One of my wishes for many years has been to visit Singapore, the beautiful island nation with some of the world's best research and innovation. Plus it's a multicultural gem. After a recent interview of one of Singapore's innovation leaders for my Innovation Fatigue blog, my desire to go there tripled. So you can imagine I was thrilled this week to receive an invitation to speak there in October during their innovation week. Wow! I'm just small fry, but that's a pond I want to swim in for a couple days. Can't wait! Am trying to brush up my weak Mandarin skills. Will be staying close to China Town.

If you live in Singapore or have been there, I'm hoping for travel tips, suggested photo ops, and maybe even a little about the state of the Church there. Also how to eat cheaply. And if there are cool people you know that I should meet, let me know.

A science fiction novel I've been working on in rare spare time has a significant segment that occurs in Singapore, which further increases my excitement about going there.

I'm also intrigued that the name of one of Singapore's beautiful butterflies is the Great Mormon. Any of you know the history behind that? (Hmm, please don't tell me that's where Joseph Smith turned to plagiarize the name Mormon.) Naturally, the Great Mormon butterfly is--you guessed it--true blue. I'll overlook the fact that it is an insect.
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