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I AM writing to express my disappointment at the current state of the F& B venue at the Singapore Botanic Gardens near the Tanglin Gate.
Originally, it was the Taman Serasi Food Court, successor of the Taman Serasi Hawker Centre that was demolished due to the park’s expansion.
The hawker centre was a treasured oasis for decades, offering delicious and inexpensive local fare in the prime district, patronised by park visitors and those who live or work nearby.
Its loss was only partially offset by the food court which opened without some of the old favourites. Nonetheless, it continued to serve affordable meals with ample patronage.
It was most unfortunate that in 2009, the lease was awarded to a new operator, World Food Group, which implemented a poorly considered concept of the F& B outlet.
The poorly illuminated interior, compounded by inadequate signs, made it challenging for customers to know what was available. The constant change of menu indicated inexperienced vendors determining by trial and error what to offer.
When I gave my feedback last January, the Gardens acknowledged the issues and asked for patience with the new operator’s teething problems.
As a regular visitor, I observed that the outlet continued to flounder with half-hearted futile attempts to attract customers.
Before the end of the year, the outlet ceased operations and World Food Group was in liquidation.
It has been six months and an empty shell stands where what was once a popular spot with park visitors, nearby residents and workers.
I hope when they select a new operator, they will not opt for a flashy “avant garde” “lifestyle concept” over previous business models that might seem unexciting, but were doing well in meeting actual customer needs.
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Bring back spirit of
the old Taman Serasi
Letter from Chen Junyi
The hawker centre was a treasured oasis for decades, offering delicious and inexpensive local fare in the prime district, patronised by park visitors and those who live or work nearby.
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1972 AUSTIN Mini Sedan
pharoah88 ( Date: 11-May-2011 10:47) Posted:
| In 1972, brand new Morris Mini car for S$2,400. |
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In 1972, brand new Morris Mini car for S$2,400.
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" Prices today seem much higher than what our parents paid in the 1970s and 1980s!"
HDB started selling flats since 1965.
S$6,500 for 3-Room flat in Kallang.
Later, S$12,000 for 4-Room flat in Marine Parade.
niuyear ( Date: 11-May-2011 10:35) Posted:
Anyone wish not to OWN any HDB, instead, goverenment give you cheap rent every month?
How many votes Yes -
How many votes NO -
pharoah88 ( Date: 11-May-2011 10:30) Posted:
http://www.mnd.gov.sg/reflections_housing/article5.htm
Pricing flats according to their value
TODAY, 29 October 2010, pB6 & pB7
MAH BOW TAN, Minister for National Development
The prices of HDB flats are always a subject of much public interest. In my conversations with young couples, a common question I hear is: " Why are HDB flats so expensive? Prices today seem much higher than what our parents paid in the 1970s and 1980s!"
Asian Financial Crisis 1997
World Financial Tsunami 2007
Singapore Financial CRASH 2017 ? ? ? ?
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It’s not that we don’t
remember
Thankful, but we want to explore new options
Letter from Danny G Tan
WE R E M E M B E R
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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
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http://www.mnd.gov.sg/reflections_housing/article5.htm
Pricing flats according to their value
TODAY, 29 October 2010, pB6 & pB7
MAH BOW TAN, Minister for National Development
The prices of HDB flats are always a subject of much public interest. In my conversations with young couples, a common question I hear is: " Why are HDB flats so expensive? Prices today seem much higher than what our parents paid in the 1970s and 1980s!"
Asian Financial Crisis 1997
World Financial Tsunami 2007
Singapore Financial CRASH 2017 ? ? ? ?
niuyear ( Date: 11-May-2011 10:16) Posted:
This will include 'NON OWNERSHIP OF HDB FLAT'
niuyear ( Date: 11-May-2011 10:15) Posted:
Are w e all serious enough to want to go back 1980s way of life?????
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The indefatigable Kevin Rudd
Mr Rudd has ruled out a comeback as Prime Minister (‘that is not a faint prospect of possibility’ he said, when asked) and he denied any tensions with Ms Gillard, telling Today in a recent interview ‘the Prime Minister and I have a very positive and a very constructive relationship’.
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Singaporeans gave
" FREE HAND" SUPPORTS
for 52 years
in FULL TRUST.
Every thing was appreciated from 1965 till 1980
Conditions started to deteriorate from 1981 till today
The SHAKE UP ? ? ? ?
R E S E T the SYSTEM R E C O V E R Y to 1980
WHEN every Singaporeans was V E R Y H A P P Y
ALL IMPLEMENTATIONS must be
WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN
Only WINNERS for ALL SINGAPOREANS
nO LOSERS
nOt a ZERO SUM WIN-LOSE GAME
ROOT CAUSE ? ? ? ?
WINNER TAKES ALL
When the GENERAL takes ALL, he fights the WAR ALONE withOUt the sOldiers.
because nO sOldier wOUld want tO fight a WAR fOr a GENERAL whO takes ALL ? ? ? ?
niuyear ( Date: 11-May-2011 09:54) Posted:
People conveniently blame the system and the government when things dont go their way.
So, what kind of " shake up" should be given to these people?
niuyear ( Date: 11-May-2011 09:48) Posted:
Are singapoerans willing to give PM a chance to move his cursor into everyone's heart?
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ZHI ZI says
" LEARN AND APPLY"
GY learnt from Harvard Professor
bUt did nOt A P P L Y
becaUse he dId nOt belIeve his LEARNING ? ? ? ?
NEVER LEARN withOUT BELIEF and FAITH
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Minister George Yeo on the need to ‘shake the box’
When I was in the Harvard Business School, there was a course which I took called ‘Control’, which is how does an organisation achieve its objectives through feedback, audits, various control methods. And we studied all manner of feedback mechanisms, audits, checks, counter-checks and so on.
In the end, the professor gave a summation which till today, I remember, which is that from time to time, it’s important to shake the box.
Because whatever system you set up, after a while, it becomes so predictable that it doesn’t capture all the feedback that it needs to have.
So a certain shaking of the box is required from time to time, and this is such a time.
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bIggest prOblem REVEALED
There are others who
share my view too ...
George Yeo: Many PAP members now feel the same about the need for change
Teo Xuanwei
xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg
EX-Minister George Yeo Explaining Why The Prime minister apologised
(PM Lee) came down to Kaki Bukit and after the walk about we sat down for coffee and we were reviewing the progress of the campaign so far.
So I told him that there was deep resentment which had to be acknowledged, not just cursorially, but in detail. And it was not just a question about policies, it was not just the minds we were addressing, we have to address the hearts too.
He listened very hard, he paused, and later he told me that it was because of that conversation that he took that position at Boat Quay.
So I’m a voice, sometimes it’s in the minority, sometimes it’s part of the majority.
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Wednesday: 11 May 2011
Channel News Asia Morning &
Channel 8 Good Morning Singapore
HE is " A FREE SPIRIT"
On whether he will stand for the Presidency, Mr Yeo says he's flattered but doesn't think his temperament is suited for the job.
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http://billionaires.forbes.com/quote/0fnacgO1aH1ui?q=billionaire+OR+billionaires+OR+billionaire's
Close quote in context »
Party leaders might now ask, " Has Lee Kuan Yew become something approaching a problem for the government?" said Garry Rodan, a fellow at the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. Full Article at Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576310774027709228.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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CONTRASTING ECONOMIC GROWTH MODELS
1965 ~ 1980
ECONOMY GREW by EFFICACY and EFFICIENCY and PRODUCTIVITY and galloping INCOME and surging SAVINGS and rewarding BANK INTEREST RATES
1981 ~#~ 2010
ECONOMY GREW by RISING COSTS and SOARING PRICES and TERRORISING INFLATION and MULTIPLE TAXATION
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治 根 不 治 本 ？
应 该 叫 治 标 不 治 本 。
意 思 是 病 的 症 状 治 好 了 ， 但 致 病 的 根 源 没 清 除 。
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http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?p=55397851
May 1, 2011
Solution to rising costs is to grow economy: MM
Only PAP can form govt capable of doing so, he says
By Chua Mui Hoong, Deputy Review Editor
MM Lee visited the PAP Radin Mas branch yesterday to rally the troops helping incumbent candidate Sam Tan Chin Siong (right, behind Mr Lee). Radin Mas is a new single member constituency carved out of Tanjong Pagar GRC, where Mr Lee and his team members have been returned unopposed. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has an answer for voters who ask what else the Government can do to ease their pressure over the rising cost of living: It can give out more.
But to do so, it needs to grow the economic pie. And this requires a capable government to run the country - which means the People's Action Party (PAP), as no opposition party is able to assemble a team close to the quality of the PAP's.
He made these points at a press conference yesterday evening, after visiting the PAP's Radin Mas branch to rally the troops helping incumbent candidate Sam Tan.
Radin Mas is a new single-member constituency carved out of Mr Lee's Tanjong Pagar GRC, which is the only uncontested constituency this election.
Mr Lee acknowledged voters' concerns over high living costs. But these are due to 'higher food prices elsewhere, as a result of higher oil prices, which is reflected in transportation costs for cars, buses and electricity'.
He disagreed that PAP policies have raised costs or widened the income gap. Instead, its policies have helped Singapore ride on a 'rising tide' - but not all boats have risen equally.
For those concerned about falling behind, the Government has Workfare for the low-income. For the majority, it has shared the benefits of growth by giving back rebates and dividends worth up to 'a few thousand dollars per person' in the U-Save and Grow and Share package.
'It's only possible because we have a capable government, and most importantly, we have a capable finance minister and MAS managing director,' he said, referring to Jurong GRC candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Tampines GRC candidate Heng Swee Keat, who was managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) before standing for election.
'After the financial crisis, last year we grew 14.4 per cent, so we have the cash to give this Growth and Share package. Without that, there will be very little to share,' he said.
Singapore was able to grow the economy, so it did not have to raid the reserves which have taken decades to build up.
'The trouble is, young Singaporeans don't know the past,' he said. 'They do not know how vulnerable currencies are if they don't have solid reserves and a stable, strong government.'
He lamented that the younger generation does not understand the need for an exceptional team to lead Singapore.
'It is a footloose generation that has not experienced the past and believes that Singapore is now an aeroplane that is flying safely and can go on autopilot and anybody can take over,' he said.
'But I don't happen to believe that. I think we'll run into all kinds of bad weather and you need capable people in charge.'
He warned voters that the opposition seeks not only to be a check on the PAP Government, but also to trip it up and eventually take over to form the Government.
The Workers' Party's ambition, he said, is not just to win one GRC. 'Let's have no hypocrisy about this: Every political party sets out to win, and win a majority - and they're setting out from a single constituency to a GRC, and then to expand to more GRCs, and to take over.'
The trouble is that they lack the people who could do the job, he said.
'Low Thia Khiang, he wants to be the co-driver. What does he really want? He wants to take over.
'So I'll ask him, who's going to be his finance minister, his defence minister, his minister for trade and industry, his foreign minister? And who is his prime minister?
'It's up to you to decide whether they're capable of running Singapore.'
He dismissed the suggestion that an elected opposition is needed to maintain checks and balances on the PAP.
'Let me put it simply: Do you want a First World government? What is important? A First World government, or a Second World government with a First World opposition?
'And I don't think we've got a First World opposition yet. And from 1966 to 1981, there was not one opposition MP and the PAP remained incorrupt, completely dedicated to the job, and made great progress and brought Singapore up to a higher level.
'That is our record. You look at the growth rates from 1965 to 1981. That's my answer. The character of the PAP has not changed. It's incorrupt, it's efficient, it's all-inclusive.'
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Updated: 10/05/2011
NSP approached by SDP's Tan Jee Say to discuss possible merger of parties
®Copyright MediaCorp
The National Solidarity Party's Secretary General, Goh Meng Seng says he has been approached by the Singapore Democratic Party's Tan Jee Say to discuss a possible merger between the two parties. Mr Goh says the idea was put forth after the elections, and he will raise it for discussion at his party's next Central Executive Committee meeting on Thursday. He expects the discussion to take some time. When contacted, Mr Tan acknowledged the casual conversation took place over breakfast on a morning after the elections. Mr Tan, was one of 11 candidates fielded by the SDP in this year's elections. The former Principal Private Secretary to then Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, contested in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC. The team garnered almost 40 per cent of valid votes in the GRC. Mr Goh's NSP fielded the most number of candidates in the election, but did not win any seats in Parliament.
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G O D says
OPEN 公 开
JUST 公 平
FAIR 公 正
TRANSPARENT 透 明
Laulan ( Date: 10-May-2011 20:12) Posted:
| Fate has played the game all along in BG Yeo's loss in the contest. The supreme hand has decided that our politics must be seem by the whole world as fair and democratic, else we might not be able to stand out in the world stage. If we do not have at least some constituencies run by opposition, we would surely be suspected of unfairness. As luck would have it, 2 constituencies were won by oppositions. Looks like planned, but I think it is co-incidental, else the heavy weights like Mr. Yeo and his team would not have lost, right? I believe God is always looking after us. |
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By Channel NewsAsia, Updated: 10/05/2011
Aljunied GRC’s PAP team thanks residents for their support
Aljunied GRC’s PAP team thanks residents for their support
SINGAPORE : The five—member People’s Action Party (PAP) team that contested the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in the General Election went around the constituency thanking their supporters on Tuesday evening.
Former chairman of Aljunied Town Council, Cynthia Phua, said the Town Council is now taking stock of the many on—going contracts.
She said her priority is to ensure there is a proper handover under the guidelines of the Ministry of National Development.
As to whether the winning Workers’ Party (WP) team can use the current Town Council premises, Madam Phua said this matter is between the WP and the HDB.
The PAP team said it will continue to serve the grassroots organisations in Aljunied.
Zainul Abidin Rasheed said: " I will continue to be advisor of the grassroots organisation, until such time that PM decides otherwise. If not, I will continue to put the team together.
" My heart is still with the people of Bedok Reservoir and Aljunied GRC. I will certainly want to continue to serve them, but I have to look at the other options available first and what I need to do."
— CNA/ms
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