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Today’s Asian American Films included the Music Video Contest, which was a collection of videos made by APA’s this past year. My favorite was the Chemical Brothers (video at YouTube), which cleverly integrates a Sunday afternoon Shaolin chop-socky movie. In between was a food interlude at Souen, a macrobiotic place down the street. It’s been [...]

Yesterday: dinner at Vermicelli . Good Vietnamese food, although it has a lot of Malay and Thai influences. Not bad. Saw the New York premiere of Train Man yesterday at the Asian Film Festival. Based on a true story, it is like Six Degrees of Attraction, not separation. Japanese geek saves an office lady from [...]

If it’s July, it’s time for the New York Asian American International Film Festival, one of our favorites. The venues include the Asia Society and Quad Cinemas on E 13th St. Of course, it’s impossible to see everything, but we’ve made a few selections. We’re watching Train Man, Music Video Showcase, Colma – the Muslcal, [...]

Lots of people, when they ask me “How’s it going… how are you?” My reply has been “I’m tired”  I am really, I just can’t fake it anymore.  6 weeks on the road since mid-May, I’ve travelled on Cathay, Singapore Air, China Airlines, to KL twice, Singapore twice, Jakarta, London, Hong Kong twice…. Loads of [...]

2 movies this extended weekend (I did work Monday, but it was bogus): “Superman Returns” and “An Inconvenient Truth”. Superman was 2 and a half hours of pure fun, designed for the detail-oriented fan – the same demographic of “Batman Returns”. OK, Lois wasn’t that exciting – but do you really expect someone jilted for [...]

Saw the documentary on Al Gore’s Power Point Presentation on Global Warming: “An Inconvenient Truth.” Quite a movie. After all the weird rains we’ve been having the last two weeks, what with the floods on the East coast – one wonders… and then there’s Al Gore and his global warming message. The movie is more [...]

An analysis of Justice Kennedy by Dahlia Lithwick. Bill Moyer’s “Faith and Reason” on PBS has been interesting, as he interviews authors and philosophers on faith and reason.  Are they incompatible?  Or maybe not?  I wonder if he will interview scientists on their view of faith and reason. Meanwhile, Slate has an analysis of Senator [...]

Now that the US Supreme Court ruled on the Hamdan case, the Navy lawyer in the Hamdan case (who has represented defendant Hamdan, doing his duty and all that) has a fuzzy-looking future.  Perhaps it means he’ll be a litigator in the civilian (private) sector, I’d suggest. Linda Greenhouse’s interesting look at the Supreme Court’s [...]

Arrived at KL this afternoon… and almost predictably, my immigration  experience at KLIA was a facsimile of rush hour traffic … loads of people queued up and inching slowly forward.  A potpourri of Malaysian visitors from Republic of Yemen, India, US, Taiwan, Commonwealth countries, Japan etc.  Luckily I got there because soon after me, there [...]

Picked up some sauces that are the exact opposite of what you would expect. Tobasco Worchestershire Sauce Picked up from a Publix Supermarket in Ft. Lauderdale.Tobasco is known for their aged red pepper sauce, which is incorporated in this sauce. Apparently it is only available in the South. It’s a little too smoked (there’s soy [...]