All you designers should recognize and relate to these.

I've recently gotten hooked back to the tv series, So You Think You Can Dance on Youtube and let me tell you, my bet is on the couple, Katee and Joshua hands down. The energy, the chemisty, the fun and dedication they put into their routine is magical. Take a look at their performances so far below:

Hip-Hop: No Air by Jordin Sparks ft. Chris Brown



Bollywood: Dhoom Taana



Contemporary: Hometown Glory by Adele



I think its the combination of the right music and good choreography makes it work.Oh and chemistry. Without it, everything will fall out of place.

Two nights ago, i had this really vivid dream.

I was looking out of the window of my house which faced the city and that the tallest building around was the Swisshotel, very much like the one at City hall. Suddenly i was shocked upon seeing it tilt to the left and came crashing down. Well it tilted, the base gave way and dropped down vertically then continued its course tilting and down till it all hit the ground. Instantaneously, the ground shook and pressure valve underground burst up, causing a steam break-through like a geyser from the ground and through manholes. More geyser pressured up from the ground only to realize that it was coming towards my house! I bolted out of my room, passed the living room and caught a glimpse of mum and dad on the sofa. It was rather weird that i didn't asked them to get the hell out of there. I was out of the front door and down the stairs, taking notice that i was on the 40th floor. As soon as i reached the ground floor, i could see the pressure geysers popping out from the ground approaching. I wondered why it took so long as it would take me a long while to go down 40 stories. There were screams abound and although the event took suddenly, the pressure wasn't that bad when it finally reached me. Probably the distance has already taken its toll and there wasn't much force left. A gapping hole was left as the geyser ceased. I peered into it and saw the pressure pipes. It was no ordinary pipes, as they were all transparent, like they were made of acrylic. What an eventful occurance! I had to tell someone, so i called my friend, Hideaki, on the phone to tell him of what happen. I could hear a shocked and saddened reply from him. He mentioned that his girlfriend was working in the Swisshotel building. I told him she couldn't have been inside as it was Sunday. No one works on Sundays. Then he added, "But she works in one of the shops". I was stunned, not knowing what to say. I assured him that i will update him what i could as soon as i reach to the disaster site.

And that was when i woke up.

Pretty much like a disaster film eh?

Thanks to Stefan, our frequent conversation over at gmail chat was made aware of the pending doom of my wallet.

Gramophone Warehouse sale.

Tons of Dvds, Cd and Vinvls on sale. Movie of old and rather new going as low as 9 bucks. I just couldn't resist.

I kept wondering if anyone would know or even bother coming to such an ulu place ( not really ulu but for those not familiar in the east, it might be). But lo and behold, music that was blasting through over-powered the perception and was surprised at the turn-out.


Rumaging through rows of dvds and cds, i managed to grab some to my heart's content. A total of 7 Dvds: Predator (2 dics edition), The Terminal, The Good Son, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Final Cut, The Pianist and Road to Perdition. Each Dvd cost me ard 10 Bucks. Not bad of a deal eh?


Ok, no more Dvd splurge or i won't be able to enjoy Japan in Oct...

I miss the days where there's no responsibility.
No worries.
Living like theres no tomorrow.
The air is clear and fresh.
Smiles all around.
Hardly a spur of trouble.
I miss those days.

Time ravel as always fascinated me from young. From the ever famous "Back to the Future" series to non-fictional book about them. What fascinates me is argument of the plausibility of its existence. Such like:

Grandfather Paradox

Time travel is impossible as exemplified by the famous grandfather paradox. Imagine you build a time machine. It is possible for you to travel back in time, meet your grandfather before he produces any children (i.e. your father/mother) and kill him. Thus, you would not have been born and the time machine would not have been built, a paradox. But some arguments that there are a number of possible ways to avoid the paradox, such as the idea that the timeline is fixed and unchangeable, or the idea that the time traveler will end up in a parallel timeline, while the timeline in which the traveler was born continues to exist.

Perhaps the craziest of the time travel paradoxes was cooked up by Robert Heinlein in his classic short story "All You Zombies."

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane's twisted parentage. If we drawJane's family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.

Takes quite a reading to fully understand the situation but once it dawns into you, although rather grandeur, it is actually possible.

And if time travel really do exist, wouldn't that mean there are people from the future in our midst?

Wow.

Its ages since i updated.

I seem to have a love/hate relationship with writing. Its rather a chore to start but ends up quite therapeutic while you're at it. So where do i start. Oh ok, i'll do my usual bullet point form. Quick and simple...

• Finally closed my June issue of Golf Digest Singapore.
• Currently taking long awaiting break. Well its rather short really. Took a Thursday to Monday break but its better than nothing.
  
• Awaiting end of June for another long-ish break (about a week or so) was thinking Australia? or somewhere completely foreign where i can reset. I feel like just taking a map, close my eyes and point to my destination.
• Really looking forward to TIFF in September but kinda worried of my funds...
• No, I'm not jumping to First. I'm just helping them out, as they would when i need help too.
• My ex-creative director finally tendered after much struggle with the working condition. Will miss him alot. All the best to him. Just realize that more people we just dropping out of our inner circle. Its kind of heartbreaking but thats life, people come and go and its up to you if u wanna keep that relationship.
  
• Currently in pre-production of 1 short film and a potential feature film by the LSRS production guys. Pretty excited about them and i hope it goes all the way unlike our "Basket" short film which became stagnant and slowly dissapearing into the mist.

Thats all for now. Will update more soon.

PULP FICTION



FIGHT CLUB



CLOVERFIELD



KILL BILL



OCEAN'S ELEVEN

As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.