You think it was the chemicals?
Palma Hall, UP Diliman, 2009. Or is it Melchor Hall. Did you know the two buildings are mirror images?
Last Thursday at dinner Ren mentioned that the Chemistry Pavilion at UP Diliman had burned down the previous night.
“No!” I cried. I used to hang out at the Chem Pav, at the toxic vermin-infested laboratory of Din and Mr Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at NYU (Oy, Michael). Or as I thought of it, Arrakis with smaller sandworms. (Human genomics: building the Kwisatz Haderach.)
“Yes,” Din replied to my text, “What a way to start Chem’s 100th anniversary this year! Only the second floor of Pavilion 2 was hit. Besides, the new building has already been built. My friends who are faculty there actually woke me up last night just to tell me.”
And so Din was woken up on two consecutive nights with the same news.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
June 17th, 2010 at 18:43
this is AS (Palma Hall). I know because of the billboard at the left side. and because i’ve walked through the Beta Way hundreds of times from Eng’g to AS.
so what caused the chem pav fire?
June 17th, 2010 at 19:55
i googled your friend THE Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at NYU. impressive.
i guess we will all get to that time when we’re at the peak of our careers and we can say, oh i knew him when he was still a first year resident slave?
but did you ever imagine that you would get this big (big in the literary world!)? and that your friends would be these international hotshots?
i know, i know. this comment WILL be deleted. (under rule 1. and also rule 11 if you feel like it).
June 17th, 2010 at 21:59
Naah, we consider Dorothy a failure because he was going to be a muckraking international journalist, and I’m a failure because I haven’t written any real books (i.e. long-form material written from beginning to end to which I actually gave serious thought). Din turned out to be normal, which is the freakiest thing of all.