July 29, 2010

Just morbid

Category: Random

There really are some sick people out there! Whatever compelled this baker to make gruesome dismembered body parts out of bread is beyond me. Why they even call it as “art” baffles me to no end.

I could hardly find those bread appetizing; let alone try to eat it as if we are some cannibals. It is morbid, disgusting and disturbing! What an insult to food!

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July 27, 2010

Inception

Category: Movie

This was really one of the more original and captivating movies I have ever seen. Inception is so insanely brilliant that I was literally glued to the cinema seat right from the start to the very end. I was left awestruck at the end of the movie; overwhelmed, yet intrigued with appreciation by the multi-layered plots that were so cleverly portrayed.

On the onset, the entire movie seemed like a simple plot of meddling with people’s mind by entering their dreams. However, as you got deeper into the realms of the movie, the entire plot was nothing but a complex architecture of the sub-conscious mind. The intricacies of the movie was nerve-wrecking, yet I was so engrossed in its complexities that I cannot stop thinking about bits and pieces of the movie long after it ended. The layers were deep as one battles with being conscious within the sub-conscious mind hence opening up the possibilities of alternate realities, convolution beyond the conscious mind to grasp and most importantly, of the power of imagination to eventually question what was real and what was make-believe.

Reminds me of a song called “Sweat”  from the band, Tool:

“Seems like I’ve been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like I’m slipping into a dream within a dream.
It’s the way you whisper.
Drag me under.
Takes me whole.”

I must say though, I have started to warm up to Leonardo Di Caprio from the more recent movies in the last few years like  Catch Me if You Can, Blood Diamond, Body of Lies, even Revolutionary Road;  and most recently, this. I truly hated him in Titanic and The Beach to name a few of his earlier stint, and just refused to watch any of his movies thereafter. For now,I think he has, in my books,  nicely redeemed himself.

This is one movie I’ll definitely watch all over again, just as intensely as well and probably a few times more. The casting were great and in my mind, it truly is one hell of a masterpiece. Cast aside any biasness or prejudice that you may have towards Leonardo before, for,  I highly recommend this movie simply because it engages the mind in a brilliant way.

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July 25, 2010

Boycott!

Category: Ads

If you have been watching AXN, Nat Geo or Discovery Channel often enough in the last few months, you’ll probably notice the high frequency of Colgate ads aired on these channels.

There have been several versions of a pseudo dentist in white lab coat going around places (by the looks of it, the background seemed to be somewhere in KL or Singapore) asking people on the street to check for bacteria in their mouth. There was also a version of applying the toothpaste directly on any sensitive teeth or the gargling of mouthwash while dancing or something silly like that. All of those ads of course, brainlessly ended with all-so-gullible “consumers” telling the entire world that they now believe in the product so whole-heartedly and became an instant convert to Colgate. Their expressions, could not have been more rehearsed and fake.

All of the ad versions are terribly, terribly annoying. They are in my opinion, done in a bad taste and are an insult to the intelligence of consumers.The extremely high frequency of these ads on these channels made the ad exposure extremely unbearable as well. So much so that these Colgate ads annoyed the crap out of me and is the sole reason as to why we switch channels almost immediately every time we see the ads.

Silver Bullet went a bit further than just flipping the channel and cursing at the ads every time he caught the first 2 seconds of it. He has already decided to boycott all of Colgate’s product and refuse to have any of them at home. Talk about turning off an irate consumer there!

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