I watched Three Times on Patrick’s suggestion. In a surfeit of director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s illusory visual enchantments - comprising captivating yet evanescent love-tinted tableaux arranged sublimely upon kaleidoscopic period settings - this trinity of tales stands out for the candor of its recurring romantic leads, who deftly weave passion, tension, anticipation - the multifaceted collage [...]
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The Final Fantastic pedigree is certain, that’s for sure - it has all the hallmarks of the series, save the shift in gameplay genre: haunting, immersive music straight out of its PlayStation 2 progenitor; resplendent artwork, especially in its beautifully rendered cutscenes, but also in-game proper, considering the DS’s technical limitations; and an engaging, [...]
Alright, a half-grudgingly written update, on none other than Harry Potter (film, not new book):
I like the cinematic portrayal of Luna Lovegood.
She’s quite the anime stereotype - that young mysterious stoic girl (except she does speak fairly liberally). Didn’t think author or production team was so savvy with the otaku culture, though.
Still, the [...]
As you can guess, I’ve decided to give Windows Live Writer a spin.
Never mind that I usually write posts on my iBook; I just wanted to give a blogging client a try, especially after reading a favourable review. I’m also curious about the level of integration Windows Live Writer has achieved with a custom Wordpress installation - does [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed the post titularly-named hour-long session at the Esplanade with Sebastian Tan of Broadway Beng fame. This guy can sing.
He executed his varied repertoire (comprising songs from plays, English and Mandarin classics, karaoke favourites, and some Hokkien pieces I’ve never heard) with considerable skill and wit, delightfully flaunting his versatility as a vocalist [...]
This website is practically inundated with spam comments trying so desperately to advertise their links to ficticious exotic drugs.
A thousand spam comments picked up by Akismet over four days? Damn, if it weren’t for this miracle of a spam blocker I’d just bar anything from commenting. And, somehow, some name spam got into the shoutbox.
I [...]
I finally got to installing Opera 8.5 Beta 2 for Windows Mobile Pocket PC. It’s an excellent mobile browser: lightweight, fast, simple. Not to mention powerful.
There are, from what I can tell, two modes of display for Opera Mobile: fit to screen, which probably utilizes Opera’s Small Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, and loading the full [...]
I gave Google Page Creator a try today. It’s new, it’s slick, and it’s a 100% ‘Web 2.0′.
Remember Yahoo GeoCities‘ PageMaker online web page creation tool? Google Pages is strikingly similar, except implemented using a different web technology, and with a lot more restrictions than the already-restricted GeoCities. Then again, it’s ‘Beta‘.
You can see the [...]
What are IT shows for if not for reckless spending? At Singapore’s Comex 2005, held from the 1st to 4th September, I bought a Razer Copperhead gaming mouse. Now, I spent quite a lot (S$129) of my hard-earned savings on this, and here I’m going to try and justify my purchase by writing about it’s [...]
I got my 12″ iBook. Since Thursday. And I love it.
I don’t think I’m going to do a full review, as I’ve got too much homework to do and studying to think about starting, even if it is the holidays. I’m just going to record some of my thoughts here.
The iBook itself is a work [...]
