Typical!

24 08 2006

*Self-indulgent post warning* The whole idea behind this post is to ramble about a rather “typical” trip to a sea-side that I had the fortune to go to with a busload of retired & middle-aged people (mostly women) of my own kind aka South East Asians. Here are some tidbits. All very typical. Read the rest of this entry »




More and more film-watching 2006 (6)

20 08 2006

*Mammoth post warning*

Since my movie binging days are far from over, here’s another post reviewing half of my past month’s batch in descending order of admiration. The batch includes Schindler’s List, V for Vendetta, Pulp Fiction, The Constant Gardener, Mr and Mrs Smith, Good Will Hunting, Run Lola Run, Syriana, United 93 and The Interpreter

What follows is not the usual analytical thesis that I subject my readers to (however few you are out there, I really should say this — I love you guys and thanks for bearing whatever I write here), and have boiled it down to only the most praise-worthy and cuss-worthy aspects of every movie.

The one-line summaries are lifted from imdb.com as they get their point made about the plot like no other (which really is another way of saying that I suck at summary-writing and can’t be bothered about writing a synopsis myself). Read the rest of this entry »




Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna: The review

12 08 2006

Still interested in reading more about this year’s biggest pretence in the name of maturing cinema? Read the rest of this entry »