The Best Movie I've seen this year: Gran Torino


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Review in one line: So heart-rending, I was still crying when the lights came on.

Review if you have more time:
The story is a tried and tested one of the old Western movie, but in Gran Torino, Hollywood's last cowboy manages to still make it relevant in today's world.
In the same vein as Million Dollar Baby, this one'll make you laugh and cry as Clint Eastwood sums up a man's life in a few beautiful vignettes and conversations.

Watching suggestion:
Watch it with your man, so you can cry into his shoulder after the show.

No longer a concert virgin



I'VE finally done it.
Gone to see a concert, that is. The first time, and was I glad it was with Coldplay.
Aafter spending $160 on the tickets, I was expecting to have to scream "Give me a refund!!" at the end of the concert.
But far from being a sordid wham-bam-thankyoumam, this concert may have begun a love affair with Coldplay.

The evening started out without high hopes. I thought the most fun I'd be having was taking pictures like this:



Fortunately, Chris Martin proved to be more fun than taking pictures of an irate Swanboy.


This is a picture of him singing "42".
"Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head..."
So hauntingly beautiful.

There were the "Yellow" balloons, which have become, or so I've been told, tradition at Coldplay concerts...


Frenzied prancing on stage and severe "I am a musician" posing...



Though I wished Chris Martin would stop collapsing from fatigue.

The group also went onto a stage in the middle of the audience and did a little Come-Get-To-Know-Us set, when even the sullen bassist sang.


(Swanboy and I ran to where they were at, knocking over a plastic cup of some sticky beverage in the meantime... but we ended up a couple of rows behind them.)

It ended spectacularly with a shower of confetti, and with the audience calling the group back to encore with the "Whoaaa~" strain from Viva la Vida.



Take a bow and Viva la Coldplay!

Food from the men in my life


Jiji boy needs his meat. So does Elysa. Raargh!!!


This is what he whipped up when we had only rice ikan billis and curry vegetables for dinner.

This is what was supposed to be dinner:



And this was what Swanboy did:

Flower Rasin Butter-Milk Pancakes


This is Love.