I recently watched Babel, and, yes, I agree with popular opinion that it, along with Pan’s Labyrinth, among a few other films that I haven’t yet caught, constitute the best movies released last year.
Babel is not unique in the epic scale of its interlocking, intertwining narratives of different lives - the brilliant Crash immediately springs [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Babel
28-Mar-07I Would Seriously Like To Game
28-Mar-07Damn it, I have put off finishing Neverwinter Nights 2 for too long. But I fear that the moment I click on that tempting icon will be the moment from which my homework will never be complete.
Abstinence is difficult; more so when the people around me are so weak-willed or so free as to buy [...]
I Saw An Egret
27-Mar-07… and experienced no such serendipity that would be commonly associated with such a rare sight.
Come to think of it, I see them every year. But I didn’t have a 70-300mm zoom lens last year. ;P
Speaking of serendipity, I was wracking my brain over remembering a long-lost word deep in the recesses of my mind, [...]
What Holiday?
18-Mar-07The past week has been the busiest holiday ever.
I spent two days working at the National Library in a bid to clock up some CAS hours. Back-breaking work. The job comprised rearranging their storeroom, which looked as if a hurricane had hit; shelving books and magazines; bundling and packing literally thousands of brochures, then taking [...]
The Traveler’s Life
03-Mar-07I’m in love with travel - the new sights, sounds, experiences to be had in an unfamiliar yet inviting new place enthrall me. I immerse myself in travel literature, sometimes, to soak in what others have experienced and want to express. I remember I was romancing Venice in its modernized tropical counterpart of Singapore by [...]
