Nothing much today of note, except for a trip to the museum. We heard from Jo that there was some exhibit on that was featuring tropical butterflies and that it had live butterflies on display. She mentioned as well that they were importing pupaes weekly as well just for that exhibit.

So we went off in the afternoon to have a look see and were at first puzzled as we had no idea what section the exhibit would be in the museum. But there were some other interesting new exhibits on at the moment. One was seasons of indigo, featuring some beautiful textile works by some Japanese woman. It was basically reusing dyed indigo cloth taken from used kimonos and beddings and so on to create all sorts of pieces as expression of the four seasons. I'm surprised by how many pieces there were on display and how intricate each one of them were. Hundreds if not thousands were used just to create each one, and all were sewn together, with decorative stitches as well! I wonder how long it takes that artist just to make one. It was nice to see that there was continuity as well between all the seasons, with recurring themes here and there in some of the pieces. I wonder too how did they managed to bring it all the way from Japan without any of them showing any sign of a wrinkle at all :S... I doubt if the pieces can be washed and ironed. But then, what do I know lol.

The other new exhibit was one on swimsuits from the past. Some of the bikinis and swimwear on display were clearly from the 70s, around mum's sort of era. It was so typical of the sort you see in old mags and adverts from that age lol. And I never thought I would come to realise that men swimwear have undergone undersizing as well. The mens' pieces on display were in short, conservative. They were just like a cross between boxer shorts and normal swimming trunks, waist high (or higher) trunks. It made the model look somewhat stumpy *tee hee*.

After that, we realised that the butterfly exhibit was probably in the discovery world section. There was a student discount on, at 8.50 per person. Didn't really look much at the other stuff, just a bit here and there. There was a one way mirror (turns out it's chromium that does the trick), aquariums, cloud maker, reaction timer blah blah blah. But the most interesting part of the whole thing was the tropical rainforest where the butterflies were kept. Who would have thought that the museum would actually have something like a three storyed hot house. It was 29 degrees in there and a humidity of 60%!! Sure it was as warm as back home, but with such a humidity it was a bit hard to breathe in there almost (slightly exaggerated of course). There was very heavy air traffic in there as T puts it. All sorts and colours of butterflies flew here and there. There were very colourful moths as well. Didn't really bother looking at the icky tarantulas. There were three, and I only had to look into the case with the bird eating one to be put off by it. Hairy fat and ugly. Ewww. Visitors could also look into the quarantine area as well where the pupae that they imported hatched. There was one big moth that was just about ready to up and go it seemed. It's suprising to find out that moths aren't just the usual grey, brown and black winged insects. That one had orangey spots on it and certainly looked more a butterfly if it weren't for the way it kept it wings flat and apart. Some orchids were on display about and around the place, and there was a pond with turtles and gold fish in it. I'm not too sure what sort of rainforest has the latter though :P...

Bought a pomegranate today for fun. T was very surprised by the little red seeds in it. Yummy. Though this is certainly less sweet than the one I had last time. Don't remember the seeds being so prominent either, though crunchy suits me fine (except for the part when a little piece got stuck between my upper molars :( ). T talking about papayas make me want some now as well. With lime thank you very much. Mmmm.... darn, why do fruits cost so much here?! @#^%$*! Bought a few mandarins either, just to break away a little from apples though I probably will start missing them again soon enough.