“Have you eaten?” That’s how the cleaning lady in my office and I often start our conversation. It’s not “How are you” but “Have you eaten”. As though in the eyes of the older (Chinese?) generation, if one is well-fed, one is “I’m fine, thank you”. Strange, isn’t? This late morning, we got further. Leveraging on [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2008
Snippet Of My Life Episode 13 – A Thin Slice of Singapore, 7 Characters
May 30th, 2008 10 Comments
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My New Toy and a Whirlwind of Technology
May 29th, 2008 7 Comments
I have promised to post the details of my new toy and here we are. But before we get to that, I wish to share a little story with you all. I used to think that talking about the climate of the technology world bore people. Recently, I have the privilege to meet people who [...]
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Fragments Of My Dreams Episode 6 – Detonation At The Galaxy
May 27th, 2008 4 Comments
Our enemy has driven us from the surface and many of us hide underneath the ground. Soon we build home and community underground. We don’t drive like our ancestors once did on the surface of Earth. Some of us ride on a robot that is five times our size. That is how we travel. At [...]
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Black Book – Great Plot Filmed with a Convincing Sense of Realism
May 25th, 2008 5 Comments
Gosh, it was the first time I saw an actress sitting (gracefully) in front of a mirror dyeing her pubic hair blond and I wasn’t even shy watching it. It was so artistically filmed. If you enjoy watching an espionage type of movie packed with high entertainment value of suspense, thriller, and seduction, this Dutch and German production [...]
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See I Told You So / A Geek for a Day
May 23rd, 2008 15 Comments
You can laugh at me, or awe at my supreme skill of anticipation (not!?). But look, I’ve already told you so. Skip the 1,400-word wall of text of my previous post and scroll to the third last paragraph. Come back when you are done, OK? Yep, I predicted how the American Idol would end. OK. [...]
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Snippet Of My Life Episode 12 – The Art of Miscommunication
May 21st, 2008 12 Comments
Apart from the time we eat and pee, poo and sleep, we spend much time communicating with one another, misunderstanding each other. It is staggering how many different ways one finite thought in our heads can be altered before it reaches its intended destination, or worse, unintended destinations. That gets me thinking: is it that hard to, [...]
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Accuracy of Death, Sweet Rain, 死神の精度 – Whatever the Title is, It’s Takeshi Kaneshiro
May 19th, 2008 6 Comments
OK. I have to make this movie the final stop of my Asian Movie Marathon, take a break, and blog about something else. This morning, I asked Cynthia who is not a big fan of Japanese movies, “Why pick this?” Her answer was “Takeshi Kaneshiro” together with a isn’t-that-obvious look. Isn’t that obvious that all [...]
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Chocolate – That Thai Girl Can Fight!
May 18th, 2008 26 Comments
Why is this Thai film so named as “Chocolate”? I still have no clue. Maybe I was too absorbed into the hot, explosive, fast paced, bone cracking, humanly impossible fighting sequence, I walked out of the theatre (at 1.30am) feeling shocked and awed unable to process anything like: Where or who is the chocolate? And our Asian [...]
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Ayat-Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love) – More Than Just A Romance Drama
May 17th, 2008 45 Comments
With close to a quarter of a billion population, you would have thought the filmmaker would pick a better looking Indonesian actor who is worthy of having four girls falling head over heels in love with and ends up marrying two. Well, at least the filmmaker picks the right pair of drop dead gorgeous actresses [...]
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Paulo Coelho – Brida – Witchcraft, Bridging the Visible and the Invisible
May 14th, 2008 35 Comments
OK. Seldom do I need to finish reading a book, write a review, and return it to the library before midnight. This is going to be an interesting experience. Usually after I arrive at the last page of a book, I would revisit all the pages I noted that are pivoting to the development of the story for completeness’s [...]
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