Innumerabilis

It seems a bit of a pity that while NUS has a couple of museums within its Kent Ridge campus, I had never been to any of them. So when I took some science GEMs which have their tutorials in the science bloc, I thought it well to take a peek into the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research which was at Block S6, level 3.

The first impression was, what is a museum of such (relative) renown doing, stuffed into part of a storey of an old NUS science building? Surely it deserves its own building at the very least, what with it having such a long and illustrious history.

Though I went at lunch time, it was deserted. Apart from the staff who were in the small office, there was no other person there. Not a single visitor. Zilch. Such is its fate.

It has quite a lot of samples on display, but they look pretty old and faded. Perhaps only a naturalist would be interested, but I’m glad I went anyway. How many Singaporeans, or even NUS students, can say that they’ve been to the Raffles Museum?

Some pics I took:

“Pineapple, pineapple, where do you grow? Up in a tree or down so low?” – that’s a song since kindergarten that’s stuck in my head ever since. When I saw this petite pineapple growing in my front yard, I immediately thought of the song. Well, as they say, GPGT (Got picture got talk, i.e pictorial proof)

Singapore is known for being squeaky-clean – and it should be, seeing the astronomical amount that town councils spend on cleaning services – so it is a bit of a surprise to see some grafitti here. I thought the cycling stick figure looked pretty cute, and there was the Mary Poppins reference too.

The grafitti artist(e) misspelled it, though. It should be “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. Yes, I can recall the word’s exact spelling from memory. How sad is that? >_>

Pas mal, but by the time I post this it is probably gone. That’s efficient Singapore for you.