Today was a great day indeed. Firstly, i woke up at 7:30am which surprised me. Well kind of anyway because i was in dreamland at 8:30pm the night before! Hah! Cooked a BIG breakfast for housies and Jeffrey which was not an event particularly frequent in my life. :) You know when there are days where you feel to just hang around and do nothing much. Well today's the day for me! I decided to go "somewhere" to take some shots. To keep the long story short, i was "drawn" to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). And the great thing was, everything was FREE. And i mean F-R-E-E! It was a collaboration between NGV, Federation Square, Melbourne Museum and Vic Arts Centre. Indeed my knowledge of the arts has increased tremendously.
The main artist that i was interested in was Albert Durer. Basically he carved pictures into wood or steel. Indeed a form of art that invovles a lot of hard work. I myself was intrigued at the collection they had at the NGV. A good 3 hours was spent there just admiring the beauty of pieces that were dated back to 600 years ago! 
And then off to the Vic Art Centre. I was esctatic that there was this ballet rehersal that i could attend. Well that was really great after 3 hours of walking around... Just seating down and relaxing and seeing all the foot work of dancers was a treat. I then proceeded to a backstage tour of the Vic Arts Centre. I saw the dressing room that Michael Buble used!! :) Then i went for this jazz concert by this melbourne jazz coinesseur. The Fairfax Hall wasn't full at all. In fact there were more empty chairs then there were people. But the main point of this open day was that everyone got to have a glimpse of the "behing-the-scenes" and all the happenings in putting up a show. Halfway through the concert, you'll see the musician putting up their hands signalling the sound people to increase their fall back or something. That is totally unheard of in a "paid" concert!
That was Vic Art Centre then i proceeded to Ken Duncan's gallery... I admire him that he's never ashamed of the gospel. He'll be in Melbourne for a book signing session this coming Saturday and i can't wait. Just need to see him in person. The lady at his store says that he's jsut an ordinary "bloke". In fast he's pretty daggy! Hah! Anwyay, i got myself a Ken Duncan photography book which obviously i'm gonna get him to autograph.
That's my day! All in all i believed God planned everything. I believe that he was showing me that i could enjoy myself and yet NOT spend any money!
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