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What’s in Your RSS Reader?

» by Chewxy January 31st, 2008 at 4:29 am » Comments (8)

I have two categories of RSS feeds that I read – one is my browser (Firefox and Opera) feeds; the other is Omea feeds. I used to use Google Reader, but I’ve gotten paranoid over what Google knows about me, so I switched to Omea instead
The browser feeds are feeds that I read really often [...]



Random Chats

» by Chewxy January 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm » Comments (16)

Between me and Edmund, in a mamak store (we were talking about chinese movies – in particular the Banquet and Curse of the Golden Flower):
Me: Ge You, he’s also play the Emperor in Hero right?
Edmund: NO!!!! That’s Chen Dao Ming.
Me: Oh…
Edmund: Yea…
Me: Damn, All of them chinese have the same face.



Web of Lies Local Premiere Party++

» by Chewxy January 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am » Comments (14)

Right. I had a local showing of my movie, Web of Lies in my house two days ago. Almost everyone I invited turned up (save a few exceptions, and 2 cast members were unavailable). Not much is needed to say. I’m not that satisfied with how the movie turned out (the boom microphone picked up [...]



Email Stupidities

» by Chewxy January 24th, 2008 at 9:18 am » Comments (2)

Here are some email stupidities that happened to me over the last few weeks:
Spam and Chain Mail
I was so tired with chain mail that when I received the Microsoft + AOL chain mail (see below), I fired back an inflamatory email. Here is the whole email record:

The chain email, click to enlarge1

my reply, click to [...]



Discover Your Inner Economist Reviewed

» by Chewxy January 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 am » Comments (3)

Hmm, as I mentioned in How to Know If You’re A Geek, I bought Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen a few nights ago. Busy with meetings, I only managed to start and finish reading this a few hours ago (I don’t do books in more than 2 sittings, I lose interest after that).
To [...]



Who Are Your Dream Heroes?

» by Chewxy January 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 am » Comments (9)

After several iterations of this article, I strangely shall dedicate this to zcer.
To those who do not know me well enough, here’s a confession: I keep a dream diary, and am very anal about it. I record down what I dream as well as what several other people whom I love dreams of. And yes, [...]



Teasers

» by Chewxy January 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm » Comments (9)

Ah…time for some teasers on what’s to come in this blog (and from me in general):

As I was arranging for a local showing of my short film (with the cast and crew), I came across a trailer that I had meant to upload to YouTube, but didn’t. So here it is:
You need to a flashplayer [...]