The Da Vinci Code

Sunday, June 28, 2009 Life , Miscellaneous 0 Comments

Okay..so I JUST finished watching the show from my very own computer. To tell you the truth, I hate the quality of it.As predicted by my tuition teacher,it's very dark and when everytime the play's background is of dim light or in a dark place, I can almost see nothing but some moving figure.Pretty disappointing. Other than that,the show was awesome! ;)



There are some mumbo jumbo term I did not quite understand but nevertheless, generally, I quite understood the whole story. There's one thing I didn't quite feel comfortable about that movie is where they said Jesus had a wife. (oh my gosh..) And that her name is Mary Magdalene. I'll confess that I'm not a strong follower of Christ myself but to what I've learnt all these years in church, I've never heard any of my teachers/speakers talked about Jesus's wife. I was quite surprised about that.


Anyway, this last 2 movies I've watched has somewhat inspired me in a way. I liked studying more, everytime when I watch these kind of 'mind-boggling' show. I've also had a new desired place to visit now - the Louvre in France,Egypt,for it's famous Pyramids and also to where Isaac Newton rests in peace.


This movie,has made me wonder how on earth did Isaac Newton actually unravel the whole mysteries of the earth? It's strange really. I really salute him being a genius. This leads to another question - why Albert Einstein is known as the genius on Earth? I mean, I think Isaac Newton deserves that title more that Albert Einstein does. He's created so many formulaes and contributed so many findings that has unlocked so many mysteries on earth that has helped astronomers,mathematicians, and philosophers pursue their knowledge on the wonders of the world.Isaac Newton is our father of Modern science but WHY Albert Einstein was given the title of the most favorable genius on earth?

It's not fair.


Hey,I'm not trying to downgrade Albert Einstein or any sort but it's just that I think Isaac Newton should be the more favorable genius or maybe there's more than just E = mc2. I guess, I need a biography of Albert Einstein now to justify myself why was he more favorable than Isaac Newton.

Alright,that said it



Signing off,

Community work

Saturday, June 27, 2009 High School , Life , Miscellaneous 0 Comments

Woo! I knew I had to do some community work this morning because I've already accepted the request from Mrs. Francis to be the 'warm-up' so called dancers team this morning to lead the group of autistic children in conjunction with the Charity run. It's not very big but it's just a small lil' event around maybe 50 people or so there.


I jogged with weng yan and I sympathize her because I kinda left her behind (sorry! I don't mean to...) and then she,your typical skinny girl was huffing and puffing because she could not catch up with me. She's already done very good..! :) She was asking me to slow down but I did not. (terrible me) In the end,I had to because she's my good friend and I could not just leave her behind.


Heh,and you know what? We took the wrong route (because no one told us to go into the forest) We ran all the way down the slope and then reached the 'T' junction leading to the main road,that's when I felt something was fishy and decided to call Mrs.Francis. As predicted,we've both lost our way.Great.Mrs.Francis directed us that we should trace our way home and so we did. We did not complete our run and that was pretty disappointing for me.


Anyway, I LOVE that place! It's a housing area but there's a forest nearby..! It's super cool and people there are VERY friendly. Although we're not one of the residents there but, people there are so helpful and most of them put a smile on their face when we walk past them. Furthermore, when we're lost, people there are concern enough to ask :"Are you lost?" Wow...I guess this is the first time I've seen the good side of humanity.Nice. I've never seen this kind of a thing in my area before.


Just to let you know that they're not peasents,they're 'richies',as in they are very wealthy people (you can tell by looking at the houses there - HUGE!). I always thought that usually rich people are so arrogant and so introvert. Looks like I'm wrong. I guess what I've been exposed all along was the very bad side of rich people.

Anyway,I got back and this time,no real life pictures because I was stupid enough to not bring my camera. I did NOT forget but I simply thought that there will be nothing to capture. WHAT A DARN WASTED THING TO DO! I regretted like hell!!! arrgh......That's okay because next year,I'm going for another round and this time I'm going to complete the race and I'm definitely not missing the chance to run with Kumaran. He came late. Late commer!

Alright!



Signing off,

NIE Project (Finally!)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 High School , Life , Miscellaneous 0 Comments

I know, Siew Thong has been asking me to post this for DAYS! and so here, siew thong, the NIE video you want to see all this while has been updated here to my blog. I hope everyone like it.



The video is a really painstaking thing that requires me to stay up late until 2 a.m. (and it's schooling day) for 2 days just to finish the video.(Read more on my video editing here) It's really last minute- I admit but still,I guess, it wasn't all that bad....Judge for yourself and give me some comments okay? (try not to be nasty =p)

Just to let you know that I'm not a pro editor and this is actually my very first time editing a 'competition-video'.


Okay,enough of that! Now, behold , I'll tell you guys that Anna-rina will be my official 'girl-to become-in-the-future' and also my someone to inspire. So guys, you better watch out. Mwahahahaha.......! Xd


By the way, I'm starting to get addicted to Dan Brown's books! I didn't have enough $$ to buy the books and I so I downloaded it. The words are REALLY hard but still, it's very very interesting! You guys should really get hold of his book. I just started with Angels and Demon and boy...I took like 1 hour plus just to read like about 10 pages. The words made me constantly flipping through the dictionary just to find the definition of them.


Oh and I've just downloaded The Da vinci Code movie (I know,I'm backdated). It will be ready by tomorrow and I'm going to watch it this weekend! Can hardly wait! :D

Those are all happy things but you know,I'm really having some serious conflict with my 'ambition-to-be' in the future. I'm constantly battling with my own thoughts on whether should I become a 'super-geeky-science-person' like maybe a physicist or a researcher on the whole universe OR should I follow my long loved ambition as a surgeon? (had this ambition since I was a little kid.) It's that hard. Have been praying to god about this to help me but I guess, I haven't got an answer to that.

Right,I'll need to do some homework so..



Signing off,

The real truth of the universe?

Saturday, June 20, 2009 0 Comments

Ever since I watched the movie "Angels and Demon", it has made a great impact on my life and have made me think more than ever on the whole universe. Somehow,I thank my tuition teacher for bringing me to that show,otherwise, I would not have watched it. Frankly,I didn't even knew that show was on cinema. Mind you, I don't usually watch movies.Anyway,I loved that show and everything but this show,really got me thinking about the thin line between beliefs and science.


Okay, I went to church today and I tell you, from all those 14 years of my life time in FGA church,this is the one service that I would say,I really made full use of it.Usually, I just listen and never really thought about that talk. I would have just got home 'empty-headed'. But,this talk...ever since I got quite serious into thinking about the whole universe and everything,I listened meticulously.


Whilst he was asking us to imagine before there's the "world" that we see now, I did as told and my mind ponder onto the state that if there's no world,who's us? Most importantly,if god created the universe,where's the 'before-universe'? Who are we? What are we? There are so much question to ponder and think about that I don't know how should I put my thoughts into words.Do you grasp my meaning? Maybe not but hopefully,one day you'll have the same thoughts that I had. I seriously don't know how to explain my thoughts.


Anyway, another question to ponder about,where does life comes from? I mean the beginning of life.Life as it is like,life before the prehistoric times, where life form first started. How did such things happened? According to science, the earth was formed :

"Experts however say that there was no explosion; there was (and continues to be) an expansion. Rather than imagining a balloon popping and releasing its contents, imagine a balloon expanding: an infinitesimally small balloon expanding to the size of our current universe.

Excerpt from "All about Science"

Ahuh,to me,it sounded a little like star formation,perhaps? Another question arouse here, why Earth is chosen as the place where life form started?I know,I know,you would probably say because Earth has everything but what I meant here,WHY EARTH ALONE? Why couldn't it be Mars or Venus or some other planets?


The human body can learn to tolerate certain extreme environment,when raised with it and live with it.It'll still continue to live life as it is, like for example,the lungs of a human living near a lower atmospheric pressure (mountains,etc.) has much more larger capacity than compared to human like us,living in the lower region. If the human body can adapt to that,I'm sure if life formed in let's say Mars, from the beginning of time , I'm sure the human body will be able to get used to environment on Mars, together with other life forms. So, my question,again, Why Earth?


Another thing, If 'matter' was because of our existence then who created this thing that now we called 'matter'? (mind you,everything is matter,including us.) What created matter? How was it created?

I'm sorry I had to mumble about this issue again but I'm curious.



Signing off,

Exausting day!

Saturday, June 20, 2009 High School , Life , Miscellaneous 0 Comments

*drops on the floor* Oh my goodness! I'm blown out! It's hell tiring today because I had school today and after school I went for Kendo training.School wasn't tad bad but I can't believe I had forgotten my Chemistry file. Oh my god %#$%#^%#!!! And together with it was some paperwork I left in the file that is needed for me to discuss with my mates and the teachers. Great.


There are a few of us who didn't bring it and all of us refused to tell teacher and the bad thing was that I HAD to sit at the front table(because that's where I was placed).My chemistry teacher (aka Mr.lim.T.P) spotted me not having my paper with me.


I cringed in embarassment when he actually said sorry (heh,what a nice teacher eh?) instead of ME having to apologize because he said he didn't bring any extra paper of that kind. I replied and said:" No,it's okay. I can write everything on a piece of paper" and then smiled in embarassment.

Anyway,besides that,I can't believe Roveen had a new catalogue from the scholastic book club! (okay, I know it sounded real childish) I was seriously trilled with excitement because I knew that there's going to be a new Horrible series available! *Hurrah for me ;D*



Ah...after schooling I had some fantastic (although tiring) Kendo session. I didn't change to a new set of clothes and went to kendo straight with my school pinafore.I didn't do as bad as last week and I think I did much better this week although my "Do" hit wasn't all that great (as expected).I did like pretty bad =( Oh well...bother..I guess I have to work on it more..

Right.That'll finish up for the day as I'm really sleepy



Signing off,

Confused with life.

Friday, June 19, 2009 1 Comments

As a human,me, I'm curious about everything around me - the earth,the land,why,when,how and everything that is surrounding me now. I don't understand actually why we existed or whether do we have another dimension out there. It makes me think and ponder, 'Where I Originally Came From?' I'm not sure about you but sometimes,when I'm really very serious and I think deeply into this matter but I never have an answer to it.



I personally hold the belief that spirits and ghost existed and after looking more and more, I even found out that many people believe in mythological creatures on the net and me,I'm starting to believe it too although my belief in them is not that strong yet. Why? I don't understand! This is really too complicated.



How do you define "non-existence"? As for me, I don't really accept the dictionary's definition of 'non-existence',it does not make any sense to me when relating to human. What if I do not exist?? What does that means?This may sounds silly to you but for me,it's something I really ponder and think very deeply and hard but could get no where near to the answer.



What if I die? Is there really such things as heaven and hell? To tell you the truth I once doubted the existence of god.Although I doubted that before but I never dare to stop believing that the fact that god is real. (I know this sounded confusing but I just don't know how to describe my feelings..)


Also, I think that the earth is a BIG PRISON to mankind. We can go nowhere except around earth - we have this big barrier that holds all vital things needed for every living thing to survive. Anymore than that,we'll die of suffocation. Yea sure we can go to mars and the moon but that's only with the help of man-made machine,without that we'll be dead in no time and that man-made suit and machine we have will only last for a short period of time.


I really needed to tell it here because I can hold no more. I need somewhere,where I can express myself and so that's why I wrote it here. I guess maybe you won't understand this post because you have not been in my shoe but if you would, you'll capture my meaning.



Signing off,

Video Editing

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 High School , Life , Miscellaneous 0 Comments

Oh boy...This is REAL pain in the butt! I mean like,the deadline of our NIE project is coming and I'm rushing like a mad women to finish up the videos since I'm the editor of the video..Omg... though,I'm not that good in editing - really. I only know the basic of editing. My teammates are not very good in video editing and so that's why I offered myself and got into this big mess....but it's okay,it was pretty fun doing it too! :)


Frankly,I thought that it was not that tough but I guess it actually is. The videos were okay except that I hate the background music part.I guess that's the hardest because you'll have to find the right song and you'll need to do some 'cuttings' and editing on the music in order to make sure that it suits your video.



I'm starting to hate Camtasia Studio now,it's so annoying because it makes your video slow after you save the videos.This happen so often that I got fed up and decided to use a Windows Movie Maker(which I don't do often) together with Camtasia. Works pretty good together as there are some cons and pros in both but when combined together they made a pretty good team.


Anyway,I slept halfway through the project because I was that sleepy. It's okay because I'm going to compensate by sleeping later in the night just to finish the video. I just hope that I would finish it faster...
These last few days, I'm getting real busy because of the NIE and the Moral project but fortunately,I've finished Moral because I'm not procrastinating - which is a real good thing. I don't even have time to read my new books and novels I bought!

I still have a little bit more to finish a biography of Sir Isaac Newton by Scholastic (it's so simplified and so it's pretty 'reader-friendly',as I would call it,to read.) and I'm telling you that I'm fascinated by his brain - he's a real genuine genius that have dedicated his life to science and I really salute him.(He's not married,mind you) What a great role model and inspiration to young readers.(that book is targeted at kids age 10-14,I guess if I'm not wrong,but I don't really care..as long as I get something out of it.) I guess,after reading that book,I'm starting to really like Isaac Newton. (and I'm starting to hate Robert Hooke too! -.-)

Anyway,I found a really great quote from the book:

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" - Isaac Newton

Seem familiar? It's Isaac Newton's third law. Go and read your Physics Form 4 chapter 2! :D

Alright! I've to stop here as I need to continue my NIE project. Wish us luck!



Signing off,

Outing with my Teacher.

Saturday, June 13, 2009 0 Comments

Yes,with my tuition teacher,her 2 children and the 2 other guy. (Sweet,ain't it? going out with a teacher. But of course I knew her as my mom's friend before a tuition teacher so I'm not so 'stiff' when going out with her.) We went for this movie "Angels and Demon" and boy was it a good show. Contradict to what Weng yan said, this show is just so me - Purely science loaded mumbo jumbo stuff.Real good. It's a story between the scientist and the followers of religion. I do not support neither and yet, given a choice, I would support both. Get it?


There's this erm...(okay this is so not Cleo's usual talking) guy named Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca(aka Camerlengo Patrick Mckenna) caught my attention.He's in the end the antagonist of the whole story and he with the guts, had killed himself in the end. He's like a really holy man of god and is the late pope's aide but actually he was the one who plotted the whole thing about the Illuminati's revenge for the Catholic Church. I named him a 'badass hottie' - really. I guess it's me,maybe, you guys would think of someone else more hotter. *lol* This is so not my topic to talk about - celebrities and star.

Anyway,after that movie,we had lunch at San Francisco. I had some nice fillet of salmon - grilled nicely together with French Fries (okay,not so healthy) and some veggies all - courtesy of my tuition teacher.We also had some side orders which was chicken wings (I was TOO bloated to even consume more) and mashed potatoes,served with brown sauce (no idea what sauce is that) I took a scoop of course. (not so healthy anymore) Anyway,I peeked at the bill and it sumed up to Rm134! Wow! And she paid it with her credit card. Boy,didn't knew she was nice.

Nevermind about that, I didn't go home after the lunch because I had kendo in the late afternoon at 4pm and it was one of the worse Kendo training I had! I fall down when sparring with another big guy. I resisted his attack and naturally,I fall down - all thanks to gravity's earth pulling me down. *grunts* It was somewhat embarassing,as I would say and at the same time,a great experience - really. I did shed some tear but manage to pull it off later so nobody knew I shed a tear.It was also harder to see that I shed a tear because I was behind that armour.After the whole practice thing,that guy told me that my footwork(ayumi-ashi) was bad and because of that,I lost my balance easily that resulted my falling. Oh boy..I better work more on my footwork. Also,I had to miss the exam held during the middle of June because of my lack of attendance. Great.


No,I can't go home yet after those exhausting practice, I had to go to my dad's cousin pen-house for the monthly 'cousin-dinner' ( a sort of thing where all cousins would meet together and the dinner would be under one of the cousin and so,it was coined 'cousin-dinner'). I wasn't very happy about that because I hated him. I never really liked him. He was an annoying, arrogant,picky and fussy guy.Moreover, he doubted that I would succeed as a doctor - that's what I felt when he asked me about my ambition. I vowed to myself that I'm not going to his house again in the year 2008(because of some incident) but my mom pestered me to go and I forced myself to. After the dinner at his house,I socialized with almost no one and walked off and slept throughout their merry gathering.


I reached home at about 11.45pm and started finding more about anti-matter and 'Illuminati' (it is plural of Latin Illuminatus that means Enlightened) and so,from my findings, there is a society called 'Illuminati' - but it's meetings and gathering is confidential and kept in secrecy during the 18th century. We don't have this society anymore although,some said that it still survived till today. No one really knows - really.

Alright,that said it.

p.s:Sorry for the blurry pictures, I didn't bring my Canon camera along. I only had my Hp that time.



Signing off,