Diverse Interests...

Depending on my mood, I like to find out more about almost everything under the sun.. I like to read books and watch documentaries, in addition to my other hobbies (like MMORPGS, watching drama/anime/movie, etc). And the topics of these books and documentaries ranges from religion, science, history, politics to autobiographies.. however within these broad topics, I am very selective.. :p

Here are some of the documentaries that I've watched in the past few months... (in no particular sequence)

• *The Question of God (by PBS - 4 episodes)


• *The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear (by BBC - 3 episodes)


• *The Century of Self (by BBC - 4 episodes)


• Einstein's Equation of Life and Death


• *Ancient Rome - The rise and fall of An Empire (6 episodes)


• *Planet in Peril (on global warming by CNN - 2 episodes)


• The Truth and Lies of 9-11


• Secrets of the Matrix (on the 'secrets' of the Illuminati)


• The Bible Code


• Stalin - Inside the Terror


• String Theory and M Theory


• Code of the Maya Kings


• Secrets of the Titanic


• *Trinity and Beyond (on the development of the atomic bomb)


• Is Wal-Mart good for America?


• Emperor Hirohito (on His role in WW II)


• The Spanish Inquisition (on the prosecution of Jews in Spain between 1476 to 1834)


• If the Oil runs out - Docu-movie


• Cold Fusion


• The Man Behind Hitler - Joseph Goebbels


• A State of Mind (on North Korea)


• *The Ghost in Your Genes (on the discovery of the inheritance traits of DNA)


• Secrets of Archimedes


• Time travel (on the possibility of time traveling)


• *The History of Singapore - Accidental Nation


• *The World At War (on WW II - 26 episodes, watched 11 so far)


• Genghis Khan - Docu-movie


• One Third of the Holocaust (on speculation that the Holocaust was a hoax)


• The Dark Side (on Dick Cheney's role in the war against terror)


• Lost Cities of Inca


• *Who wrote the Bible?


• The Bermuda Triangle


• Nostradamus - Prophecy and Prediction


• *The Da-Vinci Code Decoded


• Mystery of the Sphinx


• Ancient Warriors - Spartans, Assyrians, Romans, Mongols, Celts, Goths, Ninja


• Hackers - Outlaws and Angels


• Supermassive Black Holes


• Glories of Angkor Wat


• Hannibal - Docu-movie

The above are the ones that I could remember... and I have more documentaries waiting to be watched.. :) Maybe watching these documentaries might lead to a biased first impression of the given topics, but I think they represents a faster way to gain some basic understanding (however biased, as long as one maintain an open mind it should be okay) . Of course more in-depth knowledge would have to come from books, that I strongly believe..

I would recommend anyone who is interested to watch those documentaries that I've put a * next to them.. Most of them are from BBC, Discovery Channel and PBS. I don't necessary agree with the views expressed by the experts interviewed in the documentaries, but it is very interesting to see their point of views or listen to their side of the argument.. :)

So who has time for other things?? ;) ;) :p :p