Saturday, September 09, 2006

We stood and watched the rain pour into the courtyard of the old City Hall and Supreme Court. They opened it up and turned it into a museum for the Singapore Biennale Arts Festival. It was cool enough being able to explore the insides of that grand old building, to go inside the court rooms and pretend to be the Judge(at least thats what Wynne did); the exhibits were really interesting too.

We got to watch this documentary about differing attitudes of people in muslim countries and people in Europe, with regards to Suicide Bombers. "What goes through their minds" in those final moments. Unfortunately, we weren't able to finish watching it. It was closing time. I especially like this one exhibit, where there is this dark room and there are a few TV screens on the wall, each showing the same guy at a different place of worship in Singapore; Kwan Im temple, a Church, a Synagogue, a Hindu Temple, and in all the screens, he is carrying a red balloon. And then he releases the red balloon, one after another in the screens. And then the balloon floats up into the air. And there is a large screen at the end of the room. And the screen plays images taken from the balloon floating up into the air over the tops of all the buildings and you see the temple/church and it gets smaller and smaller.... Cool stuff.

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