Rush Hour 3: Review “Rush Hour 3, AKA: Chris Tucker: The Movie” “Rush Hour 3” is by-the-numbers summer action movie, but by the the time you’ve left and revisited the other prequels, you’ll soon realise just how shallow, empty and pointless this movie really is. Caught up in development hell, script rewrites and complex salary negotiations, “Rush Hour 3” […]
The future To be honest, I’m not sure where else to take my website, I’m currently considering changing/downgrading hosting, as it is very expensive for me to run this site; in addition I’m playing with an idea for a new blog, probably to be run via blogger.com which will talk only about my passion for Hong Kong […]
The simpsons movie: Review “A fun, enjoyable summer movie…” I had reservations about a Simpsons movie, mainly because I feared it couldn’t match up to the cartoon TV series, also I had worries that the script wouldn’t be as crisp as the early cartoons. But I can certainly say I did enjoy this movie. It was funny, enjoyable and […]
Returned from Amsterdam I have just returned from a 5-day break in Amsterdam and had a great time. A city steeped in history, wonderful canals, architecture and very friendly people really added value to my time in the Dutch city. Some pictures have now been uploaded. Because of bandwidth issues, I’ve only selected a few All pictures removed […]
Die Hard 4.0 review “An enjoyable summer blockbuster action movie” When I was first heard about Die Hard 4, I was initially sceptical about it. I was worried that its star, Bruce Willis, was only doing it for the money; and that the Die Hard series was going to fall victim to the ‘cookie-cutter’ action vehicle that the original […]
Conan iPhone Parody This is the recent parody commercial of Apple’s new iPhone that was recently on The Conan O’Brien Show. Link: Conan iPhone parody (Youtube)
Never cold call again – review If, like me, you hate cold calling, then you’ll love the philosophy of Frank J Rumauskas Jr. The author of “Never cold call again – Achieve sales greatness without cold calling” articulates in his book the many reasons why believes cold calling is a bad way to do business. In his book, Frank discusses how […]
The London 2012 logo saga What you see above is the newly unveiled London 2012 logo. To me it looks like a branding exercise with a hip brand marketing PR guru wannabe getting his hands on it and throwing so many “managerial” new speak into it and come up with a big fat almighty mess. Apparently costing over £400,000, the […]
24 hour news coverage is the bane of modern society I don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to think that 24 hour news is now the bane of modern society, spreading cynicism, fear and a short memory. The power that rolling news coverage over stories, even if they are small stories, is begining to get out of control. If we take a broad overview […]
What is wrong with this advert? I recently saw an advert promoting Gateshead College, its in most of the Metros stations around Newcastle/Gateshead and you may have seen it. The advert is of a guy dressed in football gear kicking what appears to be a car tyre, and the advert is promoting the new Academy for Sport at Gateshead International Stadium. […]
