| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Comics & Graphic Novels |
| Author: | Stephan Pastis |
Monday, October 30, 2006
Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Professional & Technical |
| Author: | Nigel French |
Amazon.com review:
http://www.amazon.com/InDesign-Type-Professional-Typography-Adobe/dp/0321385446
This book is available from the non-reference section of the NLB.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
I Will Boast by Paul Baloche
haha, don't know why this tune kept ringing in my head since this morning. Great song to start the day
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I Will Boast
Paul Baloche
Key: D
Intro:©2006 Integrity's Hosanna! Music
D Dsus D Dsus D Dsus D Dsus D A
(Repeat)
Verse 1:
D5
Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom
D5/B A
Or the strong man boast in his strength
D5
Let not the rich man boast in his riches
D5/B A
But let the humble come and give thanks
G Asus
To the One who made us, the One who saved us
Chorus:
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
Bm Asus
I will boast in the One Who's worthy
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
Bm Asus E7 G Dsus D
I will boast in the One Who's worthy, He's worthy
Dsus D Dsus D Dsus D A
Verse 2:
D5
Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom
D5/B A
Or the strong man boast in his strength
D5 D5/C#
Let not the rich man boast in his riches
D5/B A
But let the humble come and give thanks
G Asus
To the One who made us, the One who saved us
Chorus 2:
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
Bm Asus
I will boast in the One Who's worthy
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
(1st ending)
Bm Asus
I will boast in the One Who's worthy
(Repeat Chorus)
(2nd ending)
Bm Asus E7 G
I will boast in the One Who's worthy, He's worthy
Other:
Bm D E7 G Bm D E7 G Bm D E7 G
Bridge:
D5 A Bm G
I will make my boast in Christ alone
D5 A Bm G
I will make my boast in Christ alone
(Repeat twice)
Chorus 3:
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
Bm Asus
I will boast in the One Who's worthy
D Asus
I will boast in the Lord my God
(1st & 2nd ending)
Bm Asus
I will boast in the One Who's worthy
(Repeat Chorus)
(3rd ending)
Bm Asus E7 G E7
I will boast in the One Who's worthy, He's worthy
G Dsus D Dsus D Dsus D Dsus D
He's worthy
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
CCLI song #4662350
(Taken from http://www.pwarchive.com/song.aspx?SongID=2669&v=1)
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Religion & Spirituality |
| Author: | Bart D. Ehrman |
What if Marcion's canon-which consisted only of Luke's Gospel and Paul's letters, entirely omitting the Old Testament-had become Christianity's canon? What if the Ebionites-who believed Jesus was completely human and not divine-had ruled the day as the Orthodox Christian party? What if various early Christian writings, such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Secret Gospel of Mark, had been allowed into the canonical New Testament? Ehrman (The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture), a professor of religion at UNC Chapel Hill, offers answers to these and other questions in this book, which rehearses the now-familiar story of the tremendous diversity of early Christianity and its eventual suppression by a powerful "proto-orthodox" faction. The proto-orthodox Christians won out over many other groups, and bequeathed to us the four Gospels, a church hierarchy, a set of practices and beliefs, and doctrines such as the Trinity. Ehrman eloquently characterizes some of the movements and Scriptures that were lost, such as the Ebionites and the Secret Gospel of Mark, as he outlines the many strands of Christianity that competed for attention in the second and third centuries. He issues an important reminder that there was no such thing as a monolithic Christian orthodoxy before the fourth century. While Ehrman sometimes raises interesting questions (e.g., are Paul's writings sympathetic to women?), his book covers territory already well-explored by others (Gregory Riley, The River of God; Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief), generating few fresh or provocative insights.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Chapter One: Recouping Our Loses PART ONE: Forgeries and Discoveries Chapter Two: The Ancient Discovery of a Forgery: Serapion and the Gospel of Peter Chapter Three: The Ancient Forgery of a Discovery: The Acts of Paul and Thecla Chapter Four: The Discovery on an Ancient Forgery: the Coptic Gospel of Thomas Chapter Five: The Forgery of an Ancient Discovery? Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark PART TWO: Heresies and Orthodoxies Chapter Six: At Polar Ends of the Spectrum: Early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites Chapter Seven: Christians "In the Know": The Worlds of Early Christian Gnosticism Chapter Eight: On the Road to Nicea: The Broad Swath of Proto-Orthodox Christianity PART THREE: Winners and Losers Chapter Nine: The Quest for Orthodoxy Chapter Ten: The Arsenal of the Conflicts: Polemical Treatises and Personal Slurs Chapter Eleven: Additional Weapons in the Proto-Orthodox Arsenal: Forgeries and Falsifications Chapter Twelve: The Invention of Scripture: The Formation of the Proto-Orthodox New Testament Chapter Thirteen: Winners, Losers, and the Question of Tolerance
(Taken from http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0195141830/ref=olp_product_details/701-5650396-5450743?ie=UTF8&seller= )
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A very good read. It covers the apocryphal books of the New Testament, with criticisms and interpretation from an academic perspective. It also briefly talks about Christian heresies and history of the early Church ca. 30-600.
For me, it forces me to think about my knowledge of my faith and reconsider certain issues which I have come to take for granted about the Bible.
This book is available from the non-reference section of the National Library (NLB).
Alex and Emma (2003)
| Rating: | ★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Romantic Comedy |
Kate Hudson's role was a bit more interesting, as she gets to play different characters in the film. Luke Wilson's role was pretty standard. Sophie Marceau didn't even have much space to develop her character.
A sleepy romantic. Watch it on a rainy day and try not to fall asleep.
Official Website:
http://alexandemmamovie.warnerbros.com/
IMDB Entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318283/
Saturday, October 28, 2006
on meeting people these few weeks...
ok, should have written this entry at least a week ago, but was just too busy/distracted/lazy. Well, here goes nothing:
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First group was a bunch of crazy people whom I kept in contact with since university days. One of them just came back from his one-year study trip in London, while another is back for his field study research in his Ph.D ("Permanent Head Damage", as we joked about it). It was a great gathering as we gathered first for dinner at Lau Pa Sat*, and then adjourned to chill out at the TCC at the corner of Circular Road. We were much intrigued and mused by the layout on the second level of the cafe. Reminded us of some water-smoking joint - and the beanbags takes a while to get used to. All that was lacking was dancing girls to transform the place into a boudoir of Oriental settings... :p
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Second meeting was with a friend whom I haven't seen in a few months. Reason being she is pregnant, and was going through heaves and toils during the1st trimester of the pregnancy. I'm not kidding about the heaves and the toils. Everytime see her online on MSN, she will complain about the vomiting and the dizzy spells**.
Well, at least she has just gone past the 1st 3 months, and I think her body is getting used to the chemical changes. But I think she's still in shock (and possibly denial). She's barely getting used to the fact that she's married, and now she's gotta cope with the fact she's going to be a mother in about half a year's time. Well, had a good time talking about all the possible names not to give to her future kid. Yesh, according to my friend, gotta think at least of a pleasant sounding name that won't emotionally scarred her child for life... :D
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Last significant meeting was with a bunch of totally new people. My friend had to bring a partner of the opposite sex for one of her office parties. She asked me to go along because she "can't think of anyone else already"^. Well, I've never been one to turn down free food and free drink. Only consideration was that it was on a Friday night, which was a cell-group night for me. Then I asked myself this, "Will CG collapse if I (the CGL) was not around for one session?" 
I don't think so. Anyway, I still have my fellow leaders to assist in the leading. And frankly, I gotta get out to meet new people.
And it was a good session, of talking^^ and listening#, and eating and drinking. I realised I sort of lost my socialising skills at making small talk already##. So throughout the meeting, I adopted the "stance of the wall flower". I sipped my wine, nodded and smile politely, and kept on encouraging the other party to talk. 
Then at least I don't have to spend so much brain juice trying to come up with topics of conversation. oh, and I get to eat more food that way... niak niak niak
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well, that's all for today. wanted to keep it short, but now have written too much again...
* Yes, that place still sells adequate food, despite many contrary beliefs. It's alright food for the centralised location, especially for the busy working people in Shenton way and Central business District (CBD).
** Of course, I can't really empathise with her problems, being male and all that. I can only thank God I don't have to go through whatever she's going through. :P
^ Don't know whether to feel flattered ("I was asked to go for a party leh"...) or insulted ("...because she can't think of anyone else already".) 
^^ by others
# by me
## Actually I wondered if I had any in the first place... I don't really know how to make small talk, like Dilbert
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
YouTube - (Can ) Father-son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ
Got this from an e-mail friend sent by a friend. Very blessed by this account. Here's sharing it with all of you.
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This is one of the best emails I've ever seen. Please
take the time to read. The video at the end is even better, but you
have to read the story first. It will probably make you cry, but it
is a remarkable story. Enjoy!
A truly remarkable story.
Make sure you watch the video.
Strongest Dad in the World
[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
I try to be a good father. Work nights to pay for
their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I stink.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick,
26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles
in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming
and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same
day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his
back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike.
Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except
save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years
ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving
him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick
says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.
``Put him in an institution.''
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way
Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took
him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there
was anything to help the by communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was
told.``There's nothing going on in his brain.''
"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick
laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control
the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was
finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a
high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school
organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do
that.''
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker''
who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five
miles? Still, he tried.
``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I
was sore for two weeks.''
That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when
we were running,it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became
obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into
such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston
Marathon.
``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts
weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair
competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field
and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially:
In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time
for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''
How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden
a bike since he
was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a
triathlon? Still, Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling
15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii.
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No
way,'' he says.Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets
seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished
their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000
starters. Their best time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35
minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of
these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another
man in a wheelchair at the time.
`No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the
Father of the Century.''
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two
years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that
one of his arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great
shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years
ago.''
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care)and
works in Boston,and Dick, retired from the military and living in
Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches
around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend,
including this Father's Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing
he really wants
to give him is a gift he can never buy.
``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my
dad sits in the chair and I push him once.''
Here's the video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ
Part 2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=040xxFO86NY
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
on the conundrum of Elisha's bears...
okay, was reading 2 King, when this passage troubled me:
"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria."
Taken from 2 Kings 2:23-25, The Bible, THe New International Version (NIV).
Now, why did Elisha called out the bears and set them loose on the youths? Did being jeered at really warrants a punishment as being torn by wild beasts?
Also, interestingly, different translations gave different words on the people that were mauled. In the NIV it reports as "youths". Other versions uses slightly different words, like "young lads" (New American Standard Bible, or NASB), "little kids" (the Message Bible), "young [maturing and accountable] boys" (the Amplified Bible), "a group of boys" (New Living Translation), "little children" (King James' Version, KJV), "some small boys" (English Standard Version). Whatever the description, it just points out the offenders are just very young. Was Elisha "correct" in calling down a curse upon the little ones?
Nihon Chinbotsu 日本沈没 (2006)
| Rating: | ★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Classics |
However, the 2006 remake din capture back the sense of novelty. Okay, the CGI was great, but the casting and plotting was a bit disappointing. One nagging question: how come the lady firefighter is allowed to keep a such long hairstyle??
IMDB entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473064/
Official website:
http://www.nc06.jp/
Ghajini
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Drama |
This is not to say "Ghajini" is a laugh-a-minute farcical story. It talks about a beautiful yet tragic love story, interwoven with murder and about the plight of women in Indian society. People might not see the message the director is trying to get across through the glitz and glamor of the actors and actresses. But for me, it was surprisingly another insigbhtful film.
Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghajini
Monday, October 23, 2006
Sivakasi
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Comedy |
Wiki Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivakasi_%28film%29
Majaa
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Comedy |
Wiki Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majaa
Website:
http://www.majaamovie.com/
on good kings and bad kings...
ah, have been slowing down in my Bible-reading schedule these past few months. One is heavily being distracted by other things in life. Another is that the books of Kings ain't something you can browse quickly over.
One of the things that struck me is that how the good kings don't exactly get through their reigns without a spot of trouble. Nether do the bad kings suffer immediate judgement for committing sins in their lives and leading their subject astray. In that, I saw God is good in His everlasting mercy and grace towards all. No matter what, He sends His rain over all, be they righteous or wicked. He gives time for the sinners to repent, yet He did not withhold suffering from HIs believers.
(Chart taken from http://www.4-11.org/books/kings/kingsb.gif )
The Prestige
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Drama |
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Quite an interesting story, albeit a bit dark for my liking. The tales of two magicians warring against one another, turning from friends to enemies, is kinda chilling to the bones. Not that this is a scares-a-min scream festival; guess I'm more spooked by the fact how man can turn against each other just like that.
Official website
http://theprestige.movies.go.com/
on Hollywood, Bollywood and Kollywood(??)
haha, was just reading through some of the entries in Wiki while doing my movie reviews of the 3 Tamil movies I watched. I didn't even know about the existence of Kollywood, till I read it. Man, considering the amount of films that is coming out from India, I shouldn't be surprised that there should be a 3rd wood, Kollywood...
So how come a Chinese boy like me is watching Tamil films, you might ask? :D well, i guess it's all genetics.* My mom told me how my paternal grandmother would used to switch on the TV and just watch Indian films while she was alive, be it Tamil of Hindi. I don't exactly recall that, either I was too young or this is just another figment of my mom's imagination.** Whatever it is, I just take it my tolerance for watching a medium not in my native tongue^ as a legacy from my grandma. Thank you, Ah Ma! May you be watching all the Tamil movies you want in heaven... 
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*or not... :D
** yes, my mom imagines a lot of things. That's why sometimes it's hard to believe her version of the "truth" :P
^ more English than Mandarin. :D Yesh, I am a "jia gan tang"! And proud of it!
Wiki Entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%2C_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood
Monday, October 16, 2006
on how to anger your momma...
hahaha, yesterday's sermon by Pastor Ann was very enlightening, as she touched upon how children and parents should act towards one another, in light of God's words from Colossians 3:20-21.
When she spoke of how some children can anger their parents, it reminded me of some points from this episode in the CS Lewis' classic, "The Screwtape Letters", where devil-Uncle Screwtape advices his junior devil-nephew Wormwood on how to turn a man against his mother:
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"My dear Wormwood,
I am very pleased by what you tell me about this man's relations with his mother. But you must press your advantage. The Enemy will be working from the centre outwards, gradually bringing more and more of the patient's conduct under the new standard, and may reach his behavior to the old lady at any moment. You want to get in first. Keep in close touch with our colleague Glubose who is in charge of the mother, and build up between you in that house a good settled habit of mutual annoyance; daily pinpricks. The following ,methods are useful.
1. Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him and his attention is therefore chiefly turned at present to the states of his own mind -- or rather to that very expurgated version of them which is all you should allow him to see. Encourage this. Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones. Aggravate the most useful human characteristic, the horror and neglect of the obvious. You must bring him to a condition in which he can practice self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.
2. It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayer innocuous. Make sure that they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism. Two advantages will follow. In the first place, his attention will be kept on what he regards as her sins, by which, with a little guidance from you, he can be induced to mean any of her actions which are inconvenient or irritating to himself. Thus you can keep rubbing the wounds of the day a little sorer even while he is on his knees; the operation which is not at all difficult and you will find it very entertaining. In the second place, since his ideas about her soul will be very crude and often erroneous, he will, in some degree, be praying for an imaginary person, and it will be your task to make that imaginary person daily less and less like the real mother -- the sharp-tongued old lady at the breakfast table. In time, you may get the cleavage so wide that no thought or feeling from his prayers for the imagined mother will ever flow out of his treatment of the real one. I have had patients of my own so well in hand that they could be turned at a moment's notice from impassioned prayer for a wife's or son's 'soul' to beating or insulting the real wife or son without a qualm.
3. When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voices and expressions of face which are almost endurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular life of his mother's eyebrows which he learn to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it. Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy -- if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption. And, of course, never let him suspect that he has tones and looks which similarly annoy her. As he cannot see or hear himself, this is easily managed.
4. In civilised life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on appear (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face. To keep this game up you and Glubose must see to it that each of these two fools has a sort of double standard. Your patient must demand all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judges simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother's utterances with the fullest and most over-sensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention. She must be encouraged to do the same to him. Hence, from every quarrel they can both go away convinced, that they are quite innocent. You know the kind of thing: 'I simply ask her what time dinner will be and she flies into a temper.' Once this habit is well established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet have a grievance when offence is taken.
Finally, tell me something about the old lady's religious position. Is she at all jealous of the new factor in her son's life? -- at all piqued that he should have learn from others, and so late, what she considers she gave him such good opportunity of learning in childhood? Does she feels he is making a great deal of 'fuss' about it -- or that he's getting in on very easy terms? Remember the elder brother in the Enemy's story?
Your affectionate uncle
SCREWTAPE"
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on less blogs thesedays...
haven't been blogging for the past 2 weeks. 1 thing is cos was working at a friend's company, doing intensive data-mining off the Internet. After 8 hours of staring at the PC screen in office, had no wish to spend another 2 hours in from of the laptop blogging... :p Think my vision deteriorated by at least 100 degrees for each eye...
Another thing was that my online game suddenly had new game areas to explore. so was caught up in that frenzy of earning extra experience points and exploring virgin territories and campaigns...
well, back to baby steps again, gonna start off with short blog entries again...
Sunday, October 15, 2006
《看上去很美》动画版
http://www.littleredflowers.com/info.asp?ArticleID=164
hahaha, a funny flash animation. Not the same as the film, but captures the essence.
Ltlle red flowers 看上去很美
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Other |
Official website:
http://www.littleredflowers.com/
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
on catching a show with momma...
As you know, my previous 2 movies before "Rob-B-Hood" were the pits. It kinda made me swear off movies for a while. However, my mom wants to catch the the Jackie Chan film. So decided to spend some quality time with her*.
Went online early yesterday morning to check for the screening timings. Told her got 12 noon and 1.30pm shows at Causeway Cathay, which one did she preferred? She said lets settle for the 1.30pm show, as she wanna catch the daytime soap-serial at 11am.
Left the house and took a feeder bus, as the weather was not really good to walk in, sunny, bright, humid yet hazy. My mom wanted to pay for the tickets, but i "waylaid" her. No way gonna let her pay the tickets, and let her "gloat" in front of my siblings for paying for my ticket. :P
She told the ticket-sales counter girl she wanted to watch the film in MAndarin, despite seeing that the girl was Malay. After an awkward moment,** I just told the sales-counter girl "2 tickets for Rob-B-Hood".
Surprisingly, there was quite a lot of people watching the film, on a Tuesday afternoon. the theatre was about 30% filled. Anyway, am glad I spend the time laughing with my mom, over the silly antics of the actors. The plot is alright, and Jackie Chan can still pull his moves, despite his advancing age. Absolutely loved the cameos and the corny scripting of some of the scenes.
My mom thanked me after the end of the show, to which I shrugged off. Think it irritated her ;p ah well, as they say, you can't have the icing on the cake...
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* Yea, weird. In a movie theatre, can't talk heart to heart, stare at big blank screen for 2 hours, what kind of "quality time" is that?? But I guess the idea is to spend time WITH my mom, as opposed to spend time with myself. So in my dictionary, still counts as "quality time" :p
** of about 2 seconds...
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
宝贝计划 Rob-B-Hood （2006）
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Comedy |
Baby is cute. Jackie Chan can still perform his moves, Louis Koo is alright as the sidekick. Michael Hui is surprisingly still charismatic, and holding his own in this film.
Official Website:
http://rob-b-hood.jce.com.hk/
Monday, October 2, 2006
EA SPORTS TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 06 Home Page
http://www.easports.com/tigerwoods06/index.jsp
A fun party game. Hey, birdies and eagles never seemed so easy, from the comfort of your a-r-conditioned room some more...
Pictured is Ian "Flashy Pants" Poulter, the character which my friend used, cos the character is "wu say" ("有势")...
Egads, Internet surfing will never be the same again...
http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news06e/0609/060929a.html
Imagine...
14 Terabits per second...
it's not flying, it's zooming at rockety speed!
Imagine...
14 Terabits per second...
it's not flying, it's zooming at rockety speed!
Sunday, October 1, 2006
EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Video Games |
| Genre: | Sports |
| Console: | PC Games |
Graphics-wise, it's amazing. Game-play, it managed to break away from the power-meter stereotype. Like I said, scoring birdies and eagles had never been so easy, from the comfort of your air-conditioned room.
Did have some troubles while putting though, cos' can't make sense of the color grid of the contours.
Final score:
Tiger Woods (the girl): +1
Ian Poulter (my other guy friend): +3
John Daly (myself) :+6
haha, talk about a bookmaker's nightmare, if John Daly ever made a +6 in a PGA tournament game... :D
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