The Opera Populaire

If anyone's free these few days, shd try to head down to Junction 8, where there is this exhibition of the 160th anniversary of Straits Times pictures. Walking thru the exhibition was at times like stepping back in time cos some of the picts on display r like from the 1950s, down the memory lane to the present. Like, there was this pict of a family driving one of the 2 cars that was on an island...forgot was it Pulau Tekong or Ubin? I like that a lot hehe...very interesting. Then there was this pict which from far I thot was the pict of 3 members of the Ku Klux Klan, but turned out to be some breed of stingrays! Was laughing with my bro at it. There was oso a very funny pict of a tortoise race which drove peals of laughter from us cos the slowest tortoise won! Of course there were picts of national tragedy like the recent tsunami picts and the Maria Hertogh riots.

This was the 1st time I ever really slowed down and take a look at picts and I do like the sense of nostalgia, as well as the bonding we share as a nation that they created. It surprised me how they touched this inner core inside me as I identified with each and every one of them, even those which I knew for the 1st time.