Things are getting better in Sin City. The Jewel at Changi is going to be developed as a destination for air travelers. Tourists around the world will fly here just to see the Jewel like seeing the Great Wall or the Pyramids. The rich will just fly to Changi to shop at a 6 star shopping paradise. On a cautionary note, just make sure it would not be run by rogue retailers.
As the most expensive city for the rich and famous, everything has to go up scale to pamper the super rich and share their appetite for the good stuff. Recently there was a report of a 6 star dog hotel with pipe in music, leather bed linings, fully aircon, room service and massages for the dogs’ needs on demand.
The latest is a 6 star columbarium in Sengkang West with all the high tech leading edge technical stuff for the dead to RIP. But this has met with a little resistance as the ‘would be residents’ nearby were up in arms against its location, too near to their 3 star HDB flats. Though they were claiming all kinds of reasons to protest, I think the real reason is the disparity in wealth when their lodgings are the ordinary run of the mill HDB flats while the columbarium will be fitted with the latest gadgetry and all the glittering stuff, laser beams and pipe in music.
This must be it. How can people be living in less comfortable quarters than the dead in their luxurious 6 star niche apartments? The inequality and wealth disparity are simply unacceptable.
Where else or what else will be upgraded next to 6 stars? I think Geylang will be a good candidate. All the red light joints can be redeveloped to be luxurious suites to pamper the rich, to amuse them and make entertainment an art or a new life style where the rich would patronize the place in their limousines. Let the rats go somewhere.
Chua Chin Leng AKA RedBean
*The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.sg/