Singapore Science Centre

Today was very interesting.  We went to the Singapore Science Centre, to see the climate change and water conservation exhibits.  BTW, their new logo looks awful.  They should stick to the old one, I liked it.

There was a short briefing before we started, and it was quite weird.  The woman who was giving the briefing had really, really odd pronunciation.  She pronounced "schist rock" as "cheese rock".  And said literally about 250 "Okay"s.  We counted.  I really had to try to stop laughing.

We went to climate change exhibit first, and there were quite a lot of interesting exhibits.  I like the animation for the ice cores exhibit, must make it a point to find out how it was done.  Also, I got the company name for the semivirtual-reality exhibits.  The energy saving home had a lot of interesting devices like the power aware cord which glows brighter and blinks faster as more power is used.  And the flower light, which blooms when less power is used.  (Above)

Wanted to see the Genome exhibit, but no time, so sad! :-(

I tried to find all these at the things at the gift shop; I had made a note to myself to buy them, but I could not find them.  How upsetting.

The water exhibit was quite interesting.  I liked the exhibit where they projected an earth mapped to a sphere.  Need to find out how that was done!

Lunch was a quick one, at a cafe at the back, had popcorn chicken and a ham and cheese sandwich. 

Went for the IMAX movie about the colorado river after that.  The movie was good.

After that went for the gift shop, where I bought a tube of touchable bubbles, blue topaz and 3 packets of freeze-dried ice cream.  Andrew says that the ice cream was very nice, raving about it!  It is nice by the way.

Took MRT to Eunos back, then bus 13.  Very fast.  Need to prepare for alternative energy presentation, but all in all nice day.  Good retail therapy! :-)