I've loved history for close to 20 years, been studying it for about 15, and only truly began to understand it for about a year.Memories of secondary school textbook history still haunt me today. Memories of the teacher telling us to ask the question of the five wolves and a hunter. Who, what, when, where, why and how. It was methodical, mechanical, and dead. But they seemed …

While I don't condone the bugger who was arrested for his racist blog (in fact, I totally enjoyed reading about his arrest), this makes the said bugger seem like a saint:And the English translation, which I think most of us locals will need:And something for you to hit, since the bitch has been arrested already and we're too far away to whack her ourselves.

My girlfriend calls me a grammar Nazi. I prefer the term grammar fascist, because I actually like Jon Stewart, and I've got no beef (kosher, by the way) with Jews.English modules in NUS make grammar fascists out of most students, due to the leadership and teachings of the grammar Hitlers and Mussolinis. It gets to the point where some of us can dwell over grammar errors of an …

As the Chinese New Year approaches, I have been thinking and rethinking.Over the course of a few days, I have been set to rethink a lot of things. It is quite amazing how many ups and downs life has, and how quick a freefall can appear right around the corner.Perhaps I have been thinking too much, or I am just being too sensitive, but I can't help but feel worse and worse …

Turning a horror film into a franchise can be a nightmare, for fans and for the producers. For horror films like Alien and Predator, the first films were, and still are, considered the canons and the sequels have difficulties keeping the stories alive. The surprise elements, the idea of the unknown, the freshness are all gone by the second film.The Alien franchise succeeded …

I'm a huge LOTR fan. I've watched the films more than thrice, and I own almost all of the Tolkien books. If I were to go to a costume party, I would consider dressing up as Aragorn. That is if I cannot get a Predator costume first.I've recently rented the entire extended DVD series just to watch them all over again. All 10 plus hours of them. Then I started to let my recent …

I had the fortune of winning a pair of preview tickets to Warlords just yesterday, and the even greater fortune of having my girl along for the show. But I suspect she was more drawn to Ta …

People pass-by each of us everyday of our lives. Some we don't recall seconds after meeting them. Some go on to become the ones we love deeply. There are also some we thought we would continue to be close to, but end up growing apart from.I never did have many friends in all 24 years of my life. I met some who I grew to rely on, then slowly forgot about them as time passed. …

CG fests are a dime a dozen these days. From Transformers, to The Golden Compass, to even Enchanted, the virtual seems to weigh more than the real as each day passes by. Beowulf of course …

Dear Mr. Michel Foucault,First of all, I have to say that I have great respect for you. I know you're somewhere in a land where dead people go. Either watching us from above or below. I think it's the latter because South Park said that only Mormons go to heaven.In any case, I really do respect you. I think all of us who studied or are studying in a varsity do. Except maybe …