21 Sep 2007, 1:43pm
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by yappy
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Revisit of National Museum of Singapore

Day 2 of our Anniversary local vacation starts with a jolt as I realised that it is already 9 plus am and I’m still in bed. Dear Hubby had left me in dozeland to sleep a while more while he sat at the desk with his laptop.

We were running a bit late for breakfast which closed at 10.30am, so we were shown to another lounge of Conrad Hotel to enjoy a longer breakfast till 11am. Breakfast spread was OK, not very interesting nor was it bad. We both enjoyed the cheese especially.

It was a last minute decision to pop by the revamped National Museum of Singapore as we have some free time before our massage appointment in the evening. Ever since the Museum was revamped a few years ago, we have not been there, or rather, ever since my Primary school years?

The new Museum is done beautifully and we were impressed by the high-tech gadgets and the amount of work that went into the upgrade of the place, especially the electronic guide for the displays. All you have to do is to press a number and all the background information of the artifact in front of you will appear on the screen of the gadget which they called the Companion.

We initially thought we could just spend 2 hours in the Museum and then go on to Funan Centre to buy a second TV card (hee, so that I can watch one channel and record the other), but then the trip stretch into a 4 hour one before we managed to see all of the place.

Our favourites should be the innovative swinging lamps at level 2 (didn’t get the official name of the thingy), which oscillates in different pattern at different times of the day. How cool is that?

The day was packed almost back-to-back. After depositing our purchases, we went to The Elements Spa at Orchard Hotel for our massages and Mic was so pleased with the skills of the Masseur that he bought a package. I’m not so keen on massages as I can only take the light strokes of massage.

We popped over to California Pizza for dinner and ordered one of their new creations : Tandoori Mango Pizza. Being a pizza-lover himself, I was quite surprised that Mic has never tried California Pizza before, which I found to be quite good. I fell in love with the Peking Duck Pizza some years back. Anyway was glad that Mic liked the place and he gave the pizza his thumbs-up.

We decided to laze the rest of the night away with a sinful tub of Haagen-Dazs Belgium Chocolate ice-cream.

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