If blogging is a luxury for me nowadays, watching a movie is sublime.
And I wouldn't have done it if not for the fact that ONE, I have the company of my friend Anthony (including a vegan dinner and a slew of intense confabulations about dissertation ideas), and TWO, The Other Boleyn Girl is starring the vegan and Harvard-educated NATALIE PORTMAN! (It is the latter quality that makes me swoon over her with salivation uncountable)
Scheming as she was in her role as Anne, it only make her all the more endearing as a protean thespian capable of redefining bimbo-tism. Adding to the list of examples that women with looks can have brains and acting professionalism all at one, it doesn't matter whether The Other Boleyn has inaccuracies in its historical account of King Henry's infidelity. As far as I am concerned, that this show is biased in its portrayal towards Anne, and which only through this would Portman's thespian skills be shown in its full glory was what all matters to me.
So, go watch The Other Boleyn Girl, even if you have exams in a week's time, innumerable NIE assignments, 4 tuition kids and having to attend three evening classes!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
sin square + cos square = Onnnnnnneeeee (*ooohh)
..(gasp!).... x = -b +/- (gasp...) sq root b square (gasp...) - 4ac over 2 a.
Yes... and ooohhhh...
1 + tangent square = (gasp) secant square..
No, this is not recited by an industrious student in a math formula memory marathon, nor do you hear these strings of esoteric verses punctuated with gasps in an exam hall.
You are more likely to hear these in a hotel room, and recited with utmost passion by Shilpa Lee pulling out (no pun intended) no stops to add a bit of curry in the steamy room.
In case you are wondering who Shilpa Lee is...
Shilpa Lee was born Sufiah Yusof in Malaysia
(Just as Annabel Chong was born Grace Quek in Singapore)
Born to a scientist mother and a mathematician father, Sufiah was hothoused by her father since young. She made international news when she was admitted to Oxford to read math at the age of 13. One can imagine the intensity that her parents subjected her through, and it was no surprise when I read that she would wake up in the morning to do breathing exercises and then marathoning math questions in a chilled room (cold temp purportedly improves concentration. My NIE experience doesn't seem to agree with me, anyway..). Apparently, punching helps, and her father would punch her and her siblings in the wee hours of morning to wake them up.
Information about her became quiet for a while until news broke out again of her marriage at the age of 19 to a law student, Jonathan Marshall. Singapore bore some of their footprints as they came here for a few months, only to use this time to divorce.
Then she disappeared from the public's eye, until she was found again by a journalist.. in a hotel room. This time round, she again became the spotlight of international news when she was found to be working as a high class prostitute, and using the money she earned to pay for her Masters degree in economics and her rented accomodation in Manchester.
I read with interest the following take from the Straits Times (April, 7, p 17)
"People think escorting is sleazy and terrible, but I don't see it like that. I've always had a high sex drive- and now I'm getting all the sex I want - and guys are much better in bed with an escort than a girlfriend... my clients treat me like a princess. One guy took me shopping on Bond Street. He bought me a beautiful black Gucci dress for £700 and then took me to Selfridges, where I could pick a handbag I liked"
("And later that night, she had no qualms about repaying his generosity")
"I have studied so intensely for so many years, I want to have some fun"
She denies her education as being wasted, saying her mathematical abilities is a big turn-on for some clients.
"I have men who are thrilled about my passion for mathematics. One made me recite equations during sex"
Life isn't fair isn't it?
Yusof's rate is 130 POUNDS/hour for mouthing math formula (though her mouth can be more versatile now)
I also spew forth the same maths formula to my student, but my rate is only 50 Sing dollar/hour. Guess it's all about what clients are you talking about.
Perhaps, this is what I call Python-gory Theorem:
Whether it is:
a square + b square = £130
or:
a square + b square = 50 Sing dollars depends on who you are!
P.S. Incidentally, Sufiah's father is now in jail for outraging the modesty of two young girls. See how warped his world is!
Yes... and ooohhhh...
1 + tangent square = (gasp) secant square..
No, this is not recited by an industrious student in a math formula memory marathon, nor do you hear these strings of esoteric verses punctuated with gasps in an exam hall.
You are more likely to hear these in a hotel room, and recited with utmost passion by Shilpa Lee pulling out (no pun intended) no stops to add a bit of curry in the steamy room.
In case you are wondering who Shilpa Lee is...
Shilpa Lee was born Sufiah Yusof in Malaysia
(Just as Annabel Chong was born Grace Quek in Singapore)
Born to a scientist mother and a mathematician father, Sufiah was hothoused by her father since young. She made international news when she was admitted to Oxford to read math at the age of 13. One can imagine the intensity that her parents subjected her through, and it was no surprise when I read that she would wake up in the morning to do breathing exercises and then marathoning math questions in a chilled room (cold temp purportedly improves concentration. My NIE experience doesn't seem to agree with me, anyway..). Apparently, punching helps, and her father would punch her and her siblings in the wee hours of morning to wake them up.
Information about her became quiet for a while until news broke out again of her marriage at the age of 19 to a law student, Jonathan Marshall. Singapore bore some of their footprints as they came here for a few months, only to use this time to divorce.
Then she disappeared from the public's eye, until she was found again by a journalist.. in a hotel room. This time round, she again became the spotlight of international news when she was found to be working as a high class prostitute, and using the money she earned to pay for her Masters degree in economics and her rented accomodation in Manchester.
I read with interest the following take from the Straits Times (April, 7, p 17)
"People think escorting is sleazy and terrible, but I don't see it like that. I've always had a high sex drive- and now I'm getting all the sex I want - and guys are much better in bed with an escort than a girlfriend... my clients treat me like a princess. One guy took me shopping on Bond Street. He bought me a beautiful black Gucci dress for £700 and then took me to Selfridges, where I could pick a handbag I liked"
("And later that night, she had no qualms about repaying his generosity")
"I have studied so intensely for so many years, I want to have some fun"
She denies her education as being wasted, saying her mathematical abilities is a big turn-on for some clients.
"I have men who are thrilled about my passion for mathematics. One made me recite equations during sex"
Life isn't fair isn't it?
Yusof's rate is 130 POUNDS/hour for mouthing math formula (though her mouth can be more versatile now)
I also spew forth the same maths formula to my student, but my rate is only 50 Sing dollar/hour. Guess it's all about what clients are you talking about.
Perhaps, this is what I call Python-gory Theorem:
Whether it is:
a square + b square = £130
or:
a square + b square = 50 Sing dollars depends on who you are!
P.S. Incidentally, Sufiah's father is now in jail for outraging the modesty of two young girls. See how warped his world is!
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