::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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The Flash uses the Droste effect to outsmart Mirror Master, and when Mirror Master gives a stunned look, the Flash smugly smirks, "I know, right?"
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[The Flash] - Humorous scene with multiple subtexts.
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Does Kenny G know that Chen Hanwei pretended to be him?
http://video.toggle.sg/en/series/romance-of-the-season/ep1/481625
On another Sg forum, someone mentioned the main lead actress (the one Chen Hanwei is romancing in this drama series) committed suicide shortly after this drama series. Another mentioned that this series was rather popular in China when it first aired back in 1991 (let's see, that's 26 years ago, I remember buying Kenny G on cassette tape back then, before even CDs existed, let alone DVDs, which only came 10 years after CDs).
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You know how Harold and Kumar go to White Castle? From Singapore, Kong Hee and Sun Ho go to Suicide Forest
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SG MAN STANDS UP AGAINST IGNORANT ANG MOH, EARNS APPLAUSE FROM FELLOW S'POREANS
(image for illustration purposes only)A local netizen wrote about his experience standing up to an ignorant Ang Moh, who arrogantly claimed that bikers are not allowed on the pavements and scolded him for it.
Fortunately, the netizen was aware of the legal amendments which allows bicycles on footpaths and pavements. He countered the Ang Moh and shouted at him,
"DON'T COME TO SINGAPORE AND TELL A SINGAPOREAN WHAT CAN OR CANNOT BE DONE" !!!
He shouted so loudly in the middle of Raffles Place, everyone around him looked at him. However, what the netizen did not expect was that a handful of Singaporeans spontaneously applauded and cheered him on.
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A really cool concept to the credit of director Christopher Nolan, though it won't work well for most films, as its applicability is highly dependent on the nature of the plot specifics.
Memento (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)
Pearce stars as a man who, as a result of a past trauma, suffers from anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories and suffers short-term memory loss approximately every five minutes. He is searching for the persons who attacked him and killed his wife, using an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track information he cannot remember. Memento is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences "meet" at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.
The sujet (syuzhet), or the presentation of the film, is structured with two timelines: one in color and one in black-and-white. The color sequences are alternated with black-and-white sequences. The latter are put together in chronological order. The color ones, though shown forward (except for the very first one, which is shown in reverse) are ordered in reverse. Chronologically, the black-and-white sequences come first, the color sequences come next.
Using the numbering scheme suggested by Andy Klein in his article for Salon magazine who took numbers from 1 to 22 for the black-and-white sequences and letters A–V for the color ones the plotting of the film as presented is: Opening Credits (shown "backward"), 1, V, 2, U, 3, T, 4, S, ..., 22/A, Credits.
There is a smooth transition from the black-and-white sequence 22 to color sequence A and it occurs during the development of a Polaroid photograph.
The fabula of the film (the chronological order of the story) can be viewed as a "Hidden feature" on the 2-Disc Limited Edition Region 1 DVD and the 3-Disc special Edition Region 2 DVD. In this special feature the chapters of the film are put together into the chronological order and is shown: Ending Credits (run in reverse), 1, 2, 3, ..., 22, A, B, ..., V, then the opening title runs "backward" to what was shown (the opening title sequence is run in reverse during the actual film, so it is shown forward in this version).
Stefano Ghislotti wrote an article in Film Anthology which discusses how Nolan provides the viewer with the clues necessary to decode the sujet as we watch and help us understand the fabula from it. The color sequences include a brief overlap to help clue the audience into the fact that they are being presented in reverse order. The purpose of the fragmented reverse sequencing is to force the audience into a sympathetic experience of Leonard's defective ability to create new long-term memories, where prior events are not recalled, since the audience has yet to see them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)
18-Minute Analysis by Director Christopher Nolan on the Story and Construction of 'Memento' movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYScJZWhaHARelated videos on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Memento+movie
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[USA] - Decomposed body found of a 6 year old girl who was abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night 5 years ago
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/tucson-police-remains-missing-6-old-found-233137176.html
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[Singapore] - An ASS reader contributed a video which showed a PRC van driver beating up a lady in broad daylight at a Ubi public carpark. The woman tried to hit back but was met with a barrage of kicks and punches to her body. Some drivers honked hoping to stop the altercation to no avail. Nobody came forward to stop the fight.
At one point, the lady was punched in the face and fell onto the road face down. It is unclear what caused the fight to transpire but eyewitness to the incident shared that the lady had came out of the driver's van before the brutal fight started.
Unprovoked rage or lovers tiff gone wrong, netizens reacted with disbelief that nobody including the video taker attempted to stop the fight. Everyone was just watching the good show.
Video : https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/prc-van-driver-bash-lady-broad-daylight-ubi-carpark
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[Korean Drama] - Mrs Cop episode recaps
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Qn : Where's his spirit of adventure? Ans : it's all the way on the other side of the world.
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"Pets are way better than kids. If your dog's burying bones in the backyard, he's cute! If your kid's burying bones in the backyard..." - Don Kelly
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Singaporean girl kena racism in New Zealand
She said she had been conditioned to accept that being screamed on the streets by locals with racial slurs like "Fuck you, Asian cunt!" has become 'just a normal occurrence' in her life.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4328338/New-Zealand-Chinese-woman-hits-racist-trolls.html
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An American expert on China, residing in Singapore, analyzes the upcoming "Donald Trump versus Xi Jinping" meeting, and predicts who will KO who.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/will-xi-run-circles-around-trump
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Han HuiHui has fled Singapore to seek political asylum in Europe
http://www.theindependent.sg/han-hui-hui-leaves-singapore-to-seek-asylum-in-an-european-country/
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If someone deliberately left an unattended suspicious-looking bag, even if empty, he/she should be investigated and charged if malicious or malevolent intent is established. Otherwise, everyone can keep leaving suspicious-looking empty bags at every MRT station, thereby shutting down the entire MRT network.
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[Medical] - Night Terror vs Nightmare
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No surprise that USA is militarily stronger than the next top 10 countries combined. Or that #2 and #3 are Russia and China. What's pleasantly surprising is that Singapore is ranked 25th strongest military in the world (on par with Indonesia, stronger than Malaysia).
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Man almost killed by his own iPhone
http://www.complex.com/life/2017/04/alabama-man-shocked-by-charging-iphone
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In the first place, it's the granddaughter's fault for being an idiot and buying a luxury handbag, let alone buying one to gift her grandmother.
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[China] - Teenage girl now rejects rich biological parents to stay with and care for permanently-paralyzed and poverty-stricken adoptive dad whose wife abandoned him after he became paralyzed
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[China] - Baby dolphin butchered on street
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Read the visitor comments below the article.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/four-day-baby-rescued-mediterranean-humanitarian-ship-121234086.html
