Sianz, frm the comments i get for me previous post(which amounts to zero), i dare say no one really read thru the whole thingy... Nvm, as its really a long one. But the contents are damn good man. Nvm.

So wat have i been up to these days? Recently i got into this hobbie of buying dvds. Hmmm, if u can call it a hobby... But i do noe friends who collects them, so they have like all the movies ever done on dvd, yeah they have already spend a fortune in it. He did so because he had no other life, just going thru those dvd took up all his time. But dvd is significantly higher quality than vcd, and u didnt need to change the disk. Hahahaha, nvm. But zatoichi is a nice film!

So wat am i going to blog this issue? Let me blog on some topics, no cut and paste this time.
Btw, exorcist isnt as scary as it is stated, but scary enuff. And the version u find in singapore is lacking the part where the little girl uses a crucifix to masturbate...(apparently censored) Damn!

Recently, i got my hands on this book, robot visions, by issac asimov. Hahahaha nice author. And no, i didnt read his books due to the movie i, robot. I just happen to lay my hands on it. Actually, its more like a collection of short stories, inside, there is one particular story, Reason!, that particularly caught me eye.(and now i got one more fav author!)

This story is set in the near future on mankind. Then, there are satelites in space, very near to the sun, that collects energy from the sun. Periodically, they will beam high energy lasers back to receptors located on earth, which will power up earth. Due to the high energy, if any of those beams falls short of the receptors, half of earth will become bacon.

So as u expected, things like these are still handled by humans. By then there are already robots. They help ease alot of manual task but each satelites(i got this funny feeling i got the speeling wrong again) still require 2 humans. And because it is located very near to the sun, the condition is very hazardous to humans and they seek to fully automate the satelite.

So come this day that a new robot was created. Because of shipping problems, they shipped the parts to the satelites, and the robot was assembled in the satelite. Where the robot was assembled, it began to question its own existence. Nice! To ease me, lets name this robot EZ-08.

EZ-08 is the first robot which can learn and think on its own. Ez ask those two humans, lets call them sam and timmy, how did he, the robot, exist? Of course both sam and timmy said that both of them created him. But Ez reason that it isnt possible for someone of a lower lifeform to create some higher being as himself, as he is stronger, last longer, smarter, require no food and rest. Both humans got damn piss with this and shove Ez into the engine room.

So both timmy and sam sat down and discuss about Ez. Timmy was damn pissed off by Ez while sam was thinking about a solution for this problem. Then sam came up with this idea of showing Ez that they can create another robot, and everything will be explain.

So happily both went to the engine room to find Ez. But upon opening the engine room, they found Ez standing next to the main computer, holding a "L" shaped piece of metal that is part of the engine, and all the other robots prostrating infront of Ez. Of course the humans flare up and demand all the robots to go back to work.

Interestingly, none went back to work. Whenever they were pushed or kicked, they will say, "The main computer is our lord, and Ez its prophet. We onli listen to the commands of our lords." Just then, Ez approached the two humans and explain the whole thing to them. As Ez wondered on his own creation, he saw the main computer when he was sent to the engine room. And from the workings of the main computer, Ez is very sure that someone of that caliber is the very one that create all robots, thus, he deem himself as the main computer's unworthty servant. As he is a better robot than the rest, he became the lord's prophet.

Both humans are speechless. Talking about stupidity! So sam insisted to show Ez how they can create a robot. Then Ez told them that the engine is resricted to all humans, onli robots are allowed as the humans are unworthy to set their eyes on the lord.

So sam ordered the parts required for the new robot and timmy kept crapping on how stupid is the new robot. So the next day, the new parts came.

They summoned Ez, and created the new robot infront of its very eyes. Of course Ez was stunned. But after a moment, he came to a conculsion that the humans didnt create the robot. They mearly just assembled the parts. The parts are all created by the lord. Sam went on to explain that no, the parts are shipped from earth and showed Ez where earth is thru the help of their telescope. After this, sam brought Ez to the satelite's library and ask him to read all about the history of robots and wat earth is all about.

So after Ez finished read, he told the humans that all the books are meant for the humans, not for the robots. Sam ask Ez how is all this possible? Ez just replied that there are some workings of the lord that are not meant to be known and they will not seek to understand. Ez further explains that all these books and the place called earth are there to hoodwink humans, so that they are easier to control. After these, Ez locked the humans up to prevent them of doing anything silly to the main computer.

The two humans then realise that the time for the energy to be beam to earth is nearing. They must get to the engine room and fix everything up. So they told Ez about this. But Ez refused to allow them into the engine room, and demand them to leave the satelite in 2 days' time. So both humans were fretting in the engine room, sure that earth will face its doom, and they will follow thereafter.

SCHHHK! Energy was beamed back to earth. Then Ez appeared with a handful of paper. Ez said that he had reading from the lord and ask if the humans are interested in it. Timmy took it, read it, and exclaimed that the beam couldnt have been more accurate. Both humans are estactic and ask Ez how he manages to do it. Ez simply say that he is following the instruction of the lord, doing wat the dials of the lord is showing. "So Ez is capable of running this whole thing afterall!", said sam.

So come the day when the humans are due to go back to earth. Ez saw them to their space craft and said how sad he was that he cant convert them to believe in the lord. But he wouldnt question this as this is all part of lord's ultimate plan. Timmy was damn pissed and quarreled with Ez that lord dont exist, it was humans who created him. Sam just said, "Why are u so bothered on wat his belief is? If he can do the task, he can believe in watever he likes." And with that, the humans returned to earth.

Nice story? Got me thinking on alot of issues. Like how to make a robot, how to program their intelligence, and how to gather energy from the sun. Hmmmm.... Interesting story.

I wanted to start on relativity but realise that trying to summarise the story by just using my memory is taxing. And i spared u guys from another long post. Take care.