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Cool Ridge’s cool claim 6 May 2012 | 03:45 pm
On the bottle of COOL RIDGE (Australian Spring Water): “Drinking this water will give you the power to FLY IN YOUR SOCKS, MOONWALK ON WATER and SURF GREAT WHITES WITHOUT A WETSUIT. Not all true. But ...
The Lineup 5 May 2012 | 03:04 am
Stumbled upon this gem of a book. The idea was born from desperation by a bookshop owner trying to stem the bleeding and keep his bookstore afloat. He hit on the idea of getting authors to tell how th...
Kiyozumi Temple 7 Aug 2011 | 06:28 pm
An episode of Japan Hour brought back memories of Kyoto visit. It also brought new insight to Kiyozumi Temple. Apparently the carvings (more like scratches really) along the side of the temple are a s...
Edward Lear 24 Jun 2011 | 10:41 pm
Not just a limerick writer. Also a talented painter and composer apparently. O was an oyster Who lived in his shell If you let him alone He felt perfectly well. Lear on the inhabitants of the moo...
Free Software 16 Jun 2011 | 03:17 am
There may not be free lunches, but there are plenty of free software. Lots of junk but quite a bit of gold as well. Mil introduced Auslogics to me and it’s been pretty good so far at keeping the bugs...
Anthony Lane, film critic 30 May 2011 | 02:04 am
Is film review as an art form dead? Will film critics of today be as revered as their predecessors? Nowadays, one hardly stumbles upon reviews that are as entertaining and insightful as those written...
Louis Malle 26 May 2011 | 04:23 am
Watched 3 Louis Malle films this week: Lift to the Scaffold, his first feature film, is an assured work with tight story telling and the sort of high concept premise that Hollywood would pay mega mil...
Letter to Straits Times Forum – GRC myth 14 May 2011 | 04:32 pm
The letter below was published in the Straits Times online edition on May 6. Very little editing was done to it. This letter was emailed to the Forum Page on May 2, but got published later. My second...
Letter to Straits Times Forum – PM’s apology 14 May 2011 | 04:27 pm
A heavily edited version of the letter below was published on Thursday May 5 2011. What follows is the original letter to the Forum Page: It is heartening to read that PM Lee has acknowledged Mas Se...
Voice overs in films 4 May 2011 | 02:45 pm
Films that make good use of VOs: - Sunset Boulevard - American Beauty - Apocalypse Now (or so most critics claim although I wasn’t particularly impressed with the VOs in ...