Two And A Half World Bordering On Third

Coming Too Late And Relieving Only A Part Of The Problem Areas?
Now I applaud the fact that the KPE, all 9km of it and at an astronomical price tag of of 1.7billion Singapore dollars at every Singapore citizen's expense, and touted as SEA's longest underground tunnel, is indeed an ingenious piece of nifty traffic network that will purportedly free up surface roads and spaces for alternative uses.

It had even moved a river, according to its star billing.

But just like the underground tunnel built near a traffic chokehold along Nicoll Highway, the question remains if even underground tunnels, conceived so late into our land and traffic management strategies, are gonna help alleviate traffic any further or better.

It will perhaps ameliorate the NorthEast corridor traffic conditions but in the whole islet traffic management scheme of things, will this just lead to more bottlenecks in other parts?

In land scarce Singapore, building more underground tunnels to supplement the existing surface road networks just doesn't seem to square with overall good traffic planning.

That kinda money spent seems to have more pressing and urgent alternate uses.

Would other alternatives like maybe building a beltway for a highway that loops all round our 700sqkm natural plus reclaimed land islet, planned right from the outset have been truly traffic relieving instead?

MLM Is Now Available At A Coffee Shop Near You
That is how far reaching and deeply penetrating the beauty and healthcare MLM network has gotten.

While speaking with a lady stall holder at a Ang Mo Kio coffee shop while staying at Andy's, she was trying to sell moi a spa-based bath liquid which presumably has health-giving benefits. She even supported her claim with testimonies from her very own mother who has some skin infection cleaned off her.

You just don't seem to be able to strike up anything meaningful with anyone these days without someone trying to fleece you or sell you something.

God help us all!

FleeceDom
Food And Beverage
For SGD3, it is just plain fried rice. A dollar more, the same plate of fried rice but with sambal. There are no real ingredients here save for minuscle shreds of eggs, peas and carrots and god knows what else. For the same amount, I could have gotten chicken cutlet and a sunny side-up whole egg elsewhere.

Public Housing
200K gets you an old run down flat in a 20 or 30 year old estate and it is only 60 to 70 odd square metre of living space. Sometimes this goes up to 250K in some other estates, the central areas.

Even if it has been exteriorly upgraded, interiorly you will have to spend a fortune redoing it.

Massage
Never a full body and dick massage and with extras worked in, a pricey couple of hundred. The masseurs think you only have sex on your mind while people like us want a good rub down first before everything else.

Pay and pay but do you get the kinda expected quality?

And The Oscar Goes To - Singapore!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!
After watching all those gorgeous babes and hunks on "Hey Gorgeous" and the endless stream of Chinese talkshow programs on TV, a stream of beauty people no less, I have come to the conclusion that Singapore has indeed a niche industry for itself that doesn't seem to have taken off as much as the Korean's.

A film, beauty pageant, pop-music or hunks industry that revolves around slutting, whoring, camming, more whoring, fashioning, acting and dramaing.

It would be such a great pity if we don't clinch awards for supporting or even lead roles in ACTING and DRAMAING on the INTERNATIONAL arena.

That is really what we do BEST!

In fact acting and drama skills seem to perpetuate every sphere of our lives from the politicking office we work in all the way up to the very top.

And that explains why we won't have very much else here.

They All Do Seem To Be Winners
The architectural and conceptual designs for our upcoming Sports Hub do seem to be a vast improvement over what we had seen for our integrated resorts. Don't you agree?

Now it is just the question of which will be the winning design that will put us on the sporting, lifestyle and entertainment world map.

If I were on the panel, I probably wouldn't be able to decide.