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Thursday, May 25, 2006 haven been writing for one week... am ultra bored lar. last fri went out with dear, sat went k box with ql and zm, sun went grandma's hse, mon and tues at home, and yesterday was out with the boyfriend. :)) and went temasek poly, cos wanna give ser a surprise, haha... she's selling pretzel what. almost can't find her. haha. anyw, me and dear went tampines mall watch da vinci's code after that. its a nice show lar. but not my cup of tea. i mean apart from the codes and clues stuff that i never liked, the entire show was a very marketing show, and after all it does place the name of leonardo on the title eh? i mean okay, i watched this show was because of leonardo and what the damn hell the world is criticizing abt it. haha. seriously, i was clueless until the part where they show and explain the "new concept" of the last supper. i'm not a christian but i'm certainly am against their explaination. ( one of the reason was cos i studied art history last term). look at the painting again.  the last supper, was a scene that pictured Jesus announcing that one of his 12 disciples would betray him. the so called Mary Magdalene beside Jesus was actually John, one of his youngest disciple. John, in other works of Leonardo, was also pictured as a boyish or feminine looking figure with long fair hair. this was because John was supposed to have been the youngest and most unquestioningly devoted of all. hence, if that figure was really Mary Magalene, then where is the 12th disciple, that was supposed to be there? in the film, its believed that Leonardo belongs to the Priory of Sion, some secret society that protect the royal bloodline, haha, i really admire ppl that can come out with such theory(its not dan brown that came out with that), but really, there's enough agruemeet abt the existence of the Priory of Sion in this century alr. but anyw, i still love the painting a lot. unlike other paintings, this was done on a wall and could not be moved, much repairation was done to it these 500 plus yrs cos there's a lot of damage to it. imagine. Leonardo was simply a genius, in term of the arts, science or whatever shit. imagine, he's a architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, futurist and painter. but too bad he's a gay. i simply dun understand why great guys are always gay. haha. but he really made the renaissance period a beauty. know why i call him Leonardo instead of Da Vinci?? cos Da Vinci's not his surname, which ppl often mistaken that. his full name, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, simply means "Leonardo, son of Piero, from Vinci". (Vinci was his hometown). cool right?? i guess i babbled too much. i can continue talking abt the stuff i like, haha. art history is amazing. :)) {4:15:00 pm}
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