Laddaland

Watched the Thai language horror movie Laddaland recently. Before the movie, I went to check out the trailer on YouTube, which you can find embedded below:

The trailer left much to be desired and I was not going to watch the movie. Then my cousin went to watch and recommended it to me so I went with a friend whom is a fan of this genre. I was pleasantly surprised by the movie.

It (to use my cousin's words) "builds up the tension" quite well. Started off slow, really slow with a long scene of happiness in slow mo. Everything was about happiness... until a maid was found dead, tortured and stored in a fridge. Things for Laddaland (which is a village) started to tense up and everything builds up from there. The use of music at the right moment and how the errr... ghosts appear are nothing new but damn, I still got frightened in a couple of scenes. This is one movie with minimal special effects and still was rather effective.

Recommended for horror fans! I actually like this better than Hollywood's Insidious and Drag Me To Hell.

Runaway Teddy

A teddy bear was found to be hitching a ride on a garbage truck with the letters WTF on its license plate! O.o

Li Na Becomes First Chinese Singles to Win Grand Slam Title

After reaching her first grand slam final at the Australian Open earlier this year, Chinese player Li Na managed to win her first grand slam at the French Open on Saturday, the first ever Chinese singles tennis player to do so at any grand slam!

She beat  last year's champion Francesca Schiavone (who incidentally was the first Italian to win a women's singles grand slam title) 6-4, 7-6.

via The New York Times.