I went to the museum today for the kangxi exhibition. Want to guess who I went with? My colleagues! Lol and it's not for work. My station had extra tickets and there was a guided tour organised just for us so when my PE asked if i was interested in joining them, I agreed. In that few seconds before i answered her, a couple of things were running through my mind. Am I really interested in kangxi? Would it be boring? Would I wanna risk yawning in front of my cultured colleagues? But the biggest question was DO I WANNA SPEND MY PRECIOUS SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH PEOPLE I SEE ALMOST EVERYDAY? Lol yea like since i already see them so often, it wouldnt hurt to spend one more afternoon with them right? Smirks. But I think the single motivating factor was that it was free. HAHA. I still have 2 more tickets if anyone's interested. It's valid till june.

Hur we weren't allowed to take pictures (yes, museums and their rules :/) so I can only spare this photo of the admission sticker we were given. I stuck it on my water bottle after I left the museum, then thought it looked ridiculous with this solemn picture of kangxi so i removed it.


Anyway I cannot understand ancient people and their fascination with dragons. Everything that belonged to the emperor had at least one freaking dragon on it. If I were him, I would have made frogs my official mascot. So instead of seeing two entwining dragons on the back of my seat, there would be frogs, frogs and frogs. And no more stone lions outside the palace! Stone frogs are the in thing! I just dont understand why they had to worship some mythical creature when there were lovely frogs everywhere.

Frogs aside, I was impressed with kangxi's impeccable handwriting. If I didn't know better, I would have thought those scrolls were printed. I guess it helps that they didnt have internet or video games then. Not even handphones. So they could spend every single minute practising calligraphy. Smirks. Can you imagine if technology didnt advance, we might still be playing with crickets, getting excited over cockfights, hurting our butts by galloping around on horses, practising calligraphy like that's the most interesting hobby in the whole world, waking up at 5 in the morning and sleeping at 8. Don't ask me what's with the routine. Since they didn't really have a lot of distractions, why couldnt they wake up at 9 and sleep at 12 instead right? Ancient people are weird.

Speaking of weird, I went out for lunch with my colleagues after that. Lol it's a big deal for me cos i rarely eat with them. I have kr as a permanent lunch date at work. Plus it can be intimidating eating with a bunch of people who are eloquent and speak perfect mandarin, not to mention I've to be careful with my manners cos a lot of them are very senior and you know how much they value respect and experience in the media industry :/ So I was glad that I had lunch with the considerably younger colleagues (please bear in mind my comment about the youngest employee in the station being 30yrs old. snigger). They were telling me stories and it was entertaining, not in the juicy way. If you want juicy, I recommend you XM who's interning at the TV side. She has lotsa insiders' info about mcorp's artistes. Lol I doubt many people would be interested even. Maybe shiya would wanna hear about a certain mr. tay ping h--. Or xiaomeng about a certain mr. dai yang t---. HAHAHAHA

I'm so looking forward to next week! I only need to go work for 3 days cos thurs is our common leave at the shitty mcorp, and fri yes, public holiday. I cant wait! I cant waittttttttt ^^
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