The Beginning

I'm so excited to have started this blog! After my abortive attempt at writing a blog about my life entirely in Italian, (for practice, lah) my new direction is rather narrow: films. I'll probably still end up rambling verbosely all over the place. In the process I hope I don't sound like a self-obsessed asshole. Anyway, I think it'll be fun to write about movies because I have so many that I can say I've enjoyed (as well as detested so much I couldn't go on) but only have a cloudy memory of.

Thankfully I'm not hazarding into unfamiliar territory. Until the end of August this year I was working as an editorial assistant at Freeform Sdn. Bhd., a mid-sized media company in Kuala Lumpur, for a local lifestyle magazine called KLue (don't you love the sharp title?!). It's a perfect place to work. No lie. For my first real working experience I couldn't have asked for a better one. My colleagues, boss and editor were easy to get along with. I think it's also partly due to the attitudes of Malaysians in general. They are laid-back and a fair bit more friendly than Singaporeans.

What I hear most often from Malaysians is that Singaporeans are stuck up (please check out this blog post on the subject by a German, self-confessed "Asianophile"). While I usually put on a look of mock indignation at this view of Singaporeans, in a way, it's true. I think money and the differing obsessions with it is what changes Singaporean and Malaysian dispositions, even though we're only separated by the piddly Johor Strait. When I move back to Singapore on January 25 I hope I'll feel as comfortable working there as I have in KL.

I guess Singaporeans typically don't follow Suze Orman's moral mantra, "People first, then money, then things."

Suze's show on CNBC is electrifying to me. The way she gets serious, her animated hand gestures, her voice, her mania for people's FICO scores... she is the hottest lesbian financial guru ever!

Moving on, I'll post one old film review a day from the ones I've written for KLue until those are exhausted. For better or worse, no more self-censoring or necessary word counts in my new reviews!