Whew! It's finally the last week of classes and exams will be here. I know students hate exams, well, lecturers do not either, since we've got to go through so many markings. But I am definitely looking forward to the long break mainly because it's been an exhausting semester for me.
I'm hoping to sign up for a scuba diving course...any one can recommend a good instructor in Singapore? I went for a introductory lesson and it was great fun. So I'm definitely looking forward to learning scuba diving. Also, got to do a bit more research work which I've shelved for the past several months. A new research fellow has just come on board on my supervisor's team and perhaps we can work on new topics.
Well, that's it for now...nothing exciting so far. Oh except that I will be a judge for a science competition held by the Science Centre. Will be interesting to see what the competition is like.
Peace.
Monday 14 January 2008
Saturday 5 January 2008
Happy new year
Well, though it is about 6 days into the new year, I thought I might still wish everyone Happy New Year. May it be a blessed year for all.
I just got home from watching "I am Legend." Wow! I really think that Will Smith has a chance at the Oscars for this movie. It is scary to think of that kind of a future; where we become little better than animals...Smith said something about how their humanity seemed to be loss in one scene. So what defines our humanity? Is it our intelligence - "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think therefore I am" as espoused by Descartes. But somehow something still lacks and this is clearly seen in the movie where the pack leader managed to use his intelligence to lure Smith and trapped him just as he had trapped the woman of the pack.
So I wondered if the movie might offer an answer - and the answer came when the woman saved Smith. There was the dialogue where she implied that Smith might also have lost some of his humanity. Their argument when he clearly stated his disbelief that there was God. Faith and hope were things the woman had and Smith lost along the way. Faith and hope in God, that He is there to guide.
Anyway, it was a good movie if a little scary.
Peace,
Sid
I just got home from watching "I am Legend." Wow! I really think that Will Smith has a chance at the Oscars for this movie. It is scary to think of that kind of a future; where we become little better than animals...Smith said something about how their humanity seemed to be loss in one scene. So what defines our humanity? Is it our intelligence - "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think therefore I am" as espoused by Descartes. But somehow something still lacks and this is clearly seen in the movie where the pack leader managed to use his intelligence to lure Smith and trapped him just as he had trapped the woman of the pack.
So I wondered if the movie might offer an answer - and the answer came when the woman saved Smith. There was the dialogue where she implied that Smith might also have lost some of his humanity. Their argument when he clearly stated his disbelief that there was God. Faith and hope were things the woman had and Smith lost along the way. Faith and hope in God, that He is there to guide.
Anyway, it was a good movie if a little scary.
Peace,
Sid
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