I don't think The Straits Times understood what Jack Neo represents in the hearts of Singaporeans. Yes, his scripts are usually too fantastic and incredible to be anything near reality. His characters are mere caricatures that have almost no depth beyond their one-dimensional characterizations. His lame attempts at the use of computer graphics ( ( Read more... )

But the script, which Nolan co-wrote with his brother Jonathan, is an unusually thoughtful meditation on our collective day-to-day struggle against corruption and how, in an increasingly anarchic world, it is getting harder to play always by the rules. As Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart), a straight-arrow politician, tells Batman: ``You ( Read more... )

I attempted to write this post in ProEd language initially, but I guess my post turned out "a bit zhai"... so I gave up.

       
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOaIQH5OsM&NR=1

I chanced upon this. It is definitely a weird feeling watching this when it is almost exactly 4 years outdated.

For a moment, I feel like a Chinese High boy again. Those times when things seemed so simple. Those times when there would nearly be not a care in the world. Those times when the school had ( Read more... )

I slept the weekend away. I realised that sleeping might a prime reason for one's emo-ness. The dreamy state allows one to go into the idealistic state of mind and the intensity of the everyday life slips away. If one seeks to escape throug sleeping, it might perhaps lead one to the opposite direction, exploring one's problem's through sleeping and ( Read more... )

也是深情 plays in the background on my computer as I type into the blank box on the screen once again. The lyrics seem too simple, too clear... especially the chorus strikes me particularly hard ( Read more... )

I ponned PE (as always) today so that I could do a little bit of work. In the end I found myself too emotionally hardpressed to accomplish much. I feel a renewed surge of pressure on myself, and my heart feels increasing heavy to carry. I feel somewhat ominous, like bad things are going to strike me soon... which, in a kind of far-fetched manner, ( Read more... )