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_______________________________________Sunday, October 19, 2003
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Museum Trail- Pt 1

Well... Its been aeons since I posted here.. Reason: busy with school work and stuff. and I have not been online anyway because of my 2 brothers... They eat, drink, sleep and breathe Never Winter Nights.. Hate that game.

anyway, 2 days ago, Azhar and I went on a museum trail. Armed with a digital camera, we took pics of the places we went to....

Firstly, we ate at Funan Centre McDonald's.. both of us were starving... Spoke to M.Farid for a while before we went to MITA Building

took a few pics of the fountain

We walked towards the Central Firestation and found out that there was a Civil Defence Heritage Gallery. They showcase all the old fire engines, and the revolution of the Civil Defence Force over the years. There is a kids' corner where we can shade pictures from a stencil...

We then continued and walked past the Philatelic Museum sign. We made fun of it saying its the 'Pathetic' Museum of stamps... -_-" (So Sorry... I know the museum is interesting) Our next destination is the National Library 'cos Mr Azhar brought along his boring book and no longer feel 'good-looking' enough with a book under his armpit. Along the way, we visited the Armenian Church of Gregory. The scenery is beautiful.. Especially this house..

imagine if I drew it... hehehe

there was even a cemetery in front of this gazebo... So that means that I'm facing the cemetery in this pic... most of the angels' head ( cemetery statues) have either fallen off or stolen.. who knows cos the heads are missing. they were not on the ground.
and we look around the compound, we saw a batu nisan (Malay gravestone) A mystery...

On towards the National Library, we stopped by the Asian Civilisation Museum where Azhar met his friends..

and took a peek at the exhibition at the Lee Wen Gallery at The Substation called Strange Fruit.. its all yellow inside..Yellow guy in yellow briefs being splashed with yellow water in a yellow room.... I'm getting Yellow Bananas

We reached the National Library and told Azhar to run and return the book while I satisfy my trigger happy finger:

After National Library, we had to make a huge U-turn towards the Singapore Art Museum due to the construction of the Singapore Management University.. Not only were we irritated by that fact but we were also soaked with perspiration, I think the temperature for that day was around 33 deg c plus there was a downpour a few hours ago. So you can imagine the humidity... Maybe those ThirstyHippo people should invent ThirstyArmpitHippo or something.. so you can stick it to your armpits or body to absorb all those waterfalls of sweat... muahahhahahahahaha..

Unfortunately we can't take photographs of the exhibits in the Singapore Art Museum but we totally had loads of fun in one of the installations by Tokujin Yoshioka called Honey-pop. Its like walking in the sand by the beach with the waves crashing by the shore.. only they weren't sand.. it was lots of plastic pellets and the sound was from this motorized honey-comb paper armchair. (Go see the installation if you don't get what I mean)

[Both of us were still in euphoric state after the experience in the installation that both of us forgot to take picture INFRONT of the SAM building -_-"]

Well, we walked through CHIJMES and rummaged through the Turkish shop where Azhar found this cute pair of shoes with "foufous" (imagine feather boas on a person, but it was just woolen pompoms on the shoes {what the hell am I talking about?}) on the front. hahahaha

We walked to RafflesCity and switched on our 'Gaydars' hahahhaha... they were really some cute looking ones too..
Had wanted to take a picture of the fountain but it was crappy.. even the ones I took so out of frustation, I just snapped this...

Doesn't he have nice eyelashes? [I'm born with it..... NOT!!]

We went around the second floor and the first and went in the newly opened Swarovski shop to look at all the pretty glittering crystals.. ( Who would buy a $7,500 crystal duck the size of the real McCoy?) Anyway, because of all that fancy expensive crystal, we felt nauseous. So off we went for a rest and a drink at Starbucks Coffee...
Azhar was still trigger happy and so he shot this...

I think I was writing about the places we went to...

After making fun of ourselves and the batteries of the Digital Camera dying out on us, we answered the call of nature where i had to queue for nearly 15 minutes just to get a stall and answering that call.. Imagine how impatient the caller was...

Next stop... DINNER!!! at Komalas Villa... (I had charged my appetite for Onion Rawa Masala Dhosai the whole afternoon as the initial plan was to go to Serangoon..) The food was really, really spicy.... Azhar had this huge thing called a Bhattura and I ordered Masala Dhosai (take-away) for my darling ;p and the above-mentioned dish for myself... yum yum.

Azhar finished his food in a few minutes... I barely started mine.. and then he took a picture of me getting my tongue burned with the hot hot dhosai..

With our stomach full, we went to Funan Centre McDonald's to deliver dinner to my darling M.Farid.. He was busy with work at the counter so we waited for a few minute.. while waiting, we took some shots.. some really goofy ones of Azhar with his mouth wide open and me looking out in space ( was lloking at my M.Farid actually). hehe we deleted the goofy ones and ended up with this one pic of us...

After the delivery, we raced to the Asian Civilisations Museum at Empress Place for the Spirit of Wood exhibition. We had barely 30 minutes to get there.. we passed the St Joseph Cathedral, Supreme Court and Victoria theatre...(all the pics turned out too dark so we deleted it) we reached the ACM huffing and puffing when Azhar used his French or American accent ( I forgot which) to enquire about the exhibit.. Surprisingly one of the staff volunteered to show us the way to it.. We went through a maze of dark exhibits like marathon runners ( all three of us were actually swinging our arms like walkathon participants) to the back of the building where it was situated... I caught my breadth and thank her.. looked around the exhibits when the intercom said," Dear guests, the Asian Civilisation Museum will be closing in 15 minutes. Please proceed to the main entrance and we hope to see you again. Thank you."

I knew I had to come back again... I thought of sharing my idea with Azhar at that moment but he was busy vomitting in the toilet. Anyway, he agreed. So come this Deepavali, 24th October, we are going to arm ourselves with cameras, haversacks of waterbottles, towels, tissues and some snacks, and dressed as tourists to go on another Museum trail Pt 2 Whoopedoo!!

haha... i collected some phamplets about the museums and walked towards One Fullerton.. we were dead tired and ready to go home. Before that, Azhar took a picture of the Cavenagh Bridge but it was too dark and then the batteries died once more..

On we trudge towards Raffles Place MRT station and went home... till I submit more of myadventure, have a good Night.

~Liyana~

posted by AimiLiyana 6:34 pm

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