That Big-Eye Little Cutie in the Madagascar Movie

Filed Under (Animation, Bedtime Stories, Dealing with Difficult Questions, Knowledge Time) by Footyman on 27-11-2008

Does anyone know what that cute little BIG-EYE animal in the animation movies Madagascar and Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa, is called?

I stumbled onto this blog HOT THINGS DEAR today and was overjoyed to find an article describing the little animals.

So they are called Pygmy Tarsiers!

Now I can’t wait for my little son to wake up tomorrow to show off my new-found knowledge!


A Letter from Santa

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Who is “MACK”?

Filed Under (Animation, Knowledge Time) by Footyman on 12-10-2008

Oh by the way, for those reading the previous post and wondering who “Mack” is….he is the big truck that “ferries” race cars in the DISNEY PIXAR movie “CARS”.

And I just found out that the name “Mack” came from “Mack Trucks”, one of the world’s leading truck manufacturing companies.

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The Little Girl Who Sang at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Filed Under (Beijing Olympics 2008, Knowledge Time) by Footyman on 10-08-2008

Lin Miaoke

Lin Miaoke - the day after

Lin Miaoke - the day after

Lin Miaoke, that’s her name.

She’s the nine year old girl who sang at the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. According to Zhang Yimou, the Director of the Opening Ceremony, she was “…selected among many girls. She is a lovely girl and she sings well.”

Lin received thunderous applause from the 90,000-plus spectators at the National Stadium, known as the “Bird’s Nest”, when she performed “Ode to the Motherland” as 56 children,

each representing an ethnic group of the country’s 56 nationalities, carried the national flag into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on 8 August 2008.

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Beijing Olympics 2008 - Are You Ready?

Filed Under (Beijing Olympics 2008, Knowledge Time) by Footyman on 07-08-2008

8 8 8 is the BIG DAY. Are you ready for it?!

No this is not a SPORTS BLOG….but as a parent, you better be PREPARED for questions that your child is going to ask you. Afterall, they are all over, in TV programs, newspapers, billboards and…even at MacDonalds, there’s no escape.

Ok, so lets prepare for the most basic question first then. What do the 5 Olympic Rings represent? Er…..

Olmpic Kiwis
Five Olympic Kiwis

Duh! Not five Kiwis!!! ( Act stupid, your child will go hee-haw!! )

Five Olympic Donuts??

Olympic Donuts! Tell that to my son and I won’t survive till I bring him to the nearest donut shop!!

5 Continents
5 Continents

Yes ….yes, the boring answer is it represents the five continents of the world, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time. (as of 1931).

Play this game with your child, memorise the colors and regurgitate them : Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red………Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red………Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red…..

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