Of Titanic and Kumar

yest was a pretty packed day filled with activities hah. after hearing positive reviews of the titanic exhibition and MBS’s art science museum, we decided to make a visit there too. ticket was $16.80 per adult (after 20% OCBC discount). before we reached the musuem, we walked past the nice ship-inspired LV shop and went in to look see. nice shop, but everything so expensive hah. and we saw how a chinese tourist pay for her purchase with cold hard cash. gulp.

window shopping at LV

anyway we reached the museum at abt 5plus pm, bought our tix and headed to the gallery. there was an optional 1-hr documentary on titanic that cost $5 each, but we didnt take that due to lack of time.

visit to the titanic exhibition at art science museum

before we entered the gallery, we were each given a boarding pass, and an identity – of an actual person onboard the biggest ship in the world at that time. the boarding pass also contains details like where the person was travelling from and the purpose of the trip, the cabin class etc. interesting!

there were quite a few artefacts being exhibited. and it tried to transport the visitors back into history with its life-like settings of various parts of the ship, like the cabin deck, the grand staircase etc. pretty cool. there were also quite abit of write-ups abt the tiatanic.

another interesting exhibit was a large block of ice for visitors to experience  the coldness of the sea at that time. along the ways, videos were also screened to show the process of retrieving those artefacts from the super deep seabed (at more than 3,000 feet! scary). overall, i find the exhibition not bad. but the price is indeed abit steep hah. we finished the exhibition in 1plus hour. oh ya, and at the end of the exhibition, there is a list of survivors and ppl who perished in the disaster, so u actually find our if “you” survived hah. i did, so did dear hah.

goodbye titanic

after titanic, it was a mad rush to esplanade to catch the kumar’s amazing race. reached there jus in time, abit breathless though with all the running hah. i hav high expectations of this show cos it is kumar. but the 1.5 hr show left us pretty disappointed. not really laugh-till-stomachache funny and many jokes were actually not too fresh and original. ichesnuts 15, which we watched a few weeks back, were far more entertaining hah. quite a waste of money for this boohoo.

the not that amazing race

after the show, we headed to C Nai hong kong cafe at east coast park. reached there and realised that it has closed down! damn sad. it was one of our fav haunts with its live mandarin pop performance, affordable HK food and late opening hrs (was it 24 hours?). so in the end went to old hong kong cafe at east coast rd for our late dinner. sinful! hah.