Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Interesting Introduction
The Singapore Tourism Board spent 40million worth of Singapore dollars, just to give Orchard Road a 'plastic surgery'. Orchard Road has long since been one of Singapore's tourist attractions, being known as a shopping paradise. However, after comments of 40million having a lot of zeros and many complaints from local citizens, I believe that the 40million dollars is not well spent at all. The STB's efforts to decorate up Orchard Road are in vain. 40million is a large sum of money, and it can go to better use to the Old Folks Home, the Child Care Centers or 80million roti-pratas. Thats enough to feed all the people in Singapore who cannot afford a meal for say, few months at least. People think the amount spent on this project is around one million, rather than 40 times of what they thought. This shows how inefficent the STB spend the money, not to mention in the times of the global economic recession.
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40 million dollars = 80 million rotiprata, nice equation.
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