The Way We See Things

Just random musings from a couple of opinionated geeks

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The Studio Ghibli Theme Park We Deserve

While you can visit Studio Ghibli, it's not a theme park. It's a museum (hence, the reason it's called the Ghibli Museum). But what we really want is a proper Ghibli amusement park. Like this.

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We're looking forward to this! 

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An Artist Copes With a Breakup by Erasing His Ex in Photoshop | WIRED

Breaking up is hard to do. So is falling in love. Matthew Swarts has been pondering this since splitting up with a long-term girlfriend in 2013 and then finding a new one last year. To process the strong, often conflicting emotions that come with these changes, Swart is working on two photo series. In Beth, he manipulates old…

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Drive (2011) - The Quadrant System

One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most o...

Almost makes us want to re-watch Drive. The Quandrant System used in Nicolas Refn's Drive

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Looking Backwards: Chiam See Tong's legacy in the SDP (Part 1)

Try googling for Chiam See Tong in an SDP uniform. We assure you that you will never find it. Faded like memories of Captain Planet on 4:3 televisions; records of certain parts of Singapore’s histo...

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Punched in the gut of feels. I think this just about sums up what we feel about the entire AirAsia #QZ8501 incident.

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Christmas is time to recall a wonderfully bleak Gaiman short. Merry X'mas all

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"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." — Virginia Woolf ________________ Second hand books are now housed at the back shelves of BooksActually !

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How many people can Roy Ngerng blame?

“Perhaps you notice how denial is often the preface to justification” Christopher Hitchens. Wipe-out In bowling terms, it would have been a perfect strike for you. In single stroke, you wiped the d...

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5 Films we're catching at the 25th Singapore International Film Festival (2014)

So. After a two year long hiatus, the Singapore International Film Festival is back - with more backing it seems - better website, more film (147) and better locations (okay maybe save The Projecto...

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With Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City closing, we reminisce our favorite books discovered and bought there. This was more than a decade ago - and definitely one that stuck in my mind 

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How long does it take to forget someone

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No Such Thing As Ghosts

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Productive much? Right on the back of Oscilla.

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Things I don't get. To put things into perspective, Tan Pin Pin's film was 'banned/no public screening' for telling the truth? Congratulations Truth! 

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Grandmother that turned herself into the police for 2 days then bailed herself out when she had enough? #LIKEABOSS 

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Here are all the 5 posters of Singa the Courtesy Ghost’s Boos and Don’ts

Is this cute or is this cute?

This is actually pretty interesting - for a younger generation of Singaporeans who have no idea about the Do's and Don't of the Hungry Ghost Festival. 

Made better by the ghost of Singa, the ghost of Courtesy, Lion

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Stop Dumping Ice on Your Head. Just Give Money.

Facebook has become saturated with videos of people dumping buckets of ice on their heads. They’re taking the #icebucketchallenge, a viral phenomenon whose ostensible purpose is to raise money for charity. The challenge is simple: Either donate $100 to a given cause, or douse yourself with ice, film it, and...

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