Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Reflective Writing

I like optics and mirrors. I told that to D Tan, and in the end I'm being asked to do a reflective writing. This is the sort of thanks i get from the Physics department. ..l..

And those idiots decided to be awfully precise this time.

I quote the rubrics,

“Your reflective writing should be a well-thought out piece of writing in response to an enrichment activity that you participated in. An enrichment activity is likely to be quite different from something you would normally do, e.g., reading a science fiction novel or watching a movie or TV documentary. Your writing should comprise key ideas, questions, answers and thoughts. The word limit is 500 words, excluding references.”

(Physics Dept could improve their sentence structure anyway: “An enrichment activity is likely to be quite different from something you would normally do”?!?! – this doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever.)

Please note that in the original script, it was Physics Dept that underlined their own mistake. I wonder if they are trying to prove a point.

Anyway, I began writing my reflective, following very strictly to the rubrics (as you will see):

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Type of activity: Movie – “The Core”
Date of activity: 25th July 2005

Key ideas:
Well, as a no-life, you are right that I don’t really watch movies very often. In fact, I think that watching this movie is something that I won’t normally do, especially since when I watch movies, I tend to watch GOOD ones. Therefore, I think my main idea would be: How did this movie even come into existence? After all, producers would be unwilling to waste money on a lousy plot and even lousier screenplay. I think a hell lot of money would have been wasted in making this rather senseless movie. Unless, of course, it’s been done with the purpose of making us do silly reviews and making us suffer, then in your sadist point of view it might have been well worth the money.

I get a feeling that someone might be copying my work, and those who usually do are coolios who watch movies half the time. I would like to say that if they do, you should fail them and declare their work invalid because as coolios, they would watch movies very often and thus watching yet another movie would not be quite different from what they would normally do.

Questions:
- Seeing the destruction in the movie, does it look very likely to happen into real life someday?
- Are the scientists really so suicidal that they actually are so crazy to go right down to the Earth’s core to search for death? (I know, they claim to be searching for the truth but we all know that all you get down there is extreme heat and death.)
- Which is more important, religion or science?
- How do we know that we are actually living in a world with a core? For all you know the Earth might be based on nothing, like how you Physics teachers tend to give out homework just for nothing.
- Why should we bother if the electromagnetic field of the earth is disrupted? We won’t be attracted anyway.

Answers:
- It will happen. Murphy’s Law says that if anything bad can happen, it will. And I think Murphy is ten times smarter than either Fleming or Lenz.
- Yes, they are. If not why do you think they became scientists in the first place?!
- I’d say science. That’s if you’ll give me the marks for this reflective.
- Actually, they never said they knew. It’s a movie and anything goes in a movie.
- We should bother because it is in human nature to be inquisitive, and we should not interfere with human nature. Therefore it is because of our ignorance of our inquisitiveness that has brought us to meddling with the electromagnetic field of the Earth.

Thoughts:
I only have 52 words left, so I’ll just quickly conclude what I have to say. Movies are fake. They are made up of the director’s beliefs and his imagination. For all we know, the idiot who made this movie could have been hallucinating about Physics! No more words left, so bye!
(500 words)
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Note that I did not use the word “reference” at any point of time, so it's exactly 500 words. Exceeding the word limit would have killed me off. Plus since I failed my Physics test I would very badly need this to pull up my CA grades. Therefore I won’t fool around with this assignment and just keep to the rules for once.

And yea, LONG LIVE PHYSICS!!!

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