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Inception Review and Explanation

2010-08-06T19:36:00.001-07:00

By the time i write this review, I had watched Inception four times. It is only on the fourth time that I finally got "enough information" to complete my version of Inception that Cobb was back into reality. I guess the director did a good job on the movie by creating wonderful discussion and branches of alternate ending. The movie also created in a way that allows ones to choose the ending they prefer. As it is just a movie, any tiny issue such as clothes, shoes and lossing the chance to spin the totem could also be a hint for a branch of discussion. And, the fun part is there really is no real answer. There are just segments of videos being cut and paste in soundtracks. However, this is my version of Inception where Cobb came back to reality.

First, basic principle (u cant get the story "right" if u dont have the fundamental principles in place)

1) Limbo is not a stage of dream (you cant drop into a limbo).

2) Limbo is when u r in a dream and u dunno u r in a dream and continue to live your life.

3) Dying in a deep dream before sedation over would drop u into a deeper dream stage.

3) Dying in a deep dream after the sedation over would bring you back to previous dream.

4) Dying in a deep dream can go straight back to reality if:

-sedation is over or faded enough to wake

-machine time is not up yet so that u cant wake up naturally

-previous versions of u in previous dream stages had died

4) 1 min in reality gives 12 mins in 1st stage of dream

5) Yusof sedation: 10 hours in reality gives 7 days (1 week) in 1st stage, 90 days (3 months) in 2nd stage, 3650 days (10 years) in 3rd stage.

Question:

1) If dying in a deep dream only bring u back 1 stage only, how come Cobb and Mal died on train track and end up in reality?

Quote from Cobb when talking to Ariadne: "We just dont realise that hours could be years down there". First, Cobb and Mal are highly sedated before exploring different level of dream (it is the only way to go 3 levels deep). When they reached 3rd level, they then killed themselves came back to 2nd stage. When they reached 2nd stage, they then killed themselves and came back to the 1st stage. When they kill themselves in 1st stage, they thought that they are back in reality but in fact, they dropped into 2nd stage of dream because sedation havent over yet. They know they havent back to reality but dont understand why. When they kill themselves again, they dropped 1 more stage deeper. The process continue until they lost track of what is real. When u r in a dream and dunno that u r in a dream, that is limbo. At the end, they reached 4th stage(only logical explanation to be able to dream for 50years and the machine havent time up yet) but 1 thing for sure, previous versions of themselves died in the previous stages of dream. They then settle down in 4th stage and lives for 50 years. After 50 years in the dream the machine time still was not up yet (otherwise they would have woke) due to the great depth of their dream (4th stage ). Although the sedation might not be completely over yet , but have depleted enough for them to wake up to reality should they kill themselves again. Thus, when they try to kill themselves again after 50 years, they get back straight into the reality because they previous version of themselves in previous dream stages had died.

2) Both Cobb and Mal were in the same stage when Cobb make the inception on Mal. Dont you have to go deeper into their mind to do that?

In fact, there are already in very deep dream. The only way inception could be done on Mal is to assume that Mal is the dreamer on that stage unless they drop so deep that both become dreamers because the way they get there is not through machine but rather failure of attempt to return to reality. So, by venturing into Mal's safe and spin the totem, the physical action instantly generate an idea to Mal that seems self generated which is "your world is not real".

3) Did the totel dropped at the end of the movie?

Yes. Cobb returned to the reality. The totem is starting to fall already. It is obvious.

4) How did Cobb and Saito end up in the mansion and Saito is old while Cobb is not.

Saito and Fischer died in 3rd level of dream, Cobb and Ariadne join them using the machine to go to the 4th level of dream. Ariadne assist Fischer to sync his kick while she sync her own kick after that. Cobb stay to find Saito. Because there is no dreamers or everyone is a dreamer in 4th stage, the terrain was designed by Cobb because he is the one that had been to the 4th level before. The last scene could be 4th or even 5th level, most probably still in 4th. Saito created his own world in 4th level as he believe he is in reality. He did this for years before Cobb found him on an island. Saito even aged and become an old man. As Cobb knows that he is still in a dream, thus, he doesnt aged and searched long enough until he found Saito and both kill themselves to go back to reality.

5) At the end, how did the team and Fischer return back to the reality?

As the time is only up after 1 week on the 1st level, when they all were back to 1st stage and swim back to the shore, they have to literally live there long enough (until the sedation is over) before it is safe to killed themselves to wake up. Or they can wait for the machine time up which is 1 week on 1st stage.

Some Proves from the movie for the assumption / principles:

1) When Saito and Fischer died in 3rd level of dream, they were dropped into deeper dream (prove that limbo isnt a stage of dream but a perception in believing that u r not in a dream when u are in fact dreaming)

Alex Tam logged 7 August 2010

Please be noted that my interpretation is not 100% integrated with the movie, Inception especially when comes to certain contradicting technical issues. One of the section which requires correction is my definition of limbo.

Few Corrections:

1) Definition of Limbo: unconsturcted dream space (is a stage of dream where u can drop into)

-when u are too heavily sedated and kill yourself in the 1st level of dream, u drop into a limbo

-Limbo potentially makes people lost track of which is real and which is a dream.

-When u kill yourselves in a limbo after sedation has passed, u go straight back to reality.

2) When u kill yourselves in a dream while u r highly sedated, u dont drop deeper into the dream, u drop into a limbo.

Movie Contridictions:

1) When Fischer and Saito died, logically, they dropped into a limbo. Instead, Cobb and Ariadne were able to find them by going deeper through the machine. The only way to go to limbo in to die while highly sedated.

Conclusion:

As the technology dont even exists yet, there is really no point going too great in depth and details of the technical issue. The movie serves it purpose of entertainment and thrills beside bringing greater awareness on certain issues such as mental security and technology. Review is just a way to express ourselves and finding compromises between reality and movie. So i guess the most important question to answer is, Did u enjoyed the movie? haha......

Now

2010-06-19T06:00:00.000-07:00

Blogging have been popular in recent years and now it is still a common practices not just among professional bloggers but also ordinary people like me and you. As a teenager, it is not uncommon to find that many of my friends are actually regular bloggers and they spend their time socializing through the window of their blogs. They also express their weird thoughts and things that wont normally be accepted in the public into their blogs. A glance into their blogs, comments, chat boxes, life story, philosophy and all sorts of materials can be found. Some more mature people would put on their travel and family photos in blogspot and use it as a sharing platform with their relative.s This makes me wonder whether I need a blog for myself? And, is the blog meant to be for me...or for the others...coz blogs are normally meant to be read by others. So, if no 1 reads my blog, do I still blog? like now...should I continue? I am not sure whether my blogging friends have ever wonder with this question before but for me, I start thinking about it on the first day I register my blogging account. Now, I suppose I may have found a reason for me to blog as often and as spontaneous as I want on my own pace, rymthm and timing.

After months of abandoning my mere few pages of blogs, I spontaneously link to them today and discoverd them with a 'wow'. Did I wrote all that? As people gets old, they forget what they wrote. But, it doesnt applied to me. Coz, I still remember that I am the one who wrote those, no doubt. Is just that, it reminds me of how I used to think and allow me to grasp the line of though again. The stream of inspirations that flow through me when I feel like writing. It is like a camera, a recorder. This is why I like camera. It records your experience and watching the replay of videos or photos allow you to experience it all over again. It is like immemorialing the experiences. The best part is that, the reviews on previous experiences allow me to have a new discovery of myself, what have I been through and how should I carry on. I guess it is more or less like a diary. But, instead of just writing about boring activities everyday and forces yourself to remember yesterday activities should you missed one or two days in the diary, photographing and bloggings records experiecces and line of though whenever u like them to br recorded, no sweat. These records doesnt bother you at all when you dont need them. However, should you be bore, nothing to do or wonder about which path to take or which decision to choose, simply sign in to your blogspot and there would be your line of thought freshly, untouched, lying there for you to view them, it is like meeting an old friend. That is the thing about friend. When you do not need them to be around, there would not exist any where near you. However, should you terribly need someone to share about your life, experience and future, they are always there, electronically, socially, physically and mentally with you. At least that works for guys. Girls normally dont understand that. If you think otherwise, watch "Sex and The City 2".

The thing about blogging is there is no deadline, no restriction, no 1 bother, and you dont need to earn a profit from blogging. Of course, there is no 1 rule for all bloggers. Am I a blogger? Everyone might have their own answer for that question. But for sure, I am not of a regular 1. For me, freedom is everything, when you can do something whenever and whereever you like to do, you basically own that thing or able to control it. As for me, this is my way of blogging. I am a irregular blogger(isnt that a normal sentence to put as a conclusion?) I wonder what is your style of blogging?

alternate conclusion: I am a sponateous thinker that lay my thought whener and whereveer I want to.

Wikipedia

2010-02-28T11:39:00.000-08:00

Tam Eng Lam (Alex) 原名陈应霖. 1990 年出生于马来西亚. 就读精武华小. 公教中学和双威大学. 身为一名基督徒, 他踊跃参加教会活动. 2011 年毕业后, 参加了Malaysian Idol却不幸在第一圈被淘汰.他在22岁时发表了第一张个人专辑,"我还是我". 凭着主打歌"宇宙的呼唤"获得不错的成绩.他在2013年, 活得了最有潜力艺人奖.两年后,他进入民联政党, 为国家发展做出了伟大贡献. 也是一名企业家的他, 在企业界创造了新商业模式,从此改变了人们生活的方式.他在35岁时,推出了"再生能源, 珍惜地球"的计划, 呼吁人们爱护地球也推出了各种商业途径让世界各地的企业家可以在赚钱的同时也可以响应环保.他在40岁时集合了,56个世界组织, 13个拥有海岸线的国家推出了一个名为"把海洋带入世界, 用世界回馈海洋"计划. 此计划在世界8大国家设立海洋研究中心博物馆, 专门研究如何透过海洋减低温室效应,提供食物来源,保持生态平衡. 此博物馆也供人参观,以此提高人们对海洋重要性的警觉.他也对所有人说"不要藐视海洋在地球占三分之二的地位".在他50岁时,他成就了一生中最伟大的计划.当时,地球的大气层减少至65%,地壳的活动也变得异常活跃.海啸和地震在世界各地不断发生. 在他和他团队的努力之下, 成功利用他们对海洋的知识,改变了地球进入冰河世代的命运.他的一生不止对世界做出了伟大贡献,也鼓励人们追求理想.他说"我的理想就是要达成世界共同的理想,让每个人都可以在心灵和金钱上富足,把天堂提早带到人间"
Tam Eng Lam or Alex. Born in Malaysian during 1990.Studied in SJK(C) Chen Moh, Catholic High School and Sunway University College. Upon graduation in 1990, he participated in "Malaysian Idol", a local singing competition. However, he was eliminated in the first round. When he was 22 years old, he launched his first album namely, "I am still me" and obtained good results with his song "Calling from the Galaxy". In 2013, he obtained the prize of best potential artist. Two years later, he ventured into politic joining the "pakatan rakyat (the people alliance)" and made great contributions to the society. Also an entrepreneur, he created a revolutionary business model, forever changing the way we live our live. When he was 25 years old, he introduced a project called"appreciate ocean through renewable energy" allowing all enterprises to be able to be environmental friendly beside making profits. At the age of 40, he gathered 56 world organisations and 13 countries that own coast lines. He launched a project called"Ocean Vision". He set up research centers in 8 different countries to research on technique to reduce green house effects, improve food supplies and maintain the ecosystem through knowledge about the ocean. The research centers also allowed people to visit and gain awareness of the importance of ocean. He said"do not look down on the ocean that covers two third of the earth surface". At the age of 50, he reached his golden years as he completed his final and most incredible mission. At that time, the ozone layer depleted till 65%, and earth crust activities increase in a terrible rate. With the help of his team researchers and using their understanding about the ocean, they were able to change the fate of earth that is about to go into the ice age. He not only contributed to the world throughout his entire life time but also encouraged other people to pursue their dreams. He said"My dream is to accomplish the mutual dream of all mankind, allowing everyone to be rich spiritually and physically thus bringing heaven to earth in advance.

Ocean exploration

2009-07-17T01:48:00.000-07:00

"We ll not know where will our path leads us to. Lets God guide our way and we ll follow wherever our God, Yahweh needs us."

The earth is made up of 80% water. 2/3 is the ocean. I believe that ocean is playing a very important part in our life. It helps to maintain our ecosystem and making our surroundings safe to live and the air safe to breathe. Due to 'global warming' oceans start to absorb the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Today, the rising carbon dioxide level become too much for the oceans to bear. It may be causing problems that we cant imagine.

God created the earth that is covered by water so much. Many of its creations lies beneath the dark blue water. The clear water and tiny creatures living beneath it always amazed me by their unpredictable movement. The cool oceans do not seems to be a good place to live but there are life presented in many different forms, colours and patterns. Octopus can change their colours instantly and even texture of their skin according to the surrounding. They can even pretend and simulate other fishes' and organisms' movement for disguist purposes.

By understanding the oceans and explore more, i believe that we as human would be able to appreciate the nature more. Perhaps, the important of life itself. Humans are always searching for truth and meaning. Could these thing be found through ocean explorations? I believe that by understanding the ocean more, we are able to understand how it works and at least know what is going on in the world of wonders that are often undiscovered. Perhaps one day, these knowledge can be used to save thousands of lives and improve living standards of the people that are earning a living from the seas. Maybe when the passions of the oceans meet the business systems, it can creates a better standard to govern the flow of oceans harvests and exploitations. Perhaps the world needs a better approach to protect the nature rather than saving electric usages.

An awareness is merely a start. The subject that is carrying it out is you. By spending time and money in these ares i think it would be a wise investment as it not only satisfy our interest but bring along the longing to preserve it for the future. Whether the pursue of ocean exploration and knowledge about the unknown world is one of my path or the way i should choose is all in God's hand. What if you got the whole world but loses the most important thing in life, your soul? If it is God's way and I am given the opputunity, I ll go for it. God, let your will be done.

Brother in Christ,
Alex Tam

Got questions about life? Pls post it in this blog.

2009-06-25T20:40:00.000-07:00

hahahaha........lets get involve with arguements
http://joelnalex.blogspot.com/

About Friendship

2009-06-16T22:19:00.000-07:00

“I am not really good in expressing myself to my friends
although I am very talkative.”
http://nicleaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/friends.html

This phrase is taken from a friend, Nicole’s blog entitled "friends are our treasures on earth". What is sociable? Will a sociable person able to have many friends? Most of all, sociable person=friendly person? We can be a very talkative person but not good in expressing ourselves? Is that even possible?

Biblely, treasures on earth means something that can rot and won’t be there forever. When we refer to something as earthly, we are referring it as a material or simply a visible subject. We may have many friends, but are they really close to us? We may know many people’s name but do we know about their family? Many people like to be sociable and mix with the society. Some had succeeded, some may not and some might still struggle to do so. Whether we succeed or not, being sociable and making friends are different. Even if we are a sociable person, we will still have the longing to really “know” a person. Making friends is not just about trust and friendship. It is about loving, willing to tear down our mask and show our true colour, willing to accept each other weaknesses, willing to silence whenever necessary. A quality time with friends can be very conversational or very silent. Y? It is because speech is not the only way to express love or philia in Greek.

Love your friends (neighbour) with all your heart and soul (2nd commandment),
Tam, Alex

The Truth About Nemo_0001

2009-05-26T09:10:00.001-07:00

This is my first nemo.

Lets name him after Nemo_0001 coz i do not know how many of these i still need to go through =(

He is cute

Guess what happened? Here comes the CRAB!

Oh no!

Poor nemo

The cruelty of nature. So dramatic=(

Actually nemo died of poor water condition. Crab died the other day too after eating nemo....1/2 of nemo. WWF pls dun sue me i am not not abusing animal. I am an ocean lover.

In memorial of Nemo and red crab March2009=)

Replying to 'God?' by jb ivytan

2009-05-25T21:40:00.000-07:00

"If you think God doesn't exist, what's the evidence?
If you think God doesn't exist, who created human beings and the entire world?"
(refer to jb blog)

The world so far had not found any evidence to prove that God didnt existed.
However, they is no evidence to prove that God existed as well.
Thus, some might say believing in God is out of faith without significant evidence.
However, this is a reasonable faith.

Theoritically, in the center of a black hole, there is a thing called "singularity". It is a very small dot of nothing and exist in no dimension. Can you imagine that the universe used to be like that? And suddenly everything existed from nothing? From big bang? Then what caused the big bang? In the bible, at the beginning there was nothing. Then, God created heaven and earth. Thus, believing in the existing of God of creations is a reasonable faith.

Although some people might not believe in God coz science cant prove God and there is no evidence, but i believe that the more we explore with science, the more we will felt that the bible is true, the more we look into the universe, the more we think that it cant be existed from just a big bang. Could the heaven and earth in the bible means the universe and the galaxy? Was God not just created Sun and Moon but every single planet and star in the universe?

2009-01-21T20:41:00.000-08:00

Relationship or Studies?

2009-01-15T06:14:00.000-08:00

Relationship and Studies, which one is more important? If your answer is Relationship , what do you plan to do in the future? Will you still have a wonderful family life just like before? If your answer is Studies, the people around you might say you are on the right track before you found out that your relationship with other people are getting worse. Thus, Relationship and Studies, both are equally important.

So, you might say what the hxxx! or so lame or swt or xxxx. So whatz the point? How do i get both of the element without losing the other? The answer is i also dunno. Basically i am posting question instead of answers. So, if you find this article useless. I would say carry on and see what u will found. Life is full of uncertainty. If not, there is no fun....at all. Imagine that you will come across 4 traffic light during the journey back home from school. First three are always green and the last 1 turn red when your bas sekolah reach the traffic light. The driver will always say the same word, xxxx. The journey back home, from the second you left school to the second you step into your house is exactly 13 minutes and 56 seconds. Today is 13 minutes and 56.1 second coz the earth is spinning slower everyday. Have you started to get bore? No you wont! cause it is very funny. However, try to experience it yourselves for 365.25 days a year and see how you feel.

So unpredictable life is fun? Not exactly, sometimes it is miserable, cause you newer know what is ahead of you. For example, you ask your friend" hey bro, i kinda like Natalie but i dunno how she felt for me, do you think i need to tell her? but i dunno how she ll react?". So is unpredictable life fun? You tell me.

I always get "lost" in this unpredictable life, sometimes, i lost my direction. However, it is through God that i finally managed to come back to the right path. For He said, I am the light of your path. Choosing between relationship and studies is easy. Many will choose studies or both. But when you chose studies, do you really think that you can forget about relationship? end up, you are losing both of them. Thus, i think everythings can be good provided that it happen at the right time. May God guide us in everyday of our life, give us direction and help us to make decisions everyday. It is my belief that if God prepare something for you, he will give it to you at the right time. If he doesnt means it is not suitable for you. Owh...so sad. But he will find a better one to make it up for you. Thx God.

Satisfy?

Alex Tam

Finding a Way to Live

2009-01-13T23:05:00.000-08:00

"Is it better to be fear or respect?I would say is it too much to ask for both?" said Ironman in the movie, Ironman. An interesting movie and incredible dialog however, do fear and respect from others really make us happy and enjoy every moments of our life? I would say it is better to be loved. For love is unconditional ......(pls refer yourself). What is love? (jb would say this is a good question) Well, love is all around us. Some are hidding, some are overwhelming and some are tragidy. As a youth, student and friend, I tend to find the meaning of having relationship with other people(as in friend or family, dont think beyond that) and tring to classify their priority in my life. For instant, Is my relationship with Natalie Isle Cole better than other Friendster Friend? Is your relationship with your parents better than your friend? or vice versa?

Being a Christian, many might think that relationship with God should be positioned above anyone else. However, i think that it is through the relationship of us with other people that we can actually visualize our relationship with God. It is only when we started to understand the meaning of father then only we can truly understanding the relationship of ourselves with God. In fact, it is amazing to have God in my life. I have live my life for 10++ years before knowing that God had created me. During that period of time, it was fun, memorable, enjoy, and as usual it also come along with some tears. Yeah, a life without God is not that bad that we cant live our life. In fact, it is through calamity and disaster that we started looking for God. However, when i found myself stucked in a situation of fear, unsecured, emptiness, God gives me hope and brought me out of the darkness of dungeon ant tunnel. He helps me to fight the mushrooms and guide me to a place where pots are eternally available as long as you have the enough mesos. Ever since that, i started to learn more about him and become sufficient spiritually and physically. Yeah, that was a rough idea of how i get through it.

Does this means that forever i am free of any troubles mentally and physically? I might says the troubles do reduces and become easier to be overcomed. Despite being a Christian, I still face many life problems like everyone else. However, i think that i have found the key to unlock my life. With the key, i could seek help from God and talk to him whenever and wherever i need to. According to Form 4 Biology Text Book pg???, every sudstrate need a specific enzyme to unlock it. This is known as the famous lock and key mechanism (it is important, always come out in exams). He might or not might not solve your problems right away but he will always be there for you and show you the way out.....if you seek for his present

Treasure your life, God, and family. (friendz also)

Alex Tam