1. Departures (Okuribito) <2008> Selected as Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 2008, Departures is a must for people who appreciate the Japanese culture and want to explore more about Japanese life and probably even death. Being a semi-pro cellist, Daigo Kobayashi cannot get away with the thought: “This celo is innocent. But because it’s in my hand, it became a loser“; so he decided to move back to his hometown together with his wife. He got a new job with no-question interview and discovered that the actual work is Nokanshi or ‘encoffineer’ –...

I’m back from Singapore IT Show 2008 with my new shinny MacBook Pro Left hand side is my 2 years old MacBook Pro, and the right hand one is the latest revision featuring 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo ‘Penryn’, 15.4 inches widescreen LED, 2GB memory, 200GB SATA hard drive, 8x Double-layer SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

Lâu quá bận rộn không còn thời gian viết blog Tranh thủ chiều mưa KL ngồi điểm qua tình hình giải trí phim ảnh sắp tới. Trái với tháng 7 sôi động với nhiều phim; tháng 8 chỉ hứa hẹn có đôi ba phim đáng chờ đợi. War aka Rogue Assassin (2007) Sau bộ phim cuối cùng – “Fearless” (2006) – với tư cách là đạo diễn chính thức, người xem sẽ gặp lại Lý Liên Kiệt (Jet Li) với những pha võ thuật ngoạn mục trong War – phim được phát hành ở Singapore và các nước...

Die Hard 4 – Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Die Hard 4 aired yesterdaty in KL, much sooner than I thought; it was supposed to come out this Wed 4/7. As expected, detective John McClane (by Bruce Willis) returns in Die Hard 4 to continue his most extremely successful action-packed series in history. Live free or Die Hard will blow you away in the 2 hours full of great actions, lovely cast, hilarious dialogs, and solid storyline. The only boring aspect of Die Hard 4 is the background music. I almost didn’t recognize that they eventually have a soundtrack played at all If you remember...

Being one of the best Rock band in history, Scorpions truly knows how to make audiences keep loving them for a longer time; their latest release “Humanity: Hour 1” (2007) is just another masterpiece. The album is a golden combination of modern rock and classic rock and mature lyrics. Not only does the music sound good, it also has purpose: mankind as a whole is losing its humanity and needs to reclaim it. That musical messages of Peace and Love, not War are passed so smoothly; tone of the guitars are outstanding; and Klaus Meine sounds fantastic as ever Tracklist : 1. Hour 1 2. Game...