Heritage Tour

I never thought I will be going to visit museums after my secondary school....
But last Saturday, I went to three of them. All thanks to NUS, who signed up for the corporate member of the National Heritage Board.
Anyway the three museums are Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), National Museum of Singapore (NMS) and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) .
( dun we just love acronym?)

When I was visiting ACM, the special exhibition was on Vietnam. After the tour, I was very surprised that ancient Vietnam was very similar to ancient China. This put be to shame for being so ignorant.. What I can associate with Vietnam are only Vietnam War and France... With so many Vietnamese classmates in the Uni, I never took even bother to find out their culture and history. Considering that they are "free" tour guides that come over to Singapore to share their culture and history.

I bought 7 wooden dragonflies ( same type different patterns) from ACM. One that can balance on most surface.

Next I visited SAM, I realized the reason why I am not an artist... For the very same reason, the tour was the shortest of the three.

Finally I visited NMS, I was able to see stuff that I saw/used/touch as a child ( does that implies I am "senior" enough to be put in a museum?). For the tour of Singapore history, I was also quite impressed with the idea of personally electronic tour guide; a pre-recorded narration of all the exhibits that can be playback as and when wanted.