books_movies.log
This page keeps track of books 📖 and movies 🎬/series 📺 that I watched or read, starting from 2019.
Bold means recommend 👍.
It would be great if you see something you’re also interested :)
2021
| Name | Author/Link | Version | logger.info() |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soul | 🎬 imdb | Cathay Cineplexes | I heard the voice of Moss once ‘Jerry’ comes out, haha |
| Jack Ryan S2 | 📺 imdb | Prime Video | Only watched the first and last episode as the plot has so many flaws. |
| 日本人の知らない日本語 | 📺 豆瓣 | ||
| Death to 2020 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Matches my impression of the year 2020 quite well. |
| Prison break | 📺 imdb | Netflix | “Welcome to Prisneyland.” Although I’m maybe 15 years late for this show? 😂 The first season is the best one, but the following ones are not bad. I finished the whole series in around 1.5 months, so in average, four episodes a day, just couldn’t stop. |
| The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company | 📖 Robert Iger | Kindle | The book described an exciting and fascinating career that changed Disney dramatically, with some lessons learned on the way. (update: Disney+ streaming service has been a success in the Singapore market too, according to The Economist, Disney+ gather new users six times quicker than Netflix? Impressive.) |
| 被讨厌的勇气 | 📚 岸见一郎 / 古贺史健 | Kindle | （中国語で読んで）嫌われる勇気：自己啓発の源流「アドラー」の教え。「すべての悩みは、対人関係の悩みである」という言葉がある。わたしには大切な本と思います |
| 幸福的勇气 | 📚 岸见一郎 / 古贺史健 | Kindle | （中国語で読んで）嫌われる勇気と合わせて、読んで良かったと思える本に出会えて、意味があった |
| 小王子 | 📚 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Kindle | 经典重读，兴趣斐然，甚至还在kinokuniya收了一本日语版的以后看。。。 |
| 围城 | 📚 钱钟书 | Kindle | 经典重读。你从《围城》中读出了什么？ |
| The Bourne Identity | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Classic action movie entertainment! |
| 名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊 | 🎬 wiki | ベイカー街の亡霊はコナン映画歴代最高作品か？確かに面白い映画だと。 | |
| Educated | 📚 Tara Westover | A memoir about an inspiring and encouraging self-discovery experience, even better than I thought! The ability of self-education is and would always be essential. | |
| Her | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Beautiful science fiction talking about a kind of romance or ‘nightmare’ to me, with AI. The scenes were so familiar, then I found out they were filmed in Shanghai. |
| Nobody | 🎬 imdb | Shaw | I like the actor Bob Odenkirk because of Saul’s role. Turns out to be a John Wick type action movie. |
2020
| Name | Author/Link | Version | logger.info() |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent Record | 📚 Edward Snowden | Kindle | Nice autobiography from a heroic whistleblower. The book is now open-source for free. |
| The Office | 📺 imdb | Prime Video | It’s never too late to start this series😂 I guess many parts of it would appear in my head again and again haha. |
| Marriage Story | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Emotionally real and devastating story, stand out acting performance from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. |
| tmux 2 | 📚 Brain P.Hogan | O’Reilly | “Your mouse is slowing you down.” |
| Practical Vim, 2nd Edition | 📚 Drew Neil | O’Reilly | Recently picked up Vim + tmux, finally make better use of my HHKB keyboard. |
| Peaky Blinders S3 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| 想见你 | 📺 douban | 难得有一个看完了的爱情故事题材烧脑元素电视剧。。但的确不错，烧了小一阵子的脑子 | |
| The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018) | 📚 Carol Nichols | O’Reilly | A best-quality official document about a programming language I’ve ever read. Quite a lot to read and think! |
| Better Call Saul S5 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Just watch it. |
| Always Be My Maybe | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | An ideal movie night love romance movie. |
| The Proposal | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | First movie I’ve seen that’s taken in Alaska. |
| Formula 1: Drive to Survive S2 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | 🏎️🏎️🏎️ |
| The Upside | Prime Video | ||
| Westworld S3 | 📺 imdb | HBO | Finally S3 came, happy to see Marina One and many Singapore scenes in the show. |
| You Don’t Know JS: Async & Performance | 📖by Kyle Simpson | O’Reilly | Interesting points: 1. Generator & yield keyword; 2. Web Workers; 3. Performance benchmarking & tuning. |
| You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond | 📖by Kyle Simpson | O’Reilly | |
| House of Cards S1-3 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Rewatched for the 3rd time, still learnt a lot. “What you’re asking is just shy of treason”, “Just shy, which is politics.” |
| Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Came across this talk show but it’s of quite good quality. |
| The Economist | 📖 website | Kindle | I take it as my source of truth about what’s happening in the world, and source of English wording😉, for now. |
| Kim’s Convenience | 📺 imdb | Netflix | It was a random recommendation by Netflix, but turns out to be a relaxing comedy! Talking about Asian immigrant family’s life in Canada. |
| 非自然死亡 アンナチュラル Unnatural | 📺 douban | 开始学日语之后看的第一个日剧✅ 私はひらがなとカタカナを学んだ後、最初のテレビシリーズ (from Google translate lol) | |
| 千与千寻 Spirited Away | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | 一个关于梦境，成长，自由与爱的故事，我居然长这么大了才看😂 Best Animation movie, wonderful and beautiful, will definitely watch again. ｜ |
| Undercover billionare | 🎬 imdb | YouTube | Although I feel it’s not so real… |
| Courage to be Disliked (被討厭的勇氣) | 📖 Kindle, 岸見一郎、古賀史健 | Goodreads | A book about Adlerian theory, “Individual Psychology” |
| American Beauty | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | A deep and thought-provoking film. Lester Burnham: It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about. |
| The Big Bang Theory | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Watched again, it’s perfect for fun and to watch with meals |
| The King: Eternal Monarch | 📺 imdb | Netflix | I do like the the scenes that are shot with some different camera angles, feels a bit like Better Call Saul, maybe it’s because it’s a Netflix origin? |
| 白夜追凶 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | The best Chinese TV series on Netflix? 拍的是真好看，情节看上去也没什么漏洞，希望这样的国产剧能够更多一些。 |
| The New One Minute Manager | 📖 amazon | Kindle | My manager recommended this title to me. The content is concise but straightforward, definitely learned something from it. |
| Interstellar | 🎬 imdb | Rewatching this movie after several years, it’s still a fascinating experience that gave me goosebumps. The plot was intriguing and made me think it through, and I always like Matthew McConaughey’s acting. I gained much curiosity about how space station works that I watched many YouTube documentaries afterward. | |
| Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A different angle about experiencing prison life, my only concern is how practical is this when you have a camera crew following you all time. |
| World’s Most Wanted | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A reminder that Narcos comes from real life. |
| Tenet | 🎬 imdb | Cathay Cineplexes | Great movie experience in the theatre, but I think I only understood 50% of what happened😂And love the performance by Cedric Diggory. |
| Land the Tech Job You Love | 📖 by Andy Lester | O’Reilly | Some chapters give valuable experience for programmars’ career development topic. |
| Immigration Nation | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| 虚无的十字架 | 📚 东野圭吾 豆瓣 | Kindle | |
| Effective JavaScript | 📚 David Herman | O’Reilly | An insightful book offering in-depth look at how to write robust JavaScript code, when the language itself is sometimes error prone. |
| 深入React技术栈 | 📚 陈屹 | ||
| Peaky Blinders S4 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| The Social Dilemma | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A very well made documentary with a group of tech experts explaining how we’re affected by social networks. |
| Soft Skills, The Software Developer’s Life Manual 软技能：代码之外的生存指南 | 📖 John Sonmez 豆瓣 | 基本什么话题都提到了一些，覆盖了咱们程序员日常聊天的方方面面。 | |
| 無法成為野獸的我們 獣になれない私たち | 📺 豆瓣 | 挿入歌が好きです | |
| All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur | 📺 imdb | Prime Video | Better than my expectation, actually the best football team documentary I’ve seen for now. I expect to see better performances for Spurs this season (and Everton too) |
| 垫底辣妹 ビリギャル | 🎬 豆瓣 | はい、私は一生懸命勉強しています | |
| Dirty Money S2 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| Inception | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Third time watching, still great. One of the best NOLAN files, masterpiece |
| Emily in Paris | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A light comedy about France, language is key to a new world. |
| The Queen’s Gambit | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A beautiful story about chess, being smart is so remarkable. The scene and music are excellent. |
| 東京獨身男子 とうきょうどくしんだんし | 📺 豆瓣 | Netflix | |
| Real detective | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Brilliant series about real-life crime stories and good cops, happening around 1990-2000. |
| Ted Lasso | 📺 imdb | Apple TV+ | Apple TV+ doesn’t have many shows, this Ted Lasso is a good comedy, with the topic of a football team coach and a Premier League team. |
| 菊与刀 | 📚 Ruth Benedict | Kindle | 了解了很多日本民族的文化模式和特点，可以从一个全新的视角来看待这个国家。当然只凭一本书就了解日本是不可能的，可能这本书也有些过时了，毕竟六十年时间过去日本也不一样了。 |
| Mastering Regular Expressions | 📚 Jeffrey Friedl | O’Reilly | |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| Jack Ryan | 📺 imdb | Prime Video |
2019
| Name | Author/Link | Version | logger.info() |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Is Beautiful | 🎬 imdb | Life is beautiful, I love the ‘Guido Orefice’ character, such a wise man. | |
| 1984 | 📚 George Orwell | Kindle | Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |
| Animal Farm | 📚 George Orwell | Kindle | BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. |
| 流浪地球 | 🎬 豆瓣 | ||
| Game of thrones Final season | 📺 imdb | HBO | 😅well…I really expected something better. |
| Chernobyl | 📺 imdb | HBO | That’s how you tell a history. |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 🎬 imdb | Singapore Airline | Nice with the Singapore Sling on the plane haha |
| Pulp Fiction | 🎬 imdb | Singapore Airline | I believe I didn’t understand it. Will watch it twice. |
| Alita: Battle Angel | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | More awesome as we watched it for free by vonchers |
| Principles: Life and Work | 📚 Ray Dalio | Kindle | Actually the author has a PDF about all the main ideas. Can check this link. |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | 📚 Dale Carnegie | Amazon | |
| Shazam! | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | Chuck! |
| 一只特立独行的猪 | 📚 王小波 | Kindle | 相见恨晚，早读个五六年就好了 |
| The Shawshank Redemption (rewatch) | 🎬 imdb | Watch it for… the fifth time? Still so good. | |
| 名偵探柯南：紺青之拳 | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | 好巧啊小学生也来🇸🇬了？ |
| Learning GraphQL: Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps | 📚 Alex Banks and Eve Porcello | O’Reilly | Quite good for beginners |
| Dumbo | 🎬 imdb | Eva Green! | |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | 📚 Martin Kleppmann | O’Reilly | The only book you need for system design (inverview lol). |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startups | 📚 Carreyrou, John | Kindle | Excellent storytelling about a Silicon Valley startup. Also saw the documentary, also OK, but I like the book more. |
| Red Flags: why… | 📚 George Magnus | Kindle | |
| Fear: Trump in the White House | 📚 Woodward, Bob | Kindle | The author already published his second book about Trump when I just started the first one. Too fast for me, didn’t finish. |
| A Star Is Born | 🎬 imdb | Another great soundtrack album! By Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga | |
| The Hangover | 🎬 imdb | A funny movie night with a group of 🇻🇳 friends! 😄 | |
| Decisive Moments in History | 📚 Stefan Zweig | Kindle | “然而历史犹如人生，业已失去的瞬间不会因为抱憾的心情而重返，仅仅一个小时所贻误的东西，用千年的时光也难以赎回。” from 人类群星闪耀时 |
| **About time(watched 2 times) | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Recommend for a movie night! and I love the music. Touching. |
| American Factory | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | It’s really interesting to see how factory works in 21st century and how China’s ‘996’ works in the States. A document produced by the Obama family, also I feel it’s an ads for #andrewyang2020. |
| Our Planet | 📺 imdb | Netflix | We really like the western parotia dancing scene! 💃 A kind of ‘bird of paradise’. A youtube clip here, you’ll like it. |
| Stranger Things S1 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Very good story-telling and I feel it contains a lot nostalgic elements including music. |
| Better Call Saul S4 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Just as good as breaking bad, love the scenes and characters. |
| Building Progressive Web Apps | 📚 Tal Ater | O’Reilly | I feel this PWA document can also do the introduction I need, book is good, I skipped some details because for now I just want to have rough ideas about how PWA works. |
| Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood | 📚 Trevor Noah | Audible | Trever Noah is really good at telling stories, interesting 8 hours spent during my transit. |
| 哪吒之魔童降世 | 🎬 douban | Golden Village | It’s good but not so good, I think it’s kind of overrated. However 仍然值得鼓励！ |
| The Great Hack | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Good documentary about privacy & data security concerns. It leads me to Snowden’s new book. |
| How I met your mother (second time) | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Exactly the (very long) TV series that you need for meals or for fun. Last time I watch it was around 20, now I’m already near the same age as Ted :( |
| Narcos | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Can’t stop until end of S2. wiki for better watching experience. |
| Hackers and Painters | 📚 Paul Graham | O’Reilly | I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. and many other highlights, I’ll read it again. |
| Formula 1: Drive to Survive | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A guide documentary for future F1 fans, well made quality. We watched it after the Singapore Grand Prix game |
| Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Bill is a model and he’s doing something I hope I can learn from. Like the part that he brings a bag of book, takes a helicopter and goes reading in a cabin near lake. With a fridge full of Diet Coke. |
| Joker | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | Should be best movie of year 2019. I’ve been waiting for 2 months and watched it as soon as it’s on, as good as expected. |
| El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | A perfect ending for Jesse |
| Stranger Things S2 + S3 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Suggestion: Save up your time and finish in several hours, as it’s hard to pause 😼 |
| Sunderland ‘Til I Die | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A beloved soccer club with history is something I really respect. Fight and struggle back to premier league soon Sunderland! |
| The Laundromat | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Stories introducing money laundry, the Panama papers, tax evasion vs tax avoidance. |
| 凪的新生活 凪のお暇 | 📺 豆瓣 | A healing Japanese series, which was from a comic book. | |
| Explained | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A documentary series explaining something in 20 minutes each episode. |
| Lost in Translation (rewatch) | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Like this movie and the ending scene: A secret goodbye |
| Hello, Startup | 📚 Yevgeniy Brikman | O’Reilly | This website could be useful with many resources to help you build a startup. |
| Dirty Money | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Good documentary about “greed, corruption, and crime spreading through the global economy” |
| South Park | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| He’s Just Not That Into You | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Standard comedy + romance mode, with many so familiar faces lol |
| The Morning Show | 📺 imdb | Apple TV+ | It’s an original series about morning show newsrooms, with Jennifer Aniston casting. However there are really only a few shows in Apple TV+😓 only 8 for now. |
| 深入浅出 Rust | 📚 范长春 | Kindle | 优势主要在于是中文吧，翻一翻不错但肯定替代不了官方文档的，以及Rust的文档本身就是一本书。。 |
| Trump: An American Dream | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Donald Trump through five decades |
| 傅雷家书 | 📺 傅雷 | Kindle | 又是一本相见恨晚。“先做人，后做艺术家，再做音乐家，最后是钢琴家。” |
| Knives Out | 📺 imdb | Golden Village | I know it’s very hard to produce a flawless detective story like ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ and I think the producer has made his best. Good movie afterall with 007 and Captain America. |
| 当我谈跑步时我谈些什么 | 📚 Haruki Murakami (村上春树) | Kindle | 「当受到某人无缘无故（至少我看来是如此）的非难时，或是觉得能得到某人的接受却事与愿违时，我总是比平日跑得更远一些。跑长于平日的距离，让肉体更多地消耗一些，好重新认识自己是个能力有限的软弱人类——从最深处物理性地认识这一点。而且跑的距离长于平日，便是强化了自己的肉体，哪怕只是一点点。」 |
| The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition | 📚Andrew Hunt, David Thomas | O’Reilly | My extracts here |
| 少年的你 | 🎬 豆瓣 | ||
| Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood | 🎬 imdb | Cathay Pacific | Yet another Quentin Tarantino style film. |
| Roman Holiday | 🎬 imdb | Cathay Pacific | Classic and beautiful romantic comedy. |
| The Irishman | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Supposed to be one of best films this year but I didn’t quite get it, maybe due to the too long flight😓 |
| Peaky Blinders | 📺 imdb | Netflix | S1-2, Music and Tommy are two highlights of this show, Fandom wiki |
| Silicon valley | 📺 imdb | HBO | S6, Still LOL😄 Thanks Silicon valley for giving a great show about the tech world. |
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