The Matrix Trilogy

When James Cameron, the director of the highest grossing movie of all times directed Avatar, he envisioned it to be the highest grossing film of all times. Why so? Because of the futuristic machines like those below. And indeed it is true; Avatar surpassed Titanic and became, or IS the movie to have sold the most in ticket sales in the whole world.

Well, here’s the thing, those photos, one of them is NOT from avatar, yes, the one below, is not from avatar, it’s from a movie that came out in 1999. Yes, 11 years before the release of Avatar.

Not many people are convinced, but the truth is, it is.

The Matrix was one of the box office hits because of their REAL futuristic effects and imagery, The film depicts a future in which reality as perceived by humans is actually a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer "Neo" is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the "dream world" and into reality. The film contains many references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures; philosophical and religious ideas such as the Advaita's Maya (illusion), Brain in a vat thought experiment; and homages to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, dystopian fiction, and Japanese animation.

This movie is TRULY one that thought out of this world, James Cameron? He just looked at the past to gain insight of the future, no big deal.

Singapore Youth Olympic Games

Singapore has once again broken new grounds, by being the FIRST ever host for the Youth Olympic Games! The Singapore Government has indeed put in a lot of revenue in making sure that every aspect of the Youth Olympic Games is covered and that it will be next to perfect.

And indeed, it has been flawless with minor mistakes every since the starting of the Youth Olympic Games. The Opening Ceremony started with dazzling fireworks, and wonderful and outstanding performances.

Although I am after all a Malaysian and come from Kuala Lumpur, I do believe that it is very nice and offers world class performances. I get free viewing of ‘live’ happenings of the Youth Olympics ALL over Singapore!

To give some background information, Singapore made its first formal bid to host a multi-disciplinary sporting event of such a magnitude in its country. Positive factors in its bid included its high connectivity with the world, its youthfulness as an independent country, and its positive reputation for excellence and
multi-racial harmony. The city-state rolled out a high-publicity campaign which included being amongst the first to launch its official website, bid logo and a bid tagline "Blazing the Trail" on 16 October
2007. It also got the local population into support its bid, including an effort by students to collect1 million signatures in support of the games. The logo-making competition for the Games attracted 1,500
participants and the winning design Entitled 'Spirit Of Youth' was unveiled on 10 January 2010.

I hope that in the days to come, I will be further enthralled and ‘WOW’ed by the Youth Olympics. Blazing The Trail really does bring all the sports to one phrase, to set new standards, to break records, to
BLAZE THE TRAIL!!!
I hope to instill the values of the Olympic Games inot me, which are respect, friendship and excellence.

HCISO

My EP3 is the String Orchestra and I am proud to be one. Although my violin skills may not exactly be the best, I can definitely say that I have the passion for HCISO. I started learning the violin when I was 10, I was forced to play, against my will. I really didn't love picking up that piece of wood, making beautiful sound , it just wasn't my thing. I preferred soccer, I despised music. When I came to Singapore, I was annoyed that I had to bring along my violin, another piece of lagguage to the airport.

When I went to CCA orientation, I was intitially interested in joining sports CCA. However, in the end, I got put into the string orchestra --- on the irony. When I arrived, I saw Shawn in my CCA, he was in the "Singapore Youth Festival" team because he was very skillful in the violin, getting a diploma. During my first year, it was rather dull. We had gotten a silver, which was very disappointing. Our conductor was depressed with our results too.

Everything changed when I came to sec 2, we had changed our conductor, he was Mr Trevor Sze who also taught orchestra from Nanyang Girls High and Raffles Institution. He seemed strict at first, always scolding, picking on all the orchestra members, he radically changed the way our orchestra worked. It was like Hitler ruling the concentration camp, always diciplined and strict. However , things started to change.

I started seeing change in the orchestra, positive change, we were beginning to be more varied, we were playing together, as an orchestra. We were playing better!
Just yesterday, in order to prove a part, he vrought the whole orchestra to the concourse, doing an experiment.

Ever since I stepped into this orchestra, I loved the violin. Most importantly,
I love HCISO, I have the passion.