Time Travel

Today was either a day out to the beach or shopping but I picked shopping over going to the beach since there would be Waiheke Island to head down to this Thursday. Personally, the weather was a bit too windy to parade around the beach in sleeveless, shorts and flip flops. Slotted in a trip to the Auckland war memorial museum before shopping down at Newmarket.
A hilly way up to the museum. This was a relatively flat surface after going up a slope. What Auckland needs is severe terrain leveling…
Autumn.

One big difference between the museum here and the museum back home is that photography is allowed. As a result, I spent over two hours in the museum.
A gallery containing musical instruments from all over the world although mostly typical European classical musical instruments like violins, harpsichords, clarinets and etc. Practically everything was behind glass so hurrah for having a polarizer on my camera.
Looks rather like an Ikea furniture display section.
Then came the interesting part of the museum, the World War II gallery. They even had actual blood stained gas masks used back then. Literally everything back then during the war from letters to grenades. It left me wondering, how come we don’t have a war memorial museum?

One of the two actual Japanese warplanes used during the war. They had the plane lowered down from the top of the museum then built walls around the plane before restoring it using parts from other planes.
What Auckland city used to look like back then.
Lunch was chicken and vegetable stir fried udon at a nearby Japanese shop that cost me $11. Ironically, stationaries that I bought (two mechanical pencil refills and a packet of staples) cost me $17. There goes one meal of awesome Korean spicy flounder fish stew with leftover of $3.50. Back home in Malaysia, that amount of stationaries would probably cost only $2 or less.

Bees and flowers in some random person’s garden while I was on my way to do some leisure shopping.
Hence, the day ended relatively productively.