Day in brief

Indian pole gymnastics

I’ve seen plenty of awesome gymnastics videos on YouTube, but this one still stands up there with the best ones.  I wish they’d do more stuff like this on the actual Olympic Games.  Maybe more people would’ve watched them.

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P.S.: And, yes, if you were wondering, I watched this clip with while laying on a couch, with a can of beer in my hand.

Youth Olympics 2010, Singapore

If you have never heard about Youth Olympics Games, don’t worry.  Not many people did, I guess.  2010 is the first year that the event has been organized and hosted in Singapore.  If it wasn’t for the Big Picture blog, I would’ve still not known about it though.  There are a few excellent pictures here.

The A-Team

A few weeks ago I went to the cinema to watch the movie re-make of the 1983 TV series – “The A-Team“.  I haven’t seen the original, but I’ve heard a lot about it.  As for the new movie – I only saw the trailer, and I was hooked.  It seemed like my kind of action movie.

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And it turned out to be even better than I expected.  From the first few moments, the film sets the mood and establishes itself as an entertainment-only flick.  What follows a non-stop waterfall of action and witty humor.  As far as action comedy goes, I think it’s one of the best films in the last few years.  Sure, “Iron Man” had its share of jokes, but “The A-Team” took it way beyond.  Just the scene of the A-Team using the tank to fight while falling down from the airplane is worth the money for the ticket.  But there is so much more!

Highly recommended for a fun Friday evening.  5 out of 5.