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a few weeks ago, I got to be a voter at the Science Buskers Festival, that is students and professionals used science to explain their ‘magic’, of course the winner is a professional, cos she bothered to costume up in a colourful manner and had clear loud confident voice. but second place was students from Polytechnics who performed ‘heart-stopping’ tricks.

well I decide to volunteer to this event because we were given goodie bag (inside is some memoribilia such as mugs, lanyard, pins etc, nothing exciting), tickets to Science Centre (I am not interested either cos I can get it for free anytime) and buffet lunch (ok , something exciting at least) and the most exciting one is ticket to the Da Vinci the Genius exhibition, each worth $12 (that means without free tix u gotta pay this amount )

btw the exhibition is ending on the 16th august, so if you like to know more about him, you should head down asap.

well no photographs allowed inside to maintain integrity of the exhibition, but on exhibits were some of his engineering works such as the bridge, the pulleys and flying machines, special city (city that would not be hit by plague, called it dream city), and of course the most famous of his work, the Mona Lisa and other paintings such as virgin on the rocks and the vesuvius man.

This picture is taken outside the exhibition, I cannot really say in detail what is all about, but by coming to the exhibition, you will realise what a genius he is. His interests stretched from engineering (war machines, construction pulleys and other tools, swimming aids etc) to anatomy (he disects dead body, but there are some on foetal development and I shudder to think of how he managed to get those done), to painting (Mona Lisa) and sculpture (he made a horse)

there are some interactive exhibits where u can try and test them out.

and the quite a bit of space are dedicated to deciphering the Mona Lisa, who she really is and such, and so is the Last supper painting.

all in all very interesting, they also show a few videos explaining the stuff and there is a movie playing too.

all of the exhibits come with nice description like this

anyway most of the stuff shown are replicas of the actual Da Vinci work, i think all of it are replicas? I am not sure about this as he lived in the 15th century so all his stuff had detoriated and too fragile to be moved around.

well this is an excuse to visit Louvre again rite, when I was in Paris I did not visit it, very sad.

I spent around an hour but towards the end I was rushing already cos I am very tired and still has many things to do in science centre.

Not to see all the exhibits, rather to do some work

anyway before that I managed to catch the Tesla Coil show, this exhibit located right in the centre of science centre, usually look uninteresting as they do not turn on the million watts electricity used in the show. anyway the point of tesla coil is that it is used to generate very high watts of electricity

for more info you can read its wiki here

quite popular show, and the electricity generated is really amazing, my small camera can capture it well, means its like 10x more amazing in real life and the buzzing sound is really very loud

the amount of electricity generated is so great it can light up a bulb without touching at all, in fact is like a few metres away from the real tesla coil

guess what gas fill the baloons? should be light gases right? either Hydrogen or Helium

yeah the huge explosion tells it all, its hydrogen

very fun, I like science centre a lot, when I was younger, I used to visit it almost every month (to omni max mainly though) and though they do not change many exhibits, all of theirs can occupy your whole day easily. Plus they have some special exhibits on some months too

well science centre entrance is quite cheap, i think its $10 For adults and cheaper for kids, and nearby there is the omni theatre and of course snow city. A very good but under-advertised entertainment centre that is both educational and fun for all ages