by Kit on February 22, 2012
Now that we’re back on our “Movie Night” routine, we picked another Indian movie to watch – this time about a poor Maths teacher, Mr. Duggal and his family, a housewife, a daughter (a college student) and a son (a high school student). Life is hard for the Duggals because their father is an honest [...]
by Kit on November 26, 2011
With Christmas around the corner, I’m shopping around for a new gadget because I’m getting a special Christmas present Honestly, I’m not as excited about the iPad as I am about the Amazon Kindle. You know how book crazy I am, right? Let’s check out all these cool gadgets: 1. Kindle Touch Of all the [...]
by Kit on September 15, 2011
Since the kids monopolize the TV with their children’s songs and children’s shows, I have enforced a rule where Saturday and Sunday nights are “movie nights” a.k.a. “Mummy’s show” or “Papa’s show”. The kids watch less TV during the weekends, we get to watch some of our shows and they keep themselves occupied doing other [...]
by Kit on September 3, 2011
I just can’t get over the lovely tunes from “Hannah Montana: The Movie”. Besides “The Climb”, I also love this guitar piece and I think I’ll be looking out for Rascall Flatt’s album too. Did you know that I love country music too? “Butterfly Fly Away” is a special song from the movie because it’s [...]
by Kit on September 3, 2011
I know I’m a bit late in catching up with this blockbuster movie but hey, I’m glad I picked it out of the DVD store. If you haven’t watched Hannah Montana: The Movieyet, it’s about a young songstress (about 15 years old?) named Hannah Montana who lives in LA. She’s from a small town, Tennessee, [...]
Zhang Yimou is my favourite Chinese director and Gong Li is definitely my favourite Chinese actress (err…or Singaporean actress now???) Zhang Yimou’s movies are needless to say works of art. I’d give anything to be able to conceptualize, produce and direct such beautiful movies like he does. Before coming to China, his movies were just [...]
What do you do when you’re stuck at home (with little flexi-time) although you’d love to join a book discussion? In my case, I watched a movie about a book club The movie’s plot sounded interesting where 6 Jane Austen fans (including an Austen newbie, a goofy guy named “Grigg” and an Austen diehard fan [...]
Ever since I can remember, the TV is one of the most debatable topics. Although it’s called the “idiot box” I don’t agree that watching TV is a complete waste of time… Now that we’ve installed satellite TV, we’ve been able to watch BBC, CNN and CNBC to keep in touch with what’s happening around [...]