Sunday, April 4, 2010

finally i get to upload my pictures i took at peranakan museum!! (:
admission was $3 each but nyp students can enter free as they are member of the museum
the picture of peranakans taken long long ago
the small theatre whereby there is a short video showing stories about peranakans

beauty contestant number 1: nora fong
beauty contestant number 2: zoe chua
jennifer and me are eliminated
haha
zoe and me are in the process of bai tang
which is like rom but in the olden days(:


kids and the adults
we realised that the clothing of the people can be removed
haha
it is actually a very big piece of magnet

the accessories that bride and groom will be wearing







tan yu, the olden days toilet bowl


jennifer keep telling me that the costume is the same as Chinese jiang shi
then she don't dare to stand there for long. haha
actually this museum also shows how peranakans prepares their funeral
just that we didn't take picture of that
is almost the same as Buddhism funeral


she just randomly do this and i took picture of her






actually there are some antiques they allowed us to touch it
all the utensils they used are painted with flowers
the phones that we are listening will have different stories showing how peranakans speak in the olden days. is actually a mixture of english and malay
all peranakans will have to learn sewing at the very young age





the puppet show











i'm trying to act like poet



anyway, this place is nearby peranakan museum
we then walked to clarke quay and in between we didn't forget to take pictures

from clarke quay we headed to chinatown which is also nearby
did the same thing, we went to the traditional dessert shop
they got some new flavours
we then trained back to city hall to meet up liyuan
from there we walked to lao pa sat for dinner as jennifer requested

cheryl joined us later

camera shy



did enjoy ourselves that day(: