Museum Weekend Part 1

It was a weekend spent gloriously in museums. I love modern art--it's so fun! And I love installations. It makes me want to twirl round and round the museum space. Plus, the building of the museum was so pretty too!

Met with Rosalie and Esther to go check out this exhibition at the museum next to Nyhavn. It's a pretty old brick building with big grand windows, walking distance from the Kongens Nytorv station. Walking in, we immediately found ourselves next to the museum cafe! Nyeheheh! Of course I stopped to take pictures but I'll put them up in a separate cafe post I suppose. Didn't have the time or money to stop for a drink or snack but the cafe area is very pretty indeed!

Anchor at Nyhavn

We dumped our jackets and bags in the lockers and headed straight for the exhibition!

Let me entertain you with pictures.

Light installation. I wish the room could have been dark. Rosalie said she wished it could have been in a club. Hahaha. That would be AWESOME. It would also be... ruined.





Looking at him looking away looking at me looking at you.

Isn't this cool! It's all paper! Reminds me of the chinese jian zhi art.


Ew. The grotesque and the beautiful.

If you look closely enough you can see my floating head.

We found this door and opened it... to find... THIS. It was such a creepy experience. Beautiful and eerie. Dim and intense.

A wood paneled corridor with strange beautiful carvings of delicate and gruesome things.

Esther and Rosalie

Well, me. "Hi," says I.

At the end of the corridor was another door that opened into a dark room with a projector playing a very very creepy and trippy video. It was like a nightmare.

We emerged from that little adventure in the twilight zone to move to the next section where we found.... THIS. It was an endless source of entertainment and once again Rosalie and I embarrassingly had a mini photoshoot as we are wont to do in museums. Haha. We locked ourselves in that little cylinder for wayyy too long and after a while realized that everyone else in the room could probably hear our giggling and stupid comments. o.O

A circular room covered in mirror mosaic!

As you can see I clicked happily away. Shall mostly put the ones of myself up to save Rosalie the embarrassment. Hahaha.

Puffer fish.

The Scream.

This was cool. It's an open book between two fans and the pages lift and flutter in the wind, shiver slightly in the middle but never, never cross threshold hold--the page never turns, it is always open at the same page.

Itchy as I was, I decided to Interact With The Art and stepped in front of one of the fans to see if the page WOULD turn. (Now I wonder if the page it was opened to was of significance and if you're allowed to "interact with the art" but oh well there were no barriers) The page made it all the way over to the other side, and for a moment I was horrified, afraid I had ruined The Art, but when I stepped away, it bounced back, and went back to being in its precarious, shivering position. I wondered at what it was supposed to mean; if that was the point of it, but was too distracted by the next thing to follow that train of thought.

It could blow forever and quiver and shiver and touch the page on one side, and touch the page on the other side but never, never, turn.

Big pretty windows.

Giant brush with colourful bristles! eep! Love it!

View of the cafe from the staircase landing. Preview! Haha.

sdfs

MishMash: (of Ballet, Signalhuset, random London sign)

So, since camera is choosing to be temperamental, I thought mayhaps you folks would be interested in some of the random things I've captured on my handphone.

Here goes:

Night at the Ballet--Pictures weren't allowed but... ah well. I am sneaky. nyehhehe.

We watched the Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Some of you might know of a very surprising development in my life. I have started to...run. Yes, voluntary exercise is what I am talking about, and

no there is nobody chasing behind me with a paddle.

The area around Signalhuset.

I was running the other day when I saw the cutest dog ever! It looked really happy to see me for some reason and kept trying to run towards me which I thought was sweet UNTIL, it ran with so much energy that it got CHOKED on its own collar and literally did a backflip due to the sheer force. I was smiling really widely at it when this happened too. And then it looked really embarrassed so I o.Oed and the smile slid off my

face before I looked away to save it from further humiliation. Yes, I am a heartbreaker, I know.

Haha. Amager. (Pronounced simply as "Ah-ma," don't ask me to explain because I can't. Such are the complexities of the Danish language.)

Windmill thingums on Amager! Makes sense because it is so damned windy!


One of the parks in the city, don't remember which.


Lastly, I was trudging uphill from King's Cross station in London all the way back to Angel Station to find Cheryl (Mind you this is starting from Euston because I took the bus in the wrong direction. Grrr.) when I saw this sign and snorted to myself and had to stop and take a picture. I apologize but I have the sense of humour of a 14 year old adolescent boy, as I've said before.


Ok, that's all folks!

A splendid weekend (Part 2)

I thought I should finish with the last splendid weekend before this one began.

It was the first sunday of the month so it was free to take the S-train. We decided to go up to Klampenborg, a little town on the outskirts of Copenhagen. I had actually been there before on the very pleasant day that I went there for dinner at Anne's house with her brother and parents. =) I had to pick up the bike from Islands Brygge and bike over to Norreport to meet with Rosalie and Becky.

It was a most delightful day! The weather was amazing and I took my new oversized sunnies out to play.

Horses! (I took the picture for you, Sam)

Family day! Ok the picture is too small so it's hard to see but there are 3 KIDS on that stroller.

Also, Denmark is so full of young parents, it's insane. All these gorgeous young dads teasing you with their Scandinavian good looks and obvious paternal instincts and looking so sweet with their kids but simultaneously crushing your dreams with aforementioned kids. K DID NOT JUST SAY THAT. AM KIDDING.

Entrance to Bakken, the oldest amusement park in the WORLD! No kidding.

It was the sweetest place! The rides were so small and cute and vintage and it was just such a happy place!

The streets.

GAHHHH!! Cutest poster ever!!! Do you not want to squeeze it to death??

Miniature Ferris Wheel! Too cute! I swear it was like...2 metres in height. I wonder if everything here was miniature because it is OLD or because it is mostly meant for little kids. Because if it is the former then it would mean that people all used to be hobbits.

Crocodile ride.

Hahaha so vintage, right! Did anyone watch Problem Child 2? This really reminds me of the amusement park scene, minus the projectile vomiting.
K I suppose this would be more likely to induce the projectile vomiting earlier mentioned.

I'll take you to the candy shop... I'll let you lick the lollipop.. (Because it's old school, like 50 cent. K, never mind.)

We stopped for some cake!

Charm School Graduates, Class of 2010

A bevy of beauties

It's supposed to be a Time Machine

I had decided at the start of the day that I was not going to spend any money and be frugal but alas, we stopped at the waffle stand. Even as my resolve melted away I thought to myself "It's OK! I will only buy the cheapest thing!" But erm... since we are using the metaphor of ice as resolve, let me just say it was a hot day and of course...I got the only 35 Kr thing on the menu. I am ashamed of myself. Belgium waffle with soft serve ice cream and drizzled with Grand Marnier!! I must say it took some of the shame away.

Wow. It is like I am in London. But I am not. hahahaha.

After that we left Bakken to go explore the reindeer park and try to spot some reindeer! We did not see any reindeer for a while but if you look at the picture closely you will see a little dot on the top of the hill in the distance. It is that small because it was that far away from any other path or group of people. It was... a lone man splayed out on the hill sleeping. HAHAHA. Maybe the funniness does not translate but it was a very odd sight.
If you look closely enough you will see 3 deer chasing each other. Truth be told I can't even spot them myself now, but I know they were in the picture.
And then we left the reindeer park to go walk along the beach!

Friends!

This made my heart ache so hard.

Here Rosalie and I indulged in some trigger happiness and took turns taking a bunch of pictures of each other. Hahaha.

I am being pensive in case you cannot tell.

And here you surely cannot tell because I am so small. Haha.

The beach turned out to be somewhat of a nudist beach?? HAHAHA. It was a strange experience. We were just strolling along happily when I was taken aback by what I thought was a naked man and had to do a double-take--which confirmed what I thought was true. Later on by the dock a naked Grandpa and Grandma took a dip in the sea (IT WAS VERY COLD MIND YOU) while a fully-clothed child sat by and waited for them. And then they came out of the sea, and each took the child by one hand and calmly walked back to their blanket. o.O It was very peculiar. My brain exploded a little bit.

After that we hopped back on the train and went to Frederikssund, an old viking town. It was a Sunday so everything was closed and it was actually kind of boring. It was still a quaint little town though.

We sat at the harbour for a bit and then went into Fotex to buy groceries. Hahaha! By this time I was famished and getting very grumpy. I didn't trust myself to be even decent company if I didn't get food so I bought a huge block of brie to snack on (which I promptly finished HALF of on the train ride. Yes, the shame.)

For you, Lulu!

After that we were all super tired so we decided to head back. I had to go to Norreport to pick up my bike before going to Anne's for dinner. Since I had a bit of time to kill, I decided to go grab a coffee at a nearby cafe, but that shall be covered in a post some time later. =)

After the coffee, I got on the bike and went to Osterbro to wait for her to come meet me before we walked over to her place. Her apartment's really nice and HYGGE! Heh. (Hygge means cosy in Danish.) She cooked dinner and after we ate we both got blankets and curled up to watch a Danish movie she'd gotten from her parents' place. It was called Drommen if I'm not wrong and it was really really good!

By the time the movie ended it was about 10.30pm and Anne walked me back to the station where my bike was parked and I went on a mini adventure--biking all the way back to Orestad from Osterbro AT NIGHT. I'm glad I did it because I don't think that is something I am going to be doing again anytime soon. I really liked biking around at night while I was still in the city even though going past some of the parks was a little bit unnerving since they were so dark, but once I got onto Amager, going down the stretch from Islands Brygge to Orestand was an absolutely harrowing experience. It was SO DARK and there were hardly any cars going by. I kept thinking that the pebbles the bike kicked up behind me was somebody RUNNING AFTER ME and looking to my right into the swamp next to me just made me paranoid about something coming out of there and grabbing and pulling me into the darkness. o.O The path was so straight and so long and stretched out forever. All I could do was focus on the light from the metro station in the distance but it never seemed to get closer. gahhh.

Anyhow, it was an AWESOME DAY. Action packed and very very full indeed! =) I tumbled happily into bed.

I later checked google maps to find that I'd biked about 10 km from Osterbro to Orestad. In about 35 minutes including the time spent in front of the traffic lights! That's not too bad right? =)