Ok for all LOST fans or those who have watched LOST up to a certain point then decided to give up as it was too confusing (this is for the former since it is a little.. deep).. some brilliant chap came up with this fantastic theory that sounds so convincing and accurate it's as if the LOST writers wrote it themselves!!
The link is here:
http://duggmirror.com/television/An_Extremely_Compelling_LOST_Theory/
it's a pretty lengthy read, probably take you 10-20 minutes to absorb the whole thing as it is a little complicated (hey waddya expect, a theory to explain LOST has to be a little deep)
It's very interesting though, and makes total sense, so i would high encourage you to read it if you have the time. I'll just highlight some key points, but they will be far from sufficient to explaining anything so you have to read the article!
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The whole concept that the guy came up with was - time travel. The Dharma initiative came up with this time machine thing that allowed time travel. The article totally explains why this is so and gives alot of supporting evidence from the show that explains this theory.
Now it is a little more complicated than it sounds.. you need to read the page to understand it's hard to explain.
Anyway here's some rules of the time travel:
1) When someone enters the time machine, they can only go back in time – and only to a time where the machine was currently running.
2) When you go back in time, you do not de-age. For example, if you are 50, and go back 10 years in time, you do NOT have your 40-year-old body. HOWEVER, while you are re-living 10 years of your life, you body will not age until you catch up with the time in which you entered the time machine.
3) When you go back in time, you will still have your current hair style, tattoos, and memory. However, say you were paralyzed; fate would need to do some course correction to make sure that you are still able to play your past role in life. Thus, time travel can TEMPORARILY cure any physical ailments you may have had prior to entering the time machine.
However, fate will still find a way to paralyze you once you catch up with the current time. Say the first time you were paralyzed, it was because you were pushed out of a window. Because “the universe has a funny way of course correcting,” you may get hit by a car the second time around.
4)When you go back in time, you can only “change” things that don’t have an impact on your destiny. In other words, if you went to church on a specific date in the past, and then went back in time, you wouldn’t necessarily go to church in your new timeline. However, if you changed a belief as a result of going to church the first time around, “fate would find a way to influence you into that belief.” Perhaps you would have a near death experience, or maybe a mysterious person would greet you in a jewelry store and tell you that you need to change your beliefs… or, maybe fate would just kill you since it couldn’t find a way to change your belief.
5) If you go back in time and die, you are not “totally” dead because there has already been a variation of the universe where you were alive in the future. Thus, you become “half dead” until time catches back up. In other words, your presence may be known to some people but not others. Your presence would only be known when you are required to make an impact to fate.
6)If you have never had a child, you cannot go back in time and give birth. Fate does not allow for a new entity to exist in a past where it originally did not exist. Thus fate would either have to kill the mother, the baby, or both in order to course correct. UNLESS, fate decides to use the baby or mother to “replace” someone else in the timeline.
7) Basically, the “rules of the time machine” are not governed by any physical definitions of time travel. The “rules,” if you will, are governed by how FATE decides to preserve the timeline. Thus, if you are required to do something profound in a future timeline, fate will find any way possible to preserve the timeline – we’ve seen ghosts and smoke monsters in LOST. So according to the show’s definition of time travel, fate “does have a funny way of course correcting.”
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that's the rough gist of it. Read the main article for how this links to the show and how many events are explained. The guy is good man!
http://duggmirror.com/television/An_Extremely_Compelling_LOST_Theory/
gogo!
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008
sispec warriors we are the warriors
ah. just came out for the weekend break from my SISPEC training.
what is it like? well, i kinda like the lifestyle there as it seems alot more relaxed than BMT .. like more independent. BMT is really dumb like waste alot of time and stuff. But here.. the lifestyle seems better. but maybe cos the instructors all giving chance as it's our first week.
physically, it's about.. 3 times more tiring than BMT. the exercises are tiring and they really push us alot physically. i ached like crap on the 2nd/3rd day but i think that's also because i didn't exercise much during the block leave. but they're really demanding a high physical standard from us and.. it's tough.
i screwed up alot of things on the first day that could have potentially demoralised me for the whole course.
For example, i didn't bring my running shoes -_- retarded right. when i found out i literally went cold and i had the 'OH SHIT I'M SO DEAD' feeling in my body. luckily we could go the shop there to buy.
And, while moving cupboards (yes retardedly my bunk had no cupboards we had to shift from next door) i literally smashed my right arm into the fire extinguisher box attached to the wall. it kinda got sandwiched between the cupboard i was carrying and the box. and my hand went totally numb so i was freaking scared i broke something.
but i was lucky la, nothing serious. after the PT the aches from the other parts of my body became more than the pain in my hand so.. it healed after 1-2 days.
but somehow, i managed to keep myself optimistic so i went through the first week pretty well. furthermore, it was really relaxed.. like ALOT of people were slacking and not rushing to meet timings and not putting in their best effort.. like LOUSY discipline la. but the commanders still relax and never punish just scold.
I'm very sure this is because it's the first week so they're being nice. we're so gonna get screwed next week. i just know it. those guys really need to buck up. :/
optimistic optimistic!! i think the key to staying alive here is to be optimistic. so.. if you're nice you can send me SMSes of encouragement or whatever. i'll greatly appreciate them =)
BY THE WAY. PRISON BREAK FANS! i have GREAT NEWS for you! ok this is slightly spoilerish .. but i dont think there's anyway you dont wanna know it!
So if you dont wanna know
just
navigate
away from this
page now!
SARA IS BACK!!
YES!!!
i dunno how they'll do it but well the gist of it is that i guess she didn't die in season 3 and that head we saw wasn't hers ? i dunno. but the most important thing is that she'll be back in season 4 so those who stopped watching PB because sara died.. CAN COME BACK AND WATCH NOW!!!
=D
For the full story, click here:
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=3fd3e7cf-0758-484e-beca-5d5b7e09cae0
what is it like? well, i kinda like the lifestyle there as it seems alot more relaxed than BMT .. like more independent. BMT is really dumb like waste alot of time and stuff. But here.. the lifestyle seems better. but maybe cos the instructors all giving chance as it's our first week.
physically, it's about.. 3 times more tiring than BMT. the exercises are tiring and they really push us alot physically. i ached like crap on the 2nd/3rd day but i think that's also because i didn't exercise much during the block leave. but they're really demanding a high physical standard from us and.. it's tough.
i screwed up alot of things on the first day that could have potentially demoralised me for the whole course.
For example, i didn't bring my running shoes -_- retarded right. when i found out i literally went cold and i had the 'OH SHIT I'M SO DEAD' feeling in my body. luckily we could go the shop there to buy.
And, while moving cupboards (yes retardedly my bunk had no cupboards we had to shift from next door) i literally smashed my right arm into the fire extinguisher box attached to the wall. it kinda got sandwiched between the cupboard i was carrying and the box. and my hand went totally numb so i was freaking scared i broke something.
but i was lucky la, nothing serious. after the PT the aches from the other parts of my body became more than the pain in my hand so.. it healed after 1-2 days.
but somehow, i managed to keep myself optimistic so i went through the first week pretty well. furthermore, it was really relaxed.. like ALOT of people were slacking and not rushing to meet timings and not putting in their best effort.. like LOUSY discipline la. but the commanders still relax and never punish just scold.
I'm very sure this is because it's the first week so they're being nice. we're so gonna get screwed next week. i just know it. those guys really need to buck up. :/
optimistic optimistic!! i think the key to staying alive here is to be optimistic. so.. if you're nice you can send me SMSes of encouragement or whatever. i'll greatly appreciate them =)
BY THE WAY. PRISON BREAK FANS! i have GREAT NEWS for you! ok this is slightly spoilerish .. but i dont think there's anyway you dont wanna know it!
So if you dont wanna know
just
navigate
away from this
page now!
SARA IS BACK!!
YES!!!
i dunno how they'll do it but well the gist of it is that i guess she didn't die in season 3 and that head we saw wasn't hers ? i dunno. but the most important thing is that she'll be back in season 4 so those who stopped watching PB because sara died.. CAN COME BACK AND WATCH NOW!!!
=D
For the full story, click here:
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=3fd3e7cf-0758-484e-beca-5d5b7e09cae0
Saturday, 22 March 2008
im a pig
ah.. the 2nd last day of my block leave. I have completed BMT, so now i'm moving on to SISPEC! (School Of Infantry Specialists) Just got the posting yesterday, by checking the army website. Basically that means i'm gonna undergo 6 months of training to become a 3rd Sergeant (3SG) ! gee, hope i make it through.
Yknow it is said that you only appreciate the value of money when you start working, since you'll be spending your hard-earned money. How come i'm not like that ah?
It's the first time ever im my life i'm getting a salary when i entered army, and the pay of $400 a month is pretty meagre in comparison to other part time jobs or whatever. but instead of being extremely thrifty and saving every penny.. i've become more spendthrift! I spend money more easily and am pretty comfortable with eating more expensive meals.
For example, previously i would always spend just 2-3 dollars on a meal, and never buy a drink but drink water instead to save money. But now.. my average meal is probably like 6 dollars? sometimes even more. Like.. 10-20 dollars. That would be when i go to those more expensive places..like pizza hut or Fish & Co (just went there this week. the glasshouse. their fish drips with oil la. super oily. but damn shiok)
(e.g. let's take my latest meal for example, which was my dinner i just had
Ban Mian : $2.50
Lemon Juice: $1
Chocolate Donut: $0.90
Brownie : $0.90
= $5.30 !! )
(and i only ate banmian cos my throat was feeling a little weird, like having the onset of cough. otherwise i would've eaten mcdonalds i think)
I think it's the army's fault. After field camp, i've developed the habit of constantly wanting to eat something (that's kinda what it's like in field camp, and cos we have biscuits, we can do that)
So after my meals i'll always feel like having dessert, etc. That's why i bought those donut/brownies.
I've also been taking alot of snacks. Like in between meals, just eat something. Then eat alot for the meals too. Ahhh i'm sucha pig.
Ah yes, i just bought 2 tubs of chocolate ice cream (mini tub, 2 for $2.80). ate half a tub with the brownie + milo powder + hersheys syrup. =D seriously, the inventor of milo is a genius. Is his name even milo? i know there are people named milo. milo powder can go with virtually any dessert la! it's even nice on its own. ah.. i feel so.. pampered. =X haha.
I am SO not looking forward to going back to army :/
Yknow it is said that you only appreciate the value of money when you start working, since you'll be spending your hard-earned money. How come i'm not like that ah?
It's the first time ever im my life i'm getting a salary when i entered army, and the pay of $400 a month is pretty meagre in comparison to other part time jobs or whatever. but instead of being extremely thrifty and saving every penny.. i've become more spendthrift! I spend money more easily and am pretty comfortable with eating more expensive meals.
For example, previously i would always spend just 2-3 dollars on a meal, and never buy a drink but drink water instead to save money. But now.. my average meal is probably like 6 dollars? sometimes even more. Like.. 10-20 dollars. That would be when i go to those more expensive places..like pizza hut or Fish & Co (just went there this week. the glasshouse. their fish drips with oil la. super oily. but damn shiok)
(e.g. let's take my latest meal for example, which was my dinner i just had
Ban Mian : $2.50
Lemon Juice: $1
Chocolate Donut: $0.90
Brownie : $0.90
= $5.30 !! )
(and i only ate banmian cos my throat was feeling a little weird, like having the onset of cough. otherwise i would've eaten mcdonalds i think)
I think it's the army's fault. After field camp, i've developed the habit of constantly wanting to eat something (that's kinda what it's like in field camp, and cos we have biscuits, we can do that)
So after my meals i'll always feel like having dessert, etc. That's why i bought those donut/brownies.
I've also been taking alot of snacks. Like in between meals, just eat something. Then eat alot for the meals too. Ahhh i'm sucha pig.
Ah yes, i just bought 2 tubs of chocolate ice cream (mini tub, 2 for $2.80). ate half a tub with the brownie + milo powder + hersheys syrup. =D seriously, the inventor of milo is a genius. Is his name even milo? i know there are people named milo. milo powder can go with virtually any dessert la! it's even nice on its own. ah.. i feel so.. pampered. =X haha.
I am SO not looking forward to going back to army :/
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