But I’ve got rainbows planned for tomorrow

[austin_dern]

I spent the morning at a talk, held at Biopolis, a little education/industry enclave near Buona Vista MRT. The talk was in Theatrette 3, ``Creation'', in the Matrix building, 4th floor, which is the fifth floor up from the ground level. There's a floor 2 and a 2M. (The other theatrettes on the floor include ``Development'' and ``Breakthrough''.) The security guard said I had to take the escalators up, though the elevators run to that floor just fine. The escalators run ordinarily at low speed, which they triple when someone steps on, I think to amplify the fears of anyone with escalator phobias. There's a double-helix motif that runs through the building, including as the holder for signs giving vague directions to the talks.

The buildings in the Biopolis complex are named: Genome; Proteus; Matrix; Centros; Chromos; Nanos; and Helios. One of the things I love about Singapore is the lingering suspicion that I'm in an un-self-consciously cheery high-class science fiction setting, only with rock music instead of spotty theramin and aimlessly drifting French horn soundtracks. In the Nanos (The Hands of Fate) 7-Eleven (of course there's a 7-Eleven in the Biopolis complex) I got, with my snack, a free Hello Kitty: Thirty Years of Cute fridge magnet. This commemorates three decades of Hello Kitty and increases the Sanrio memorabilia collection the community seems eager to give me. The bag is marked ``Not for sale'' but has a UPC bar code on it, which the cashier didn't scan.

Trivia: The United States produced 3,000 bales of cotton in 1790, and 178,000 bales in 1810. Source: The Antebellum Period, James M Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo.

Currently Reading: Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time -- From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, Jo Ellen Barnett.

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[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

The buildings in the Biopolis complex are named: Genome; Proteus; Matrix; Centros; Chromos; Nanos; and Helios. One of the things I love about Singapore is the lingering suspicion that I'm in an un-self-consciously cheery high-class science fiction setting,

I somehow get the vibe of Epcot Center. Except applied to a whole city...

--Chiaroscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Mm ... yeah, there's a touch of that too. Here's a couple other names:

• Sijori Wondergolf
• Naga Court
• Aroozoo Park
• Casa Melwani
• Gulab

Aren't all of those appealing names?

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

Naga Court. That must be in the Mongoose Mall, and hold the Boa King, Cobra Wok, and the Smoothie and pretzel places. Come to think of it.. mongoose culture probably would be among the most likely to invent the pretzel as a foodstuff. Though it'd have ended up more in an ourobourous shape I bet.

Aroozoo. Ahhrooooozooooo.. that's a fun one to say.

--Chiaroscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

You know, you're right. They probably would have the pretzel; it just wouldn't be for the vegetarian mongoose.

A lot of the names around here are fun to say. Even the pure English words have typically a rhythm to them, like Cantonment Court or Marina Bay Fishing Paradise.