Myanmar Aid: Doctors Without Borders

I've been following the progress of Doctors Without Borders in Myanmar. They've got a team set up in the city of Yangon, and have been filing first-hand reports, like this one, and this one.

Best online love story #2

Sweet Juniper, which I've mentioned on this blog several times, is a gold mine of love stories. Our main character, a man who calls himself Dutch, chronicles his life as his daughter's "Pop", his wife's husband, and as a documentarist of the deliberate decay that is happening to parts of Detroit city. I've yet to open his blog and find a post not written with a lot of love and feeling.
After all that gushing about Dutch, I have to add his wife, who also contributes a post here and there, is not a bad writer herself. In fact, the love story I'm sharing today is hers.

Best online love story #1

I'm starting a collection of lovely blog posts about love. Just cos'. Frankly, the world just needs to read these right now.
This first one, by Gluten-Free Girl, made me tear up in the middle, and then *dang* again at the end.

This excerpt from her post made me laugh:

This is a man who ran from the length of my kitchen to the the other side of the living room when he first ate my roast chicken, whooping and hollering at the taste of it, then stopped to do a jig on the kitchen floor.

Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

Came across this presentation on the TED web site. It's quite entertaining at the beginning before delving into some serious corners of Amy Tan's dark psyche. Persist because she ties it all together quite nicely at the end.



Man, I wish I could go to a TED conference.

Yes, it's another Star Wars movie

Starwars.com has posted the latest Star Wars movie trailer on their site. Frankly, it doesn't do anything for me. I feel the same way about the other Star Wars trailers, except for Revenge of the Sith, which I've posted below.



What makes a good movie trailer? One that isn't a tedious retelling of the movie, nor gives away the ending (or at least a pretty good idea what it could be). There's also nothing worse than going to a movie after getting excited about the trailer, and realizing you've already seen all the best scenes because they're all in the trailer. I have a feeling the new Star Wars movie is like that.

But yeah, I'm still going to watch the movie. It's Star Wars after all.

What I do at 3 AM

Or alternatively titled "How Norlinda has been coping with insomnia for the past three days".

Thank God for the Internet!

I watch lots of Conan, in a beard. He's in a beard, not me.



Part 2 is pretty hilarious as well. We learn about Jordan's deepest darkest secret in a can. And there's dancing, oh boy, is there dancing...

I also read a little bit of Conan's blog which reads a lot like how he talks on his show.

Movieola also offers great entertainment value to insomniacs. Recommend this movie Lucky. And this one The Silent Treatment.

Best movie of 2007

This one beats No Country for Old Men, IMHO.

Pope Benedict likes fur

I'm fascinated by popular religious figures like the Pope and the Dalai Lama. Especially the Pope, but I'm not quite sure why. It may be because he manages to lead the life of a rock star jetsetter and still maintain his "austere" mortal status. That takes some clever marketing. Take for example Pope Benedict's large wardrobe.