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Alice In Wonderland

March 9th, 2010 2 Comments

3D or not 3D?  I say 3D, and go for the experience.  Pleasantly surprised I was, the overall 3D effect seems to have better clarity than Avatar.  I wonder why.
It must have been a long time since I last read the book “Alice In Wonderland”.  All I remember were the rabbit hole, the potions, the [...]

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Bright Star – For The Love Of Poems …

February 22nd, 2010 3 Comments

If you love art-house type of movies, especially on the topic of poetry, you may find the highly acclaimed “Bright Star” a movie worth checking out.  A story based on the life of the poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne, set in the year 1818.  The drama can be intense, and the words [...]

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Love Psychedelico – Abbot Kinney – An Uplifting Album

February 16th, 2010 No Comments

Celebrating their 10 years of music career, the Japanese band Love Psychedelico has released a new album “Abbot Kinney”.  I still like their debut “The Greatest Hits” the most (how appropriately titled!).  But “Abbot Kinney” is growing on me.  I guess I was looking for that dark melodic track “Last Smile” in this new album [...]

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20th Century Boys 3 – A Closure, Finally!

February 11th, 2010 No Comments

It’s a no-brainer.  If you have already followed the Japanese movie adaption of the manga series, you wouldn’t wish to miss the last installment of the trilogy.  If you have not heard of “20th Century Boys”, I doubt if this 156 minutes film would make much sense to you.
I was struggling to like the first installment [...]

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I Enjoy Watching New York I Love You

January 24th, 2010 10 Comments

Despite the mixed review, if I am to examine why I find “New York, I Love You” a pleasurable film to watch, the list would look something like this.

I enjoy reading short stories.  Short stories often has a faster pace, a metaphor, and a twist as resolution.  When I was younger, I found short stories incomplete.  [...]

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鐵凝《永遠有多遠》- “How Long Is Forever” by Tie Ning

January 15th, 2010 No Comments

While I have read this book in its original language – Chinese – I have found a English translation selling at Amazon.com.  It is refreshing to read the work of a China writer in Traditional Chinese because given my very limited exposure to Simplified Chinese, my reading appetite is often confined to either authors from Hong [...]

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Right … So This Is Sherlock Holmes?

January 13th, 2010 6 Comments

Pardon my lateness in writing this.  Given the recent turn of exciting events, I hope it is forgivable.  One may ask: Why write this type of entries for every movie you watch?  I am a Cancer and I am fond of collecting movie stubs.  Until one day I realize that the printing on the movie [...]

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An Education – A Beautifully Made British Production, Witty And Humorous

December 29th, 2009 No Comments

The main reason of I picking the film “An Education” was to relive the memory of the university that I studied in.  Of course, having an aggregated score as high as “Avatar” is a pleasant bonus.  A screenplay written by Nick Hornby is also a pleasant surprise.  It is a story based on the true [...]

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Superfreakonomics By Levitt And Dubner – Good Conversational Materials (And It Stops There)

December 27th, 2009 No Comments

Although this book is not going to change the world – at least I do not think so – like its predecessor “Freakonomics”, “Superfreakonomics” is an entertaining read, full of good conversational materials.  That is, if you can remember the numbers and details.
Backed by numerous reports (the note section alone takes up 36 pages) and [...]

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Celebrated Christmas Eve With Avatar, An Impromptu Dinner Party, And A Midnight Mass

December 25th, 2009 5 Comments

A Merry Christmas to my readers.  ¡Feliz Navidad!
While we were queuing to enter the AMK Hub car park, out of nowhere, Cynthia asked what do people really mean when they say Merry Christmas to one another.  Good question.  I wonder how many of us genuinely ponder upon the good news of the birth of a savior [...]

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