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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
ACM Trip
8:04 PM


I honestly admit that this is my first time visiting a museum, so it a new experience for me. And again honestly I find the first session of looking for the artifact so boring. I nearly slept while walking coz I was soo tired. I chose this artifact 'Rakshasha' for the word 'cold'. It's actually a demonic being (actually in malay 'raksasa' means monster). The second session was much more boring. We have to go around the Singapore history area and look for the basic Singaporean 'data' that was absent in our brain system. Ahh, I guess it's because of the tiredness that I have that made me loose my concentration and find it boring. It was the third session that impacted me. Each of us started to talk about the artifacts they have chosen and the more they talked about them, the more I realised about those artifact. If only Glenn and Jimmy have not pointed out the man outside the empty house, I would have though that the artifact was only about a house(please ask them for details).
Then Ms Azyanti brought us to the display of the Muslim world and culture. Ok, this is my religion so it should be at the tip of my fingers. Wrong mindset. I discovered a whole lot things that was so interesting and was previously unknown to me that I just couldn't give a good portion of my attention to Ms Azyanti's description of the things. Well, my eyes just darted everywhere, just anywhere with any piece of artifact and their descriptions, except to Ms Azyanti. Then came these question straight into my face about the architecural design of the mosques and the meaning behind the Islamic symbol. The questions seemed trivial but I took some time to give a fair answer.
Reason was: they never bothered me that much in my daily life. I pass by and come across these things every day but still, I nearly did not know a thing about them.

Maybe we shouldn't be complacent in life regarding the things around us and take them for granted. Perhaps we should question them and know them well. Be it friends, family members or even the nature around us. They do bother. Anyway, from the things that had happened, I guess having an identity is not enough, we should know it well too. I find that if I know much more about Singapore and Islam, I will feel a better sense of belonging. That's what I personally feel. Moreover, having questions are good but we must ask or do something about them so that we can become a better person.

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