A Day After The Leap Day

Darling and I went to the National Museum today to see the Greek Masterpieces from Louvre. I loved it! All the masterpieces were great, specially flown in from France I think, but my personal favourite is non other than Venus herself, the symbol of beauty and love.

This particular sculpture of Venus holds an apple in her left hand. And each of their actions carry a specific meaning.

There was a time when Athena, Venus (also known as Aphrodite) and somebody's wife (I forgot who), were fighting for who was the fairest of them all and approached Zues to answer.

Zues, knowing that he shouldn't meddle with women's affairs (wise move!), directed them to Paris! This is the Orlando Bloom from the movie of Troy if you all remember. Yes, the one begging on Brad Pitt's feet. Zues told Paris to decide and then give the apple to one whom he thinks is the fairest of them all. The sombody's wife promised Paris something else (which I really can't rmb), Athena promised Paris that he would win in all warfares and will make him the emperor of Asia Minor, and Venus, promised him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.

Paris chose the love of the most beautiful woman and hence gave the apple to Venus. And this brought about Helen of Troy to Paris later on. (Should he cose Athena, he would not be begging on Brad Pitt's feet)

This is Ares, who had an affair with someone I think.

This is Athena, the goddess of warfare.

This carries a romantic story of a man (on the right) who lost his newly married wife (centre) to Death and has tried to retrieve her from the Death itself. The man on the left is a messenger from the Death, trying to take her back.

HO ho ho. This is quite a shock. This is a picture depicting Zues's love/like/admiration to a young man. Zues is holding a rooster usually given by a person to show his love to a younger one. *grins*

This is the young man thatZues liked/loved/admired. And the fact that he is on the other side of the vase, and the fact that it is a vase, it depicts the 2 of them going in endless circles. Yikes.

Thereafter, we went prawn fishing!!!

The eager prawn man in the first half an hour, after having caught 3 prawns!!!

This is how we keep our caught prawns alive.

The Prawn Man's wrestling feat with the caught prawn.

The Prawn Man attempting to unhook the caught prawn.

Failed. Thus the tutorial lesson from the man beside.


The Prawn Man one hour into catching nothing and feeding.

Feeding means the prawn took the bait without getting hooked. Yes, the prawnS outsmarted us. We went to all sorts of measures including promising the prawns bulks of TREASURE should it choose out bait! *grins*

After 3 hours, we caught pathetically THREE prawns while people went home with baskets.

The Prawn Man grilling his catch of the day.

The Prawn Man with his grilled and shelled prawn!

*laughs*

We just thank god we weren't born to be fishermen!