So since I was so bored with Ain back in Brunei and all, I decided to go visit my favourite museum in the UK: the Natural History Museum!
I thought it will be a bit of a problem since it's Friday and all, but the waiting time was thankfully short! Also, the man checking my bag at the entrance is Bruneian. Whee!
So I went into the museum and noticed they are running a paid exibition called "Sexual Nature"...interesting...
...oh hi ancient geological map of the UK! Isn't it pretty?
Walked past it and they're running a new exibit called the Cocoon focusing on insects and how classification and stuff takes place...so I decided to give it a look! I had to take a lift up to the 7th floor and the lift was made entirely of glass wtf. Just like how I imagined the glass evalator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be like! No, I haven't watch that film yet.
The curved wall on the left is the Cocoon! Yes, be mindfucked, they have a giant cocoon within a museum...
Natural History Museum introduced something they called NaturePlus card! Basically, you select contents you want to save and scan it into the NaturePlus card, and you can access the contents online in the comfort of your home. It's pretty nice if I must say so myself!
I don't know why they have this huge model of a mosquito in the Cocoon but meh, it looks cool.
Four glass panels with dried flowers! I didn't use flash because that will blind them out, but they're really pretty!
I came out of the Cocoon exibit shortly afterwards and decided it is a good idea to pay my way into "Sexual Nature". I got 50% off the ticket price for being a student, yay! On the nay side, now everyone knows an Earth Science student from Cardiff University had just paid her way into a weird exhibit...haha...
Gina's a nice name.
Anyways, I walked into the exibit and the first words I saw is "SEX" in big, big letters wtf. In red, and in some randomly supposed-to-be suductive cursive too! wtf. There's a random aquarium in there and I was fascinated by the fishes:
Ahem! Anyway, the exhibit was interesting.
Decided to take some photos of the museum but its awesomeness cannot just be snapped away like it's nothing. Oh well, better than nothing.
After this I went into my favourite part of the Musuem - the Minerals section! Rocks, rocks, ROCKS!! Hell yeah!
Also on the agenda is a visit to the Vault where the glowing diamonds and the colour-changing crystal are stored wtf.
Also stored there are these beauties:
A merged-together-mass of desert rose...
...minerals with kaledoscopic colours...
...and naturally-formed silver wires!
I think this is the first time in three years I posted so many photos in a blog post wtf.
I put almost all of the photos I took in, the complete set is here cos I'm too lazy haha. Uploading these and three videos plus writing annotation for them is exhausting enough okay!
Anyway, I'm still having mixed feeling about going back to Brunei...meh...
The curved wall on the left is the Cocoon! Yes, be mindfucked, they have a giant cocoon within a museum...
A merged-together-mass of desert rose...
...minerals with kaledoscopic colours...
...and naturally-formed silver wires!