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An Interview with Dr. Georgia Lee
Wanna know what it's like to be a socialite in Singapore? HOOKED chats up with Dr. Lee, a prominent figure in Singapore's high society, to find that socialites need not be all about play and no work. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
NUS Arts Festival Coverage
HOOKED reviews some of the top performances held during the recently concluded festival, including Love Is In The Air opening concert, Hip Hop Night '08, Terpsichore 2008: __:59 dance showcase, as well as I Left My Heart At Outram Park KR hall production. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
Cleo Bachelors Finals Party 2008 - School's out!
Every self-respecting lady should arm herself with a man worthy of her. HOOKED troops down to the party in search of the most eligible man for you. |
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SCENE'N'HEARD
An Evening with Broken Social Scene
Less than half of its contingent came, yet Broken Social Scene has doubled the expectations. HOOKED spends an evening with these talented musicians for a night of hyper-kinetic fun. |
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CAMPUSRAVE
Fake it 'til you make it:
The Elitist Complex
Does plastering yourself with branded clothing alleviate your social status? With the rising number of brand-conscious upstarts seen around campus, HOOKED attempts to make sense of such atas behaviour. |
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REALLIFE
Living the High Life:
Not All About Money
What is it that separates the bourgeoisie from the aristocrats? HOOKED explains why cold, hard cash is not enough to buy your way into the high society. |
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HE SAYS SHE SAYS
How Low Would You Go?
They say love can transcend all boundaries, but can it really overcome class differences? HOOKED examines how important it is to have an equal footing in a relationship between He and She. |
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GLAMOURUS
Fashionable Elites or Elitist Fashion?
Fashion may be part and parcel of our lives, yet it still seems elusive to most of us. Is Fashion only for the elites? Let HOOKED's resident fashionista tell you what it takes to get on the Fashion highway. |
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FOODTALK
Atas Makan Places
Check out HOOKED's list of posh restaurants to see and be seen in! Don't be silly; it has nothing to do with how good the food taste. |
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E-REVIEWS
The Atas Guide to Museum-Hopping in Singapore
We don't only review movies and albums. This time, HOOKED assesses our local museums where you could cultivate the atas soul in you. |
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E-REVIEWS
Crows Zero: Of Blood-thumping Violence
If being refined is not for you, how about watching some blood and violence to release your pent-up frustration? |
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ETCETCETC
10 Ways To Bluff Your Way Into Being Atas
HOOKED teaches you how to fake your way into the upper class. Whether you make it or not, however, is another story altogether. |
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My DNA Says I Love You: But Do You? |
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Written by Winnie Choo
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The seriously questionable scientific basis of the movie notwithstanding, My DNA Says I Love You is a pleasant romantic comedy.
Set in a hypothetical future where people can tweak their DNA composition by taking complex and ludicrous assortments of medication to negate their seemingly arbitrary personality traits, this movie is off to a quirky start.
In any case, this is the basis of the plot. Different pills are invented in time for our heroine to take an entire host of them, surreptitiously and against her better judgment, in the questionable name of love.
Alas, her oral ingestion of pills only amounts to comic-inducing but disappointing outcomes. Again, if you go in expecting nothing beyond getting entertained, you'd find the movie worth your while.
The movie's lightweight plot is interspersed with comic droll bits that are thankfully not overly exaggerated, which is testament to the adept casting of the roles.
If you are a science geek, you may even be amused in spotting scientific faux pas, such as the very uncharacteristic 'fungi' that throb, burst into bloom in seconds, and affix themselves to human skin. Actually, you don't even need to know science to find that odd.
With genetic manipulation as its main premise, the movie deals somewhat superficially but poignantly with issues of identity: whether we should be identified by our genetic makeup and what we risk if we change too much of ourselves for those whom we love. But don't expect something along the lines of Gattaca, or Brave New World.
It is, after all, aptly titled: My DNA Says I Love You, which is a clearly facetious and tongue in cheek indicator of the direction of the storyline.
A resolution is provided at the end of the movie for these issues. Unsurprisingly though, the solution presented is in a simplistic, overly generalized form of a pill and is non-deterministic. While the pill promises to resolve the identity problems, it creates other new sneakier problems in the place of the old ones.
Despite the fluffy plot of this romantic comedy, the movie still managed to command attention, with picture-perfect actors, settings of mood-matching color schemes, cute references to astrology, as well as a quaint finishing touch - characters with obsessively compulsive, yet delightful disorders, who just can't help being who they are. HOOKED
hooked's rating: 3/5
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