art trip

Yesterday was exhausting yet fabulous day!

First I went to Netherlands embassy to collect my visa and turns out that my visa will be issued this afternoon…which I cannot make it because I have French quiz .

After that Nathan brought me to museums! When was the last time I went to museum before yesterday? It’s been sooooo long… First we went to National Museum of Singapore. The older building part mainly contains historical items of Singapore where the newer building part contains more modern artworks. The first thing I saw was a pink David. Okay I don’t know the real title for the artwork but it’s a pink David for me. You know the famous David sculpture by Michelangelo? Basically this pinky is the replica, using fiberglass, then covered with pink fabric.

At first I thought it was a horrible color…but then it seems okay to me

There are also historical items regarding food, fashion, film, and photos of people from the past. The food room was full of spice scents! Hate it . In the photography room has an oldies camera inside. Wew, never seen the real one…

The newer building part has interesting artworks too, like this one: a magnetic gray board and everyday utensils (contains magnet too) so you can put them on the board

Next destination is Singapore Art Museum. This contains mainly paintings. Yesterday Alberto Giacometti and Xu Beihong were the artists whose arts are displayed. I cannot understand nor really enjoy Giacometti’s sketches and sculptures, but I really like Xu’s paintings. He used traditional chinese style, with oils and chinese ink.

After that we went to Bras Basah, to the 2nd hand book store. Yesterday was the first time I went to the book store. Well you never know what you’ll gonna find. I bought LOTR: Return of the King book, similar type to the two previous books I owned in Jakarta. The condition is quite okay. Only S$9.50 with even additional discount of 25%. I will definitely come back. Just wish me luck on finding the way there

Then…Orchard again. Wew I barely had energy left, so we took a bus to Sommerset, walk to Ngee Ann basement to eat, then to HMV, as always. This time I was so tired I didn’t even have interests to look at the CDs. I just want to sit. And because of that, we took 174 bus to Boon Lay. I’ve been wanting to try it quite a long time, and it’s better than MRT sometimes. Only about 15 minutes difference, and at least you will have a seat. It cost about one dollar something, quite the same by MRT from Orchard. Next time maybe I will do it again

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