The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker (2009) – on rental. There were three films on the list of nominees for this year’s 82nd Academy Awards’ Best Picture that were serious contenders for that prize: two of them were deserved, the third was controversial.
MIT, Boston, June – Preparations
Follow-up on my post a month ago.:) Decisions got finalized late last week, and it was quite a rush yesterday to work out all the travel and accommodation arrangements. A good part of it has been in planning for weeks
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (2010) – at AMK Hub. I’ve always enjoyed Ridley Scott’s films, especially his string of Middle-East set of epics that started with Gladiator in 2000, and followed by Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven and finally Body of
P5 Science
Ling was answering a mutual friend’s question about primary 5 science in an email she also copied me on. Here’s a slightly edited segment of her reply: Hi XXX, Any cell with cell wall but no nucleus must be a
Women can’t read maps
And it’s actually science – I kid you not – that claims to prove just that. According to this source, the male ability of spatial orientation comes from the testosterone gene he inherited from his ancestors, and it didn’t get
Entertaining Kids
Over on Saturday evening, we drove back to our family home at Lentor for a get together dinner. I think that this was also to had been a mother’s day sort of celebration but that might have got lost somewhere
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (2010) – at AMK Hub. There’s a string of upcoming blockbuster films this and next month that’s gonna hit the theaters. The first was Iron Man 2 that we caught at a late morning screening over the
C261 Cosplay
Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It’s a sort
New Look, Old Blog
I just realized that the blog is now well past the 1000 posts mark, and – going by the first post date of March 1999 – is now 11 years old. The posts in the first 6 years or so
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 3
Continued from the last post. The two leads are supported by a cast of lesser-known actors but who over the years grow to fit their characters so well that many of them will for a long time to come be
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 2
Continued from the last post. Stylistically, the series often doesn’t feel very futuristic. In too many sci-fiction series, problems typically get resolved through very fantastic and sci-fi ways. BSG doesn’t rely on technological mumbo jumbo as cop-outs. Instead, the series
This is not your parents’ Battlestar Galactica – Part 1
While I’ve blogged briefly about the Battlestar Galactica series in a couple of posts here, I haven’t done an extended series of posts on the recently-ended TV series yet. Time magazine has described the series as “a gripping sci-fi allegory
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