Aichi Triennale 2010

Went to Aichi Triennale with MayC! Its an art fest of sorts, with artist from all over the world showing. Happy, happy,happy to get a dose of color and ideas :DDDDDDD

First stop is the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. See the green tubing thing....its one of the installations. Its connected here and there. I like how it interacts with the building and makes the place more fun. Challenges the concept of how we view space. 

Installation by Yayoi Kusama is one of the main reasons why I want to go! She is obsess with dots and repetition. 

The work below is done by a China artist titled Day and Night. Its really really nice lor. Looks like fairies dancing on the walls with all the gold and purple strokes. And since its so long, its like a never ending picture. Surreal. The best part would be a video showing how its all made. And guess how it was done! By burning up gunpowder stuff!!!! So cool can. 



Next is all these wooden animals everywhere in a white maze. Simple and interesting the placement of ze animals were spot on too. Super keng is transporting all these stuff and setting it up. All the thought put into these exhibits brings me to tears. These artist are a dedicated bunch. 

And this!!! Muahaha......gave MayC the bejeebers! Its done by a Malaysian artist currently based in Taiwan. From Kuching too! Haha.

Cannot take pic cos its like a short film thing, so I shall try to explain it cos its way cool! Basically, we walk into this darkened room. Everything is dark, cannot even see where to step, so you sort of extend your hand and walk on. On the left you see white figures sitting, watching something. A bit scary edi, cos don't know if they are real humans or figurines. So walk closer to investigate. Wah, lucky, humans watching a film. Phew....so we move into the enclosed space and watch the film. Since all the seats were taken, we had to stand. Film starts of with a scene in the cinema with red seats. The whole place is empty except for a chinese lady and an indian guy. She is eating apples and after each bite offers it to the indian guy sitting behind her. This continues for a long time. Weird and we still don't know what this film means. Some ppl left then so we sat down on the red seats provided and tried to understand this film.

Then comes the next scene, a chinese uncle is smoking while sitting in the red cinema chairs.Beside him is a little boy who is eating a snack. This continues for a while and the scene changed to show the same uncle and boy filmed from the front. But now there is a grandmother on the uncles side and a picture of the deceased grandfather on the little boys side. By now, MayC and I were the only ones sitting on the red seats and suddenly it all came to me.

Me: MayC, I think I get it edi. Do you get it?

MayC: Yeeerrr....dun say!!! *grabs my arm*

Me: Nonono, I think its something like Inception. We are watching ppl who most probably are watching others. 

And then the ppl in the film started to fade away......so we freaked and ran. Hahaha....

So do you get it?

This is another cool one. Its a L-shaped corridor with a 45 degrees mirror so ppl can say "Hi!" and wave at other ppl on the other end :D  Its tiny too with lots of doors, so it has a Alice in Wonderland feel to it :)))

Walls of buildings. Looking at cities from diff perspective I guess. 





At Oasis 21, someone left Woodstock at the railing. Love the quirkyness of things like this :D

Another installation by Yayoi Kusama.  

There were many other great works, but sadly most of them cannot take pics one T_T Even the ones I have here, mostly I curi-curi take one. Haha.....so too bad. Cannot share la. Cos too many I will kaput anyway :P Interested then go c urself la :D It runs till 31st of October.

Next is Domatsuri! Super keng we went without knowing there was a matsuri happening! Lots of dancing, food stalls, ppl, kids, parade.....gotta love the energy!

M.I.C.K.E.Y M.O.U.S.E !!! I know its all about the advertising. Happyest place on earth? Pah! But when the song got blasted out into the air, my hands are clapping, Im singing along to the cheesiest song and I don't care. The world is beautiful again and birds are flying in the air.

Had oddles of FUN, out in the SUN! 

Thanks MayC for teman-ing me!!!!!

 <333

I Lap IKEA!!!

And I shall say it again! I lap IKEA!
Why? Oh, only just because they have the best service around, not to mention the affordable, simple yet stylish designs. And the fact that the designs are easily fixed up, no wrestle and hassle with complicated manuals, and they work really well. And the showrooms are GREAT! I just love spending time there to soak it up and get ideas. You can see all the work and thought gone into producing all this stuff and its so inspiring. Been to IKEA`s in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan to date and I`ve got to say. I enjoyed it every single time. Gosh, I know. I sound so infatuated. Well what to do? I give praise when its deserved. :D

Before I bore you any further. Let`s hop on the free shuttle service to IKEA. You can just tell there will be oodles of pictures coming up huh? :P
When we first got there and got gobsmacked with the awesome showrooms, I tell you, my eyes was blurring cos it could not keep up with the sights in front of me. Haha...... just had to soak it up and let it all sink in. I could tell, MayC was blurring too. Haha..... cos she did not speak to me for a long time and kept touching stuff, sitting down on sofas and pottering about. But all that was before we went
"Wah, so nice!"
"Eh, thats cool."
"Maaaannnn, I wish I could buy that but, I know its not practical"
"OMG, look at that"

So after reality sunk in, the first pic.
Oh, this I really like. Wall to wall, filled with nothing but books! And since just normal shelfs alone are so boring and last century, add cupboards, lighting, some deco, and don`t forget the amazing can die for ladder on the left handside, and you get a really nice reading room. Oh wait, I forgot, a nice and cosy armchair, reading light, coffeetable and carpet. Gosh, I think I just found the perfect design for my dream reading room. *Swoons*
Another mirror, and darling MayC could not resist.
This room did not get made up that nice. But check out the cool torch flame lighting. So totally cool for a castle themed bedroom. And the candy striped armchair`s cool too. and the battlements on the wall is just divine. I was thinking, throw away the ulgy placemat under the torch and replace wif a cool parchment of a castle map. Have a dark green or blue shade for the bedspread with golden tassles if possible. Add a crocodile carpet and a joker pillow to the armchair. Don`t know why, but all these just came to mind. :D
This is another cool thing. Can you figure out what it is? Hehe....this can possibly solve all your laundry problems. The tree-like thinge is to hang clothing that can still be worn, and the black hole is for you to throw all your laundry in. Totally atas compared to a laundry basket no? :DO ho. And we have reached the toy section. MayC persuaded me to camwhore with the crocodile.And I avenged myself right back. Although, I think she rather enjoyed it. :PPPNow its time for our lunch break. Check out the cafeteria.
Lunch consist of :

MayC`s Apple pork delight

Joyce`s Beef steak

I forgot the real names. Just simply give one ah. Don`t blame me when you do go and see different names on the menu. Or when you order MayC`s Apple pork delight and you get blank stares.

Mum always told me to finish my food...

The warehouse. Super the huge.
Le penseur de IKEA

Batgirl in actionBatgirl feeling peckish after all the exercise, hence the hotdog break. And I got free hotdog from batgirl. It came with full service summore. :D

These are so cool. But they remind me of udders.
See, what did I tell you. Full service man. So leng summore. Thanks batgirl :D I lap you too.
Elderflower drink. Interesting huh. Thought it might taste herby. But its really normal beverage, kinda nice and refreshing with just a hint of vegetative extract.
Last but not least, meet MayC`s new family of rats. Yes, rats. There`s Scabbers, Pinky, and the other two would be from Rattatoulie, but we forgot their names. That`s all folks.