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By a stroke of luck, I got this short exhibition assignment at the National Museum. So I was there yesterday for this training session, as well as the media walk-through and launch of the exhibition. Some design thing lah.

Me and friends didn't exactly have a reason to be at the media walk-through, much less the official launch. It was somewhat a tie-and-gown affair, and I was happily out of place in my jeans and sneakers.

Anw at 6 we decided to walk the museum's permanent galleries. The previous time I was there with ch and ky, we were told we could only enter after 6. We thought it was cos some politician was there. Apparently what was meant was that after 6, the galleries allow free admission.

I thought the exhibits were pretty neat. The 'fashion' and 'movie' galleries were pretty impressive. I particularly liked this 3-screen showcase of past Malay Pontianak-ish movies. I guess they were local stuff. They edited the scenes to be shown separately yet coherently across 3 screens, to a backdrop of scary music and sound effects. Of course I didn't know what they were talking about, but I guess that didn't matter.

I was also zealously testing out my hp camera in the dark galleries. The photos turned out pretty ok, considering it is like a peripheral function to the hp. And while I was zapping the photos into my laptop via infrared, I was thinking how effortless all these digital things have become.