The DUN and the Blue Moon

It was the 31^st of August, the National Day of Malaysia. I was expecting that there would be fireworks at the Kuching Waterfront but the blue moon proved me wrong. Therefore, I settled for photographing the DUN building again, because it seldom got fully lit up.

Being the only subject to photograph and the sky was getting darker and uninteresting, I almost wanted to start packing up and go home after taking this shot.

This was the time when the clouds started to give way to the blue moon. So, I stopped packing up and started to make the blue moon being part of my picture.

As the next blue moon won't appear until July 2015, I took a closeup moon face to commemorate this rare occasion.

That day was also the 15^th day of the seventh month on the lunar calender, which was the 'Hungry Ghost Festival.' I was lucky to not notice any of them, but I saw many hungry people at the waterfront gobbling up Sarawak Keropok Lekor and hamburgers.

British Museum: Ancient Egypt

The British Museum has a wide collection of the ancient Egypt artifacts and the exhibits span across a few rooms. The first thing that comes to one's mind when ancient Egypt is mentioned would definitely be mummies. Therefore, coffins and mummies were the things that I first saw at the exhibition rooms. The mummification itself is a big area of research for the curators.

There is even a mummy of a cat dated back to the 1^st century. Cats were highly regarded in ancient Egypt and sometimes they were even divinised.

Other than mummies, there are many other artifacts on display, including this ivory figure of a woman with incised features dated back to 4,000 BC. I reckon that Pablo Picasso must have seen this and translated it to his paintings.

Most of the other exhibits are murals, statues and figurines. All of them are very colourful. The Egyptians were already good in utilising colouring materials in the ancient time.

Before I left, I took this picture of the most intricately decorated coffin amongst all the exhibits. It must had been the coffin of an important person in ancient Egypt.