As promised, Day 2 of my Melbournian Sojourn..=)

Day 2, we went to Queen Vics Mart...=) Quite a happening place la... This despite the fact that it features in most of those Melbourne Travel brochures.=) I liked it because it wasnt like Freo (Fremantle, in Perth for the uninitiated)... For one, it's bigger.. and for .. err.. two, it's less catered toward the tourist crowd... This despite it being in all the travel brochures... Like someone said, I'm confused la huh?

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from Queen Vics Mart... Except one.. which is still yet to be processed in my camera.. The Film one...

Anyhow, after Queen Vic's Mart, a hop skip and jump away is the Melbourne Museum... Actually i realised that most things in Melbourne are pretty much near to each other.. kinda... In the sense that its at most a 15 min tram ride away..

But back to the Melbourne Museum.. I think the nice thing about the museum is that it seems that they've invested a lot of time and effort in it. Not to say that S'pore's museums arent nice... The Melbourne museum was quite happening in the sense that they covered a large spectrum of "genres", for want of a better word.

Of course, there was this "interesting" part of the museum that was entitled Body and Science.. It's basically all about the human body and all that kinda stuff.. However, having lived in Singapore all my life, I innocently went in expecting like the same old boring stuff with skeleton models and all...

I could not have been more wrong..=) haha... you walk in and the first thing that hits you is the walls of the place are covered in pictures of naked people.. I mean.. its not porn or anything..But like I said, raised in Spore it's a bit of a ... culture shock.. So that's the first thing.. then the next thing is there are like preserved samples of human... u know... the title of Michael Chiang's latest play.. and theyre like happily mounted there... haha... BUT, The thing that took the cake, the cake box and the whole bloody (no pun intented) cake shop was this looping video of a live birth.. yes, people... if u wanna remember what you had for breakfast an hour after you ate it, go watch this tape... Having said that, it was quite educational... the tape i mean.. of course the other stuff as well.. but the tape.. haha... the memory of it shall be burnt into my mind forever... Heavy Stuff...

ok ok... So I'm finally getting to the pictures... Those that i took la, not the naked pics... all you cheekos reading my blog... mumble mumble...

Theres this part of the Museum they call the Big Box..

That's it in the picture... It's literally a Big Box. haha.. in it, is housed the kids section of the museum.. quite interesting as Cali and I found out, because there's this mini playground outside.. haha.. It's not the normal little tikes fare mind you.. It's all those old games! like Coits and the various other things.. There was also this xylophone... with blocks of the different notes that you can move around.. Anyhow, i think some itchy hand aussie kid moved the blocks... and the notes were all wrong.. So OCPD-influenced me, had to arrange them in the proper tonal sequence.=)

Also, next to the Melbourne Museum, there's this building called... err... I think it was called the Royal Melbourne Exhibition Centre? Yep.. anyways, it's this nice looking building, with domes and all.. and apparently, it was (dunno whether it still is) and exhibition centre... But as far as the Uni Melb people are concerned, its another possible Exam venue..

So, this the the Royal Melbourne Exhibition Centre(?), or at least its silhouette on the beautiful blue Melbournian sky.. or issit Melburnian.. whatever...




Yep... So that was Day 2.. and it was morning and it was evening and it was good.

Haha i realised that i typed a lot of rubbish, but only posted 2 pictures.. sorry people... Anyhow, tommorow, the Great Ocean Road!!

Till Next Time, Cheers