Archive for the ‘Moving pictures’ Category

Hungry for change? Vote three times a day.

Did you ever wonder why McDonald’s hamburgers are dirt cheap?
If you haven’t seen or read Food, Inc., please do. You’ll be surprised at how much (or how little) you know about the food you buy at supermarkets and eat with your family or friends.

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You’ll never look at dinner the same way again

A summary of my past couple of weeks and the next one.
The Unguarded Moment by Steve McCurry

The exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum showcases a selection of McCurry’s works, including the world’s most recognised photograph -the above “Afghan Girl”. Most of his displayed photographs were taken in Asia, especially India.
I like how McCurry believes that [...]

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This one’s for the film buffs

The 22nd Singapore International Film Festival is almost here, and I’ve got to say that the choice of films that the Festival is bringing in this year is overwhelming (full list here). Am drooling over at least 5 films, hopefully get to see them all. For a start, let me quote the synopses from the [...]

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February Roll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
And hopefully before this month ends…

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Be Kind, Rewind 2008

Inspired by TIME’s List Issue a few weeks back, I decided to compile my own Top 5 lists to wrap up the year.
 

 
5 Most Awesome Movies 
1. The Dark Knight
2. Sex and the City: The Movie
3. Australia (You gotta love Baz Luhrmann’s style to enjoy this one. Paired with the breathtaking outback view, I’m positive that rugged, [...]

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Raves and Rants

Ooooohhh… I love the snow falling down my blog! Thank you WordPress team for bringing it back =D
Anyway, this is gonna be a humongous backlog of reviews since I haven’t done any recently. Pardon the belatedness. 
On the stage front, Coppélia, the Vagina Monologues and Avenue Q were awesome!  I know, the first two were like from eons ago, right…

Coppélia by Ballet du Grand Théâtre de [...]

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Why so serious?

Haven’t updated this space in a gazillion years!
Thank you everyone for the well wishes sent through the website, emails, Friendster, Facebook, sms, etc :) And especially to those who took time off to come down, many thanks! Will share the photos once they’re available, yea?
Unfortunately, the couple of days of formalities itself was plain tiring for me [...]

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La vie n’est pas en rose

Bleargh. I feel so shitty these days. It’s partially attributable to the flu, partially because life looks kinda messy and I feel the need to do something about it but I have yet to start anything. Never mind if you’re crinkling your forehead by now.
It also sucks that I missed the International Film Festival. There were quite a few movies I’d like to [...]

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