It was a hectic Saturday on enriching our sight to provide some insight. Instead of a "Saturday Night Fever" (starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John); it was our "Saturday Day Fever", gallivanting around the "art zone" in Singapore.
We parked at the Peranakan Museum, as our first stop to and have our "sight" on FOOD! This program was organized by the Hungrygowhere (http://www.hungrygowhere.com/) food portal group to raise money for charity. This is also sponsored by the National Heritage Board (http://www.nhb.gov.sg/WWW/). The food fair and flea market took place at the Peranakan Museum, located at Armenian Road. It has just been reopened after being closed for renovation for a couple of years.
Food represents the culture of the community. The cooking style, as evidenced by Peranakan, Malaya, Cantonese, Hokkien, or Indian represent the community's value. Malay and Peranakan food is spicy; while Cantonese cannot go without soup. There are the North and South Indian cuisine. Simply put, food represents our proud heritage. Globalization has indeed expanded our horizon to appreciate the diverse cultures right at Singapore's doorstep! What a privilege for us all.
Our next stop was at the Singapore Art Museum, where we (family and I) listened to six "artists"; from Device Art to Figure Art. It is indeed interesting to see engineers experimenting with art to come up with games for people. This is putting engineering and art concepts together.
Figure art is closer to our image of art, as the next three artists focused on figures, such as sculptures and kami (Japanese word for paper) robot.
We then visited the 8Q, an annex of the SAM (see orange building), which housed the Japanese arts.
Wandering around the SAM area came up with the Action Theatre, Chinese Calligraphy Society and Art House, just to mention a few in the area. We will explore this artists' enclave again in the near future.
I hope my daughter will
continue to get enlightened, as I find out these activities. Ah, it was fun but tiring.
Oh, I have not written about the other exhibits that we seen, which are
Ong Kim Wee's water colour arts of Singapore and the Korean art, which are again fascinating. I will edit this post, as I had the literature with me. 
All these activities were free, except for the Japanese Media exhibition, which is just S$3 entrance fee. It was worth it many times over! There is never a need to be extravagant; just look out for so many talents who are willing to share with us.
A simple and good life, that's what perhaps is sustainable developm
ent!
We parked at the Peranakan Museum, as our first stop to and have our "sight" on FOOD! This program was organized by the Hungrygowhere (http://www.hungrygowhere.com/) food portal group to raise money for charity. This is also sponsored by the National Heritage Board (http://www.nhb.gov.sg/WWW/). The food fair and flea market took place at the Peranakan Museum, located at Armenian Road. It has just been reopened after being closed for renovation for a couple of years.
Food represents the culture of the community. The cooking style, as evidenced by Peranakan, Malaya, Cantonese, Hokkien, or Indian represent the community's value. Malay and Peranakan food is spicy; while Cantonese cannot go without soup. There are the North and South Indian cuisine. Simply put, food represents our proud heritage. Globalization has indeed expanded our horizon to appreciate the diverse cultures right at Singapore's doorstep! What a privilege for us all.
Our next stop was at the Singapore Art Museum, where we (family and I) listened to six "artists"; from Device Art to Figure Art. It is indeed interesting to see engineers experimenting with art to come up with games for people. This is putting engineering and art concepts together.Figure art is closer to our image of art, as the next three artists focused on figures, such as sculptures and kami (Japanese word for paper) robot.
We then visited the 8Q, an annex of the SAM (see orange building), which housed the Japanese arts.
Wandering around the SAM area came up with the Action Theatre, Chinese Calligraphy Society and Art House, just to mention a few in the area. We will explore this artists' enclave again in the near future.
I hope my daughter will
continue to get enlightened, as I find out these activities. Ah, it was fun but tiring.Oh, I have not written about the other exhibits that we seen, which are
Ong Kim Wee's water colour arts of Singapore and the Korean art, which are again fascinating. I will edit this post, as I had the literature with me. 
All these activities were free, except for the Japanese Media exhibition, which is just S$3 entrance fee. It was worth it many times over! There is never a need to be extravagant; just look out for so many talents who are willing to share with us.
A simple and good life, that's what perhaps is sustainable developm
ent!
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