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This post was going to be all praise for the Mandarin Oriental hotel, until they blew it literally at the last two minutes of my visit there. I was at an informal discussion at the hotel. I hadn’t been there prior to their renovation and I must say the place is really swanky. On entering [...]

I’ve noticed a jump in blog traffic to my blog posts regarding SMU “Are You Sure You Want To Come To SMU? Think Carefully” and “At Least One Professor Thinks SMU Has Lost The Plot Too“. I suppose it’s because now’s the time when people are getting their acceptance to one or more universities and [...]

Finally managed to catch Speed Racer with Reuben and Marcus tonight after scouts and boy was it a blast! I’ve never had any interaction with Speed Racer before, so this was the first time. First I have to say, the Wachowski brothers know how to take a property and make it theirs. The vibrant colours [...]

You might remember me mentioning Reuben a couple of times on this blog. We’ve been friends via scouts since sec 1, and are both voluntary leaders in scouts today. (Not to mention Team Fortress 2 players virtually every other night). So the big news is: Reuben is getting married! It’s quite overwhelming and crazy at [...]

A lot of hoo-hah going around about people not believing this and all that sort of stuff. So I just want to say two things. 1) The numbers and figures are probably pretty accurate. All the speculation about SMU talking about higher pay is stupid. Even if they want to lie, how much can they [...]

I’m not that much of an obsessive gamer the way some guys are, but when great games come my way (Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Final Fantasy, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, Evil Genius), I sit up, take notice and become a little more obsessive than normal. Case in point, Team Fortress [...]

As far as I know it’s not embeddable, but you can catch it over at Comic Book Resources. Couple of things I noticed: No Jean Grey (that’s a first) Crazy amount of mutant guest stars (Wolfsbane, Domino, Dust, Gambit, Multiple Man, Pyro, Maverick, Mojo) Iceman’s costume is sleeveless (?!), but I’m just glad he’s in [...]

If my Dark Tower graphic novel post hasn’t indicated already, I’m a huge comic book/graphic novel fan and have been collecting them for the last 11 years. I know the perception is that comics are expensive (they are), so here’s a solution: Today is Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) and that means certain comics are….. [...]

“The man in black fled across the desert…. and the gunslinger followed” With these words I first entered the first book of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger. I picked it up last year partially because I knew Marvel was doing a graphic novel and partially because apparently a lot of the Lost mythology [...]

This is from Moby’s blog (one of the few I subscribe to for non-serious content, worth checking out). A great Nike ad from the perspective of the player. The perspective of an Arsenal player! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjpltMiNB18] I think it’s friggin awesome. Nike really knows which team to pick