Chaplin's Insightful Gems for Living

How true,this encapsulation of living a truly worthy life.

How insightful of Mr Comedy Man Extraordinaire!

Boutique Hotels are Getting Popular

My Home Hotel, SS2

There was a time when you either have to go very up-market or very down-market if you want hotel accommodation. The upmarket is now almost entirely an enclave for the very rich as their star ratings have propelled them to big bucks, denying the common man of ever thinking of spending a night at one of them.

Alamanda Hotel, Petaling Street

Then, came the Bed and Breakfast hotels-they are cheap but hardly good and appears to be a haunt for back-packers, mostly from the continent.

Now, we have the boutique hotels,affordable and well located.

Hotel JJ,SS2

Mostly carved out from three-storeyed shop-houses in prime locations with easy access to food and transportation,they are mushrooming in Malaysia.Their rates from RM60 to less than RM200 is a welcome come-uppance to many, particularly sales personnel that needs to stay for short stints to do canvassing for their goods and services.

I-Hotel, Kota Damansara

By and large, they are clean though some come without windows and expect the noise to be many decibels higher.

So, next time when you come to Petaling Jaya or Kuala Lumpur, remember there is affordable hotel accommodation in boutique hotels.

Great Marine Movie

Heartbreak Ridge is one movie that displays the machodom of the US Marine Corps.

As usual, expect Clint Eastwood to be a hard-hitting;jaw breaking Gunnery Sergeant that will whip his outfit into a lean fighting force when they have to mount an amphibious operation to save Americans stuck in Grenada during a civil upheaval.

Heartbreak Ridge is derived from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge Bridge in Korea during the Korean War.

The protagonist love for the marines has caused a rift in his marriage to Aggie played by Marsha Mason whom he is trying to win back before she accept the proposal from another. That he succeeded ,makes it a feel good movie.

As usual, it was fun while it lasted and I enjoyed every bit of this movie.

Bloody Organs Transfers

I missed this movie in the circuit.

Another of the Eastwood movies, Bloodwork is grippy and its twists and turns can baffle you as the protagonist seek out a serial murder only to find that the dastardly chap is his neighbouring marina boat-mate.

The premise of a cat and mouse between the protagonist and the antagonist whereby the antagonist kept the protagonist alive by providing him a heart transplant that is suitable with his rare blood type makes an interesting plot.

Wanda de Jesus, a Cher look-alike, provides the eye-candy in this movie while Jeff Daniels played the unlikely villain.

Very watchable movie.