Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Inglorious Basterds (2009) – on rental. Quentin Tarantino is one of those film directors who can make any film he pleases: and even with the trademark eccentricities in his productions, everyone of them will still be critically acclaimed hits. The
Writing and preparing yet another Blurb book has become a regular ritual for me. As soon as I finished Book III of the series of Vita Una books last September, I began work on Book IV: The initial plan for
Just when I was marvelling at Yang’s dad for having his ex-students paying him visits year after year during the Chinese New Year season, I got one tonight too. Name is Jinju. I taught her biology and was also her
There are usually at least four festive dinners at our family home at Lentor: the Reunion dinner on CNY Eve, lunch event on Day 1 before we disperse to visit relative, another dinner event with relatives from my maternal side
I was thrilled yesterday to read that Sigma has just announced a lens that I’d been hoping for: their 70-20mm f2.8 optically stabilized lens! I’d blogged about this class of lens just the other month ago, but had no idea
Comical situations occasionally come up at home. Just 30 minutes ago, Hannah was sleeping and I was working on the PC when Ling came into the workroom and said in hushed tone: “Dear, want to take pictures of Hannah? She’s
There’s no pleasing Ling sometimes. When I showed her my draft itinerary for a possible Japan trip in December to the Kansai region, she gave the sort of look that said it all “But I want to go to Hokkaido,
Hannah was in one of her usual wailing moods mid-afternoon yesterday. Ling was preparing her solids feed, so it fell to me to have to ‘entertain’ and quieten her just so that the entire block of Rivervale residents don’t come
There were several high and low points in my revisits to the three films too this week: memorable scenes that worked very well, and scenes that were just awful. For the former: the standout scenes included the introduction of Jack
One of those challenges about producing film trilogies themed on fantastic premises is coming up with story arcs to string and relate the three films together. Ideally, you’ll want to write the entire story for the three films first before
One of the most useful sites that I look at is Wikitravel, the Wikipedia equivalent for travelers. The information there is peer-contributed and edited, and it serves as a useful amalgamation or as a start point to get key pointers
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy – on HD. One of Disney’s most profitable film franchises is the Pirates of the Caribbean trio of films: starting with The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, Dead Man’s Chest in 2006 and
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