The March holidays are here! One blessed week to enjoy a lack of school! It unfortunately also comes with a pile of school homework and things to not look forward to after (NAPFA test etc) but at the moment I’m trying to make the most of it while i can!
14 March, Sunday, I received a call from my uncle in the morning who told me that he wanted to push math tuition today back to Tuesday evening, which meant that my Sunday was now free for once. Feeling that I absolutely had to spend my Sunday outdoors, I went to watch Nodame Cantabile with Sarah ong at Plaza Sing. Tickets would normally have cost $10 but thanks to Sarah’s safra card we got them at $8 each.
The movie was great! It covered roughly what is out on the anime version of Nodame at the moment. Chiaki is as handsome and Nodame is as cute as ever~There were also lots of cute anime-esque special effects that added to the charm of the movie.
The music of course was also spectacular. Especially when the Roux-Marlet orchestra played 1812 Overture Finale, composed by Tchaikovsky. I love this piece. It is so grand and victorious.
Actually it sounds like an awesome track to play when in bed…. makes me wonder actually. Do people play music when in bed? If so, what kind?
Anyway, after the movie Sarah and I walked around and explored spotlight and Daiso (in which I spent lots of money on necessary things) then we met Clarissa, who had just finished Chinese tution.
She was looking for a new schoolbag and wanted to go to Robinsons at Raffles city to check something out, so we all took the MRT there. We window shopped quite a bit before going into Robinsons and Clarissa wasn’t appeased by the bag selection there so we took the MRT down to Bugis.
We went into Bugis Street which was rather crowded and warm. I like some of the clothes they sell there (particularly the natural kei styled ones!) but the sizes always looks so darn small… at times like these I wish I were skinny. There were cheap, pretty shoes too but the focus was on Clarissa finding a bag. She didn’t find any that shouted out to her however.
So we went to Bugis Village, but that too didn’t work out. It was about 7pm when we all gave up and went home. (:
15 March, Monday, all J1 students taking art were summoned to the Singapore Art Museum by Mr Chia to visit some exhibitions and practice Feldman’s approach to art criticism.
I met Sze min at J8 for lunch at 1130am first and we ate at KFC after walking around a little. We had gone to BHG and checked out all the toys they had there. Barbie clothes are really expensive. $10 for a small piece of cloth!
At KFC, the Bishan gay was there as usual. He seems so free. I got cheese fries with my student meal and realised to my horror that the price for doing that had gone up by 20 cents. Stupid inflation! We then met Tianyuan at Bishan mrt around 1210am and set off for SAM from Dhoby Ghaut.
On the way we passed by SMU and they had a mr. bean outlet there so i bought ice cream! They only had the green tea flavour but that was fine. I love mr. bean ice cream; it has a mildly sweet taste.
We went to look at the exhibition by FX Harsono at SAM. The exhibition is from 4 March to 9 May 2010. It started on my birthday! :D Much of his works are about Indonesian politics and social issues. Thought-provoking.
We were all given an assignment to do, due end of the holidays. (more homework, gah) We each had to pick one of his artworks and describe and analyse it, providing detailed sketches.
I chose this piece. It made me feel something like I’ve never felt with other artworks before. I shan’t describe it much because all of that goes into my journal.
Other interesting pieces by him include:
Bon Appetit. beautiful yet not something you want on the dinner table.
Thousand Times Pain. Bees, lots of them. The mass murder of insects reminds me of how I kill ants that crawl on my table. When they cluster I just use masking tape.
We also went to 8Q, where there were even more exhibitions.
I liked Living Fossils
We had some debate over this. Was it a festering boil? Tomato sauce with cheese? Egg and sperm?
After we were done some of us left to eat at the Kopitiam nearby. Mr. Chia went with us. Most who went bought roti prata. I went for the dim sum instead and bought prawn dumplings. 3 for $2.20. Not very worth it.
Later on, Ruchi, Sze min and I went to Bras Basah complex. They got very excited over the cheap books sold there and bought quite a bit. I was tempted since $1 per book was way affordable but I didn’t know which to pick. How can you tell which book is worth reading? Anyway I doubt I have the time or the patience. ):
We left the place and got to city hall at 7pm, then we went home O:
