MILK
Pluses:- a technically well-made film- Danny Elfman’s score works really well- chameleon thespian Sean Penn disappears into the title role- splendid performances from the ensemble cast — notably Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Josh Brolin- the story has many themes, but the most notable one for me is leadership — how…

* I have acquired two new black and shiny pieces of hardware: a Fujitsu 300GB Handy Drive and a Buffalo WHR-G300N Wireless N Router. Both are functioning very well and are serving their purpose — augmenting my storage capacity and net connectivity. Perfect for my Thinkpad for work and MacBook Pro…

I have quite a peculiar music taste. There may not be a rhyme or reason to the ecclectic list of artists that I really like, as it takes a lot to be able to really catch my ears’ attention, let alone my admiration. Among the acts whose music I find…

* For the first time in quite a while, I worked from home today with a decent network connectivity (stupid Globe Huawei can’t sit still and provide a steady stream for 2 minutes). I got myself a decent 2Mbps connection (I know I know, this speed is a tortoise compared to…

I recently finished reading the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann, which is a business parable outlining a set of principles that the authors believe drive “stratospheric success”. The premise banks on a play of the word “go-getter”, of which a “go-giver” thinks and acts in a…

Last weekend, we saw Jim Carrey’s latest comedy flick Yes Man, and I’m glad we went for this choice.
Jim plays Carl Allen, a bank loan officer who symbolically says no to every loan application — and invariably also declines everything else offered to him. This negative outlook was borne…

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has been receiving accolades left and right, and after seeing it myself I’d say deservedly so.
Based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A, the movie tells the story of Jamal Malik (played by British actor Dev Patel), a poor orphan from Mumbai who joins India’s franchise of Who…

I know I’ve blogged about this a couple of times, but wanted to make a deliberate review and endorsement of the book I just finished reading: Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational.
Book Description from Amazon.comIn a
series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral
economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that…

There doesn’t seem to be any new good movies on the horizon (the worthy ones seem to be at least several weeks away), so I think I’m gonna be stuck with my books for a while. Not that I’m complaining — in fact I’m enjoying it a lot. I must have…

* The weekend seems too short for comfort. It came and went just like
that, poof. I haven’t even begun to let my hair down (figuratively of
course, they’re not that long yet hehe) and here comes Monday once
again. It’s gonna be quite a heavy week, but I believe…