Maui – West Maui
Maui island is made by two volcanos, Halemahina (House of the Sun) and Haleakalā (House of the Moon)
Maui – Wailea
When we went to Oahu 4 years ago, the first impression once we got off the plane was it is very humid. Not here in Maui.
Um…
[abp:M:1400095433:c:alignright]Author: Michael Erard Rating: [rating: 4/5] The book caught my attention when I first saw it in Book. Inc store. Now I finally got time to read it. The topic of the book are stumbles, blunders and so-called filler words, such as 'um', 'uh', 'you know' and etc. the words…
Revolutionary Road and Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road: Explosive acting; forced story. Frost/Nixon: Unbiased charactor studies with a bit of Hollywood exaggeration.
‘Burn After Reading’ and ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
Burn After Reading: Witty, Smart, and Hilarious. Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Spain's buildings and gardens are fresher than the story.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
This is a movie shouldn't have been made. Rachel Weisz was smart. She chose to drop out because of the bad script. For those who didn't drop out, they seems tired and they don't connect to each other at all. It's a shame to bring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh…
Mamma Mia! and The Dark Knight
On the contrary to the critics who rave about "The Dark Night", I don't like it very much. Someone even claims this is a Oscar contender, but I found it is too dark and there are too many loopholes. The bad guys just keep winning, and the movie just seems never end. How…
Blink
[abp:0316172324:c:alignright]Author: Malcolm Gladwell Rating: [rating: 3/5] The author starts the book with an event around Getty's collection of a kouros sculpture: how historians hunch the kouros sculpture might be a fake at the first sight, but all the scientific approaches fail to discover. The author then introduces the center phrase…
A Beautiful Math
[abp:0309101921:c:alignright]Author: Tom Siegfried Rating: [rating: 1.5/5] John Nash became known to many people because of the movie "A Beautiful Mind", but the movie only focused on his personal struggles and almost ignored what made him a Nobel laureate. In this book, Tom Siegfried sets out to let people know Nash's…