This Siti Never Sleeps At Night

Up all night so you know what to watch, read, and hear


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Love It or Hate It: M.A.D.E Series D by Big Bang

f4b60b265799834dbed144afaf8ece7fWho knew that two new singles by the world’s best K-Pop idol group (according to korea.com), Big Bang, could get yours truly out of a self-imposed hiatus to write an entire post about said two songs? I mean, here I am, lying on my bed with my back aching terribly (from God knows what) and I am still determined to write this down. I missed two movie reviews during my entire self-imposed hiatus even though I was well and dandy. But this? Oh, Siti has got to write about this one.

To give a little background to those who have no clue what this is all about: In a nutshell, Big Bang releases two singles on the first day of each month starting May according to these letters – M, A, D and E – after which in September, they will release a full album with all the songs they have released plus possibly a few new songs. This is to gift the fans who have waited for them for 3 years. It’s a new concept no other K-Pop artistes or idol groups had done before. This month, July 1 at 12 midnight, they released two new singles from D series called “If You” and “Sober”.

The reason why I decided to write a review for these two singles is primarily because it gave me too many feelings and thoughts to be suppressed into tweets and a short Facebook post.

Let me start with “If You”…

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Love It or Hate It: Aloha

Also known as, “What the hell, Hollywood?”

Aloha is obviously a Hawaiian term for saying “Hello”. But if you look at the cast for this movie, you would not think that this is set in Hawaii, which has the “highest percentage of Asian Americans and Multi-racial Americans, and the lowest percentage of White Americans of any state” (credit: Wikipedia) . The movie trailer is so filled with white Americans that I would have thought the movie was set in Los Angeles.

But what sets me off is Emma Stone’s character.

Note: I love Emma Stone and this is in no way an insult on her. This is more of a critique on the casting director’s choice and the director himself.

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Love It Or Hate It: Big Bang’s “Loser” and “Bae Bae” Music Videos

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My 5 new favourite people in the world right now, Big Bang, has made a comeback after 3 years of hiatus as a group in the K-Pop world. (Note: For those who do not know how K-Pop world works – which I did not and only learned 5 months into loving these 5 dorks – 3 years is long for a group to not release music together.)

Big Bang indeed made a huge bang into the music scene by releasing not just one song but TWO songs – “Loser” and “Bae Bae” – as a gift for their fans, lovingly named VIPs, who have waited patiently for them.

In less than 24 hours, both videos have reached more than 1 million views. In fact, “Loser” is now viewed more than 4 million times while “Bae Bae” has crossed the 3 million mark.

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Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

10869325_591589580977275_2778898650041679518_oFor my American readers, this would seem as a whole lot of surprise that I have watched Avengers: Age of Ultron. But it is released in Singapore and other parts of Asia first before the Western countries. It might be a good strategy as Asia probably has a higher rate of piracy so releasing it here first lower that chance of such a big budget movie being pirated. Anyway, so yes, I have watched Avengers and it has all the things you expect the movie to have – action, comedy (as all Marvel movies tend to have) and a little bit of drama.

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Love It Or Hate It: Big Bang ‘Made’ Tour Trailer

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It’s been 4 hours or so since I watched the trailer of Big Bang’s ‘Made’ tour. I thought I could finally find the words to express the emotions that I’m feeling right now but I’m still at a loss for words. Words has failed me today, ladies and gentleman, and it’s all thanks to these five lovely talented men.

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Movie Review: The Last Five Years

1.171988My closest of friends and family members would know that I love musicals. If I could sing through my entire life, I probably would but it would sound like Les Miserables – “I dreamed a dream in time gone byyyyyyyy…” – so I don’t bother.

But as much as I love musicals, I had no clue about The Last Five Years. Zilch. Na-da. It could be a good thing because I would then have absolutely zero expectation on the movie since I did not even know the existence of the stage version. With that said, I sort of expected a musical version of One Day. It’s not exactly like One Day though.

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Movie Review: Fast & Furious 7

Furious-7-Movie-PosterEarlier, I went to watch the latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise. I would like to admit that I was not a big fan of the franchise at first. I love racing – a big fan of Formula 1 and MotoGP even though I neither drive a car nor ride a motorbike. But Fast & Furious was never my cup of tea. I’m not sure exactly why but I came to love the later installments. I am particularly fond of Elena, who is quite a badass.

Like any other action-packed movies with racing as the central plot, it has beautiful fast cars and sexy, bikini-clad ladies. But what Fast & Furious has that the other similar movies do not is heart, which could be due to the fact that the casts know each other long enough that they indeed became a family so when one member is gone, you could sense the sincerity in their goodbyes. And Fast & Furious 7 is indeed a 2-hour long goodbye to Paul Walker, who died 2 years ago in an accident.

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