Last Weekend's Adventure

Been wanting to write about the past weekend but have been too busy to write until today. Here's a summary:-

A trip to Museum Negara:

Having gone to the Singapore Museum of Asian Civilization 3 weeks ago, we thought that it's only fair to take the kids to Museum Negara last weekend. We were quite disappointed that the artifacts on display didn't rise to our expectation. There is not enough content, which is surprising since we have such a rich history & cultural journey spanning more than 6 centuries.

None of the exhibits were interactive or made interesting to young visitors. This would have been fine if the galleries had better artifacts on display. Unfortunately, this was not so. I guess they didn't have enough budget to upgrade the museum which is really sad.

Anyway, the only surprise came in the form of Roti Aiskrim that we bought from the pakcik aiskrim outside the museum. I wonder, do all museums have these ice-cream vendors from bygone days?

The Enlightening SDSI Expo:

The cutout from Berita Harian

Now, this "Satu Daerah Satu Industri" Expo was surprisingly wonderful! It was way above what I thought it would be. Melaka has been hosting the SDSI Expo every 2 years for the past 6 years apparently but we never ventured into the exhibition centre in MITC until this year.

Last weekend, we took the kids to the Expo just to past time & we were overwhelmed by thousands of people and hundreds of products from every state of Malaysia. Most of the products are beautiful & seriously underrated. Malaysia has so much to offer! I love the batik (especially from Terengganu). Adlan came back with a gasing from Temerloh, Hakim with a mengkuang hat from Terengganu, Adlina with a clay pendant from NS & Anas with a rotan keychain from Melaka.

Our kids thoroughly enjoyed learning how things are made from scratch, like the songket tenun and the tikar mengkuang. We didn't even realize that our picture was taken by Berita Harian & published in the newspaper last week! Malunya.. wish they had informed us prior to taking the picture, boleh la senyum sikit or posing-posing :-) We were totally selekeh in our weekend let-our-hair-down-seen-its-better-days clothes. Yikes! Anyway, thanks to Hz for the info - otherwise we wouldn't even have known that our picture came out in BH, selekeh & all :-)

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