Film Industry

"Aftershock," a movie about the devastating Tangshan earthquake in 1976, grossed over 34 million yuan (5 million U.S. dollars) at the Chinese box office on its debut Thursday. "Aftershock" is about a mother's three-decade journey to an emotional reunion with the daughter she thought she had lost in the earthquake.

Instructions:

1) Just like the Chinese movie industry in China, do you think Singapore's movie industry has a bright future? How well do you know about our local film productions? what are your favourites?

2) What else can our local movie industry do in order to reach out to international audience?

Techology 'rewires' our brain

please click on the link below to watch a video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8829335.stm

The video discusses about the impact of technology on people. Critics are worried that teenagers are greatly affected by the various modes of technology giving less importance to family time and friends. On the other hand, some think that using various technologies actually makes us efficient, creative and help us to develop the skill of multitasking.

So which side do you support? Is technology a boon or a bane?

Paul the Octopus Vs Mani the parrot

Singapore - Paul the octopus has become a media phenomenon after his perfect predictions on the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. However he has strong competition from another physic animal: Mani the Parakeet, from Singapore.

Paul, from Oberhausen, is facing a serious challenge from Mani the Parakeet, from Singapore, who is also in the sport’s guessing business. His owner claims that Mani has correctly predicted all the teams going into quarter-final games of the World Cup and agreed with Paul on Spain's semi-final victory over Germany.

The competition is becoming hotter now that Paul the Octopus is picking Spain as the winner and Mani the Parakeet has chosen Holland as the new World Cup Champion. Although Paul is known worldwide for his accurate predictions, Mani the Parakeet may have some advantage for clairvoyance powers since he belongs to a roadside astrologer Muniyappa, of Indian origin. The Parakeet’s predictions have already helped Muniyappa to increase traffic to his small business in Singapore's Little India.

The astrologer confesses that he used to see about 10 customers on an average day, but now, aided by Mani's psychic skills he is reading the future to the same number of customers in just one hour. There is no doubt that the definite outcome of the game will be decided by the efforts and skills of the soccer players from Spain and Holland on the pitch of Soccer City in Johannesburg on Sunday. However, it will be very interesting to find out which of the two animal competitors, Paul or Mani, is the one possessing the better psychic competence.

Source from:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/294434

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