Mighty Heart

The Mighty Heart recounts the events when Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter got kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan after 9/11 and how his wife, a fellow journalist relentlessly searched for him. It is a pretty straight forward story, a docudrama with out the usual Hollywood "big scenes," which, don't get me wrong, it's a good thing. (After being satieted with all fast-paced, effects driven films, one should put her/himself in a particular mode before watching this film) The actors were really subtle, the film not melodramatic.

A bad viewer as I am, I thought ahead. Anticipated how authorities would inform Mariane of Daniel's death. That was the saddest part. "Sorry, Danny didn't make it," that was the line that broke the strong facade of Mariane. She broke down, in a foreign land, with no one to hold and hush her down. It was almost painful to watch her thank people who helped her search for Daniel around the dinner table, while holding back her tears and forcing out a smile.

How Mariane held herself together through out is very admirable. She bore no hate nor bitterness towards the kidnappers, nor blamed authorities for not finding Daniel. She didn't succumbed to fear. Her husband's death gave her more strenght and determination to do her job.

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I am never apolitical, but have not really read on much about other countries' domestic and internal(tional) events. The movie got me curious on Pakistan-India and Jewish-Islamic relationships.

TBWA Hakuhodo

This site is so neat. Using stop motions of cut outs.

It opens with a big hand putting together the page, click on it and you get flicked by a metal hand, it takes you in an elevator ride complete with music and brings you to a client presentation. The site is refreshing to me, something new. Only it takes awhile to load (or it could just be my computer.)

TBWA Hakuhodo, http://www.tbwahakuhodo.co.jp/ a Japan-based agency is relatively new (established in 2006). It has an impressive list of clients like Addidas.

Ofcourse, the commercials (TV & print) are in Japanese (except the one of David Beckham) so, there really isn't a way for me to tell you if they really are good or not.

Firsts

There's always a time for everything.

This is my first stab at blogging, well, not unless you consider posts in networking spaces like facebook, friendster and multiply blogging as well.

Meeting three "veterans" in blogging, somewhat inspired, challenged, got me curious, got me started in writing one too. http://shaicoggins.com/, http://pic.blogspot.com/, http://blog.robinyap.com/

Why snapshots? That was the first word that came to mind, when I was prompted to put a title on the page. But I think it is appropriate and gives you an insight on what will be posted here. For sure, you'll see photos. As I am no expert (YET) of a particular subject, you'll get a glimpse of things that interests me and my thoughts on it.

For now, I won't have a theme, hopefully soon, I'd find and decide on one. :)