berlin wall germany – Joan of Art's Ship of Imagination

Before Halloween, me and my friends decided to visit the National Museum located at Rizal Park, Manila . Now I’m wondering if “am I really a Filipino?”, because I haven’t been there before, and I didn’t even know why. “Free” is the word that makes us decide to visit the museum soon. So here we are, visiting the ghosts from the past history of our very own country. They are not really ghosts which the exact definition is “immaterial”. It is not a museum made of projectors or holograms for that matter. I just feel like saying it for Halloween feels. Mmmmkay..

I have known the museum to be famous for its painting galleries including the Spoliarium made by Juan Luna. There’s no arguing, one factor that makes the museum worth seeing is the Spoliarium. Want to know the scariest part? We haven’t seen it. Why? Free entrance is equal to a long line of people, and that is why. So in a case like this, it pays to be early at the venue. Well, at least we still have reason to visit the museum again.

National Museum is divided into two: National Art Gallery and Museum of the Filipino People. The latter is the one that we were able to explore. It was located at the back of the National Art Gallery. So no need to go any farther.

Decipher the baybayin code.

Taxidermy.. Poor lad

Footloom. Everybody cut footloom, .. haha don’t try to sing it!

A piece of the Berlin Wall

Kalinga’s Apo Whang Od: The mambabatok. The oldest and the last of the “Mambabatok” or what they called traditional hand-tap tattoo artist.

Ivory Trade (13th Century, I think) – Did you know that some elephants have successfully adapted not to grow their tusks so they won’t get hunted by those poachers? Yep! The natural process of evolution is stepping in, and Elephants are evolving. Tusk-less elephants were being spared by poachers. That’s what I’ve read from an article. 🙂 At the same time, I felt sad because having tusks is such a huge advantage for them, it serves as their weapon and tools to dig. Nonetheless, they seem to understand that the greater threat is “we are” – the humans. 😦

ABOUT ME : JOAN OF ART

Hooray! You’re seeing my page because you have decided to waste a portion of your time, haven’t you? Or maybe, suddenly you’ve got interested and would like to hear some of my nonsensical tales that somehow you will find titillating – hopefully. Either way, I’m glad you’re here. My domain name “Ship of the imagination” was snatched from the (1980) Cosmos TV series (Now we have the 2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson which is a follow-up to that series). Sounds cool, huh! No, it’s freaking awesome, man. For those who knows what the cosmos is, they’ll surely get what I meant by that.

And for those less fortunate people who haven’t got the chance to meet Carl Sagan’s ship of the imagination (why? I wouldn’t miss it for the world) – I’ll expound how wonderful it is.

Carl and his famous ship of the imagination had taken us from the edge of the known universe back to our pale blue dot planet.
Carl Sagan had his own Personal Voyage on his ship of the imagination – and then – I was like, why not create my own version of that one which was focused on my life experience. I guess this is also a good opportunity to extract my remaining creative juices in my brain cells.

I have a huge fascination with the very deep sea and all the life-forms that live deep down there. I feel so relax if those creatures exposed their beauty in my very own eyes. They are all wonderful. If you want to talk about movies and TV series, as a movie enthusiast I can lend you my shoulder. I appreciate anything that can give me a good-ass laugh.

I don’t need to say much, just check my blog and don’t judge, that was made for my personal amusement.

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