Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
Ling was asking the other night whether the RPG I was playing on the computer was a single or multiplayer game. Here’s the deal: ironically, while my major and life ‘defining’ work has been in multiplayer virtual worlds, since marriage
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). While I own and have finished several reads of each of the seven Harry Potter books, I’ve never really got ‘into’ the series. There’s a lot of story in each, but also some
The last couple of Disaster films are on specific weather events that really do happen in the real world, but for cinematic story-telling gets slightly exaggerated. Unlike the other films though, these aren’t major disasters of the Humanity Wipe type.
Fanboys (2009) – on rental. I’m not sure if I’m more a Star Wars or a Star Trek fan. I like both franchises for what they are and that they’re centered on very different themes, even if the most recent
I was checking out the Kinokuniya web site and saw that they had an interesting book on sale: “The Otaku Encylopedia”. I think Matt would love this sort of thing. Me, I just may pick it up for laughs.:) Book
One of the weirdest letters to have been published in The Straits Times in recent memory was in last Tuesday’s paper. Here’s what it read (source here): July 14, 2009 Horrified by many profanities in matinee show on NS life
An ex-colleague visited us lately and shared with me that Hannah could be taught sign language before she could articulate her needs. Sounds like fun and interesting to me. Here’s a video to show just that :) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSZfW4gVhI
Funnily, there aren’t as many rules governing Weather and Climate Change films. But they do tend to be more factually sound than say Alien Invasion or Monster films: there has to be some scientific basis for a weather or climate
Here’s a sad bit of Tech. news that’s now rapidly being broadcast around: China iPhone man commits suicide By Chris Hogg BBC News, Beijing A young Chinese worker suspected of stealing a prototype for the fourth generation iPhone has committed
Here’s a funny story that just appeared on The Straits Times today: July 20, 2009 Hospital switched babies SEOUL – A SOUTH Korean court has ordered a hospital to pay a mother 70 million won (S$80,796) in damages after it
Like Monster and Alien Invasion movies, there’re a couple of rules that must be followed when it comes to Humanity Wipe films like those asteroid events. #1: The big asteroid must be preceded by numerous smaller ones that will hit
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