*..Little by, Little by, step @ a time..*: *..Greek Masterpieces from the Louvre..*

Helloo world! Belated posts series shall begin with this. My 23rd February 2008. Gee, it happened to be matthias' 23rd birthday and I actually forgot! Till I saw his facebook yest. xq is out of touch with dates. HAPPY BELATED 23RD MATT! erm..he doesn't read my blog...So nvm! HAHAHA!

anyways! just painted my nails! happy eh! dark metallic brown! a really old bottle, thought it dried up, but apparently didn't. My favourite colour only! =p So made my day, after feeling really down the entire sunday. Apart from the yummy abalone mummy prepared. WOOTS. she's gonna get more tmr. =)

Luisa says this place is depressing to read, apart from photo posts, so HAHA don't say I never post happy stuffs ah!

this is my favourite photo! HAHA! art museum's exterior. I wanna go to the exhibition again! CALEB LEND ME YOUR DSLR LEH! cos u're a nice boy! haha! i accept bribery..or else...i....HAHA joking! =p

the sculptures were really amazing. body contours, muscular contours, toenails, wrinkles, vains, clothes creases everything. Oh my lord. Exquisite only. All made of pentalic marble. We went on a guided tour and the volunteers input us on endless greek mythologies and historical facts. Love it.

Greek civilisation has been described as "agonistic" (ie) founded on the spirit of competition. This Greek ideal extolled excellence and made rivalry one of the driving forces of existence. Even the gods competed among themselves. Expressed mainly in the realm of sport, poetry recited at symposiums and theatre, AGON is the key to understanding of ancient Greek life, art and literature.

Something interesting to note, the gods are totally in nude and extremely tall. In contrast to the commoners. Who are dressed and smaller in size. Stature is to emphasise on their prowess.

I can't rem the name of this statue. tsk. too many la. He should be a philosopher.

2 headed sculpture!

another philosopher whose name I cannot recollect.

this marble portrait has a story behind it. Forgot the story. Haha shall take pics of the signboards as well the next time I'm there.

Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.

Athena, goddess of wisdom and courage.

Aphrodite, holding golden apple.

The intricately sculpted feet. Nice only. And the nice nice clothings, how they fall nicely against the legs.

the fabric's supposed to be almost transparent. Oh wow, the sculptor successfully made it appear so. Really look transparent eh! NICE!

haha i heard this auntie pointing to this sculpture and she told her grand-daughter: "WAHHH the people last time, figure very good ah!" Then she walked one round around this sculpture, oogling at his marble-d nude body. WAHAHA!!!

there were many sculptures with missing body parts, cos some were lost when they were dug out from the soil. Here's one, headless mother only. eeeee. haha.

she's supposed to be one of the prettiest women in Greek mythology, forgot her name.

But I think she's the prettiest la. Nice scarf. And she looks so sad, like in mourning. Haha my favourite pic!

Here's Athena again. Athens was named after her, interesting story behind its naming.

Philosopher X. Haha paiseh, I'm really bad at remembering names even of humans, much less sculptures.

enough of sculptures, here's an everybody-is-happy photo!
xq, sex bomb, xiaobai!!!

wj and peiwen during the guided tour.

we watched this play on "If statues could speak" performed by NAFA students. Haha!!! I totally didn't understand the play. Oh my lord. Not art-sy enough. There was this girl who sang the tunes of the transitions to each scene, chilly voice. Really expressive person. Woo not bad! Look into the crowd at the back. There's mahen there. HAHA talk about coincidences.

wj with the tallest statue. So hard to properly expose both. Haha lighting sucks inside. Here's wj looking blue, and the statue overexposed.

here's wj looking alright, but the statue looking insignificant.

wah love this map at the entrance.

it makes a really nice backdrop for photos. AHAHHA cam whores.

people were allowed to sit by the sculptures ans sketch them. These were some of the works pinned up outside the exhibition room.

The entrance of the Art museum. Haha i really like stained glass. Nice and churchy.

close up of the stained glass windows. Haha art musuem's such a nice place. I wanna take my wedding pics there also! =)

peiwen aka wife #1 acting cute..HAHA!

peiwen again, this time acting as a tourguide.

wj helping some other people take photos.

this was a candid shot, I was setting the timer and pressed the shutter down by accident. But think this looks niceee.

okay, the real deal. Love timer mode! 10 secs, smile!

another of my better-liked photo taken that day. The swinging "chandeliers" hanging from the ceiling. This is the bottom view. Resembles snowflake eh.