‘books/movies/plays’ Archive

Outliers

Two years ago, I received an email that had some fun facts about the bible. I thought it interesting and sent it along to a friend who is also my (self proclaimed) online bible study teacher. He replied in his typically concise manner  : “Thanks for the attachment – it’s interesting, but it’s not accurate.”
Everybody knows not [...]

The Little Prince

The Little Prince has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies. I came by this classic a few years back when life and love wasn’t as rosy a picture as it is now. I remember reading this chapter which had me in tears. Not the “aw.. this is so touching the tears [...]

Why do people get married?

Have you asked that question before? The answers I’ve heard ranged from “for the sake of the little ones that will arrive“, to “the elders in church wouldn’t approve of us living in sin“, to “i’ve found the one” (aww.. so sweet that one, isn’t it), and “he/she/our parents wants us to leh” (not so cool this [...]

FireProof

This dvd landed in our hands with high recommendations from my sister. So a few nights ago, we dutifully sat in front of the tv and popped it in the player.
The beginning was a tad shaky but it quickly got better as the plot unfolded. We laughed some, learnt some and teared some at the end [...]

The moral of the story is…

I wrote this entry sometime last year and would like to share it here because a good read should be shared (i’m referring to the book mentioned in the entry)  :
 Sometimes when a friend goes on and on about a story with seemingly no purpose, we’d rudely interrupt with “and the moral of the story is?” [...]