After a few minutes, we arrived at the army museum of Singapore, wait, what?! Aren’t we supposed to go to the Science museum?!
Never mind, we still went inside the museum. We learned a lot of things in the museum. Apparently, times during the wars aren’t too nice. But some people also like being in the army as they get to have neat rooms. Also, all boys has to go to the army at 18, but the girls get to chose. Man! That kinda sucks. Also, we learn that all soldiers use snipers, not pistols or machine guns.
After that, we get to have some tea. Then, I asked the teacher why we’re not going to the Science Center. Apparently, we not going there. Too bad.
Well, we’re going to the FLAT WORLD AND MASHPUPS exhibition, thingy. It’s put for the international friendship day of 2017. It shows us about the things that Singapore went through to be uh… Singapore. Like, ya know, from 1965 Singapore to 22nd century Singapore. And, it wasn’t easy. At the start( a little bit before 1960), it Singapore had a LOT of problems, like communists and war. Then finally, at 1965, when Singapore left Malaysia, Singapore is both literally and figuratively left by itself. So, all Singapore can do is to try is to ‘rebuild’ itself, well, by having it’s own hospital and school services. Annnd.. finally, Singapore become the Singapore as we now know. Then, we knew about some words of Singlish (Singapore + English), like ‘Saman’ (which is ‘summons’ in Malay) and ‘Nah’ (here you go in Malay).
Also, we learned that Singapore has 4 sources of water:
1. Rain water (Made by collecting rain water [well duh..])
2. Sea water (Made by filtering sea water [duh again])
3. Toilet water (Made by filtering drain/toilet water [Eww…])
4. Bought water (Bought from Johor [But it will stop during 2060])
Anyway, after that we also learn that another name for Singapore is ‘the red dot’, because if you look for Singapore on the world map, all you can find is a tiny reddish dot.
Later, we get to know what brand the country is famous for. Well, here’s some brands for you to know. USA is famous for Google, South Korea for SAMSUNG, Japan is Toyota, Germany has BMW, Denmark has LEGO (Hooray for Denmark [I like LEGOs]), Sweden has IKEA while Nestle is from Switzerland. Then, I found some ridiculous information, like Malaysia is famous for Petronas and China is ICBC, well duh, cause these brand can only be found in these countries!!
Anyway, they also have virtual reality glasses(that’s what they’re called, right? The humongous things you can put on your head?), the we put it on, and it actually works! You get to see things that each thing is supposed to let you see, and it even gives you sounds! Just that you can’t go around and you can’t exactly see your ermm… feet… or legs either. Which doesn’t really appease Xing Yi as it makes him feel like he is flying and he is actually afraid of heights (lol).
After some awesome virtual sight seeing, we left the exhibition and took a nice ride back to the hostel.
At the hostel, it’s still raining, not exactly, it’s actually drizzling, to be specific. As we are walking back to our block, we found a frog! It’s actually a very tiny black frog. It is like barely 1cm! (definitely took a nice little picture of it).
After that, I went back to my room and took some rest, which is what I exactly needed. Then, at 6.00pm, I went to the cafeteria to have my dinner.
During my dinner, there was a talk about our mathematics test during the next day. But it is given out by some boys.
After that, I went back to my room. Then, I decided to do a bit of revision on my math, which I find a bit hard to do so, as I already had finished reading the whole thing.