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just saw an inspiring feature on Afghan cricket on BBC. against the odds stacked against them, the Afghan team had beat Scotland and Ireland (one day cricket) and even has a chance to qualify for the World Cup.

their story is like "Cool runnings" about the Jamaican Winter Olympics bobsled team

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/matthewpinsent/2009/04/batting_for_afghanistan.html

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889337,00.html

which begs the question about state of Singapore cricket (got meh?)

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we went to the Nanta show last evening. it was a hoot! some kids in the audience was really tickled by the antics

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Robina has been wanting Sally to do this! no results so far despite
offering a life time supply of steaks
 

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Yee Wee and Sherry invited us to their place for a sumptious steamboat
dinner on the second day of CNY
 

after dinner we brought down the ammo store and joined the rest of
Beijing to light up the night sky. needless to say the RMB168 (about
S$30) fireworks was worth it!
 

Ethan and Sherry lighting off the sparklers
 

Yee Wee setting off a chain of 500 firecrackers. this was puny
compared to the 1,000 rounds monster he set off the other year!

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fireworks from my window just after midnight on CNY. pretty much
replicated all over Beijing

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U2 singing their song to Dr Martin Luther King, during Obama
inauguration. gave me the chills, man!
 

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this is really cool! even little old ladies joined in
 

 
it's a flashmob style PR campaign at london tube station by Saatchi &
Saatchi for T-mobile (UK mobile phone network)
 
check out clips of public reaction and rehearsals.
 
I can imagine singaporeans reaction if same thing happen in our MRT
station: har? simi? xiao ar?

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I watched the Discovery docu on Bollywood on Monday evening with
Robina. it traced the development of Bollywood and tried to explain
the mystery of why Indian actors like to break out in song and
dance...
 
also introduced background singers like the legendary Lata Mangeshkar.
she's close 80 and still sound like a young girl!
 
featured Lagaan (or the first time in history the Indians beat the mat
saleh in cricket!)
 
the familiar tune of Chaiya Chaiya. suddenly recalled hearing the same
song in the beginning n ending sequences of Inside Man. I don know the
song at that time, but remembered wondering why Spike Lee, an African
American director had used a Bollywood song in his movie.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaiyya_Chaiyya
 

 
the docu showed how the actual song was performed in the Bollywood
movie, Dil Se. dancing and singing on top of a moving train in a
winding mountain scenery. I wonder how many dancers fell off the train
 
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM2MDE3NjQ=.html
 
even the Chinese youtube, Youku has a clip!
 
check out the latest China-Indian fusion Bollywood offering: Chadni
Chowk to China
the Bollywood dancing in Forbidden City was quite funny to me...
 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/14/DD95159MPF.DTL

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