Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Union Square was a short 5 minute walk away from my hotel, and it was a major transportation intersection for the city. The plaza boasts of many big name stores, including Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Barneys New York, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue,
One of the nicest things about being in a technology-enabled generation is that your purchasing options opens up a lot. I remember my first online purchase was in 1996, back during the days when Secure payment modes were still a
The about 8 hours of HD video I took during the San Francisco trip have been left on the computer hard disk for a while, so I finally got round to encoding some small snippets. I’ll be uploading these video
Continued from the previous post. On the upside, For those We Love touches on a theme we don’t see often in Western-made films. I certainly don’t think the American veterans will remember the Kamikaze units with fondness. The whitewashing and
Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (2007) – on rental. Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku – or “For Those We Love” – opens with a scene of a kind-looking and elderly
I write a lot, on different places and different platforms: there’s discussion posts on several forums I visit or keep track of, blog posts here and on the school blog, product reviews, papers, and emails & letters. Both the output’s
Funnily, Matt and I don’t always enjoy the same kind of games. In a nutshell, he’s a much more discriminating gamer than I am, whereas I’m more temperamental when it comes to video games when I’m not saddled with the
Just for laughs; is this the heaviest lens available at consumer retail? And mind you; the lens above actually exists. It’s the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 APO EX DG Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens, and retails for a very cool USD28,999.00. And Amazon
I watch a lot of films, though these days mostly on rental. There isn’t an exact number of course, but I’ll put it roughly to a ballpark of between 150 to 200 new movies / TV shows hours a year.
Killshot (2008) – on rental. This was another film that I think had a short theatrical run in Singapore. It was released, then disappeared off theatrical screening lists before much people noticed it. The film centers on a device plot
As a follow-up to my post on Virtual Worlds the other day, here’s a post on Drakensang – after spending about six evenings in it, several of which with Hannah cradled in my arms. Visually, the game’s amazing, the more
The International (2009) – on rental. Clive Owen is starting to present an almost unchanging look in all his most recent films: outside his role of the dandy in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, he looks unwashed, unshaven, unsmiling and like
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