Saturday, November 26, 2016

i like motion pictures

Despite reservations, 4Love, Singapore's romance spin-off to the hugely successful 7 Letters, is surprisingly good. Quirky, sides splitting, and left the entire audience in tears. True to form, though, Sam Loh's segment is the Achilles' heel.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

"It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Crooked Hillary

this was about the people, like it was in Britain, Philippines and possibly many more.

in the hours of coverage, you barely hear commentators saying Trump is awesome, not even from his supporters. it was simply a case of correct message for correct audience.

the election result was less an endorsement of him than a referendum on and repudiation of Hillary.

on hindsight, perhaps someone who's lost before at the primaries should not be a future candidate -- woman or not.

Saturday, November 05, 2016

"Leslie practised Buddhism, which to her was a philosophy and not an organised religion. In fact, Leslie abhorred all organised religions. To her, they were the most dangerous fairytales ever invented, designed to elicit blind obedience and strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and the uninformed. To her, the only thing worse than death would have been the knowledge that her rotting flesh was to be trapped for all eternity inside a big box. I quote, 'In the event of my death, I wish to be cremated. My funeral shall be a celebration of the life cycle with music and dancing. After, it is my expressed desire that my ashes shall be taken to a nondescript location, preferably public and heavily populated, at which point promptly and unceremoniously flushed down the nearest toilet.' "