Beauty in Asia - 200 BCE to Today

I was on leave yesterday to help out in my dad's claims and gst as it's the end month. He had requested for me to help him finish his paperwork as he was too busy at the site lately. Finished the work in the afternoon and accompanied my parents to my dad's office at Serangoon. Lionel was supposed to meet me there as we had wanted to go for dinner before going to the Asian Civilisation Museum. Had registered for a talk on the Taiwan Atayal facial tattoo (More is available in the previous post) at 7pm in the evening. However due to some last minute hospitalisation of his driver, Lionel had to drive a batch of workers from their factory to Paya Lebar interchange at 6pm, which would probably finish earliest at 6.30pm. Thought we might not be able to make it for the show already, he suggested that i follow him to the pickup of the passengers and we will go straight to ACM with the mini bus.

Lionel sped all the way and had a headache to where shall we park the mini bus as parking lots were limited at the area and we were running late. We turned into Empress place and incidentally saw a car moving out a lot. We couldn't believe our luck as there are only about 10 lots there. We zoomed in and made our way to the ACM, still stunned by the hengness. It was a parking heng-like-shit day as Lionel claimed. Haha. We reached around 6.50pm and had some time to walk around before the presentation began.

Nothing is beautiful or ugly in itself,
beauty lies in the beholder's eye.
The more a thing attracts, the lovelier it seems.

This exhibition bring forth the many facets of beauty across Asian cultures, time and space. It is hoped that visitors will be exposed to the different notions of what is beautiful and that the experience they encounter from visiting the gallery will help them find both the outer and inner beauty of the people and things they encounter. It's still on till the 23 Sept and more information can be found at http://www.acm.org.sg/.

We had some time to walk around the museum after the talk too and took some pictures.