The Unrepent Wolf of Wall Street: A Controversy Between No Moral and Great Filmmaking

the wolf of wall street review

Leonardo DiCaprio has once again shown his charismatic side in this movie apart from the previous movie, The Great Gatsby. The three hour long movie surely show a punch in the wild lifestyle of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) who got a little fortune through selling of penny stocks and starting up a company called Stratton Oakmont.



 What is Quaalude Actually ?

Quaalude is a brand name for Methaquolone which has been noted by Indian researchers in the 1950s. It is being use as a hypnotic, for treatment of insomnia and as a sedative and muscle relaxant. However, the medicine has been abused by users as an illegal recreational drug, especially popular in the late 1960 and early 1970s. It was manufactured in USA under the trade name Rorer and "Lemmon" with numbers 714 stamped on the pills which is often referred as 714s, "Lemmons" or "Lemmon 7s". One of the funniest moment and great acting by Lenardo DiCaprio was when Donnie offers Jordan a powerful brand of Quaaludes, which they thought the pills are old and seems to lose their potency and they took huge doses to compensate. The Quaaludes kick in with overwhelming effect while Jordan was at the country club calling his private investigator, Bo Dietl, who has warned him that his house phone was being tapped by FBI and insisted that Jordan to call him back using a public pay-phone. He had to climb all the way over the stairs to reach his sporty car before having a disastrous journey back home.

Some Facts About This Movie
  • It is one of the movie that uses the most word "fuck".
  • This is a fucking real life story. 
  • Audience responded that the movie has actually raised the status of Jordan Belfort as a better man despite his scams has caused many loss of family and fortune. 
Conclusion

I bet this is one of the best movies I have watched recently and the Leonardo has definitely given his best acting skills and efforts put into this movie. I did not know that it was a true story until I searched for the name "Jordan Belfort". There are controversies as some of the victims think the movie has given him a good image instead portraying the truth to the audience. However, I will still give 7/10 for the acting.
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Top 13 Online Auctions in Singapore

There are many different kinds of auctions that are held in Singapore and below are just some I thought I would want to spell it out for the rest.

No. 1 The Straits Time

If you looked at the classified ads of the newspaper, from time to time there are auctions being held by pawn shops selling gold, jewelry etc. That will be a good place if you are looking for cheap jewelry or watches. Also, when some big companies are shifting their location, they might want to dispose the office stationary, so that might be a good place to look for office stuff if you needed.

No. 2 Bid for Wine

Bid for Wine is an online auction site that specialise in selling wines and other alcoholic drinks. The items that are being sold are not only restricted to sellers in Singapore, but overseas as well.

No. 3 Ad Pasar

Ad Pasar is a Singapore's online shopping site offering garage sales, second hand items and also new products. It is 100% free to add in new listing for sale. They have more than 50,000 products being sold online at the present moment.

No. 4 American Embassy Singapore

The American Embassy Singapore do sell items like household or office furniture, applicances, computer equipment using bid auction system. Successful bidders have to pay full in cash before collection. However, the embassy does have the rights to reject any bid if it does not commensurate with the value of the item.

No. 5 DTZ Property Auction

They have a dedicated auction team in Singapore to auctions all kinds of residential, office and retail properties such as shops, houses, hotels, boarding houses, industrial buildings and development sites as well. Currently, DTZ are holding monthly auctions.

No. 6 Penny Auction

This online auction is the one of the kind auction that when everytime someone makes a bid on a particular item, the countdown timer reset and start counting down again, which is usually set at two minutes. When the countdown timer reaches zero and you are the last bidder, that means that you have won the bid.

No. 7 Qoo10

One of the largest online selling market by Korean G-market. They do have their own auctions that sell items from their listings.

No. 8 Mavin International

If you are a devoted collector for coins, postcards and bank notes, Mavin International is definitely the right place for you. They are also the official auctioneer for Monetary Authority of Singapore.

No. 9 Larasati Singapore

Selling famous paints through auction system. Good for collects as well. Prior to the auction, you can view the paintings that Larasati Singapore going to auction the upcoming auction.

No. 10 Borobudur Auction

Borobudur's mainstream of auction items includes asian contemporary and modern art, fine jewellery and wine. They are also having auction in countries like jakarta, netherlands, taiwan, china.

No. 11 eBid

eBid might be the largest online auction available in Singapore, selling more than two millions products in more than 13,000 catagories.

No. 12 Expat Auctions

Expat Auctions is a "live" auction house selling quality recycled, used home furnishings on behalf of the owners. There are night auctions on every wednesday and also weekly saturday auctions. The main furnishings available come from expat that are leaving singapore or downsizing their homes.

No. 13 Biddora Singapore



Biddora use tokens which you can purchase via their website using either Paypal, MasterCard or Visa. The price for tokens are slightly lesser than $1.00 per token and if you bulk purchase the tokens, you are getting a cheaper rates for the tokens.

All the auctioned items starts off with a zero dollar price tag and if you are interested in the item, you can just place a bid with a certain amount of token(s). Each of the bid will increase the auction price by a fixed amount and increase the countdown timer from 15-20 seconds (varies on item). Once the countdown timer reaches zero (no more new bids), the last bidder wins and can purchase the product at the auction end price.

Pros
There is only limited items in the auction inventory which means it saves you trouble to compare between similar items in the site (like eBay) before putting down a bid.

Cons
First you would have to pay immediately to purchase the tokens for the bidding. That means that if you did not win the items you would like to bid on, your money would not be refundable. Secondly, you will again have to pay for the end price that are displayed at the end of the auction, as well as the shipment charges.

Updated on 6th Jan 2015.
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Exchange of Unused Expired HDB and URA Parking Coupons

Parking coupons that are valid only up to 31 Dec 2013 can no longer be used from 1 Jan 2014. However, Motorist can exchange the expired coupons with new ones during office hours from 2 Jan 2014 onwards at the following locations.


  • All HDB Branches and Service Cenre
  • URA Customer Service Centre - 45 Maxwell Road, 1st Storey, The URA Centre, Singapore 069118
  • Coupons cannot be exchanged at other sales outlets like petrol stations, shops and post office.
  • Further enquiry, public may call HDB at 1800-2255432 or URA Car Parks Division at +65 6329 3434.
I doubt that will be many people keeping these coupons for such a long time, unless petrol has become too expensive that they stopped driving their cars and leave the coupons sitting inside. 
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让女友开心的十二大道理。。。

1。她无聊时陪她。
2。她难过时安慰她。
3。男生要主动点。
4。多约女友出去。
5。不能让女友主动约你。
6。让她每天都开心愉快。
7。要好好对待女友。
8。顺从女友的意愿。
9。不要让她伤心难过。
10。当她被欺负要立刻去保护她。
11。不要隐瞒女友事情。
12。不能背叛女友。
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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Movie Review

To be honest, I was not really interested with the movie in the first sight of the poster as it seems that the show was boring, but fortunately my girl friend wanted to catch this movie before the screening ends.

Movie Information
The story plot was from James Thurber's 1939 classic story from a day-dreamer, Walter Mitty (direct and star Ben Stiller) who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his current working company, the "Life" magazine had a merger, his job and co-worker, Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig) are in jeopardy because of a lost film No. 25 which he thought his long working parter photographer, Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn) did not actually send him and he embarked on a journey to track him down.

Imagination VS Reality
The show mixed the elements of imagination from Walter Mitty's mind and his real embarkment to track down the photographer. Though in the first few scenes was hilarious, but the later part of the movie when he was on the journey has been a confusion if what he has done was just his imagination or reality.

Great Scene !
In Singapore, you would not even had a chance to get a great overview of the entire landscape without a building (we are quite over building at the moment). Simply loved the sights of the sea, Greenland, Himalayas and also the Snow Leopard.



See more of their trailer at their official website, www.waltermitty.com

Conclusion
My money is definitely well spent on this movie. The plot I would say that my tickets and pop corn are well spent and though I did slipped off into my dreaming state for a while (maybe I was too tired the night before), but the movie did refresh me on the daily life that we are living in right now, and the interesting things that we are missing out in our life. Rating 8/10
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