Day 12+13+14: National Gallery and Relaxing Days!

 

Yes I start to forget what happened on each of these days but half of the trip posts are done now <3

I didn't plan anything to do on this school day...I had late lessons and I was starting to get very tired from all the walking and doing.

Our teacher planned to go to Ikea with us, to practice talking with natives at the restaurant.

At first I thought she was kidding but no...she was serious!!

Especially the germans in our class were very nervous and like "ahh I don't want to bother anyone"...but there was no way around it 

She was like "you have to ask name, age, where is that person from..." etc. and made literally a list for us to ask.

As soon as it was my turn my head went BLANK...I forgot how to ask simple questions at this point lmao.

But I was surprised how nice these people were actually...

You can literally tell in this video how nervous I was T.T

but now rewatching it, I see she was very surprised when I told her I was german.

Either that was because her husband spoke to an american and she wondered why we are from different places, or she was just generally surprised to speak to a german...idk.

I was very surprised when she told me she was 45 and her husband is 60..!!

Everyone looks so young here...if you think someone is age XY, add like another 10-15 years on top wth.

For the evening I just pretty much relaxed and talked to Shelly, my host.

For this day I planned going to the National Gallery after school.

In the morning I had my normal mandarin classes.

I joined the others for lunch who went to the "corner guy"...they literally called that place like this.

Because it is right around the corner and very cheap.

For afternoon lessons I had my mandarin lecture class...which pretty much just involves sitting there and listening to stories, trying to understand as much as possible.

I missed my last lessons because I went to penang.

Topic was chinese mythology...which was very interesting but I also almost fell asleep as soon as the teacher darkened the room xD

And then I went on my way...the national gallery has some historical art but also newer modern pieces.

the building was so complex...it took me some time to find orientation.

If I remember correctly, I visited 4 exhibitions in total...

a historical singaporean one, asians in paris, Fernando Zobel and modern art.

Sometimes when looking at these old pictures, I think of these people in modern times...you can see similiar faces but then they had different lives.

Does that make sense?

I sometimes feel like I have already seen these faces but now they have different contexts..

In the same way like "Clothes make the man"..it made me notice how much we judge people by modern standards for appearance, but they always looked like this and have been different kind of people.

I hope I could explain myself a little bit here :/

Next Level: Asians in Paris.

I once had to sculpt a face and it was so damn hard....this looked so well done..you could literally picture this person in front of you.

At this point I more or less figured out how this building is structured..

you pretty much just go around and in the middle is this hall.

Next stop :)

This was so out of line for the exhibition.

I was baffled when I got to know this was made with a syringe!

I went to the galleries 1-14 after this...

The way he made all these people look evil really adds depth to the meaning

I somehow found this picture romantic...

I almost cried..felt for the lion here..

The emotions was captured very well here.

one of the halls had such an interesting look to it!

I think maybe back in the days this was used for court.

The air-conditioning was so extreme over there!!!

Even when wearing a little jacket, I wish I had a pullover..

I was freezing.

That's when the modern arts started..

I was staring at this creepy art piece so long...you need to zoom in..

it is actually very political, including topics like "free speech" and "deep state" if you look closer..

I almost overlooked it.

Same thing here...was staring at it for a long time.

Although I perceived it as offensive and anti-america..there was still something about it...

I can't pinpoint it but I agreed...

As someone not living in the USA, I am annoyed that the whole world follow every trend from over there... The US is not that great actually tbh.

I, for example, wouldn't want to live there.

I wonder what the artist actually meant with this picture.

this exhibition made me very depressed when walking through it..

why does modern art always have to be so negative ?

society of 2025 explained in one video.

After the museum visit I wanted to spend some time at Clarke Quay but be warned:

I knew the restaurants are tourist hotspots but that was another thing I haven't experienced before.

Right when I was walking into the street, every staff from every restaurant tried urging me into their space...the idea of a "calm dinner" was over...I passed like 4-5 restaurants when I tried ESCAPING this place through a side street.

I found it intrusive, pushy and simply put: too much!!

I walked towards back to school and ate dinner at a hawker there then.

the picture...

the food :D

But hey...it was very good. haha.

I went into the mall quickly to get new lens solution because my was empty and then headed home.

the lens solutions here were sooo expensive!!!

I was in shock, why did mine have to run empty here and not in germany T.T

and I found another scent of the dove peeling, of course I had to get it haha.

I didn't want to go shopping more but also I couldn't hold backkk..

I also took this powder now that I will try soon..

It's a lot bigger than my current one, but maybe also good.

When I tell you..I did not want to get out of bed at all...I was literally napping the whole time.

Shelly invited me for lunch with her family and I agreed coming.

They had to fix the light in my room before we went to a hawker at the mall in Yishun.

my new favourite drink: Bandung!

I forgot taking pics of the great food...I could try from all of it a little bit.

I have to admit the deer however tasted very different from deer here.

Her aunties look soo young...one was even 80!! she was fit like my mum wth...