Stalkers out there, now you can narrow my location down to within a few kilometers. For everyone else, the ROM is one of Canada's biggest and most extensive museums. They're also filthy rich.
[Must be all those 'special exhibits' they have.]So is Michael Lee-Chin, who is supposedly the richest guy in Canada, and according to my friend, drives a Ferrari and owns 4 iPads. We suspect he uses them for frisbee practice.
The favourite hobby of the rich is to get together with other rich people and spend their money on something so ridiculously over the top it drives the common man mad with confusion. That's apparently what the ROM and Michael Lee-Chin did. This is the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal:
[It's like a church giving birth to an alien spacecraft, no?]It boggles the mind what the architects were thinking. My guess is that they were playing with a bag of Doritos and too much vodka. Nevertheless, despite its obvious disharmony with the surrounding 100 year old architecture, I couldn't help but feel a modicum of admiration for the people who managed to make it stay up like that.
Inside, it serves as the lobby to the museum, so no, it isn't filled with candy/robots/strippers. It's just a very eye-catching landmark in an otherwise rather dull city. If this is what the future is like, I need to start drinking more.
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