28 December 2010

Other Media

Computer Games

  • Battlefield Bad Company 2
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Mafia II
  • Starcraft II
  • Halo II
  • Mass Effect II
  • Medal of Honour
Theater and Concerts
  • A Little Night Music (Play)
  • Blackbird (Play)
  • Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (Play)
  • The Masrayana (Play)
  • Ignite (Live Music)
  • Those Who Can't Teach (Play)
  • Verdi's Requiem Mass (Concert)
  • The Tempest [Bridge Project] (Play)
  • Chico Valdez (Concert)
  • Vashti Bunyan (Concert)
  • Kings of Convenience (Concert)
  • Pink Martini (Concert)
  • St Vincent (Concert)
  • Melanie Gardot (Concert)
  • Daisy Pulls It Off [Stage Club] (Play)
  • Can Change (Play)

Movies Seen in 2010

Movies seen in 2010. Bolded titles recommended.

  • Tron Legacy
  • Tangled
  • The Battle for Terra [DVD]
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1
  • G.I Joe [DVD]
  • The Red Shoes
  • Megamind
  • Dial M for Murder
  • The Chess Players
  • Apur Sansar
  • Aparajito
  • Sandcastles
  • Inception
  • Toy Story 3
  • The A-Team
  • Shoah
  • Mary Poppins [Outdoors Sing-A-Long]
  • Star Trek [2009] [DVD]
  • Iron Man 2
  • The Limits of Control
  • Shake Hands With the Devil
  • How To Train A Dragon
  • The Man Who Stared At Goats
  • A Single Man
  • Whip It
  • Green Zone
  • Summer Wars
  • Nine
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  • Invictus
  • Sherlock Holmes

Books Read in 2010

Here's a list of books I read in 2010: 91 titles in total. Bolded titles are recommended.


  • Very Short Introduction to English Literature | Jonathan Bate
  • How Did You Get This Number? | Sloane Crosley
  • Bangkok Haunts | John Burdett
  • The Baker Street Phantom | Fabrice Bourland
  • Glasgow Kiss | Alex Gray
  • Nemesis | Philip Roth
  • Bring on the Apocalypse | George Monbiot
  • Another Point of View | Lisa Jardine
  • A Good Talk | Daniel Menaker
  • Why We Love Dogs and Eat Pigs And Wear Cows | Melanie Joy
  • Manchester United: The Biography | Jim White
  • The Fry Chronicles | Stephen Fry
  • Conned Again Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic Mathematics, Probability| Colin Bruce
  • The Harmony Silk Factory | Tash Aw
  • Cigars in Camelot | William Styron
  • I Was Told There'd be Cake | Sloane Crosley
  • Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demnick
  • Soccernomics | Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
  • The Sleepyhead's Companion | Sean Coughlin
  • This Book is Overdue | Marilyn Johnson
  • C | Tom McCarthy
  • Parrot and Olivier in America | Peter Carey
  • The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobsen
  • In A Strange Room | Damon Galgut
  • Bottlemania | Elizabeth Boyte
  • Howard's End Is On The Landing | Susan Hill
  • I Feel Bad About My Neck | Nora Ephron
  • Long for This World | Jonathan Weiner
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Steig Larsson
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire | Steig Larsson
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson
  • Truth and Beauty | Ann Patchett
  • The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked A Technological Revolution | Henry Schlesinger
  • The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty | Peter Singer
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa
  • The Dawkins' Delusion | Alister McGrath
  • Sunshine | Ian McEwan
  • High Noon in the Cold War | Max Frankel
  • Globish | Robert McCrum
  • Ani-Mattar | Frank Close
  • The Conscience of a Liberal | Paul Krugman
  • The Case of the Missing Books | Ian Sansom
  • Sway | Ori and Rom Brafman
  • Conversations on Ethics | Alex Voorhoeve
  • Friends in High Places | Donna Leon
  • A Brief History of Liberty | David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan
  • A Million Words and Counting | Paul Payack
  • The Varities of Scientific Experience | Carl Sagan
  • Fatal Remedies | Donna Leon
  • Poe | Peter Ackroyd
  • In Search of Orwell In Burma | Emma Larkin
  • The Singapore School of Villainy | Shamini Flint
  • Justice: The Right Thing To Do | Michael Sandel
  • The Kings of New York | Michael Weinreb
  • The Race of A Lifetime | John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
  • The Man Who Was Thursday | G.K Chesterton
  • The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley*
  • The Millstone | Margaret Drabble
  • Lustrum | Robert Harris
  • Brilliant Orange | David Winner
  • The Evening of the Holiday | Shirley Hazzard
  • Bangkok Tattoo | John Burdett
  • Indignation | Philip Roth
  • Porterhouse Blue | Tom Sharpe
  • The Pianist | Wladislaw Spzilman
  • The Yiddish Policeman's Union | Michael Chabon
  • Austerlitz | W.G Sebald*
  • Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann
  • The Cult of the Amateur | Andrew Keen
  • Oedipus Rex | Sophocles
  • SuperFreakonomics | Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  • Trick or Treatment | Simon Singh
  • Alex and Me | Irene Pepperberg
  • A Noble Radiance | Donna Leon
  • Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman*
  • The Lion and the Unicorn | George Orwell
  • The Communist Manifesto | Marx and Engels
  • Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh
  • Ender in Exile | Orson Scott Card
  • The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy
  • Demolition Angels | Robert Crais
  • 700 Sundays | Billy Crystal
  • The Cutting Room | Louise Welsh
  • Take Me To The Source | Rupert Wright
  • Pitching My Tent | Anita Diamat
  • The Confessor | Daniel Silva
  • Shopgirl | Steven Martin
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne
  • The Children's Book | A.S Byatt
  • Fatal Remedies | Donna Leon
  • Poe | Peter Ackroyd