This post is because I feel the need to add more posts to the "Arty Farty" tag (it looks lonely with only one post categorized under it).

Anyways, I've been wanting to go for the Harry Potter exhibition at the Art Science Museum and since there was an Andy Warhol exhibition going on, might as well go see see look look. $24 to visit two exhibits is not too bad.

Unfortunately they were pretty strict on photo taking so all I managed was a photo at the entrance:

There was a looping video showing how silkscreen printing was used to create those colourful pop art paintings that Andy Warhol was famous for and I thought that was quite cool. And yes there were also a lot of Campbell Soup cans. I wish I can say that I can appreciate the nuances of art a lot better but I guess art isn't really not my thing. Music, maybe.

Then it was down to Basement 1 for HARRY POTTER!!!!

The flying car in Chamber of Secrets

 

Yay! Harry Potter fangirl

Unfortunately again they were very strict on photo taking sooooooooo although I dearly wanted to take some snapshots, I didn't :( I rented an audio guide for $6 but I didn't find it very useful, but I did manage to shoot some Quidditich hoops (I suck at all ball games, magical or not) and sit on the chair that Hagrid sat in. Was expecting the exhibition to be much bigger and grander though. And the merchandise were so expensive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $6 for a Chocolate Frog (contemplated whether to buy but decided $6 for a piece of chocolate was not worth it) and $6 for the Every Flavour Jelly Beans (the box stated several disgusting sounding flavours which interested me but not enough for me to buy it).

OK almost time to knock off! Spent most of Friday afternoon at the Long Service Award ceremony because I wanted to eat free food and the reception did not disappoint!!! The laksa was yummy slurps~

But really, 人生有几个四十年？So many of my fellow colleagues have spent decades of their lives here, this place is like a second home to them. Like our CEO said, how do we measure the 525,600 minutes of our lives each year?

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?

Haha yah that is from a song that the CEO played at the ceremony. But like I always like to tell people, 我把我的青春献给这个公司了! 

If by some misfortune I'm still hanging around here next year, it will be my turn to go shake hands with some MD and get a certificate for 5 years of service! Eeeks. Really 佩服 those who have worked here tirelessly for 30 or 40 years.

It's been a while since I had one of those extended long weekends - and for that I am grateful to my boss for giving me a day off work on Monday (to compensate for the extra hours of work that was put in).

It was indeed restful and eventful. Voted for TCB on Saturday, and thought it was a real pity he lost by that razor thin margin. Went for a super xiong power plate class. Had a chance encounter with a flasher (-or-not) on the same day. On hindsight I should have snapped a picture when I had the chance! Mahjong rounded up Saturday night.

Visited the Salvador Dali exhibition at the Art Science Museum on Monday. I think this must be the first time I stepped into a museum in Singapore. :O I don't quite get surrealism, but slowly getting there. Opening and broadening the mind, check!


The melted clock is one of his trademarks. I like the distorted effect of the clocks that I took in the concave/convex mirrors.
Another day of meetings tomorrow. :( At least I will be at Marina Square and not confined in my office. And I'm ruining whatever rest I got over the past 4 days by sleeping at 3.20am. :\

Another week came and went. My life has been pretty packed. I finished the 800 words and now my job search has come to a standstill. I've been neglecting a lot of things recently - my video watching, my Kpop news, my newspaper reading. My colleague has tendered. I am still very sian about my hard disk. I went for the Shrek Forever After premiere - not as good as the previous few installments IMO. I went for this Singapore Arts Festival concert - they played The Carnival of Animals & Peter and the Wolf . I remember both pieces were taught to us in the first 2 weeks of MEP! And I want to watch Sex and the City. I had yummy Turkish food.

Very incoherent summary of my week. End of rambles. Shall try and sleep early.

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My number for my maiden run
So today is the day I tortured myself by attempting to run 10km. It was super crowded, the first few kilometers kinda passed by in a blur of red shirts... All I know is that it was a very very very very long jog.

Starting point at Esplanade: Hot and crowded and humid
1km: I need to pee
2km: I need to pee!
3km: I need to pee!!! (now you see why I can't remember much about the first few kms... haha)
*spotted portable toilets*
4km: Starting to feel tired already...
5km: Water stop! And I started to walk here.
6km - 7km: Half walked, half jogged. I'm a very slow runner, so everyone kept overtaking me and the path that we were supposed to run on was so narrow sometimes that everyone has no choice but to walk.
8km: 2 kilometers more! I overheard someone saying that it's about 6 rounds around the track to the end. I'm like, SIX ROUNDS!!! AHHHHH!!!
9km: WOO okay 1 more kilometer! Tried to jog a little faster.
10km at the Padang: Slowly trotted to the finish line while everyone around me vroom-ed past.

I finished the whole distance in about 1.5 hours and I managed to do 5km without walking so I would say I have accomplished what I set out to do! Hahaha.

Wah but damn tiring lah, I think my legs are going to protest tomorrow. HOW I WISH I WAS ON LEAVE!

I had such a harrowing day at work on Friday, I am not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Suddenly kena arrowed to do something that was totally none of my business! :( New colleague's coming in tomorrow too.

I went to the opera on Friday! Haha how arty farty! I haven't gone for operas/concerts and the such in ages. And out of the 3 acts, I only watched 1.5 acts. LOL! Was late and had to sit out for the first act, and then fell asleep halfway through the 2nd act. And then overnight mahjong, or should I say the lack thereof!

On Saturday night I went to the Night Safari. Hmmm okay nothing exciting about the Night Safari, except that everything is very dark.

All in all, a very busy weekend! Wah I cannot wait for the next weekend already. Did I say that I wish I was on leave tomorrow? :(