While the memory is still fresh on my mind, I shall blog about it. But before I start anything on the amazing day I had at Science Centre with my family, I must comment that this exhibition is really worth the dollars, with or without the discounts.
So we headed for the exhibits of optical illusions (nothing to do with the body worlds exhibition). I felt totally deluded after each station. Talk about physics. Then again, I must admit I was just as awed at how these ingenious scientists came up with such bizzare ideas.
Actually, nothing much has changed in this building for many years. Almost everything remained intact (including the ecentric-looking, white-atomic bomb-hair scientist abseiling up and down the rope). Sounds familiar doesn't it? Well, the heart beats approximately 1billion times in 27 years in a human body. So I'm just wondering how many times this guy has climbed in the number of years Science Centre was opened.
Something more breath-taking would perhaps be the tesla coil exhibit. Loud, cracking, purple sparks across the air successfully kept the audiences' mouth ajar for that few minutes. The "grand finale" of explosion of hydrogen-filled (yes, it was hydrogen not helium) balloons happened so fast... Just a tip - don't blink your eyes, keep them wide open when you see the "most important man" of science centre enter the platform to place those balloons.
Moving on to the Body Worlds exhibition. Truth is, there's nothing much to say here. Really, nothing beats the experience of looking at those plastinated bodies, the organs, the hardy skeleton, the complex system operating in us and not to forget, the frightening species from underwater.
6 hours is definitely not enough for slow readers like me. Information made so comprehensible with the simplified terms and readable with its enlaged fonts, yet I take ages to read one panel. In my defense, I would like to blame part of my slow-reading on some inconsiderate members of public who stationed themselves strategically in front of the panels, and well, very innocently blocked everyone's view. But overall, nothing could dampen my (or maybe our) inquisitive mind, for the exhibition was really an eye opener to the world of body anatomy. The aesthetic appeal of the hall was impressive too!
Even in the last minutes before the hall closed, I continued to roam the dim hall lit with warm lights. And i stepped out of the place, I must say, very reluctantly.
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter" - Mark Twain
"And in the end, it is not the years in your life that counts, it is the life in your years" - not sure who
1 comment:
i say, u're getting better at writing! (really, i mean it) way to start the year of GP :D
just a few things though.. 'deluded'.. are u sure thats the word u meant to use? better check its meaning.
'breathtaking' is one word without a hyphen. i realised my mistake after writing it in the guestbook ystd.. and didnt bother to change it woops. XP
'body anatomy' --> human anatomy would be more appropriate. cos it's like u're saying body body. lol.
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