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Bak Kut Teh (meat bone tea) 肉骨茶 It is the act of 4 Malaysian Indians going out on a Saturday night in a car in the streets of Kuala Lumpur listening to Allycats singing a Malay song (Sampaikan Salam Cinta Ku) heading to a 24 hour Bak Kut Teh shop to chow down spicy herbal porcine meat gulped down with golden juice imported from the cold land with fjords. Bliss! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! http://www.bakkutteh.org/Bak-kut-teh.html

Oru Nadigai Naadagam Paakkiraal (An actress watching a play, Tamil;  1978) Jayakanthan This is another film penned by the controversial Tamil writer, Jayakanthan. It is said that the story is not a figment of his imagination but inspired by his one time fling with an actress. The film comprise the same main ensemble of crew as in Jayakanthan's other movie, Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal - Srikanth and Lakshmi in the lead role, YG Parthasarathy and Nagesh in the supporting role and A. Bhimsingh in the director's chair. Ranga (Srikanth) is a journalist who writes reviews on dramas. He meets up with a 30 something actress, Kalyani (Lakshmi) for an interview. Ranga is a widow with a 5 year old daughter. He is from a white collar background. Despite negative comments from his uncle (Thengai Sreenevasan) and family about marrying an actress, Renga weds Kalyani legally without any ceremony. After marriage, sweet love turns sour. Ranga believes in true love whereas Kalyani i...

Cà Testaredda - the villa they stayed in ...."Somebody's smoast" Every living day is a day to arm our arsenal of knowledge. As a dynamic language, the English language increases it vocabulary periodically. The latest word that may make its way to our dictionaries is the word 'smoast'. Smoast refers to the act of boasting in social media (sm), hence sm-oasting. Anyway, that is the reason social medias were created in the first place. To put nice pictures of places that you have been to (indirectly saying', "Eat your heart out! I have been to the 'Four Seasons', see your can beat that!").  To put messages and be 'liked' by thousands of your FB friends- indirectly saying "See everybody likes me, see if you can beat that!"......Show off! And this is my latest picture with my prettiest outfits even though everyone in my family dislike me because I am ugly in the inside.... Collin Harper Dictionary Definition of ...

Gelora (Turbulence, Malay 1970) The late 60s must have been a lousy time for P. Ramlee. The introduction of the idiot box to Malaysia, the glamour of the Hindi films with unbelievably drop-dead suave actors and melodramatic stories and melodious songs to match in cinematographic colours, the closure of Jalan Ampas studio due primarily to labour disputes and age issues had its toll in garnering finances for his movie-making. On top of all that, he was the punching bag of ridicule for the local papers for his inability to replicate his previous successes in Singapore here. The banks were not forthcoming for loans either. P. Ramlee expressed Utusan Melayu's dismay for constantly belittling his efforts, stories,s and direction. In a sudden twist of events, an editor from this journal, Osman Abadi, came forward to the legend with a script of this story. After some screenplay changes here and there,' Gelora' materialised. Of course 'Gelora' is the name of his fav...

Pattikada Pattanama' (Village or Town, Tamil; 1972) During the seventies, as Indians charged ahead to the future with industralization, they were ambivalent of the loss of their traditional Indian values. Hence, to preserve Indian culture and make them feel good about themselves, many films were made in the early 70s to ridicule the 'modern' way of Western living and to impress upon its audience the greatness of Indian way of life.  The Hindi side of movie-making had their share of this genre of offering. Manoj Kumar was one of the leaders in making these patriotic movies, the classic example being ' Purab Aur Pachhim ' (East and West). Kollywood's offering of the same seem to be this 1972 flick 'Pattikada Pattanama' (Village or Town).  In keeping with the typical melodrama and histrionics of Indian drama, stereotyping was maximum here. It won the Best Feature film for that year with excellent acting calibre and crowd pulling capability of Siva...