RIFLE RANGE BOY

Did you forget to reflect? shuttershock.com Living in the fast lane is not for the faint-hearted. After the recent Weinstein-type of exposé in a hospital in Malaysia, my thoughts were drawn to an event that happened more than some 30 years ago.  As the Weinstein effect goes on hyperdrive, one cannot help but wonder whether how the perpetrators did what they did. It baffles how they got away with it. Did they not realise that it was morally wrong what they were doing? Are they too engrossed into it that they find it difficult to untangle? Was it an addiction? Was the power trip too compelling? Did they think that it was mutually agreed upon; hence it was entirely legitimate? I remember a varsity friend, who, with his new found freedom away from the prying eyes of his parents and having almost securing himself of a degree, wanted to live to savour the forbidden fruits of life. With his self-perceived appreciation of his physique, he ventured into the business of swinging. Ju...

Welcome to New York (French-English; 2014) I cannot fathom why the doyen, Gérard Depardieu, the name who is synonymous with modern contemporary French cinema would stoop so low as to appear in a meaningless movie like this one. It is no secret that it is a thinly veiled saga of the defamed ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. There are too many similarities between the two to deny. If one were to think that the film was made to highlight how he was framed, or show another version of how it have happened or how the whole fracas affected his career or his nomination of Presidency, you are in for a surprise. It depicts none of those. As you are aware, this high flying big gun with a soft spot for the fairer sex was to go for Presidency of France. The fact that the the accusation of rape by a chamber-maid in a New York so near before the win event screamed to high heavens of conspiracy theories. However, the film depicted none of the above. In short it was a pure meaningless gr...

Heard about an internet dating service that promotes affairs. Their tagline says it all, "Life is short, have an affair". They allegedly have 20 million over subscribers to choose from to have a fling, discreet, safe, yadda yadda yadda... Of course, people are up in arms on both sides of the fence for and against such a site's legitimisation. On the one hand, there is the argument that one should be left to do what one pleases as long as it does not hurt the other party. We should not criminalise affairs as Man, by Nature, are polygamous, and Nature encourages the selection of the best for continuity of species. Whether we like it or not, infidelity is going to happen, just as corruption and cheating. It is always better to do things in the open than doing it clandestinely. They often quote the therapeutic effects of affairs and spouse swapping to release sexual tensions and mismatch. On the other side of the fence, the naysayers argue that affairs are cheating, and peo...