Archive for August, 2008

Mirrors

By Delrondu | Cinema

For the horror genre, it wasn’t too bad. Yes, there were still a few cheap thrills and inconsistency but the overall story I thought was well-written – probably because it’s a remake. Rating: 6 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

By Delrondu | Cinema

Action packed from start to finish with limited storyline and zero character development. But since the characters are already well-known except for one or two, it didn’t really matter. The new Jedi knight Ahsoka, sadly, was irritatingly distracting. Rating: 6 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

Vader at the Mall

By Delrondu | Confession, Local

Surprise, surprise. I went to the cinema to catch the Clone Wars but I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Darth Vader with his red lightsaber and two Storm Troopers by his side taking pictures with kids outside the cinema. It’s not a sight you would normally see in Brunei and it is

Meet Dave

By Delrondu | Cinema

I expected this to be bad. If I hadn’t had to write its review for the paper, I would have skipped it. Seeing Eddie Murphy’s name with that face on that poster, you’d know what to expect, or what not to. Rating: 3 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

Brunei’s Disgrace

By Delrondu | Info, Local

Last week I had a post titled Olympic’s Disgrace. Well, truthfully, that’s quite trivial compared to what happened to Brunei who was “disqualified” because of failure at completing registration on time for our participants. TV presenters even spoke of the disqualification live to the whole world and it just shows our lack of preparedness, professionalism

Fork In The Road

By Delrondu | Confession

I’ve quit my proof reading job at the newspaper on 08.08.08. Two years of proof reading will last a lifetime. Two years, time flies. Two years I’ve been doing it, means that it’s two years I haven’t been doing anything else. Feels like two years wasted. But now I’m also looking ahead into something new,

Olympics’ Disgrace

By Delrondu | Info, Rambles

It’s the year 2008. The year the Olympics is being held at China. And yet, international commentators still fail to pronounce Chinese names correctly. If I was given the job to commentate, I’d ask and learn the correct pronunciation of the persons and players I’ll be commentating on. This idiot I heard on one of

Ben & Jerry’s Brunei

By Delrondu | Local, Rambles

Yea, we don’t have a Ben & Jerry’s here. But I was glad to have found out that Smart Supermarket carries them. Or should I say, carries a couple. But of all the flavours Ben & Jerry’s have, we only get Pistachio Pistachio and Butter Pecan. Pistachio? Is that even officially an ice-cream? I think