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Amazing Race Season 12 starts tonight!

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Just realized that the season premier of Amazing Race Season 12 is tonight, Sunday Nov 4th at 8pm PST/EST.

I used to be a big fan of Amazing Race coz I love to travel and love to see all those countries that the teams get to visit.

Then, there was the horrible season with the family, what were they thinking? I boycotted that whole season after watching 1 or 2 episodes.

Soon after that, they had the All-Stars season which I couldn’t watch as well. I just could not watch Rob and Amber again.

Anyway, I really hope this new season will be like the old ones…no family, no previous contestants, please!

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Keep Moving Forward

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

“Keep Moving Forward” is the message in Walt Disney’s computer-animated film “Meet the Robinsons”.

I was actually falling asleep while watching the movie until the scene where the dinosaur was attacking Lewis and can’t get to him coz “I have a big head and little arms…”

It was really funny and I cracked up, and woke up in the process.

This movie is not as great as Finding Nemo or Shrek but it does have a great message….Keep Moving Forward even if it doesn’t go as you had planned.

It’s OK if you fail, just keep moving forward.

I think that’s a great message that both kids and adults can use.

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Hoax

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

This is a great movie starring Richard Gere and Alfred Molina. They are both excellent in the movie.

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Hoax is about Clifford Irving who stuns his publishers at McGraw-Hill when he tells them that he’s writing an authorized Howard Hughes autobiography.

Now that won’t be that shocking if Howard Hughes was not this eccentric, paranoid, recluse gazillionaire who had not been seen in public for over 10 years. (If you haven’t already, check out The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio which was a film I enjoyed as well)

It was a brilliant idea and Clifford fooled everyone, including 60 minutes! But it was Howard Hughes who was even more brilliant Clifford. He used Clifford to write about how he had given a loan of $205K to President Nixon’s brother, among other contributions.

Howard Hughes used the situation to his advantage and created an opportunity for him to get out of his legal troubles.

While not certain, this fake book may have made the Nixon administration so paranoid that it eventually led to the Watergate scandal.

This movie just came out on DVD so do check it out. I really enjoyed it!

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Daylight Saving time ends

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Daylight Saving time ends tonight, or rather early Sunday morning. Don’t forget to fall back an hour.

Starting tomorrow,  the days will get shorter and shorter as we’re back on Standard time.

We have daylight savings to make better use of daylight and to save energy. Because the days are longer, people spend more time outdoors and therefore use less electricity and energy at home.

 With winter approaching, the evenings are now cooler and I guess people won’t want to spend time outdoors anyway. I guess that’s why we revert to Standard time and more light in the mornings instead of evenings.

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