Avid readers may recall my good buddy KF the muscleman whom we … erm … did one time publicly admire each other’s bodies (pretty much like what girls do to each other I guess?) and did our little not-what-you-think kind of home videos. Cynthia granted me a last minute night visa so … Boys Night Out it was!
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Entries from February 29th, 2008
Boys Night Out … At Toa Payoh
February 29th, 2008 7 Comments
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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis – A 2D Animation With Impact
February 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Yet another voted as top 10 films of 2007 by the critics, I have got to drag my Movie Review Squad to check out this Oscar nominated animation from France featuring an Iranian young girl living through the Iranian Revolution (the film itself is in English). So much faith they have on me, I was kind [...]
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Belle & Sebastian – Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
February 26th, 2008 2 Comments
I woke up this morning. The sky was grayish, the air was cool. Feeling a tad melancholy, I stared at my music collection like I do every working morning scanning for something appropriate for the day. Since I have been so Juno-overdosed (first the movie, then the Oscar), I picked “Belle & Sebastian” – something [...]
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Juno – Comedy Drama Doesn’t Come Better Than This
February 25th, 2008 4 Comments
Drama is my favorite genre. This time, the talented young actress Ellen Page is not going to experiment with how to trap a pedophile and cut his balls like she did in “Hard Candy (2005)”. Instead, her character, a 16-year old Juno, has become pregnant and decided to find the perfect couple to adopt her [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 10 – Of Password, Viking Game, And American Idol
February 22nd, 2008 8 Comments
Cynthia’s mother is leaving, my mother is arriving. I think I need a holiday.
We all do something stupid, in the past. I can’t explain why the paranoid. I mean, those are just computer files and pictures and seemingly useless stuffs now that I am looking at them. But back then, I put a protective password [...]
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An Attempt To Pinpoint Why I Still Love Reading Chinese Literature – A Brief Review of 倪匡中篇奇情武俠系列《金腰帶》
February 20th, 2008 4 Comments
I have read tens or perhaps hundreds of English books but none matches the sensation I derive from reading in my mother tongue. Like this particular book I am going to feature here, I was so deeply affected that my mind just wouldn’t allow me to do anything else right after I’ve finished reading the [...]
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A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea, A Rare Gem With Potential
February 17th, 2008 No Comments
Alison Sudol, the songwriter singer and self-taught pianist of A Fine Frenzy, has a lot to go for. She is young and beautiful and her indie music style is genuine, personal, and is indeed a breath of fresh air in today’s commercial music scene. It is rare to find an artist who sounds as good [...]
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Jumper – Now, I Wish I Could Do That
February 16th, 2008 6 Comments
I am not going to deprive you the pleasure in discovering what “jumpers” are or where they come from – though I doubt if you can find all the answers from watching the film alone. It is rare to find a film that despite having so many flaws, it is still very entertaining to the core. [...]
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Can You Keep A Secret?
February 14th, 2008 13 Comments
I was caught on camera smiling while reading a book at the Botanic Gardens last weekend. How embarrassing! I’ll get to that later. Couple of months ago, I was also caught on camera as a school project – so I was told – while I was reading a book. It was a lovely afternoon at [...]
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Fragments Of My Dreams Episode 8 – Six Kids
February 12th, 2008 No Comments
I woke up, which ironically was exactly when I fell asleep in reality, and I was dressed in my dark executive suit, white shirt, with a pair of dark trousers. Somehow, I knew today was supposed to be an important day. There was this sense of anticipation as my front door open. And I remembered. Today [...]
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