Cause and effect
(Here are some of my personal philosophical ponderings, it may be boring, so you may just want to skip this post. I put this post in smaller fonts so that it wont hog the page with long ramblings). Cause and effect. Scientifically, this is epitomised by concepts ranging from the elemental Hukum Keabadian Tenaga to the Chaos Theory. Theologically, it is present in the topic of karma - a concept present in, as far as I know, Hinduism and Buddhism. Everything happens for a reason. I personally do not delve (and do not really believe) into the 'mystical' implications of this (e.g. this are fated, the choice for future events are already made, if you do evil this life you will be reborn as a frog, if you do bad you will get an equal and opposite reaction etc). What is practical for me to know is to cherish people and happenings around us and not taking them for granted. For example, in order for all of us to be friends and to have gone through thick and thin together, so many variables must be perfect (we must all score good results in STPM, to have taken STPM in 1997, not gone to college or abroad, want to do medicine, did not take up other study offers/scholarships, to be allocated to UM by UPU etc). Whether this is chance (it just happen to be this way) or fated or determined by karma or arranged by the Creator, I really don't put too much weigh into it, just cherish things as they are.

There are many articles (many of them written by university lecturers in theologism) on the net that discusses the parallel between Matrix and Buddhism and Christianity. Click here for one example from University of Nebraska if you are interested. I donno whether the Wachowski brothers are that creative or whether they are so clever to ciplak from diverse religion/philosophy.