To be honest, I am looking forward to better food and a bath the entire day. All that made me think about how complacent and spoilt I am as a Singaporean and an individual, maybe its time for me to do some character adjustment. I also felt that I got to think about how to enjoy being in the MICE industry (will write more in my personal blog ).
Today while I got lost, I chance upon the Israel pavilion. Now the student leaders know how fond I am of this pavilion. So I became gutsy and decided to queue for it!
The Israel pavilion sign in Chinese, Japanese and English (left), The pavilion
shaped in a sea shell (top right) and the Whispering Gardens.
The central theme for the pavilion was on building better lives, in response to the slogan of World Expo 2010, better city, Better lives. I think this peace loving portrayal is a stark contrast of Israel's reputation on waging wars.
However, I am enthused by the fact that they are God-fearing. Even so, they have justified something so subjective called faith, with rational, factual ways of living it out, by creating better medical advances in technology and engineering.
In the Whispering gardens, there is a rock that is at the foot of the entrance. Many times in the Jewish faith, in the bible they show a rock being represented as a milestone ( like in Genesis 28, where Jacob uses a rock he named "Bethel" to signify Go's presence), and it suggest a humanly milestone. The whispering garden shows a suggestive biblical denotation of creation, and how this slowly leads to how Israel has done.
The "Cornerstone of the Israel pavilion(top left), A sign that says "Shalom" which means peace, seems to be a way to greet visitors, especially the ones from Shanghai as a way to show their gratitude for what Shanghai did for Israel in WW I (top right), and the Whispering gardens (bottom). Notice the speakers and spotlights in the garden facilitates a living. whispering fauna.
In the pavilion, Israel has shown its contribution to humankind with her history (worth about 30 plus centuries), her geniuses (Albert Einstein's e=mc squared original manuscripts were featured) and then its technological advances that help all of us, ending it with a technological display.
The original manuscripts expanding the famous "e = mc Squared" (Top) and the theater in pavilion that has node-looking screens for people with a central orb that looks like the Central processor(bottom).
Until now, this is the Israel pavilion, inspiring me that religion is still relevant in the age of science, that they show not seen as apart but as a driving force or a compliment of another appropriately. Kinda make us think that there is meaning in our life after all heh?
Jerome
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