This book is a heavy read for me, despite the amiable effort by the author to make it as readable as it can be. The tone is friendly, the style is classroom instructional, and there are humours in the book too. But unless you are trained in literature and are well read, you are going to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'My Opinion'
How To Read Novels Like A Professor – Thomas C. Foster – Be Inspired As A Reader Or A Writer
August 31st, 2010 4 Comments
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The Expendables – Now, That Is Loud
August 29th, 2010 No Comments
I can understand why this film receives mixed reviews. And I can also understand why this film is doing quite well, commercially speaking. Audiences love to feel good. We love to see our heroes beating up the bad guys, many bad guys. And we hate to see our heroes getting hurt or get killed. “The [...]
Tags: Jason Statham · Jet Li · Sylvester Stallone
Metallica – Francais Pour Une Nuit – A Must Have HD Concert Recording For Fans
August 26th, 2010 No Comments
I have watched concert recordings of different sorts. It is the first time I see one hosted inside an ancient Coliseum, where gladiators battled for their lives thousands of years ago. From the moment James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo entered through the gladiator tunnel, till the last song of the set, this [...]
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Salt – It Is Angelina Jolie! Gasp!
August 10th, 2010 2 Comments
What’s there to like about Angelina Jolie, Cynthia would ask. Sigh. Need I say, really. Her lips? Her sexy back? Her Lara Croft come alive body shape? Her guns and ass kicking action takes? Well, none of the above; all of the above and more. So I dragged Cynthia to watch “Salt” at our favorite [...]
Tags: Angelina Jolie · Liev Schreiber
Does The Single-player Aspect of StarCraft II Worth Your US$59.99?
August 9th, 2010 7 Comments
I am not that into multi-player, as far as real time strategy games are concerned. Even if purchasing directly from Blizzard Store means spending less, Starcraft II does cost more than the average PC games today. So, is the money well spent? Many friends asked me: Does Starcraft II play the same way as the original game [...]
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment · Starcraft II
YUI – Holidays In The Sun – A Pleasant Album, Still Same Style
August 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Nowadays, I seldom write about the music I listen to. Not as often anyway. With legal and unlimited music download, it matters little if it is a good album, or a bad one. Because worst case, I delete the album off my digital storage. On average, I listen to an album once, or twice, and then move [...]
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Au Revoir Taipei – Comically Cute
July 31st, 2010 No Comments
Friday evening. Time to celebrate the end of a rather long week of work. I picked a Taiwanese romance comedy. Cynthia wondered why the randomness of my choice. Because we seldom watch Chinese movies. At the end of the movie, Cynthia was pleasantly surprised. And I was pleasantly surprised by her not hating it. I [...]
Tags: Amber Kuo · Frankie Gao · Jack Yao · Joseph Chang · Lawrence Ko · Taiwanese Film
The Blood Pledge – Horror Not For Horror’s Sake, Good Stuff!
July 26th, 2010 4 Comments
Once in a while, I am handed a free pass to do something I love to do in the evening, alone. Last Friday, Cynthia has to attend a non-work related workshop. The first thing I did, like in the past, was to pick a horror film to watch, alone. “The Blood Pledge” is a Korean [...]
Tags: Korean Film
God Of War III – “You Are Dead”
July 25th, 2010 2 Comments
Picture this. I would be siting on the sofa manhandling my gaming controller with such vengeance and ferocity; Cynthia would be siting on the floor reading newspapers or doing her own thing. Often when she looked at our plasma television, she would see the words in font size one million that said: You are dead. [...]
Tags: God of War 3 · PS3
Jewel – Sweet And Wild – The Title Says It All
July 20th, 2010 No Comments
If I could hand out album of the year award, I would seriously consider Jewel’s “Sweet and Wild” as one of the nominees. That is based on the 8,000 songs I have downloaded over one year (thank you Nokia). If you have heard Jewel singing live – which I did when I was working in [...]
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