I was looking for something to do a few weeks ago, before my wonderful parents left me with heaps of responsibilities. I had a harrowing 6 months running my stupid errands and I’ve yet to enjoy my recent freedom (okay maybe that’s stretching it a little bit). Nowadays, if I want to relax, I go [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Books, Films’
September 9, 2008
A book: After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Finished reading this about 3 weeks ago. It’s Murakami alright but I wasn’t drawn into the story as much as I usually am. I was a little disappointed.
July 24, 2008
Book and Film: The Kite Runner
So I started read the book earlier this week and I saw the film on dvd last night.
I liked the book a lot more. Reading it made me feel more emotionally involved in the story. I didn’t like the main guy, Amir, even though he tries to make it right and finds a way to “be [...]
July 1, 2008
Books: Civilisation, Discipline and Punish
This is super long overdue.
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. This is too good. Read it. I felt like I was sipping cappucino on a cool autumn day throughout the entire book. It’s looking at history through art over the years and its zeitgeist. I wish I’d read this before I went round to the museums mentioned. [...]
April 2, 2007
A film: TMNT
Thegan and I saw this when it first came out, sometime last week. I didn’t even know there was a new movie about the Ninja Turtles. And to call it TMNT! I thought it was dreadful. I still do.
I doubt I would have seen it on my own because I’m not a very sentimental person. [...]
March 26, 2007
A film: 300
By Zack Snyder. He did a bunch of commercials and some fims, but it was his Dawn of the Dead remake that I really liked. I don’t really have a lot of time to go to the cinema these days, especially since it’s mostly crap they screen anyway but because of the director having done DOTD and knowing that it’s [...]
March 2, 2007
A book: Alamat ng Gubat
This is the book that I bought when Sister and I went to the mall for lunch while taking a break from LTO duty. Well she had lunch and I had a coke. I can’t stand fast food burgers, blech.
Anway I’ve always wanted to do my part and help where I can in our neglected pretty little [...]
February 23, 2007
A film: The Dreamers
By Bernardo Bertolucci. Didn’t he do Stealing Beauty some years back? That film was terrible. Come to think of it, he did Little Buddha too. That man needs to be contained. Hehe.
The Dreamers wasn’t as horrible, I mean it wasn’t bad bad. It didn’t put me to sleep because it got more interesting as the story [...]
January 18, 2007
Book and Film: The Princess Bride
So I read the book during the Malaysian trip and I have to say I was incredibly disappointed. The film is one of my favorite adventure movies ever (shut up), so much that people find watching it with me around annoying and pretty much impossible because I recite the lines aloud. I know it’s annoying [...]
January 16, 2007
A book: Another attempt at studying harder (not its title)
The title is actually The Ultimate French Review and Practice and I found it in Kinokuniya in KL and although it was quite expensive, I got it anyway because we don’t have it here. I’ve leafed through it and so far it looks friendly but I know it’s going to be difficult working it into my schedule. [...]
