Of Luxury And Luxury (New)

Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
Hollywood's mill of animation movies has never failed to amaze me.

Time and again, they have consistently come up with plots, stories and ideas that are fresh and portray different animal caricatures past and present and their traits in comical yet realistic ways. Where do they ever get those ideas from?

While the two extinct woolly mammoths are expecting their baby girl, Sabre-tooth tiger begins to ponder his aging singlehood while Sid, the Sloth, decides to mother and nurse three baby T-Rex dinos. In the meantime, Scrat is up to his usual antics with his favourite nut and it seems this matters more than a compatible female paramour as a side-distraction.

The consequences of Sid bringing up carnivorous baby T-Rexes are understandable. Sid may want them to be herbivores but mama T-Rex knows what is best for her brood. She may be ferocious, yet she shows her softer side in protecting and saving Sid from harm later on from an even bigger dino danger, Rudy.

Once the baby T-Rexes joins the community, the other baby animals have a rough time. The kid T-Rexes play hardball and even eat them up and spit them out again. The kid animals prove to be easy pushovers.

I could identify with Sid, the Sloth when he had to hang on while he treads his way through a minefield of floating boulders laced in hot boiling molten lava and his last words..."This is the end of Sid...." as he thought he would plunge to his death down the volcanic Nigara Falls.

The animals' journey through a dungeon filled with laughing gas was of course exaggerated but nevertheless hilarious. The aerial fights between the flying dinos and the heroes were almost like the futuristic Star-Wars Galactica saga except that this is in prehistoric times.

Nobody should miss out on this movie, if not for the plot, funny lines and antics, then for the 3D visuals.

What else can I say? $ob, $ob, $ob?

The Singapore Sling And As I Have Mentioned Before, It Would Be Convenient If All Luxury Brands' Full Collection Are Housed Under One Roof
Well ok, so Armani Casa, Armani's home collection, is available here in Singapore.

At Raffles Hotel where the Singapore Sling is concocted and sold at the Long Bar. The Singapore Sling is even available at supermarkets and I have tried out the cocktail in its distinctive fire-engine red bottle. It tastes FANTASTIC.

Ok ok, I digressed. I haven't visited the Armani Casa shop yet but as I did mention, it would be nice to house it all under one roof but then again of course there could be constraints?

But my fingers are still crossed for those other brandnames to make their way here.

Homosexuality Is No Longer A Mental Illness And Now The World's Largest Democracy Has Legalised It
Guess what?

The world's biggest democracy and the second most populous country has declared gay sex legal.

This is perhaps a timely move for other democracies like ours to follow?