TRAVEL TO PLACES: SINGAPORE RIVERSIDE POINT

My Personal Experience: I went to Riverside Point last May 11, 2012, together with my sister. We went there to tour my sisters friend, Sentosa Boardwalk our first destination. There we walked across the riverside and went to Vivo City we ate at Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks. We saw the night life at Clarke Quay our second destination. We had dinner at Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore Italian Restaurant and saw lots of crabs on the river.

Riverside Point

A waterfront dining venue by the beautiful historic Singapore River, Riverside Point will tantalise patrons with popular and unique restaurants like Brewerkz, Jumbo Seafood Restaurant and Café Iguana. Riverside Point offers a fast and easy reach to the growing market of tourists, expatriates and professionals living and working in the Central district.

Source: http://www.fareastretail.com.sg/home/index.aspx?key=riversidepoint

TRAVEL TO MOVIES: DIVERGENT

Director: Neil Burger

Cast: Ashley Judd , Aaron Eckhart , Kate Winslet , Shailene Woodley , Miles Teller , Jai Courtney , Theo James , Ansel Elgort , Zoe Kravitz

Plot: "Divergent" is a thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent). Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.

Source: http://movies.insing.com/movie/divergent-2014/id-3ae50000/

My Movie Review: The movie is indulgent, popular but still has an element of innocence. Mixed of veteran and new actors playing interesting parts with characters divided in different personalities. If I'm given an opportunity to choose among five distinct factions I will choose Dauntless like Tris cause I'm  brave, risky and likes to have fun. But I can be a Divergent as well cause I'm brave, honest, intelligent, quite peaceful and little bit selfless.

My Favorite Lines: "You're different. You don't fit into any of the categories. They can't control you. They call it divergent. You can't let them find out about you." "The future belongs to those who know where they belong." "If you wanna survive, follow me."

TRAVEL TO PLACES: THAILAND LAGUNA HOLIDAY CLUB

My Personal Experience: I went to Laguna Holiday Club last April 28, 2011, together with my whole family. We started from Changi Airport going to Phuket Airport and check in at Laguna Holiday Club. We hangout to the rooms and took pictures at the poolside area. We have lunch at Village Bakery and rode the shuttle to explore other parts of the resort. 

Laguna Holiday Club

It's a holiday paradise of deluxe hotels and villas spanning 1,000 acres of tropical parkland along an eight kilometre stretch of pristine beach at Bang Tao Bay on Phuket's West coast, in Thailand. Everywhere within the resort is easily accessed within minutes by unlimited use of shuttle boats and buses.

Source: http://www.lagunaholidayclub.com/location/

TRAVEL TO MOVIES: DEVIL'S DUE

Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Cast: Zach Gilford, Allison Miller, Sam Anderson, Vanessa Ray, Aimee Carrero

Plot: After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2752758/

My Movie Review: The movie is not that scary, the thought of watching horror movie in the cinema makes me more scared. The narrative of the story is clear unlike the other horror movies, that only thing I don't like is the cinematography, the camera is always shaking makes me dizzy and uncomfortable. I guess that's one of trick to make it scary but makes me go to without finished and makes me question the quality of movie I'm watching.
My Favorite Term: Sinister

Sinister means evil. It comes from the Italian word sinistra, meaning left. When children reached for something with their left hand it was hit, as left handedness was considered to be a sign of the devil. Of course, this didn't happen much outside of Italy.

Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sinister

TRAVEL TO PLACES: SINGAPORE BUGIS STREET

My Personal Experience: I went to Bugis Street last May 6, 2012, together with my sister. We came to Dhoby Ghaut Station going to City Hall Station and stop at Bugis Station. We went to Bugis Street where lots of food and clothing outlet stores seen and across the street we went to Bugis Junction and Bugis Plus Bossini, Giordano and J.Co Coffee Shop.

Bugis Street

It was renowned internationally for its notorious night activities, where flamboyantly dressed transvestites would gather and parade themselves. Bugis Street has become a unique retail shopping destination. After undergoing a major facelift, Bugis Street now houses almost 800 shops, making it the largest street shopping location in Singapore.

Source:http://www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/browse/shopping/shop-by-category/curios-and-knick-knacks/bugis-street.html

TRAVEL TO MOVIES: 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

Director: Noam Murro

Cast: David Wenham , Rodrigo Santoro , Lena Headey , Eva Green , Sullivan Stapleton , Callan Mulvey , Jack O'Connell , Hans Matheson

Plot: Noam Murro directs this prequel and sequel to the 2007 film "300", Zack Snyder's fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas leads 300 Spartans into battle against Persian "God King" Xerxes and his army of more than one million soldiers. The film covers the Battle of Artemisia (a possible reference to the Battle of Salamis or the Battle of Artemisium which was concurrent with the battle at Thermopylae) was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in September 480 BC, in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. It marked the high point of the second Persian invasion of Greece which had begun in 480 BC. It will also cover some of Xerxes' backstory, explaining how he became the "God King".

Source: http://movies.insing.com/movie/300-rise-of-an-empire-2014/id-58e40000/

My Movie Review: The movie is astonishing, less epic than the first one but I still like it. 300: Rise Of An Empire makes me understand more what happened before and after the last scene in 300. I like the battles but I don't know why they always set in the seas. 300 men never fails to show their abs and the enemies look good too like Rodrigo Santoro and Eva Green. The movie felt like short version of the 300 and the ending felt short as well.

My Favorite Lines: "It begins as a whisper, a promise, the lightest of breezes dances above the death cries of 300 men. That breeze became a wind. A wind that my brothers have sacrificed. A wind of freedom, a wind of justice, a wind of vengeance." "Nothing will stop the march of my empire!"