming and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth are about.

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Circum(de)cision

Friday, June 8th, 2007

If circumcision does not have ties to any religion, how difficult is it to convince men to get circumcised?

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Ana and the queens

Monday, June 4th, 2007

There are many reasons why people love tennis. 19-year old Ana Ivanovic is one of them.

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Kids in mind

Monday, June 4th, 2007

"This is an excellent resource for families. Merits two thumbs up…[Finally] movie ratings that actually work" - Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial

Kids-in-mind provides pretty
comprehensive information about a film’s content so that we can decide,
based on our own value system, whether a movie is appropriate for our
kids.

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Queuing culture

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Some people just never learn, myself included.

Last Sunday we went to Genting Highlands
(my parents were visiting us) knowing that it would be terribly crowded
because of the Easter Holiday weekend. As if that wasn’t enough, we
decided to take the cable car.

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On dirty toilets and being hygienic

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Donald Lim said dirty toilets are the
most common complaint foreign tourists have about Malaysia - I read in
the Sun newspaper. It’s not a surprise. Even he didn’t deny that the
condition of many public toilets leaves much room for improvements.

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