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In the past few months, I’ve noticed that this blog has become less and less of a personal journal and has slowly turned into a review blog…be it food, movies, books (not that it’s a bad thing)…

I’ve become more cautious about the personal things that I write and more protective of my privacy…sometimes thinking twice before I blog about something that has just happened, or where I work, for example.

I’ve also noticed that recently, blogging doesn’t seem to hold that same appeal that it used to. No longer do I feel the urge to post something, or spend hours editing photos, tweaking my post before I hit the publish button…

Anyhoo…

To cut a long post short, this is me, signing out. I’m not saying that I’m ‘never ever gonna blog again‘ coz fundamentally, I still enjoy writing, but for now, this is adieu. I may create a blog solely for food reviews, but I’m just leaving that option open for the time being.

To my tiny but much loved readership base…thanks for reading and for taking the time and trouble to leave comments now and then. One of the things that I’ve enjoyed very much over the past 2+ years was interacting online with people whom I’ve never met except through words and sentences, as well as meeting some of the food bloggers in person.

I’ll still be popping by your blogs (even though I rarely leave comments!)…so don’t be a stranger…

Take care, y’all…

Premieres 24 September 2007 - one more month to go!

Yataaaaaaa!

I added the Ratings plugin some time ago as I wanted to give a ’scale-able picture’ of my reviews as well as collect views from readers who have tried the restaurant or watched the movie before.

Recently though, I’ve noticed that some people seem to be giving ratings of either 1-star or 5-stars (I have a ratings log in my WP admin page and I can see who gave the rating), and while I may be wrong, I have a feeling that it’s not out of a genuine desire to rate the restaurant/movie, rather, more to mess up the average reading which is not really fair for readers who want to see a proper and quick review.

So, I’ve changed the rating options to only allow registered users to rate. If you want to screw around with the ratings, by all means do so after you’ve had to waste some of your precious time to register first.

For those who have genuinely used the ratings to express their views, sorry for the bothersome extra step.

We’ll see how it goes. I may just decide to remove the plugin entirely if this goes on since it’ll no longer be accurate…

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Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

Everytime I hear that song by Sixpence None The Richer, I immediately think of the 1999 movie, She’s All That, starring Freddie Prinze Junior (who appeared in practically every teen flick at that time!), Rachel Leigh Cook, Usher, Lil’ Kim, Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Paul Walker and even a cameo by Sarah Michelle Geller.

My two favourite scenes is the part where Laney walks down the stairs after her transformation from a geek to a babe with ‘Kiss Me’ playing in the background, and the catchy dance sequence to Fat Boy Slim’s Rockafella Skank!

While searching through YouTube, I came across this video made by a teacher at Lowell High School, where the seniors actually practiced and danced the same sequence at their prom…how fun! The prom video was too dark to be seen properly, but they also made an instructional video of the dance…so if you want to relive those good ol’ days and learn the dance sequence…click play!

Now, excuse me while I go oil my creaking bones…

I’ve always been fascinated with the life and times of King Henry VIII and his 6 wives (divorced, beheaded, died; divorced beheaded survived!), so imagine my delight when I read on the paper today that there was a new series called The Tudors, where sexy Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays King Henry VIII!

Now, off to Amazon to see if there’s a DVD set available!