Just Noise | by Johanan Sen

Tom Hardy as Bane (via: FirstShowing) Empire has released photos of Tom Hardy as Bane from The Dark Knight Rises and Christopher Nolan offers up more details on the eagerly anticipated sequel, due out next Summer. Rises picks up eight years after The Dark Knight (2008), with Bruce Wayne still reeling from the death of Harvey Dent. Empire‘s [...]

Er…YES!  Pundits are surprised that the latest Twilight sequel didn’t break any box office records during its opening weekend. Mind you, it still did top the chart. I’m actually surprised it made out as well as it did, drawing a respectable $139.5 million Friday through Sunday. Putting that in perspective, the weekend’s runner-up was Happy Feet [...]

Link: Freida Pinto isn’t really nude in ‘Immortals’ // via: Screen Junkies + @SpicyMutton “I have to say that was the first scene I shot on the set, and Tarsem never discussed the sex scene or any full-on nudity or anything, so it was kind of a surprise for me,” Pinto said in [...]

Just epic!

Michael Bublé in the studio recording Mariah’s All I Want For Christmas Is You.  Coincidentally, Carey’s also in the studio re-recording that same song with …(wait for it)… Justin Bieber. Both versions are due out this Christmas season.  *deadpan* Yay. 

The Sandpit by Sam O’Hare

Haunting. Painfully, gone and now as wistfully moving as a Lady Day record because there will be no more of her. Amy Winehouse with Paul Weller – Don’t Go To Strangers   Amy Winehouse – Teach Me Tonight

Link: In Malaysia, reality TV with a feminist twist // via: The New York Times Meet the latest in reality television, Malay style: 10 young contestants stride confidently onto a green-hued set, ready for their moment before a studio audience and viewers across the country. These women in floor-length black [...]

Link: World Bank: Malaysia attractive but lacks talent Ouch! “What emerges from analysing this index is that Malaysia ranks highly because its business environment…”  The report also noted a “worrisome” trend of an increasing gap between the University of Malaya (UM) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), Southeast Asia’s [...]

NASCAR crowd boos Michelle Obama // via: SubliminalRecon For a split second you’re caught in disbelief that anyone would boo Michelle Obama. That passes, you remember it’s NASCAR and…yup, yeah, that sounds about right!

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog + Occupy Wall Street // via: soupsoup

That Effing Show takes on the Obedient Wives Club (OWC) and their new book, “Seks Islam” (Islamic Sex). In tribute to their chapter on fondling, my friend Uma has an intimate moment with Malaysian model Sarah Lian.

Newsweek cover with the headline “Diana at 50“ The LA Times asks their readers is it “Shocking, brilliant or just plain cheap?” It is a masterful Photoshop job but there is a creep-factor. And it certainly pushes the boundary of what the press should be allowed to do to an image of a public figure, especially [...]

High-off-her-multi-coloured-weave Amy Winehouse, on stage in Belgrade Saturday (18.06.2011). Let me tell you somefhin, right… You’re better than that, girl!

I am a self-loathing Apple fan. Self-loathing because I hate that I am dependent on a single company. Hanging by its keynotes. Refreshing Apple.com, hoping for new cheer. Dependence. I hate it! Even if it is on the Infinite Loop; the warm, friendly, gratifying and congenial Cult of Mac; the charming, agreeable, glowing Apple…YUP. HATE [...]

Had to replace my iPhone today. Opted for a white one before I realised it would be near impossible to find a case that didn’t make it look naff. Then I found it…The Stormtrooper iPhone case. Duuude!

…basic signage is a catalogue for all the ways the human body can break down!

Three churches were attacked today, in Malaysia – one burned down completely – by Muslims protesting Catholics’ right to use the word Allah for God…

…Communion – or rather, the sacramental blessings – was/were done in English, B.Malaysia, Tamil and Mandarin, different parts in each language. Speaking as an Indian-Chinese Malaysian whose first language is English, that was *omitting expletive* awesome!

My iPhone 3G (sans-S) decides to act up a week before my trip to Hanoi. Part of the problem was the glitchy 3.1 update, the other part: a faulty headphone port – damaged by the oversized jack on the V-Moda Vibe Duos.

They say editors make the worse writers. That is what they say. That is what I hear in my head as I look at a blog 4 months untouched. My blog.

First ever Facebook Live, with Oprah Winfrey Sometimes it takes a woman to really put another woman down! The introduction sees the host/interviewer shorthand Winfrey’s list of credits and achievements, choosing instead to wax poetic about how great a friend the latter is. A small voice rose up in me asking if anyone [...]

At the end of last week, our Information and Technology Minister, Datuk Rais Yatim, decided to warn the entire nation against the use of Twitter, Facebook and the Internet in general.

Canon and Vimeo are attempting a video-equivalent of a Twitter novel. What probably excites me most is the fact that these short films – or the first one at least – will be shot on Canon SLRs, in HD.

After EMI cancelled the release of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s new album, they decided to release a blank CD-R for fans to burn their own copy.

A unique perspective on the Swine Flu outbreak

A blogger is journaling his bankruptcy online. Bobisbankrupt, a Californian film sound editor, filed for Chapter 7 in September of ’08 and has decided to take his readers along for the ride. He has worked on films like JFK, Heat, Courage Under Fire, Godzilla, The Patriot, The Bourne Supremacy, Van Helsing, A Civil Action, The [...]

Not the photos you think! Elizabeth Wong is a State Assemblywoman and an EXCO member of the KeADILan party (opposition). Last week nude photos, taken of her in the privacy of her own home, were leaked and distributed without Wong’s consent or knowledge. She resigned earlier today, stating, “My personal life and privacy has [sic] [...]

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog + Occupy Wall Street // via: soupsoup

Link: Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women’s and Gender Studies Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still [...]

That Effing Show takes on the Obedient Wives Club (OWC) and their new book, “Seks Islam” (Islamic Sex). In tribute to their chapter on fondling, my friend Uma has an intimate moment with Malaysian model Sarah Lian.

I thought I could just Twitter this but it’s too good not to post.

Found this while surfing around the blogosphere. A countdown of the 15 strangest college/university courses in America.

Words fail. An infomercial for a handheld device designed to decimate…

Just epic!

Video: Jobs’ Commencement Address to Stamford University’s graduating class of 2005

The scariest moment ever in an Apple Keynote. Machines should know not of humility! A consciousness aware of humility would be aware of pride. So it’s begun. The Beast has a new form and her name is SIRI! 

I am a self-loathing Apple fan. Self-loathing because I hate that I am dependent on a single company. Hanging by its keynotes. Refreshing Apple.com, hoping for new cheer. Dependence. I hate it! Even if it is on the Infinite Loop; the warm, friendly, gratifying and congenial Cult of Mac; the charming, agreeable, glowing Apple…YUP. HATE [...]

First ever Facebook Live, with Oprah Winfrey Sometimes it takes a woman to really put another woman down! The introduction sees the host/interviewer shorthand Winfrey’s list of credits and achievements, choosing instead to wax poetic about how great a friend the latter is. A small voice rose up in me asking if anyone [...]

Link: Pogue answers Final Cut Pro X’s critics In 10 years of writing Times columns, I’ve never encountered anything quite like this…

Winner of the Nokia Shorts prize for 2011, called Splitscreen: A Love Story Stunning!