Sunday, November 30, 2003
Oh my god! I'm addicted to Gunbound! If you don't know what Gunbound is, it's an online game that plays like Worms. However, you get to have cutesy characters in cute cars, like the graphic above. That's my avatar in the game, Malaysia Boleh!
There are other stuff that you can buy for your character, and girls are sure gonna like em cos it's so cute!
I'll post new pictures of my avatar when I get enough money to buy some clothes. Don't want to run around naked while blowing stuff up. By the way, that flag itself cost me 20k.
Check out Gunbound for yourself at http://www.gunbound.net or http://www.gunbound-hq.com
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
I went for a game of archery on Monday at Summit, USJ. Pretty cheap student rates. RM 4 for a game with a dozen arrows. Buy 3 games get 1 free. However, the lady attendant there said we could get 60 arrows so we bought 3 games and got 1 free.
However, she only gave us 48 arrows. I don't know if she purposely con us into thinking she'll give 60 arrows just for us so that we will play, or she plain just can't count.
Anyway, 48 is more than enough. I could barely lift my left arm after shooting 48 arrows.
Pretty fun this archery stuff.
How did I fare, you ask? Let's just say I have to forget about my ambition of being an Elven Archer.
Friday, November 21, 2003
I'm not really intrigued about Tarot cards actually, until recently.
I was on holiday and my friends played Tarot cards one night...or rather a couple of nights. There was this seemingly irrelevant ritual that involves thinking about the question and the person concerned so that the cards know what to predict. Well, I was sceptical at first, being someone that is groomed in scientific theories and stuff. However, when my girlfriend did the first reading, and she wasn't paying attention, or did some wrong steps, the reading always seem to turn up a blank card! Spooky.
There was this particular friend (who shall remain anonymous and shall only be known as Skuen for the purpose of this article) was so into it that she fell asleep with the explanation book! She was actually reading all the interpretations and pinpointing the cards that she wants! To me I feel that it really defeats the purpose. Well, nobody knows. Actually she was also the one who reminded me to write about Tarot cards.
So, for your further Tarot experience, I give you a site which can give you daily readings. Remember, only ONE reading per day! Free Tarot Reader
Have fun Skuen!
"Can fate and choices exist together? What if I choose not to believe in fate? Is it still fated that I'll choose not to? Argh! I'll just choose to stop now. Maybe that's fate?"
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Just got my camera today!
I apologize for the graphic above. It is nothing special about the camera, really. It's just there for the irony...
Well, this camera, the Kodak CX4300 digicam, came free with the laptop I bought recently. All the usual features, does what a camera is meant to do... take pictures, that's all. But with a 3.2 MP CCD it sure takes great pictures. My only complaint so far is the lack of optical zoom and built in lens cap. Come on, it feels wierd having your lens cap dangling on a string while taking pictures.
Anyway, it's free, what can I ask for more. After all, this camera is not even available in the market now. Maybe I could sell it and tag it as limited edition. But then again, I really need it. I can't get a 3.2 MP camera with the price I get from selling it!
Well, I hope you're looking forward for some weird photos of myself soon. At least I know I am.
P.S. Any of you know what rechargeable batteries are cheap and reliable for a digicam?
Monday, November 17, 2003
I just came back from Makan-makan Holiday in Penang, Parit Buntar, Sg Petani, Taiping, Ipoh!
It is true, Malaysia is food heaven! I've tried so many great and delicious food during my trip that my tastebuds are still experiencing the aftershock.
These are the foods that I tried:
Penang char kuey teow, asam laksa, loh mee, Fatty Loh chicken rice (delicious), Meo Lian mom's cooking (nice assam soup), Pt. Buntar homemade chai kueh (superb), laksa, barli red bean (great and cheap), at Taiping tried chicken rice, claypot chicken rice (makes those in KL taste like cardboard), chee cheong fun (ok), Ipoh dim sum (quite nice, I don't really know how to appreciate dim sum), taugeh chicken with hor fun (exceptional), curry mee (refreshing new taste), hakka mee (not bad).
That's about it la. I don't think I listed everything because some foods are not worth mentioning since nothing special.
I got some great photos too which I'll post soon on my photoblog at http://www.whatever-photos.tk.
However, my girlfriend's camera got problem and all the photos were accidently deleted! Sob sob...
Any of you guys got any idea how to recover them back? Any software you recommend? I'm really devastated...
Please comment below or send me an email through the link on the right. Thanks in advance!
It is true, Malaysia is food heaven! I've tried so many great and delicious food during my trip that my tastebuds are still experiencing the aftershock.
These are the foods that I tried:
Penang char kuey teow, asam laksa, loh mee, Fatty Loh chicken rice (delicious), Meo Lian mom's cooking (nice assam soup), Pt. Buntar homemade chai kueh (superb), laksa, barli red bean (great and cheap), at Taiping tried chicken rice, claypot chicken rice (makes those in KL taste like cardboard), chee cheong fun (ok), Ipoh dim sum (quite nice, I don't really know how to appreciate dim sum), taugeh chicken with hor fun (exceptional), curry mee (refreshing new taste), hakka mee (not bad).
That's about it la. I don't think I listed everything because some foods are not worth mentioning since nothing special.
I got some great photos too which I'll post soon on my photoblog at http://www.whatever-photos.tk.
However, my girlfriend's camera got problem and all the photos were accidently deleted! Sob sob...
Any of you guys got any idea how to recover them back? Any software you recommend? I'm really devastated...
Please comment below or send me an email through the link on the right. Thanks in advance!
I've got an announcement to make... I just can't stop smiling. My photoblog is on the 1st page of Google! The proof? Click here or here and I even got number one for my name! Click here.
Or you can see it at my photoblog at http://www.whatever-photos.tk
Hope I don't get bumped down too soon.
Damn, my mouth is aching as I just can't stop smiling.
Saturday, November 08, 2003
It's raining outside now, but to me, the skies are still as blue as ever, and the sun is shining as brightly as ever! Why? Because it's my holidays! Just finished my preparatory course to Germany! 2 1/2 years of late nights, long hours of Warcraft 3, tonnes of money to the Cybercafe, numerous sneaking back into hostel after football, and not forgetting the beautiful yellow tinge of Shah Alam's water.
This is not any holiday, mind you. It's a transition from studying in a local institution to a foreign country where different cultures meet and study together. This is my coming of age period. This is the time where I must look back and look forward at the same time...
Ok, enough of the crap! It's time to PARTY!
Going cuti-cuti Malaysia this Monday, so don't expect any posts till I come back. Tata!
This is not any holiday, mind you. It's a transition from studying in a local institution to a foreign country where different cultures meet and study together. This is my coming of age period. This is the time where I must look back and look forward at the same time...
Ok, enough of the crap! It's time to PARTY!
Going cuti-cuti Malaysia this Monday, so don't expect any posts till I come back. Tata!
Friday, November 07, 2003
Guess where I'm typing this entry from? I could do it anywhere now cos I'm officially WIRELESS!
I've setup a wireless network in my home and you wouldn't imagine the convenience of being connected without wires.
So if you guys got a laptop with a wireless adapter, come to my house la. RM1 per hour only. Haha. Cheaper than CC.
Ok, ok, don't go green with envy.
Gotta go now, laptop no battery.
Hmm...wonder if there's wireless power cord available?
I've setup a wireless network in my home and you wouldn't imagine the convenience of being connected without wires.
So if you guys got a laptop with a wireless adapter, come to my house la. RM1 per hour only. Haha. Cheaper than CC.
Ok, ok, don't go green with envy.
Gotta go now, laptop no battery.
Hmm...wonder if there's wireless power cord available?
For you folks who want to go deeper into the rabbit hole, read on.
(this article is courtesy of djiaoMei. Whoever you are, you have certainly enlightened me)
Matrix Theory Explained
Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix?? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix.
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's urpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be brought out again so that they can be destroyed.
This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated.
Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are
not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of
Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to
choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the Architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times - i.e., the
result of going through the left door.
Morpheus and Trinity are programs.
Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect. Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him. Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity.
The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!).
The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door:
The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race."
Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive."
The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."
Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading!
Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here!"Smith knows that by killing Neo he
can escape the Matrix because Neo is the key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.
So where the hell did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix? He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at the end of the first Matrix -"You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus."
But who put him there? This will only be revealed in Revolutions(Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real real world, i.e., outside of Zion and the Matrix. They're at war with the machines and trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!! Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix (remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) - as a virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other
programs' abilities and thus inherited some of Neo's.
The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a
harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under "The One explained".
However, he is also supposed to protect himself and destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may fulfil his purpose. Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the anomaly, the Architect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the
programming of the matrix." The clue here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one- third for example. 1 over 3 is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder"
0.00001 (One) gone? This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One anomaly unable to be eliminated.
What is the equation then?
Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One?
"NEO", incidently, is an anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the
power plant system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary for 5, which in zero-based binary counting: 000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3, 011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix! Then there's 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in in Matrix 1 and it's seen at
the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 =303, a trilogy, 3 + 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3.
Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to?
The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman is the Head Counsellor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting. She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told Zion's Defence Minister to cool off and to let
Morpheus do his work so things could go as planned. Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?"below.
What's so special about Neo's avatar?
Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo takes the disc out of is
"Simulacra and Simulation" - a collection of essays by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or 'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to.
Who is Seraph?
The reason Seraph (the chink guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural "seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels and included amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the 8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the humans?? That is the question.
The Twins
They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The doors of that
building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's body.
Got any theories of your own? Comment below.
(this article is courtesy of djiaoMei. Whoever you are, you have certainly enlightened me)
Matrix Theory Explained
Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix?? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix.
"The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's urpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be brought out again so that they can be destroyed.
This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated.
Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are
not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier.
The correct door in the Architect's room
Now there are two possibilities here:
1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of
Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to
choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door.
2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the Architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times - i.e., the
result of going through the left door.
Morpheus and Trinity are programs.
Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect. Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him. Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity.
The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!).
The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door:
The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race."
Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive."
The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world."
Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading!
Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here!"Smith knows that by killing Neo he
can escape the Matrix because Neo is the key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix.
So where the hell did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix? He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at the end of the first Matrix -"You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus."
But who put him there? This will only be revealed in Revolutions(Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real real world, i.e., outside of Zion and the Matrix. They're at war with the machines and trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!! Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix (remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) - as a virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other
programs' abilities and thus inherited some of Neo's.
The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a
harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under "The One explained".
However, he is also supposed to protect himself and destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may fulfil his purpose. Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the anomaly, the Architect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the
programming of the matrix." The clue here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one- third for example. 1 over 3 is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder"
0.00001 (One) gone? This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One anomaly unable to be eliminated.
What is the equation then?
Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One?
"NEO", incidently, is an anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the
power plant system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary for 5, which in zero-based binary counting: 000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3, 011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix! Then there's 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in in Matrix 1 and it's seen at
the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 =303, a trilogy, 3 + 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3.
Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to?
The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman is the Head Counsellor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting. She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told Zion's Defence Minister to cool off and to let
Morpheus do his work so things could go as planned. Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?"below.
What's so special about Neo's avatar?
Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo takes the disc out of is
"Simulacra and Simulation" - a collection of essays by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or 'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to.
Who is Seraph?
The reason Seraph (the chink guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural "seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels and included amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the 8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the humans?? That is the question.
The Twins
They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The doors of that
building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's body.
Got any theories of your own? Comment below.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Just watched Matrix:Revolutions today!
If they say that all your questions will be answered, I say that's crap. I have even more questions after watching that movie!
Well all I can say is that Neo is something like the Christ. He died to save us right? And when he sacrificed himself I bet I saw a crucifix on his chest. Well, he still lives on eternally, like Christ, in our hearts.
Sorry, I'm no Christian, but just wanna state my observation on this Christianity reference.
One more thing, I noticed a Matrix blooper... it's at the part where Neo met the Oracle. When she takes a seat, she took a bracelet and was wearing it on her left hand just as she sits. But after that, when she's seated... the bracelet is still not on her left wrist but still in her right hand. Then only she put it on. And somehow or other I saw her feel sort of embarassed (with this blooper?) and hastily hid her hands.
Am I observant or what?
Haha.
Anyway, confusing movie, trademark of the Wachowskis. A bit like watching Dragonball at the end though, when Neo vs Smith.
If you guys notice any bloopers or wanna clear up my confused head with your theories, feel free to comment.
"Everything that has a beginning has an end." -The Oracle
If they say that all your questions will be answered, I say that's crap. I have even more questions after watching that movie!
Well all I can say is that Neo is something like the Christ. He died to save us right? And when he sacrificed himself I bet I saw a crucifix on his chest. Well, he still lives on eternally, like Christ, in our hearts.
Sorry, I'm no Christian, but just wanna state my observation on this Christianity reference.
One more thing, I noticed a Matrix blooper... it's at the part where Neo met the Oracle. When she takes a seat, she took a bracelet and was wearing it on her left hand just as she sits. But after that, when she's seated... the bracelet is still not on her left wrist but still in her right hand. Then only she put it on. And somehow or other I saw her feel sort of embarassed (with this blooper?) and hastily hid her hands.
Am I observant or what?
Haha.
Anyway, confusing movie, trademark of the Wachowskis. A bit like watching Dragonball at the end though, when Neo vs Smith.
If you guys notice any bloopers or wanna clear up my confused head with your theories, feel free to comment.
"Everything that has a beginning has an end." -The Oracle
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
I got my Photoblog up and running now.
View all my photos (most of it) at www.whatever-photos.tk
If that link didn't work, click here
Have fun!
View all my photos (most of it) at www.whatever-photos.tk
If that link didn't work, click here
Have fun!
Saturday, November 01, 2003
I'm sorry but I have to vent my anger at our "beloved" Telekom again.
Today they ran an aggressive ad campaign to promote their broadband services. With a cute "Teletubbie" like guy going around persuading you to adopt him. He's got the initials BB on his tummy... BroadBand...get it?
So when I saw this ad I went woohoo, since I've been persuading my dad to "adopt" BB a long time ago but to no avail. So now when they are slashing the prices, my dad obliged.
And before you can say "WiFi for my home" TMnet dropped the bomb on me by saying that my area ain't got no service!
What the hell is that? I'm staying in Petaling Jaya for god's sake! Not in Bagan Datoh! (wherever that is! sorry Bagan Datoh folks.) They SHOULD expect the surge in demand before embarking on this shall I say "useless" ad campaign!
There you have it folks... Monopoly at it's finest. C'mon Telekom, you can do better! Let us all say a silent prayer for Jaring...may your spirit live on...
(frankly, I was seriously considering Time Broadband but the price made me shake my head vigorously)
If you had a similar encounter with Telekom, add a comment below.
So, again to you folks in Telekom... a big L on your forehead LOSERS!
Today they ran an aggressive ad campaign to promote their broadband services. With a cute "Teletubbie" like guy going around persuading you to adopt him. He's got the initials BB on his tummy... BroadBand...get it?
So when I saw this ad I went woohoo, since I've been persuading my dad to "adopt" BB a long time ago but to no avail. So now when they are slashing the prices, my dad obliged.
And before you can say "WiFi for my home" TMnet dropped the bomb on me by saying that my area ain't got no service!
What the hell is that? I'm staying in Petaling Jaya for god's sake! Not in Bagan Datoh! (wherever that is! sorry Bagan Datoh folks.) They SHOULD expect the surge in demand before embarking on this shall I say "useless" ad campaign!
There you have it folks... Monopoly at it's finest. C'mon Telekom, you can do better! Let us all say a silent prayer for Jaring...may your spirit live on...
(frankly, I was seriously considering Time Broadband but the price made me shake my head vigorously)
If you had a similar encounter with Telekom, add a comment below.
So, again to you folks in Telekom... a big L on your forehead LOSERS!
