Sleepover

My oldest niece stayed over last night.

We went to the beach after dinner and she was trying to build a sandcastle with dry sand as she wouldn't go near the water to get some wet sand. Eventually she did and ended up getting taken out by a wave when she had her back turned. It was so funny!

She was out in front of the television by 9 o’clock. I had to prod her awake to get her off to bed.

The little bugger then woke me up at 6.30 wanting to know how to turn the television on - I had shown her 3 times the night before!!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope it was filled with family and laughs (I know mine was)

Random Facts 29

1. There are more people in the world who eat alligators than there are alligators that eat people.
2. When viewed from above, rainbows appear dough-nut shaped.
3. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is about 2.5 metres in length.
4. A cat keeps purring when inhaling and exhaling.
5. An ostrich egg can make 11.5 omelettes.
6. Someone who has an irrational fear of meat is carnophobic.
7. A snail can sleep for three years.
8. The valves of the human heart are as thick as a single piece of tissue paper.
9. A claque refers to a group of people hired to applaud and act or performer.
10. Prior to launching his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.

Movie Review: Mao's Last Dancer

Belinder and I started the day with a free movie. We then spent the rest of the afternoon window shopping until she had to pick the kids up from school.

I am glad I was able to see this on the big screen - I thought I was going to miss it in the cinema's. The dancing was amazing!

Plot: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet

Movie Review: The Informant

I didn't really like this film even though Matt Damon was in it. I mean, there were funny bits in it, sure, but it was just all over the place, jumping here and there in the storyline.

Plot: What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agricultural-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre’s ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre’s rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.