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ACM/ 7:29 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2007
 This is a spectrum. cool huh? then three colours This spinning thing has three colours - red, green and yellow. But this thing only seems to have 2 colours. Sandra and Murnira Me and Karen at Mcdonalds. Sandra and Poonam staging a musical This is a concave mirror Red plus green light = yellow light Coloured Shadows... spooky      This is supposed to be a belt bukle Some dragon-like goat. The gigantic mask I was talking about. Wanna wear it? A 'human' leg that the Shu people made Chart as how the items were buried  Me and Karen on the bus :) Some bird figurine that was found on the spirit tree Jade stuff made by the Shu People This is supposed to be a snake. But as you can see, the 3 parts don't match.Tuesday was a day full of excursions. I thought that school would start at 8a.m. but instead it was supposed to start at 8.50a.m. So I had to wait for an hour and to kill the time, I read my chinese story book. We had a briefing and was on our way to the ACM (Asian Civilisation Museum) We were supposed to go for the 'Mystery Man' exhibition and then two other exhibits - South Asia, South-east Asia and China exhibits on our own. At 'Mystery Man' exhibit, we saw tons and tons of weird figurines. Fish that did not look like a fish and supposedly humans heads that look like aliens from Mars. Gigantic mask that were made of bronze were also displayed. These mask cannot be worn - too heavy and large xD There was one particular one that was layered in gold but part of it was already gone. There were stuff made of jade like jewelry and daggers. Imagine a jade dagger. Who would want to use it. It is quite brittle and it can't really cut. Most of these things are just ornaments that were either used as decorations of for rituals. The interesting thing is that these stuff were found in two large pits about 2m deep. They were actually broken, burned and burried in a very neat and organise way. Then, the whole civilisation just disappeared... weird huh? There were no records or writings at all. Sounds like some mystery. Well, we shall leave this one to all the historians and scientist out there to figure out. So meanwhile, we can only sit back, relax and enjoy the 'beauty' of the bronze artefacts that were intricately made. After this exhibition, we went to the Singapore Science Centre on the topic Light. Don't look down on this topic. There is actually alot that you don't know. Did you know that light can now be bend. The optic fiber that you uses actually 'bends' light using the theory of total internal reflection. How many colours do you think there is in a rainbow? If your answer is 7 then you are seriously wrong. There are infinite colours. We only classify it as 7 for convience purposes. Pulsating light was used in science lab but became popular in pubs. Well, it seems that pulsating light can do drastic things. It can even stop motion okay, heres the corrected version: It seem to stop motion. You've learned that shadows are made when light is blocked and the ones that you see is black. However, you can now create your own coloured shadows. All you need is the primary colours of light which is red, blue and green. We went around with our activity sheet and complete our acativities. We realised that glass is actually a 'magical' medium. When one side is lighted, the person on the dark side can see the lighted side but the person at the dark side cannot see him and vice versa. Try it out if you don;t believe. It was a really exhilarating experience and I would encourage you all to go to Science Centre and Discovery Centre. Elaine |
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