Monday 8 March 2010

"Carry me bag to days gone by."

The heat in Singapore is the kind that leaves your loins sticky.
I should have stopped at the word humid but no one would quite get the
picture.

For lack of a better adjective, it was
SWELTERING
today.

As was
yesterday,
the day before and
probably the days to come.
So says the weather man.
It's consoling to know they usually get it wrong ;)

I took shelter at the National museum and visited a tiny room displaying traditional carrier bags.










I like the crispness of kraft paper and the crackle that goes with it.
I like how that candy cane-coloured rope lints. I like how thin it is.
I like how gigantic stamps can be.

If you're in the vicinity, I think 15 minutes spent at The Bag Exhibition is a cool respite.

I love Museums! :)

1 comment:

  1. Know what, girl? I definitely looove you if you love mu-seem's. Kinda corny opening line, huh? Notta lotta expenses in the Abyss o'Misery, though the same goes for Heaven where I'll kiss your adorable feet if yoo lemme. Just lissen --- After my lifelong demise, miss gorgeous girly, here's my fantasy in Heaven, which you may or may not wanna take part in (totally up to you): to love as I undauntedly, unrestrained wanna be loved. GO NO FURTHER, GIRL, UNLESS YOU'RE PREPARED. Ponder sex in Heaven; ponder love make'n for the whole length and breadth of forever and ever... slow, soft, and smooth... interspersed with delicious-N-nutritious Pi. Centillions of delight. Howsabout a big, yummy O for days, or months, or years... sighing, sobbing, screeem'n bloody murder... is definitely allowed in the realm where the sun never sleeps. Almighty God wouldn't create Heaven without passion and joy forever. No, you don't gotta with me, you don't gotta with anyone. Only an option for those who wanna make physical love a part of their eternity. Just imagine, girl: twenty-two? a hundred and one? fifty-five thousand? handsome, tall, muscular, gentle guys love'n you alone + 111 years + nude swimming in the shallow ocean + nude floating in the sky + erotic, bedtime stories at dusk + whatever your precociously, precarious precious heart comes-up with. The sky's the limit, babe. BUT, YET, YA MUST GIT-UP THAR FIRST. You must see the need for repentance in this finite existence (I go every month). Why not? Why wouldn't Almighty God allow that super-freeek'n-dooper, glorious high for a month or 77 months? Why wouldn't God allow His creatures to love one another? Do we gotta sit stupified for all eternity twiddling our thumbs singing psalms? I doubt it; I'd rather 'Git-it-on' as the UFC announcer sez... then goto Mass on Sundays. See? Heaven ain't as boring or tasteless as you thot, doll; God loves you and God wants to provide the very best for you for eternity. I want Heaven, too, to love you, serve you, honor you, nekk and cherish you forever. For those few who actually achieve the Great Beyond these days? God sez, 'Eye has not seen...' You cannot stay here, girl: all of U.S. must croak someday. So decide if this whorizontal, lifelong demise is worth the slow, unraveling, unending joy of Heaven. God bless you --- Meet me in Heaven. You won't be disappointed.

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