Category Archives: Arts

Film, Music, Theatre, Arts…

Routines

It’s morning where you are. Your husband is at work, your daughters at school. I imagine you at your kitchen table with some weak sunlight barely seeping in and a cup of hot coffee by your side. I am not entirely sure you drink coffee in the morning or tea, but I guess I impose

Viola Davis Eyes

You ask me who I think will win Best Actress at the Oscars. I say I think it’s Meryl’s year again, finally – but I wish it was Viola Davis. You hmmph and say your guess is the reverse – you feel Davis will win but think Streep deserves it. And we argue. It doesn’t

Mummies & Pterodactyls

Mummies and pterodactyls. That was what the DVD cover promised us. We had missed this movie in the theatres a couple of months ago; sometimes there just doesn’t seem to be time nor inclination to go to a cinema thronging with hundreds of other people, loud and carrying boxes of popcorn several sizes too large.

Every Breath We Take

O, how life takes different turns. Sometimes it’s the unexpected things in life that makes us wonder and move into a new, exciting direction. Other times we just want to be left well alone, in our comfort zone. Sometimes we just need that extra bit of energy to push us forwards. Or so we think.

Harajuku Girls in Love

Getting out of the Harajuku Station on a Sunday morning can be quite a challenge. For one thing, there are thousands of people in front of you, trying to get our also but not in any particular hurry. They are here for people-watching, yes, but most of them are here to be watched also. Confused?

London

. London Calling London’s calling. Heathrow, here I come. The plane soars from Changi and our vacation begins good and proper in the air, I think. Here and now, surrounded by clouds and clarity, we forget our troubles and the toil of a 9-to-5, Monday-till-Friday workweek. A new leash of life. I have been travelling

50 First Movie Dates

. There’s a new Star Trek movie out. I hear Captain Kirk does the doozy with a hot green alien chick in it. What more do we need? But you’re not convinced. “What’s Star Trek?” “Well, it’s based on this 70′s TV series with Federation Starfleets and warp drive and ooh! the Vulcan nerve pinch