Trip to the National Museum

Ooohh...went to the newly renovated National Museum today! The exterior looks somewhat the same, just whiter. But the design on the interior is absolutely fantastic! All glass and metal and extremely clean. I would most willingly lie down on the floor to grab a nap.

Met Shawn during lunch today (he was going to meet his friend for some LAN gaming at Peace centre) and told him that Louis and I were going the to National Museum and he gave us the "that's the most boring thing to do on earth" face. Ha! I bet you'll change your mind after visiting it! Hmmm...didn't find the guestbook that your friend scribbled in though. Guess they really changed it after he left his imprint. Hee...

These are some memetos that we took from the museum.

Free newspaper, free booklet and the admission tickets. Very expensive! Used to be like 5 dollars for adults and $1.50 for students, I think. Now admission is $10 and $5 respectively. However, in view of the technology they employ, I think it's totally worth it.

This is the entrance to the History Gallery. You have to slide your ticket at the glass barriers before you can enter and upon entrance, a lady will give you an electronic museum guide. I could spend hours in there. There are like a million videos and a thousand different rooms to explore.

This is the fashion room. It's filled with women's clothes from past eras. Louis made an intelligent comment in this room (the only clever thing he said all day). "How can fashion be all about women? How about the men's stuff???" I totally agree with him. It was a rather stereotypical view of fashion. However, it was still fascinating. The colours, the dresses on display, the bags, even catglasses! Harharhar...! Louis was happiest in the food room though. He went around sniffing the spices. =D

Parting shot. It's a really beautiful building. Anyway, we went to eat dinner and amazingly, we spent less than 25 dollars on food! Usually we eat like crazy, but Louis and I have decided to save and stop spending like there's no tomorrow. Heh...very satisfied meal at Carl's Junior. Look at the happy cup!

Hee hee...coincidentally, we saw the Chingay parade along Orchard Road as well.

It says Chingay. Took it with my phone cum camera cum mp3 player. Mobile phones nowadays are quite fantastic.

One of the floats. I believe the scary looking dolls are called da tou wa-wa in Mandarin. Big-headed dolls.

All the people at Orchard were watching the Chingay. As a result, the trains were quite empty and we got a seat! Heh...

It was a perfect day.

=)

CNY holidays!

The CNY holidays are here!!! Now that I've started working, I live for public holidays. Heh...it's a wonderful day! Collected my new iMac G5 today. My old iMac kept breaking down every 2 weeks. Lost all my faith in Apple products already. Thank God they agreed to my request for a product replacement. If not, I really dunnoe what to do. The crazy iMac I had made my life so miserable can. Lost all Emmeline's wedding photos, all my photos. Had to carry it down to the service centre somemore. *Sigh! But at least that's over, hopefully! Keeping my fingers crossed!

Ohhh...these are the photos I took with my nifty new Sony Ericsson phone. It has a 3.2 mega pixels camera! Heh...in celebration of Bryan's birthday, we went to this new park near my house to eat crab and talk crap.



That's me and aibee! That's the mrt line in the background. Kinda spoils the quiet scenery, but it makes the place accessible and that's more impt I guess.



Dumbo Bryan took this when we were not looking. His hair is atrocious right???


Ivy and Bryan. Bryan almost fell into the fishing pond behind him by the way.

This is the place where we ate. I wonder why bottle tree???


ewwwwww....disgusting boy picking his nose with one hand and holding some crab's leg in the other!!!


I dunnoe why, but we always take photo of the food only when it's all gone. Harharhar....anyway, it was pretty pricey for average food. Guess you have to pay a price for the ambience as well.

Happy Birthday Bryan! =]