Museum Trip

we been to the National Musuem of Singapore!!!! the first ancient we see was this golden notice board, which shows that some 'somebody' in the past declare the building open..

golden notice board

we paid for the tour and proceed to the entrence...
entrence

we were given the head set that will play back the audio recording to us, than can listen to the documentry at our own pace....
us

once we set foot in side, we see a giant 360degrees screen and it keep on play back a video showing daily singaporeans life.... it was made by a foreigner for singapore....

anyway, the first exhibit we see is the Singapore Stone.
stony stone

the stone got story one.... long ago got the stone sitting at the singapore river bank, and one day this strong guy lift it up and throw it to the other side than people praise him. than people forget bout stone, some body wrote something on it even before the stong man threw it.. than this ang moh engineer come and blow the stone up so that he can build some thing there. the ang moh dont know the stone got writing ma, so jiu too bad le lo.. than this is the only piece reamaining left.
no one knows what is written on it yet...

after that we saw this handsome guy that got a few statue standing around singapore.. yup yup.... Sinagpore's founder... Sir Stamford Raffles... here got his potrait...

Raffles

he's one great guy la.. found Singapore...
but got stories bout who is the real person who founded Singapore some says it the Sir William Farquhar
(pronuced fahr-kwer as in FAH-KER)

anyway, that's history and historians' issue, not mine...

saw this old map of the City Area..
town

very nice...
and ancient sea front... compare to the current one... it's the same area wor... use the river mouth as a guide...
new town

the old fort canning and padang...
padang


saw this set of clothing which reminds me of one my historic friend, Malcolm tan... heee....
clothing

The young LKY...
LKY

i enjoy taking pictures alot... LUCKY i'm not born in the 60s... else i CRY....

this is the standard PROJECTOR for movies in those times.. As tall as me lo... lolz...
PROJECTOR


and the CAMERAS... from oldest to newest...
CAMERA

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i think i got it a bit mess up.. but.. well... nvm...


this one is a portable hawker center... very heavy i think the bowls, and soup and food etc etc....
portable hawker center

and a ice shredder...... haha...
old ice shredding machine

shortly after we left the exhibit.. we realise the picture all is dead old stuff
... so, here's me with me wife..
me

and the building...
clouds

and another...

building

isn't much picture... but that's all for museum trip... hee...

JOHNNY NEO TODAY.. ..

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