Ladies and gentlemen,
Please welcome the month of November heartily.
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Let us race through it!
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[2221] Of this is for you
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I’ll see you again before too long.
This is an obligatory post after a visit to a World Heritage Site.
The whole atmosphere reminded me of the X-Men. Why?
In one of many plots, the X-Men found themselves in the middle of a valley secluded from civilization. I cannot remember the name of the plot anymore but I am sure the cartoon version featured that plot too.
And damn, in my head, I am hearing:
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[2178] Of Hurt Locker won an Oscar?
Hurt Locker won the Oscar. We all know that. It winning the Oscar was one of the reasons why I wanted to watch it. And watched it I did. With friends saying how good the movie is, I had high expectation. By the time the credit rolled, I thought, why did it win the Oscar?
It is a good movie, that I admit. Scenes of bomb disarmament are involving. I like it. The acting is fantastic.
I do not see why it deserves an Oscar however. There is really nothing special about it and the storyline is not one that is truly memorable.
A bomb specialist dies. A hero bomb specialist replaces the dead bomb specialist. The hero bomb specialist has emotion. Soldiers are human beings too. The hero gets back. The hero gets reposted to some warzone again.
Big deal.
One might want to analyze the theme of the movie and its moral. Do it. However intellectual one wants to get, Hurt Locker remains an action movie that does not require a lot of thinking. The closest it gets in activating my neurons is the scene when the hero is back home in the United States trying to choose a box of cereal out of many brands available.
I watch movies only infrequently. But if this is the best movie for 2009, then 2009 must have had been a really slow year.
Jakim, a Malaysian federal institution responsible for Islamic affairs, together with RTM, state-owned public television and radio broadcaster, are getting creative by producing a reality TV program aimed at “unearthing talent among children in various aspects of Islam“:
The progamme, which be will both entertaining and educational, was aimed at unearthing talent among children in various aspects of Islam, he told a press conference a the Federal Territory Mosque in Jalan Duta here Tuesday.
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“What’s special about this reality show compared to others is that the participants will be evaluated by professional judges 100 per cent,”said Ibrahim. [RTM Produces Reality Programme Based On Islam. Bernama. February 9 2010]
Wow. Professional judges.
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Twenty children between the ages of nine and 14 who met the criteria required for the programme had been selected to participate in the show, he said, adding that only six of them would be able to make it to the final. [RTM Produces Reality Programme Based On Islam. Bernama. February 9 2010]
Would the child winner be certified as a true Muslim?
How about the losers?
Imagine the judges saying, “you’re fired”.
I know, I know, I should watch the show first before passing judgment but I just cannot help taking potshot at it. It is too easy.