Parachute

Tank

Extendable ladder

Can’t remeber what this one is but I think it crushes other ships

Basically a killing machine

Trebuchet

Last Saturday, Fiona, Jun & I went to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at Docklands… I’ve been wanting to go for it for a long time and finally there were people who wanted to go as well… So anyway yeah it was basicallt reconstruction of his inventions and innovations based on his notes… It was pretty interesting… he really is a smart man… and there were some inventions that started as an experiment but turned out to be pretty useful… It’s pretty awesome… And yeah it’s a pretty nice picture of the blue blue sky with us wearing blue shirts… Jun took the picture because he thought it would turn out cool… and it’s pretty cool indeed… Sunday October 1st was the last day of the exhibition…

Entering
ExitingThe National Gallery of Victoria is currently showcasing a Picasso collection “Picasso: Love & War (135-1945) which basically explores the personal and artistic relationship between Pablo Picasso and hislover of those years, Dora Maar… Over 300 works from both Picasso and Maar are being displayed from 30 June – 8 October 2006… I for one have never been a Picasso fan mainly because I’m not a fan of abstract-ish art… but I have to say… it was good… interesting… the art was very intense in a sense that it was basically as emotionally disturbed as the war that was breaking out at the time, which he was caught in… Admissions are $20 adult, $16 concession, and there are other events going on as well…

There is also a really great exhibition of Rembrandt’s prints and drawings… now this collection I LOVE!!! I absolutely love Rembrandt, even though he has recently been claimed to be narcissistic by critics… he’s so brilliant… The exhibition will go through till 24 September 2006… admission is free…

Oh man… the exhibition was AWESOME!!! I feel so geeky now… But seriously… man the paintings displayed were so good… duh… but it’s been soooo long since I properly enjoyed art… Man I loved so many of them… There was this one painting, which I can’t remember who did it… hehehe, but it looked sooooo real and it’s almost like the guy in the painting was sticking out… spooky!!! Rembrandt’s paintings were of course great but some where smaller than I expected… Hahaha… and they didn’t have some of the ones I really wanted to see like The Night Watch, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, The Descent From The Cross and The Slaughtered Ox… I was rather dispapointed that they only had one Vermeer painting… The Love Letter… which is supposed to be his most famous one so at least they had that… I wanted to see The Allegory Of Painting and Girl With A Pearl Earring… some of you might know remember that as the title of the film with Scarlett Johansson… Anyway there were quite a number of great paintings there… worth my money… wanted to buy the book as well… but it was AU$39.95… too much… sigh… Too bad there weren’t more works… Hahaha… really want to see more… Yeap so if you are in Melbourne and like art… I recommend you go see the exhibition… It ends on 2nd November 2005… Adult ticket costs Au$20, Concession Au$16 and Full time student Au$10… Cheers…

I didn’t really plan anything for today but ended up doing more than expected… The only thing I planned was to go to the gym… So I went to the gym for and hour… Then I thought… what the hey… why waste the tram ticket I had… So I decided to go to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to see what it’s like… so I went around to look at my favourite type of art… Renaissance and Classic Art… 1400-1800s… They have a collection of Durer’s work… which was quite exciting… had a few other great artists as well like Titian, Rubens, Bernini, El Greco, Manet, Rembrandt, Turner, Monet… But only their minor works… I’m quite disappointed but what can I expect… not like it’s De Lourve… I wanna go back to the National Gallery in London and go visit Tate Britain as well… But I think I will go back tomorrow or maybe Thursday for the Dutch masters collection!!! Hope it’s worth my money… quite excited… Hehehe… Anyway when I was going around the gallery… I suddenly had a very weird thought… I was thinking I when I go back I want the tram ticket inspectors to have a check on my tram so I would know how it was like… and guess what!!! On my way back…. a group of inspectors came onto my tram… Hahaha… I was like… oh ok… so weird… my first check… way way weird… Yeap I’m so into art right now… if only I had someone here who likes art as well… It’s weird to go to galleries alone… when I went there today… mostly old people… Hahaha… Well anyway… Cheers…

As most of you should know… I am not Christian… so I don’t celebrate Christmas religiously… but my mother’s family does… so what we do every year is have a big dinner at my grandmother’s… and this year was no exceptions… and it was as grand as ever… especially with a new member in the family… Great food… great atmosphere… presents… a gathered family… what else can be greater!!! Hahaha… All I can say that I had a great time… and I really really enjoyed the turkey!!! Cheers…