Monday, 10 May 2021

Happy

 Happy that Tim is talking to me more these two days. He showed me his new game Death Stranding on the TV. It was nice.

Sunday, 9 May 2021

Museum Documentary

 Watching "This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist" on Netflix on a Sunday afternoon. Aunty Song Thai's memorial service was yesterday. Today is Mother's day. It is still COVID-19.

The documentary was on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The museum was built in 1800s, it was Gardner's life work. She decorated the place, and got blind children in to test the acoustics because she did not want people to see the place before it finished. The guards said it was a treat when they got called to work night shift at the museum. To look at the arts and linger in the rooms when they did their rounds. I thought hmm that is a great feeling. I never had enough time to look at everything at any museum I went to. Manchester's Museum of Arts, Museum of Science, Oxford's Museums and the London Museum. It is either I got bored when I went along and feel like I could use my time better somewhere else, or I was with someone else who was bored before I was. But the beauty and grandeur of museums more often than not fascinates me. Some of my friends laugh at me for my fascination with museums (visiting museums when we travel) and some for my lack of knowledge about arts and museums. So watching this documentary makes me feel like I was in a museum (at least in the very beginning). So I thought, hmm it would be a nice part-time job to work at a museum. I am attracted to the idea of knowing something well, even if it is just a small thing. And things at museums were usually knowledge important enough to be displayed. And I would have all the time at work to learn about this specific knowledge that this building is guarding. 

It is a good feeling.