I've been to the Journey of Faith exhibition at Asian Civilisation Museum recently.

For the ill-informed, it's an exhibition of Vatican artifacts, with pieces from Rome to China to India to Vietnam and even Singapore.

I've never been to any seriously arty-farty kinda exhibitions, much less to the actual places of culture and the arts.

So that small exhibition was enough to impress the pants off me.

I love the paintings and the sculptures the most.

Although the pieces of Vatican-related items were impressive - the tiara, the throne, the garment worn by the Pope himself, etc, all that gold reflecting the spotlights off - what really caught my eye were the items that look old and ARE old.

They speak of so much more history and character.

There's this amazing mosaic painting that I remember most clearly.

Think of it as a painting, a painting that was originally on the ceiling of St Peter's Basilica (I think it was St Peter's Basilica) and, due to some rebuilding, they actually had to remove the mosaic off the ceiling, and whilst they were doing that, they used paper and some substance to go over the mosaic to create a "copy" of the mosaic itself, and thereafter pieced all the tiny pieces of paper together to form a mosaic of a mosaic.

Cool, ain't it?

It doesn't look that impressive compared to all the glorious paintings in their vibrant, vivid colours, but it's an interesting piece.

And you learn.

This spurs me on to start saving some serious money to visit ROME, GREECE, TURKEY, SPAIN, SOUTH AFRICA, and all those places one must go to at least once in their lifetime or it's considered one huge abominable irreversible sin.

First stop: Vietnam in Dec.

START SAVING MONEY.