Last Saturday, I went to Pusat Sains Negara for the DaVinci exhibition. All thanks to Daniel from Total Sports Asia =D. I reached there first while waiting for the late comers ahem  Yuet Mui , her sister Yuet Leng and their friend Calvin. While I was waiting I saw on the announcement board that PSN has a biotech awareness thingy for primary kids and they include stuff like DNA etc. In a way I was quite impressed, back when i’m in primary, all i knew was what is a cell wait…it should be apa itu cell =( .

Ahhh~ PSN, the last time i’ve been here was during my primary school trip. From the way it looks nothing much has change I guess. Honestly the exhibition was owkaay la~ somehow I wasn’t impress with the wooden models of his inventions. However, I kinda like the short video presentation on plasma tv the exhibitors provide at certain sections. There were enough facts available on his life and his inventions at different sections which I think wasn’t too little and not too much for those who have super short attention span.

However, the highlight of the exhibition was the Mona Lisa section, ohhhh my how I enjoyed that section. The secrets and truths unlocked by Pascal a French engineer using his patented special camera was astonishing to me. I gotta say I somehow ‘feel’ for the Mona Lisa painting as it has gone through alot. It has been in the bathroom of Napoleon which gave it some water damage, had a rock thrown at it, acid damage upon it, stolen and returned.

Okay ranting part, from what i gather from the international site of this exhibition, our local exhibition were lack of several things: the exclusive 3d animation of Vitruvian Man and the Last Supper, Leonardo’s alphabet and writing technique, audio tour and many more. The vitruvian man and Last Supper painting were displayed as ‘other famous work of Leonardo’ without much explanation. Was a tad bit dissapointed, considering the Last Supper painting should be quite famous since it was a crucial aspect in the movie The DaVinci Code, I’m sure it’ll be more interesting to hear some views from some historian experts on it.

I would still recommend it to everyone though Rm25 for adults. You could try to get complimentary tickets, refer to my previous post about DaVinci for details. Personally, from this exhibition I’m really impressed about what Leonardo has done, I cannot comprehend how in his lifetime He could accomplish so much in different fields. Anatomy, painting, physics, music, inventor to name a few.

I think everyone should learn to appreciate history and art before its too late.

 

 

Haha no pictures from the exhibition since cameras are not allowed. You can see some at my previous post though cheeeerrrrrssss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terry Fox, a Canadian young man who was very active in sports woke up one day not being able to stand up and several days later lost one of his leg. He was diagnosed with bone cancer and doctors had to amputate his leg.

During his stay in the hospital, he witnessed the sufferings of other cancer patients and he wanted to something bout it. That ‘something’ was what he called The Marathon of Hope…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He ran a marathon a day (42km/26miles) for 143 consecutive days with a prosthetic leg regardless of the weather. His dream was to run across Canada and collect 1 dollar from every Canadian. The 143th day was the last time he ran, he had to stop because cancer returns and spread to his lungs this time. He died several months later at the age of 22…..

but..The Marathon of Hope did not end. Terry Fox touched Canada and the world. From that day onwards, every year there is a Terry Fox Run to commemorate what he had done and to raise funds for cancer research. 

I’ve decided to join Terry Fox Run KL 2009 at Lake Gardens on 1st November. Will you join me? All you need to do is just be there at 8.45am and run the 5km, there is no registration. T shirts and donations are available on that day.

Enjoy a tribute to Terry Fox by ESPN

This holiday season will feature the release of several blockbuster games including one of my most anticipated games of this year, Assasin’s Creed 2. The storyline will feature the hero requesting the help of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci during the 15th century in Renaissance Italy. That brings us back to the topic of this post. I know i know, tak ada kaitan right? Can't help it, I'm a gamer and games that uses historical references and figures are my favourites. Plus, you learn to appreciate history =)


Pusat Science Negara will be the host of Da Vinci The Genius 2009 Exhibition from 1 Oct 2009 – 17 January 2010. The exhibition will feature Leonardo’s creations and inventions, his artwork and drawings including the famous Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man.

Mona Lisa. I used to get goosebumps staring at it when I was a kid.











 

 

The Vitruvian Man. Girls close your eyes.

 

The Last Supper. 

 

The highlight of the exhibition is the works of a French scientific engineer and photographer of fine art, Pascal Cotte who made extensive research on the Mona Lisa painting. He made 25 startling  revelations that will reveal the true light of the painting.

Leonardo Da Vinci have been known as a great inventor, artist, scientist, anatomist, engineer and architect. To me, he kinda proves the saying ‘ Jack of all trades, master of none’ wrong. I wonder if i could achieve that =).

If you would like to get free tickets to the exhibition drop by Daniel Franklin Gomez's blog. Also, check out the official site Da Vinci KL. Tickets are priced at:
Rm25 adults
Rm20 Child
RM13 Senior Citizens (50 above)

Below are several photos of the KL exhibition


  

Haha for those of you who watched The Big Bang Theory will love this.



I'm gonna start doing this too and annoy the crap out of all of you =D

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