Eye-popping Moment

Okaaay. So we went to Bank Negara Museum and Art Gallery. And thank goodness, it's a separate building from Bank Negara Headquater, I always thought we were going to visit a bank with a lot working people sitting behind counters and couting money. Lol.

During our journey to Bank Negara, we had a mini farewell for Miss E!

Photo by Shirley 

It's an unusual thing to see Miss E putting on her usual big smile during farewell. We expected her to cry cats and dogs.

Nahhhh, kidding. Hahaha. We're happy to see her leaving joyfully to further her study.

And all the best to Miss E!! Continue to inspire people around you like how you inspire us!

Okay, and we did like ENDLESS wefie on the bus, using Miss E's ultra-sophisticated and high technology smartphone. Seriously, now we can do simple hand gestures then the phone will immediately snap photo? That's kinda coooool

Back to the topic.

So, we reached Bank Negara after an hour long traffic jam.

Their glass buildings look kinda cool (Photo by fivefeetninegiraffe)

Their interior design is super duper classy and beautiful. True la, it's art gallery mannnn. You don't see any art gallery or exhibition in rumah papan right? Art gallery is the collection of luxurious goods. It's the access to glamorous lifestyle. Certain artwork can cost sheer amount of money--- million ringgit for one artwork!!! It's quite sad that due to the whole art buying game----the fact that art carries value and brings profit----art has become a rich man game.

This doesn't only happen in painting, same goes to music. Last few months ago, my all time favourite classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa came to Singapore for live concert! And the cheapest ticket (most probably you have to stand afar and see her in ant size) is about Rm100++  and I haven't include the travelling fee to singapore. So I gave up watching her live performance immediately.

But well, fortunately we enter the galleries for free. woohooo

After taking insane amount of pictures, we went for a talk by Muid Latif. Honestly speaking, due to his attire (vest and slacks uniform), I thought they sent us an usher or tour guide to bring us around. But when he started to show his past works, I was totally amazed! They are all spectacular!!!

One thing that I found him amazing is that his passion towards exploring different things (his extensive knowledge towards astrology is impressive) but yet retaining his own styles in his work. And he talked about how we should find our own speciality, understand more about ourselves and create an identity/icon out of it.

True also la. There are so many possibilities in us, so you shouldn't fix your field of interest once you feel comfortable doing what you are doing. You should instead pick up and learn everything, grow within what you have learnt, and carve your own creativity.

After the talk, we went to visit the art gallery. I won't really talk a lot about this since Dr Carmen shared a lot of things with us.

I'll share with you all the painting that I really really like a lot.

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The Rainbow Day (by Khoo Sui Hoe, 1972)

The exact painting looks a lot bigger than this la. I instantly fell in love with this painting once I saw this. Literally love at first sight. And so I went to google about this Khoo Sui Hoe guy who painted this.

Apparently he's a rich old guy and now resides in US. And he doesn't have instagram :O

Below are some of his other works

Some of you will notice that he plays a lot with circles and colours in his paintings. (nahhh, you didn't notice that, did you? You were scrolling down and wanting to end reading this post quickly right?)

Anyway, I like his artwork a lot because of his colourful and surreal elements. I'm fascinated by surrealistic art ever since taking film study. Lol. I guess Joe Yan had too much influence on us.

The Rainbow Day kinda reminds me of a song called No Surprises by Radiohead. They all portray the same thing: pleasantly mysterious. I guess the circles, harmonious colours and nature elements accentuate the pleasant, wholeness and relaxed feeling. In a contrast, the human-like figure portrays a state of calm and somehow they all look very dumb dumb.

Look calm and dumb, Hmm

That kinda sounds a lot like me eh? Lol. Is that why I like his artworks a lot?

Anyway, art gallery is a great hang-out place I'd say. Peaceful and quiet moment with the artworks and myself. Looking at how the artists express their values, beliefs, thoughts, perspectives, emotion through just mere colours and shapes.

While you get to know them better, you are also getting to know yourself better.

I'm looking forward to our next field trip to National Art Gallery.

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