Friday, June 13, 2008
UofT tour and Royal Ontario Museum
Finally visited the ROM, Royal Ontario Museum.. We purposely went there on a Friday cos its half price (Student price $8.50) from 4.30 t0 9 pm on Friday. So we toured around the university campus 1st.. UofT has a long history and the architectures are very castle-liked and beautiful.. full of greenary.. We took lots of pictures =)

We also went in to the buildings to explore and take pictures:
This one jus looked very funny, i don't noe wat they are doing.. haha :

In the lecture theatre, but the seats in NUS are more comfortable.. The seats and leg space are too small here:
We are resting from the walking actually =) :

Chong yan playing the piano.. He can really play it well man.. The grand piano was super old.. interesting..:
Leaving our 'footprint' here =) they still use chalkboard here.. :

The walls here are very detailed:
Beautiful buildings at the Philosophy path =)

The grass here is very soft and comfortable.. sitting here very ''university'' feel.. haha.. :


I also spotted this sign on the way.. very special.. we confirm won't see this in s'pore.. haha :
Finally, we reached ROM, Royal Ontario Museum =)
The building is very special, the new and old parts of the building join together like tat.. cool =) :

Many mix of old and new buildings here:

Me and Chong Yan taking pictures outside the museum while waiting for the rest to come out from Mac.. The structure is very modern and artistic so many ppl took photos here.. and its so hard to get one without ppl passing by in front of our camera.. haha :

In the museum, the exhibits are all so interesting and informative.. Sun hui, Chong yan and me posed weird actions and entertained ourselves with the statues and structures here.. haha.. lots of fun.. Actually, the main feature is Darwin's exhibit.. Those lifescience majors will definitely be interested.. I did studied abt this famous guy from my psychology class here.. But the main thing tat we wanna see is the Egyptians Mummies and Dinosaurs exhibits.. There are five storeys and 2 basements to visit in all, so we sort of split up and explore the museum in pairs and in threes..
The 1st floor is some intro exhibits on wat is to come at the other levels.. There is also the 1st ppl of Canada exhibits section and China and Korea section.. some pictures here:

I find this mask very cute so took a pic of it.. lol :

We sort of confused between the red Indians and e 1st ppl of Canada.. haha:

At the China section, there is this tomb from the Qing dynasty.. not sure whether its real..:

I like the oldie trishaw =) :

Valerie and me at this Classic Chinese door:

Some goddess structures here.. I think Father will definitely like the exhibits here =) :


This is the male version of Guan Yin from Shangxi province.. Some historic source said is male and not female.. interesting.. :

Then its off to the Darwin's section at basement 2.. very informative on Darwin's theory of the evolution of life and his own life..


I have been laughed at by them for a long time thanks to this 'passionate' picture.. the eyes of the statue was too passionate looking for me to act fierce.. and i was actually trying to slap his face lo.. lol:

Chong Yan trying to hit the butt of this sculpture.. haha:

The Dinosaurs section.. Don mind the 2 crazy ppl trying to act shocked at the dinosaurs.. Sunhui's idea.. haha..



Walking back to our 'home', we took some pics at the alumni house jus beside our 'home' at 45 willcocks street:

ROM was so fun! If only there is more time to really see everything.. Do visit the Royal Ontario Museum if u ever visit Toronto =) don worry, im not given commission ;P
xoxo, clover ; 11:37 PM
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