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Last year, our national paper sent in one of our finest journalists – who unfortunately a lapsed World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer – to preview the new expansion: Cataclysm. It is like asking …
“The Housekeeper and the Professor” tells a beautiful story between a professor who only has 80 minutes worth of short-term memory due to an accident, a young housekeeper who has been a si …
PS. Thanks for your messages through Facebook, SMS, IM, and even phone calls. Miraculously, my computer is still alive and kicking. I will try to address all your questions at one go. T …
And the chronicle continues, with 500 words per piece. … felt when he regained his sight. In Bandung, we seldom go out. You will see why. We – or at least I – sleep, eat, shower twice a …
TK, our partner-in-crime in Movie Review Squad texted Cynthia when we were waiting to board our plane, on New Year’s day, back to Singapore. I was still on a Zen mode, cut off from any In …
OK. Let’s kick start the new year with a writeup on Salman Rushdie’s latest novel. One of the seven books I have read when I was on holiday. Born in the video gaming era, Sal …
This is a journal of my year end trip to Bandung, Indonesia. Observations more or less arranged in a chronological order, chopped into 500 words per piece. 1. Chicken in Bandung Some see …
What a year 2010 has been! By the time you read this, I am very much on my way leaving town, looking forward to meeting Cynthia’s family and enjoying the serenity of an Internet bla …
The world seems like going Android, or so it seems looking at the recent phones that arrive at my review desk (this time from omy.sg). Android platform does have its charm. It is fast e …
It was a promising beginning, for the opening chapter “All Rise”. The narrator addresses to Your Honor confessing a break-up with her boyfriend, R, in the winter of 1972. Ini …
This is a story of Dooku, of which the prequel you may have already read. Dooku was a farmer, a chef, but not any more. At least for now. While the story may be inspired by the people …
One month has passed since I have joined my blogger friend and her friends and her extended friends to read Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight̵ 7;s Children”. I can be a slo …
What a crazily busy week at work, and hence the lack of frequent updates. I wish I was sipping lemon juice by a swimming pool full of gorgeous looking babes holidaying somewhere at the Me …
Say on average, a movie lasts around two hours. I could have watched more than 2,000 movies over six years, in addition to the many I have already watched. Or say if I spend eight to twe …
“Vanessa Paradis Divinidylle Tour” is more than a live concert recording. It is a documentary of her 2007/8 music tour in France. There are behind-the-scene footages narrate …
I read somewhere that vocabulary defines one’s wisdom. In the sense that it is a tool – perhaps one major tool – to express oneself. The more diverse and vast one’ …
1. Making Potions Lily Allen once wrote in her MySpace, “Most people don’t know how to make love.” I chuckled at her observation. What if she is right? What if most people simply mess t …
How effortless Xiaolu Guo has turned indifference into art! In this collection of 17 short stories of vastly different styles, a few themes persist. Indifference is one. And then there …
Previously, I did an article for Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro. This time, they sent me their latest Xperia X8 wireless phone for review. I don’t envy the wireless phone manufacturers …
It is time like this when I feel like I am staring in the movie “Troy”. Not as Brad Pitt of course, but rather one of the many soldiers who gets his point-one second of camera time. But …
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