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pimpage: big apple donuts & coffee/ satellite party

One day my sister came home with a big box of doughnuts. Very enthusiastically, she told me to try them. But I looked at box of doughnuts with disdain because:
1) I am not a doughnut person
2) I am not a doughnut person
3) Repeat 1 and 2
Then dinner was late that day, and I had [...]

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sumolah! great expectations

I had great expectations and hopes for this movie. Maybe it was the hyped-up marketing, as one CinemaOnline reviewer puts it, maybe because I’d enjoyed Afdlin Shauki’s previous movies and stage acts, maybe because for nationalism purposes I’d wanted it to be so good to sweep me off my heavy feet.
To call a spade [...]

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i hate moag the movie

For some reason I had the urge to re-read Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha ( a book which my cousin might remember belongs to him… did I buy you a new copy? If not, remind me yah ) — definitely one of my favourite books, even if it was factually incorrect (though [...]

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movie: jangan pandang belakang – not that bad leh!

What’s with me and Malay movies? Heck I don’t even watch that many Chinese flicks anymore (but that is because I think no one can replace Stephen Chow as the slapstick mastah, and Zhang Yimou keeps making artsy-fartsy movies with weak storylines and weaker actors — erm, Jay Chou, wtf herro!!!!!).
Anyway, I caught Jangan [...]

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chermin: mixed feelings

Last Sunday I had the opportunity to watch the movie “CHERMIN“ with fellow bloggers :- TV Smith, PinkPau, Sultan Muzaffar, Faisal Mustaffa and Valarie at KLCC.
To be honest, it wasn’t a movie I would have gone to watch on my own. The trailer was less than impressive, and being a die-hard horror film buff [...]

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