105 posts tagged “qotd”

New Moon broke The Dark Knight’s single day box office record. Are you planning on seeing this teenage vampire love story? If so: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Absolutely not. And ever since they said Rachelle Lefèvre was fired from the third picture so that Ron Howard’s daughter could take her place, it gives me more reason not to. I will, however, see Barney’s Version.

How old do you think children should be before they join social networks like Facebook and MySpace?

If they have parental supervision and have a good record of heeding a parent’s warnings, I think one can be flexible on the age. Otherwise, at least 13.
   Are there not some networks just for kids?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you sing?

If 1 is an American Idol reject and 10 is Matt Monro, then I would give myself a 6.
   Meanwhile, here’s some real singing from Matt.

How could touch–screen technology enhance the way you currently use your PC? How could it make things worse?
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It would be a pain in the ass cleaning grubby fingerprints off the screen.

If you had an extra day each month—that no one else had—how would you spend it?

This might be lame, but: catching up on emails. When you get 2,000 to 3,000 emails a week (the Fairfax Press indicates that Mayor Prendergast only gets 1,400), and don’t trust a PA enough to write back in the Hart’s Rules style, an extra miracle day would be awesome.

What’s your favourite memory from the summer of ’09?

The long days, the sun showers, being outside on the steps with my friends … oh, hang on, that was the summer of ’79.

What computer accessories and peripherals can’t you live without?
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Keyboard and mouse

I’m going to have to go right out on a limb and say the monitor, mouse and keyboard. These are very useful.

What is the first movie you saw in the the theatre?

Believe it or not, it was A Bridge Too Far. I hate war.
   As far as I can recall, we were new émigrés in New Zealand and with no one to look after me, my parents had to take me along to the cinema when invited by a relative. It was a late session as well and the movie bored the crap out of me. To this day I still despise war films (not to mention war itself).
   My second movie was either Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (very good stuff to a kid) or another gritty adult drama which was shown in my school’s hall, The Taxi Driver (not Scorsese, but a Hong Kong movie, 的士大佬, released a year before the US film). The latter was very violent and was only interesting then for its glimpse of life back “home”, in an age before video cassettes and long before Chinese cinema became mainstream in the west.
   Films took ages to make it out here, so the 1975 film, The Taxi Driver, would have been shown around 1978.
   The whole thing can be viewed on Youku, the Chinese version of YouTube that seems to be the home to a lot of pirated videos. The original, however, was in Cantonese. I glanced at a few minutes to refresh my memory that this was the right film, and sure enough, it was. I fast forwarded to the middle and there was a bunch of men beating the crap out of each other. As stupid today as it was in the 1970s, but this time I know it’s a movie with sound effects.

Are you doing anything special to celebrate Easter?

Isn’t this question a day late, even for Americans? Anyway, the special event was visiting the grave of my friends Chris and Linda.

Chris & Linda's memorial

   I took a pic as I am quite proud of the plaque, which I laid out based on Chris’s family’s requests, using a typeface family that Chris saw me develop in 1995. He saw the original drawings I did and I still remember having a brief discussion about them. I was honoured that I could give something to keep Chris and Linda’s memory alive.

Have you ever walked out of a movie?
Submitted by Jack Yan. 

Since this is mine, I had better answer it.
   Embarrassingly, I got freaked out by Margot Kidder getting crushed in Superman as a kid and asked my father to take me home. I mean, that was a nice LTD.
   I haven’t walked out since but I expect that if I went to Joel Schumacher’s version of The Phantom of the Opera, I would have definitely walked out thanks to Mr Butler’s singing. I am no Matt Monro but I believe I can sing better than Gerard.