December 2011
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August 2011
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Bags
“I think I’m getting my period.” “I bags it. I bags it.” “What?” “Bags. I bags your period.”
Bags
A New Zealand slang term that is roughly analogous to the Singaporean slang term chope which means to reserve something.
March 2011
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I’m at Shoreless (Roseneath)
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October 2010
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crisis/change
The next night I retrace our steps. Here, here, here. Here was where we started drinking the Gin. What time was it? Eight? What were listening to? Rachmaninoff? Why does my neck hurt so much? Where were we going then? The beach? Where am I going now? The doctor? What were we doing last night in the water? The lights blinked in the distance and everything was spinning, spinning, spinning….
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Another bizarre night spent wandering around this surreal city.
There was a man with a beard and a bandanna. Maybe it was the facial hair, though it was more probably the 5 dollar Kronenbergs, that made us attempt to court him hardcore. Ah! An adventurer! Please take us with you! we implored.
Sadly, the landscape he was exploring was one where homosexuals were disgusting, women were alien and no...
adventure
And a month later, the adventure I sought on that drunken night seeks me out and overwhelms while everything else seems to fall away naturally. In the space of a few days, I lose my iPod, my phone, my computer. In the space of a few weeks, I lose myself so completely to soft flesh and careless laughter. I rediscover what it is to inch towards someone, to know that they are not so different from...
August 2010
1 post
night
Wandering around the city past 1am on a weekday, the alcohol I had already imbibed calling out to the rivers of alcohol yet unswallowed, gave me the uncomfortable impression that I was drowning in a viscous liquid, invisible yet all permeating. We walked a bit too quickly but my mind was slow as the city. I felt like the streets were willfully keeping me from the adventure I sought. The night...
June 2010
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December 2009
2 posts
“He was also known as Bacchus, the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he...”
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lowbrow books
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Interesting take on the Battle Royale type scenario as more of an extension of reality television. Hardly fine literature but enjoyable the way it plays out like a video game. If your expectations are low, you can’t really fault this. (7/10)
If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell
Autobiography of the star from Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell comes across as a...
November 2009
26 posts
bad movies
Gladiator (2000) Suffers from not enough action and silly direction. The cinematography is also stupid and some of the ‘death’ scenes where the protagonist’s HEAD floats over an obviously greenscreened background makes me want to barf. Music is highly inappropriate at times and faux slow motion shows up at ridiculous moments during the fight scenes. Some of the gladiatorial...
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Monsoon Wedding (2001)
A fresh, less conventional take on the Hindi wedding film, the most interesting thing about Monsoon Wedding is also the least. What could have been bold statements about class difference, sexism and arranged marriage, become very light statements. Whimpers and squeaks.
It’s the curse of thinking of your country as unique. Monsoon Wedding’s philosophy is summed up neatly in an early...
Arrested Development Chicken Dances →
Coo coo ka cha!
WatchStill mucking about with 3ds Max & Scary Alif Demon.
500 Days of Summer
500 Days of Summer illustrates exactly what is wrong with ‘indie’ people. Buried under the mountains of self-indulgent namedropping, is an actual good film that can’t be seen at all because its obscured by Belle & Sebastian and The Smiths and whatever the cool kids listen to nowadays.
It’s pretty sad because the leads are pretty charming and the story is solid. If they...
recent films
Myths and Logic of Shaolin Kung Fu
Great documentary illustrating Shaolin training and practice. Nothing truly exceptional but interesting and informative. (7/10)
Commando Krav Maga
Awesome instructional video on some useful Krav Maga self-defense techniques. Everything about this kind of rules, from the crazy German instructor to the hapless student and all the cockpunching going on. (8/10)
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October 2009
49 posts
