One of Life's Greatest Pleasures,

After being knocked out at work for 3 days in a row, the week finally came to an end. By God's grace, the deadline was suddenly pushed back or I had to work thru Saturday and Sunday!

Senang sekali.

Todays itinerary: Raffles Place MRT - exit J, then Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum. These 2 seems to be the routine escapade after hard days in the journey to become a millionaire.

The Narnia exhibition - I heard the properties
 are really borrowed from Disney!

Next destination:

Titanic 100th Anniversary Exhibition!!!

About the exhibition: simply breath-taking.

I didn't expect it to be that grand, really. I thought I would only find yea...photos, facts, replicas, and maybe some relics from the shipwreck... And yes, the exhibition had it all, PLUS: *major spoiler alert*

• Life-sized replica of the grand staircase, (yeap the one where Jack waited for Rose to come down for the 1st class dinner. It'll make a good wedding photo).
• Detailed replica of the cabins, and DECK (with fake stars and fake water so you'd get the sensation of being on the deck at night. Well although I couldn't help noticing the stars were fake, no matter how hard I tried to be 'on the deck'.
• After we reach the 'sinking' phase, we'll get into a glass-floored room, with bed of sands underneath, to give you the sense of being at the bottom of sea. It worked, at least for me.
• Artifacts, that will tickle your sentimentality: passengers' personal belongings, like a wallet with ID, or a crew shirt, with a handwritten name label on the collar, goosebumps.
• First generation of iPhone.
• Just kidding.
• A giant iceberg. I'm serious, they made a real, well, miniature iceberg, to illustrate how solid and powerful icebergs are. Of course it is much more modest that the one that floundered Titanic but, having an indoor iceberg is already, incredible.
• Compelling stories and quotes from the survivors. And heartbreaking trivias about the victims too.

Too bad even the phone cams weren't allowed in the gallery!!!

And this is smart: at the entrance, each visitor would be given a 'boarding pass', containing a personal information about a passenger and the reason why he/she boarded the ill-fated ship. And at the end of the exhibition, you can check through the survivor and victim list whether 'you' survived or not.

Worth the time, worth the travel, worth the money. 

Moshe Safdie's sketches of the museum architecture

High tea (curhat) session with the old friend :)