Some of us know Sunday as church day, and all the social media accounts we follow affirm it: come to church! Anyway it also happens to be Hari Raya, or Eid, as the celebration is better known in the West. So Selamat Hari Raya everyone celebrating! Because I feel like I haven’t fully woken up, … Continue reading
Summer’s back, and what better way to celebrate then to release (yet another) brilliant summer song? Enter Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean with this reggae-funk track, holiday-groove track. Feels is such a breezy song that the height of summer itself couldn’t bring down – but lets not get ahead of ourselves – … Continue reading
The 2015 film, Burnt stars Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Perhaps the title applies to more than food, in spite of how jarring it sounds on the tongue, as if you’ve truly been seared by hot food. In the case of Cooper’s character – former top chef Adam Jones – however, it’s a druggy lifestyle, thugs and … Continue reading
1. I look up delightful recipes. Actually, the lazier way to do this is to just watch Buzzfeed’s Tasty videos (which for some reason, are on perpetual run on Facebook anyway). Because they’re clipped to perfect length, they usually capture your attention for 3 mins at most – and in such a way that makes … Continue reading
Managed to snatch a film in between doing stuff today. The film, Gifted, features McKenna Grace as the seven-year-old mathematically gifted child in question, Mary, and Chris Evans as Frank, her caretaker uncle. I guess you could say this film is a gift, itself, in some ways. Chris Evans plays the grounded former Philosophy professor … Continue reading
Interestingly, McDonald’s recently screened an ad that doesn’t speak its name at all. Shhh. It’s just “the place where Coca-Cola tastes so good.” The ad, starting self-proclaimed Mickey D’s fan Mindy Kaling simply features her in a bright yellow dress speaking in front of a dark red background. Now could that be ‘subtlety’ finally making … Continue reading
Just watched the episode of BBC’s series ‘Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby’ where they featured the Royal Mansour Hotel of Morocco. The hotel is essentially designed to make you feel like you’re in a kingly palace – all your quarters are private, you never catch a whiff of the ‘servants’, and you are as … Continue reading
Watching a film called Alfie after finishing High Fidelity, the latter of which has John Cusack in it. The funny thing is, these films somehow feel so 90’s, like they’ve already become history during my lifetime. My lifetime – and I’m not even that old. Well, who would’ve thought. The parallels between these two films are … Continue reading
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