To Do List

WORK out to music that gets your heart pumping and muscles moving. fitMusic’s (www.fitmusic.com) concept is music to any fitness freaks’ ears – free downloadable music lists for all your workouts, whether you’re a runner, aerobics nut, spinner or even strength-training. Subscription is free, and new music mixes (comprising dance, electronic, hip hop, punk, metal and more) are available for downloads weekly. Plus, the news and forums sections are a wealth of health and fitness information – perfect for passing time while waiting for your music to download.

WELCOME back alien-investigating pair Mulder and Scully after a decade-long absence from the big screen and an even longer one from the small screen. X Files: I Want to Believe, the sequel to the first X-File movie hits screens this month with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprising their roles as Mulder and Scully. Another sequel to set your sights on: Hellboy, that old devil spawn burns up screens in Hellboy II: The Golden Army with acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro at the helm. Expect action hi-jinks and rib-tickling wise quips aplenty.

GET in line for Panic at the Disco concert tickets. The Las Vegas pop punk band wings it to the region for the Asian leg of their worldwide tour and drops into Jakarta’s Tennis Indoor Senayan August 17th, after stops in Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan.

FEED your fast car addiction at the 16th Indonesia International Motor Show (July 11-20) at the Jakarta Convention Center. Automobile big names like Toyota, Mercedes, Volvo, Audi, Proton, Jaguar, KIA, Mitsubishi and more zoom into biggest automotive exhibition in Indonesia, which is expected to draw as many as 200,000 visitors. Meanwhile, supporting events such as the Miss Motor Show Competition, Best Car Selection, Drawing and Coloring Competition for kids, Tree Planting, Test Drives, as well as food & beverage outlets promise to keep less-inclined family members occupied.

MAKE sense of the crazy goings-on in the global economy. Credit crunch, rising food prices…there’s a bigger financial crisis than the one in your wallet that’s going on in the world, and who better to make sense of it for you than one of the sharpest tools in the shed, George Soros. In The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means, the legendary financial whiz makes his case for why we’re witnessing “the worst financial crisis since the 1930s” and its implications for the world, and okay, your wallet too. Prefer more fluff in your reading material? Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, drops his ninth novel in stores. Snuff tells the story of an aging porn queen who decides to end her career with a bang (quite literally) and organizes a shag fest with 600 men in one day on film.

BUST out your best runway worthy threads and get ready to make like a fashionista at the runway shows, exhibitions and conventions of Indonesian fashion at Bali Fashion Week next month. Got nothing to wear? With discounts and great buys at the 32 participating malls and 1170 retailers, you’re bound to be able to pick up something from the Jakarta Great Sale (June 14-July 14).

+Chan Hse Ma

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