From the very beginning, I have been a fan of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency series and it’s lovable protagonist, Precious Ramotswe. However, I must admit that the last two novels in the series were not quite upto the mark. Oh, they were good enough but I got a feeling that the characters were stuck in [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Move Aside, Mma. Ramotswe
Posted in books on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Waiting for the Mail
Posted in American Scene, Daily Life, Observations, Random on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I go out in the afternoons, I often see elderly people coming out to check the mailbox. Sometimes I see them waiting by the mailbox for the mail to get there and I wonder ” What could they possibly expect to get?”
I know my own mail is invariably worthless and unexciting.( An exception was the [...]
Curry is an Aphrodisiac ?
Posted in Culture, Daily Life, Food, Observations, Random on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Normally when thinks of aphrodisiacs, the foods that come to mind are oysters and caviar and champagne and chocolate. Now it seems we can add currry to the list. Just Eat, a British takeaway company, has ranked takeout foods according to the number of ( reputedly) aphrodisiac ingredients that they contain. Here are the top five and [...]
Sansho the Bailiff : the 250th Best Movie of All Time ?
Posted in Asia, Culture on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sansho the Bailiff won the Golden LIon Award in Venice in 1954 and is considered among the finest works of Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi. It also appears among the All-time Best Movie lists.
Is it really that good?
Sansho Dayu, or Sansho the Bailiff is a jidai geki or historical film set in the Heian period of [...]
Kurosawa’s ‘Redbeard’ and the Uplifting Power of Cinema
Posted in Asia, Culture, Life, Thoughts on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Movies , for me, are purely a means of entertainment . I usually stick to comedies and action-adventure flicks. Over the weekend, though, my son was on one of his infrequent visits home and we wound up watching Akira Kurosawa’s 1965 tour-de-force “Redbeard”. It was in black and white. We were watching it on a small [...]
The Book First or the Movie ?
Posted in American Scene, Culture, Daily Life, books on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t usually read novelizations ( books derived from films/scripts) but when I saw a copy of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the library,I couldn’t resist . I’d enjoyed Indy’s previous adventures, some more than others, and I thought it might be fun to read about his latest even if [...]
One Consequence of High Gas prices
Posted in American Scene, Daily Life, Observations, Thoughts on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The rise in gas prices hits home every time I go to the gas station. Not long ago, a tankful used to cost about $ 30 ; nowadays it’s over $60 and still rising. And , of course, the rising price of gas effects every thing else.
One consequence of high gas prices is that people [...]
