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TRAVEL
& FOOD
- (Feb
25, 2009) When was
the last time you had dined in a upscaled Chinese restaurant in
America? read more ...
ARTS
& LITERATURE
- (Feb 20, 2009) Do you know the
differences between lotus and water-lily? Did you know 荷花 蓮花 are the
same thing? But "Sleeping Lotus" is not lotus 睡
蓮非蓮? read more ...
- (Feb 8, 2009)
Have you ever had doubts? Doubts about your self?
your belief? Doubts about others? Doubts
about doubt? You should go see the movie Doubt
(2008
John Shanley),
a great movie
written/directed by John Shanley with incredible actings of Maryl Steep
and Philip Seymor Hoffman. The movie begins with the sermon
on doubt by Father Flynn (Philip
Seymor Hoffman) and ends with Sister Aloysius' (Maryl
Steep) confessing of having doubts. It explores the darkest
human struggle in combating self-righteousness and conviction.
The contrast between the
progressive Father and traditonal Sister can not be stonger.
At the end, audiences are left with the certainty of doubt but well,
that is not important any longer, isn't? The movie deserves
few 2009 oscars.
- (Feb
7, 2009) Clint Eastwood has been busy. This time, he is not a
cool bounty hunter fighting against the Western outlaws and Mexican
gansters with his amazing shooting skill. He is not a
righteous cop of
San Francisco who stares down the worst murders and criminals to "make
my day" with his powerful .44 Magnum. This time,
in the movie Gran
Torino (2008 Clint Eastwood)
he is an old, lonely, disgruntle Korean war veteran and
racist
who over time bounded with his next door Hmong immigrant teenager Thao,
not unlike he did as a trainer with his woman boxer in
Million
Dollar Baby (2004 Clint Eastwood) Of course, the other reason I
needed to see this movie is we used to own a Gran Torino
when I was in graduate school.
SOCIAL
& POLITICAL
- (Feb 8,
2009) Is President Obama continung Bush's attempt
in transforming our secular government into a religious one?
On Thurs, Feb 5th, he announced the establishment of
the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
which expands the Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives that former President
G.W. Bush created back on
Jan 29, 2001. Read
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