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Lie To Me

Rating: ★★ Category: Other Season 2 Finale was on air last night, watched it. Lie to Me started well. If I had written this review at the end of Season 1 I would give it at least 3 and 1/2 stars. The show started great. Dr. Cal Lightman the protagonist of the show is a scientist researching (and practising) applied-psychology -interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language. That is, through series of tests performed by Dr. Lightman, he was able to determine that person is lying or not. The plot is easy, Dr. Lightman helps the government to catch the bad guy by finding out who lied and who didn't. Seems fairly standard with those crime TV series. What I found interesting though, was the use of real-life-event/person photographs to explain the micro-expression performed by in-show characters. And Mr. Bill Clinton's photographs showed up quite frequently (laugh). Those photographs always catches my attention and makes the plot a lo...

Three months

Three months past since my last post.  Thoughts came into my mind and they were gone before I realise I wanted to put that thought in my blog.  Maybe I should be more disciplined... Australian Prime Minister...which was the subject of my last post...we had a federal election between my last and this post.  Although Australian Labor Party won the election with the support of some independent members of parliament, it is expected that in the next 3 years, Ms. Gillard is not going to have it easy in the parliament.  Good luck to her and gosh I hope next time Liberal Party wins.