do you remember christopher reeves as superman? were you in primary school when he was superman? i remember sprawling in a funny weird position on the gray sofa watching superman on tv over and over. there was supergirl too. i think what you see in childhood is what becomes the original in your mind. christopher reeves will always be the original superman though the other supermans cast on tv have been not bad. anyway, Christopher Reeves has passed away. come to think of it i wasn't an original superman comic fan, my romanticised version of superman had been through the tv. but it was part of my 80s childhood, which was a happy time.

i had a very good childhood. i walked in drains and played on swings in playgrounds with actual sand. nowadays it's all the safe rubber mat. where do the children bury their dead pet turtles when they die, wrapped in tissue paper and buried with a red plastic toy shovel at the corner of the playground on a typical weekday afternoon at 6pm when we would go to the playground always. all the kids would gather there. now i pass by the place and there is an additional new plastic playground built next to the old one with real wooden plank swings with chains, wooden plank simple see saws and sand. so simple and we played so much make-belief. i hope the children play at the old sand pit playground more than the rubber one. there's no texture with rubber playground. it's too sterile. we need wood, concrete, stone, sand, metal, grass. i shall visit there when the holiday come.

another theme for movie marathon >> the original superman series, from one to four.