Golden Globe Awards

In yesterday's Golden Globe Awards event, the following winners were announced....some were unexpected but nevertheless all were good movies as it was nominated and won.

Now you know which movies you cannot miss at all:-
Cecil B. DeMille Award - Warren Beatty

Best Motion Picture - Drama - Babel

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Helen Mirren – The Queen

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Forest Whitaker – The Last King Of Scotland

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy - Dreamgirls

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
- Sacha Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls

Best Animated Feature Film - Cars

Best Foreign Languge Film - Letters From Iwo Jima (Japan, United States)

Best Director - Motion Picture - Martin Scorsese – The Departed

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture - The Queen

Best Original Score - Motion Picture - The Painted Veil (Desplat)

Best Original Song - Motion Picture - "The Song Of The Heart" – Happy Feet

Best Television Series - Drama - Grey's Anatomy

Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy - Ugly Betty

For the full listing of the other nominees, you can view it under the Nominations.
I have watched The Devil Wears Prada (click for my review) too. The Happy Feet movie is with me. I think I will watch it soon.
Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Beverly Hilton, Babel, The Departed, The Queen, The Last King of Scotland, Dreamgirls, Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Cars, Letters From Iwo Jima, Happy Feet, Greys Anatomy, Ugly Betty, The Painted Veil, Movie, Cinema, TV Series

Does God Exist?

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things. "The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt! The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber and I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him.

That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
Tags: Christianity, God, Barber, Customer

Monday Blues' Chuckles

*Break into the house*
A man went to the police station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. "You'll get your chance in court," said the desk sergeant.
"No, no, no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I`ve been trying to do that for years!"

*Lost Wife*
The man approached a very beautiful woman in a large supermarket and asked, "You know, I've lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?" "Why?" she asks. "Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman, my wife appears out of nowhere."

Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humor, Husband, Wife

Critics' Choice Awards

In order to have a better guide on which movies to see or buy, the following movies have been declared winners in their respective categories in the recent Critics' Choice Awards:-

Winners 2006 Best Picture: The Departed

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress: Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Best Acting Ensemble: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Director: Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Writer: Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Animated Feature: Cars

Best Young Actor: Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Young Actress: Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Comedy Movie: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Best Family Film (live action): Charlotte's Web

Best Picture Made for Television: Elizabeth I

Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth

Best Foreign Language Film: Letters From Iwo Jima

Best Song: "Listen", Beyonce - Dreamgirls

Best Soundtrack: Dreamgirls

Best Composer: Phillip Glass - The Illusionist

If you want to have more movie selections, see the full listing of nominees for the respective categories. Winners from this award are normally favourites for the Golden Globe Awards which is scheduled to be held on the nite of 15 Jan at the Beverly Hilton.

As for me, I have watched The Departed, Cars & Borat (click these names to read my reviews).

Tags: Movies, Critics Choice Awards, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Winners, Nominees, The Departed, Golden Globe Awards, Beverly Hilton

Wrong Time No See

Dear Ah Lian,
Thanks you for your letter. Wrong time no see you.
How everything? For me, I am quiet find. You say in your letter your taukeh soh want you to chain your look? Somemore you must wear kick kok soo, hope you can wok properly.

You know, Ah Kau Kia working in a soft where company now. Last week, he take I, Muthu & few of his friend to May Nonut to eat barger. After that he take we all go to kalah ok. Muthu sing and sing no stop until the sky bright. Next week, my father mother going to sellerbread 20 years annie wear sari. My father mother going to give a fist to all the kampong people. So you must come with your hole family.

I only hope one day we no need to write and send letter to you and to me. Better I e-meow you, you e-meow me. I will ketchup with you soon. And when you got time, please few free to call me.

Goo bye.....
Worm regard,
Ah Beng

The Spaceship Company

A collaboration between Virgin Group and Scaled Composites gave course of existence to a company called The Spaceship Company. The Spaceship Company will produce a fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships and launch aircraft where the spaceships will be operated by a company called Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic, who is going into commercial space tourism venture, has placed orders for five new SpaceShipTwo's and two White Knight Two's.

The Spaceship Company intends to make spaceflight affordable for the masses and to demonstrate the commercial viability of manned space exploration. Test flights were conducted in 2004 at Mojave, California.

The initial tests were done with SpaceShipOne as shown below.

As of now, there are 3 companies who are in this space venture, Space Adventures Ltd, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.

Upon return to earth after shooting beyond the earth.
Tags: Virgin Group, Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company, Space Ship Two, White Knight Two, Space, Spaceship, Travel

Constant Gardener / Dukes of Hazzard - movie review

Constant Gardener - starring Ralph Fiennes & Rachel Weisz. A lady who cares for the being of the Kenyan people was concerned about the medical care that the poors were receiving at their villages. Together with a local doctor, she ventured into finding the type of medicines being prescribed. At the same time, she fell in love with the British High Commission's top official and got married later. The marriage was shaky in a way that she placed her work above the marriage. She felt that the poor people's (in terms of thousands) were more important. Unfortunately, she was killed in a road accident. The doctor who was travelling together was not to be found and was the main suspect.

Her husband, all this while who had just listened about or saw what she was working on, went through her documentation and found certain disturbing situations. Later, his house was raided especially on his wife's belongings. Such desperate action by whoever prompted him to dive into his wife's passion for the people. In his love for her, he wanted to find out what his wife couldn't accomplish.

His investigation led him to a medication that has not been properly certified but brought over to Kenya to be tested on the poor villagers. The poor villagers were being used as guinea pigs for the untested medicines. In compiling evidence from various people, he travelled widely around Kenya and was followed by certain authorities to keep at bay. Upon finding out most of it, he soon realised that he almost stopped his wife from doing what she doing. A very good movie which relates to corrupted corporate giants with government authorities trying to earn their money at the expense of people in Kenya. Movie was able to play out the meaning of it and you could for the poor villages which could actually be happening.

Dukes of Hazzard - starring Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson & Burt Reynolds. The movie started off with a narrator mentioning that a placed would be good unless "you have the Dukes around"...... hahaha at that point of time, a car flew up a ramp and landed roughly. Both Dukes, cousins to each other, have been in this town since young and Johnny (not me but the main cast of this movie) was a car racer. Has been winning his annual race successively for few years. Somehow, a famous national racer, previously from this town too, came back to the town to participate in the race too.

While in preparation for the race, a sneaky businessman came about to obtain various pieces of lands belonging to the locals, not on willing-seller-willing-buyer basis but by crooked ways in finding loopholes to confiscate those lands. The Dukes found out that there were some natural resources underground of those lands.

The Dukes, including the beautiful Jessica Simpson playing their relatives, combined their efforts to inform the town folks about the businessman's crooked ways. Before the Dukes could do much, they were jailed. Upon finding a way out of jail, Johnny rushed to the racing circuit to participate in the annual race too. A comedy show but nothing much to shout about. The story line is very shallow.

Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Constant Gardener, Dukes of Hazzard, Rachel Weisz, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson