* what with this Margaret Court gets an award for being Margaret Court kerfuffle, time to revisit my 2016 post - why does Australia have so many awards? Isn't everyone feeling this way now? Every year seems to be more and more scratching around trying to find enough appropriate award recipients. Can't some politician bite the bullet and say this out loud?
* I thought I was getting more and more into art house foreign films, but on Saturday I watched the very well reviewed Taiwanese move A Sun on Netflix, and I did not care for it at all. It starts with a startling act of violence, follows the protagonist as he goes to juvenile prison, but then get progressively less interesting the longer it goes on. And it is pretty long. The direction is often pretty, and I can see that the actors are good, but the screenplay (to my mind) keeps too many characters' motivations completely opaque. I felt I didn't understand any of them properly for all of the movie.
I was tired while watching it, which never helps, but I am pretty sure I am right on this one. I am puzzled as to why it got such enthusiastic reviews.
* I endorse this brand of rendang paste mix. There are some other brands I have tried (from Indonesia actually) and they just aren't so great, particularly the Indofoods one. But this one from Malaysia is good:
One other observation: Ayam brand products are often a bit underflavoured, I think. Although, having said that, I did like the nyonya curry paste of their's recently.
People usually only get a gong for doing their job.
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