With the Oscars less than a month away, people are feeling the pressure: actors sweating in their silk night gowns, directors finding it hard to stay put in their royal thrones and critics itching to round up the final rankings of last year’s top picks. Meanwhile, the rest of us are waiting to judge the judges. [...]
Archive for January, 2009
•Pre-Oscar Reviews
Posted in 2008, film, reviews, tagged movies, oscars on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
•3 Miraculous Minutes on Jan. 15th
Posted in general, life, tagged death, Flight 1549, inspiration, thoughts, US Airways on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1st minute: take-off
2nd minute: flames
3rd minute: crash
I don’t know what you were doing at 3:28pm on Thursday, January 15, 2009, but I was getting a cup of coffee in our in-house coffee shop. Half-an-hour later, I found out that a plane had crashed into the Hudson River. Thankfully, the 150+ people (passengers + crew) survived [...]
•3 of Nature’s Masterpieces
Posted in general, life, tagged inspiration, nature, thoughts on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Snowflakes
2. Birds of the Amazon Rainforest
3. Circle of Life
Have you ever been amazed by how beautiful things in nature can be? I have…
Just yesterday, I spent an hour looking up snowflakes. Did you know that snowflakes are mostly particles of dust covered by frozen ice crystals? Yeah! So next time you open your mouth [...]
•3 “Breath-Taking” Moments in 2008
Posted in 2008, finance, general, life, politics, social commentary, tagged barack obama, inspiration on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
1. Aug. 16 | Marseille
2. Sept. 15 | Subway Station
3. Nov. 4 | Cubicle
In the second half of 2008, three events took my breath away (literally!). As in, the shock value of these particular events rank very high on my shock scale-so high that I unconsciously stopped breathing. (For more information on my shock [...]
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