Sunday, May 24, 2009

Reviews, Reviews...

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Watched "Angels & Demons" yesterday to know what the hype was all about. I read this Dan Brown's novel before, forgot some of the details though. Even in the Da Vinci code, I really didn't picture Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. I figured it would be Harrison Ford.
The movie was ok, of course Robert had a lot of dialogues had to explain a lot of things. Maybe that's why also a lot of things were left out from the book, they'd rather keep it simple for the audience. I thought Ewan Mcgregor somehow stole the spotlight there (although his hairstyle reminded me of Moulin Rouge, and I thought he would sing something). =D

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On John Maxwell's "Winning with People", I thought it was a great and practical book. Already tried to applied some principles with my team, and it helped a little. Bottomline on the book is that in order to win people, you should be more interested in them than talk about yourself all the time.

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I don't know why but I seemed to be hooked with BGT 2009 rather than with AI. Anyways, I know for sure Susan Boyle will make it. Diversity is great, it's just that their performances seemed short and needs to have a longer and more cohesive theme. I have nothing against Natalie Okri, but I think she lacks the confidence, dancing skills and facial expressions when doing her song and dance routine.

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Short but sweet reviews. I'll try to do this more often. =)