Minister's bungalow vs HDB flat: which feels 'overcrowded'?

• mistyblue

  1 Mar 07, 15:38

  
  at 6.5 million, I think there is not enough MRT tracks for us to commit sucide.
  
  
• weiqimun

  1 Mar 07, 15:47

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  ahahahahahaha!!
  
  damn.. you win the funniest joke ever!
  
  

  i m glad i brighten your otherwise gloomy day....
• spinsugar

  1 Mar 07, 15:53

  Originally posted by blueheeler:
  S’pore’s National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan recently talked about S’pore’s population going up from the current 4.5m to 6.5m in the future. Mah said [b]Singapore will not be “bursting at the seams” when that happens.
  
  Logic at work here: SÂ’pore has 690km2 of land. Divide that up with 6,500,000 people, 9500 people per square kilometer. Cosy enough for you?
  
  But I suppose if you are living in a huge bungalow shared by 4-5 people, you won't really feel the 'crush', would you?
  
  Please Minister Mah, please don't patronise me! I live in a small apartment shared by quite a few others, and I know what 'crowded' means. Don't tell me that S'pore won't burst at the seams unless you come live with me. Oh...please don't take that as a serious invitation.....[/b]

  
  If you ever do get a direct response to that, it will be in the form of Minister Mah (with entourage of 20 bodyguards) having a whole train carriage vacated during peak hour (leaving many workers having to take next train), cruising in it for several stops before stepping out to declare that "I now have 1st hand experience of public transport, fear not Singaporeans, we will not be “bursting at the seams” "
• maurizio13

  1 Mar 07, 16:14

  Originally posted by spinsugar:
  
  
  [b]
  If you ever do get a direct response to that, it will be in the form of Minister Mah (with entourage of 20 bodyguards) having a whole train carriage vacated during peak hour (leaving many workers having to take next train), cruising in it for several stops before stepping out to declare that "I now have 1st hand experience of public transport, fear not Singaporeans, we will not be “bursting at the seams” " [/b]

  Hahaha................
  
  ^5
• dragg

  1 Mar 07, 16:34

  Originally posted by CoolMyth:

  To them, they only know things like attracting foreign talent and investments, to fatten their pay packets.
  
  I doubt they know the sufferings of the people.

  there is a difference between not knowing and not doing anything about it.
  
  
• dragg

  1 Mar 07, 16:37

  Originally posted by mistyblue:

  at 6.5 million, I think there is not enough MRT tracks for us to commit sucide.
  
  

  all ten jump together. the lucky one dies.
  
  
• googoomuck

  1 Mar 07, 19:08

  How about the problem of feeding the 6.5 million ppl if the world run short of food?
  
  Oh, I have an idea. Eat the pygmies for breakfast!
  
  A Pygmy is a member of any human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 in. (150 cm) in average height
  In a more general sense, pygmy can refer to any human of unusually small size.
  
  BTW, anyone know how tall Mah is? I think he qualifies.
  
  
• the Bear

  1 Mar 07, 19:59

  cannot lah.. he's part of the Fellowship of the Lightning Ring... check his feet to see if they are furry
  
  

  Originally posted by googoomuck:

  How about the problem of feeding the 6.5 million ppl if the world run short of food?
  
  Oh, I have an idea. Eat the pygmies for breakfast!
  
  A Pygmy is a member of any human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 in. (150 cm) in average height
  In a more general sense, pygmy can refer to any human of unusually small size.
  
  BTW, anyone know how tall Mah is? I think he qualifies.
  
  

• Ponders

  1 Mar 07, 20:11

  Once Singapore population hits 6.5 million...
  
  next PAP's carrot is HDB flat upgrade. Not block upgrade.
  
  They will make your 4 room HDB to 8 room.
  
  Then ppl vote for them
  
  Soon after they win the election, they make new laws saying that of the 8 rooms. 4 must be rented to FT that made Singapore hite 6.5 million.
  
  Then few months later they say Singapore will aim to attract up to 9million people. Won't be bursting at the seams.
  
  Just hope ppl don't flush the toilet all at the same time.... water shortage + flood.
• raymond_sianz

  1 Mar 07, 20:36

  Aiya. Ppl short already so sad le. Don't make ppl depress somemore. You think minister really think for the good of the citizen? if he is so nice he won't spend 300k on some stupid campaign to try to find a name for marina bay and in the end still use back marina bay. Some ppl get retarded when they get all. Do you laugh at funny retardedness?
• I-like-flings(m)

  1 Mar 07, 21:25

  Originally posted by blueheeler:

  Please Minister Mah, please don't patronise me! I live in a small apartment shared by quite a few others, and I know what 'crowded' means. Don't tell me that S'pore won't burst at the seams unless you come live with me. Oh...please don't take that as a serious invitation.....

  try living in hk and u will know what is call crowded.... so he is right that sg will not be too crowded lah
  
  

  Originally posted by carrotsoup:

  6.5million? Peak hour, where do we stand in MRT?

  try the JR line in tokyo during peak hr.. and u will know where to stand lah.. very shiok one.. all the gals squeezing u...
  
  but of coz....try looking at the living standard in sg and the salaries our MP is getting..... no way to compare with those 2 countries too...
  
  conclusion... it's possible.. but PAP suckz!!!!!
• charlize

  1 Mar 07, 21:53

  Damn.
  
  If all 6.5 million people were to jump up and down at the same time on this little island called Singapore, will the whole island sink by an inch or two?
  
  
• carrotsoup

  1 Mar 07, 21:55

  yah, i know the feeling, i tried the bugis line, all the bangalah squeezing me. double woohoo.....
• Meia Gisborn

  1 Mar 07, 22:05

  Originally posted by carrotsoup:

  yah, i know the feeling, i tried the bugis line, all the bangalah squeezing me. double woohoo.....

  You mean like this?
  
  
  
  
• blueheeler

  1 Mar 07, 22:38

  i'm sure our Minsiters will also say that with 6.5m people, our roads will still not be congested...
  
  that's because everytime he gets driven in his chauffered car, traffic police clears the road for him, and stop the traffic some more..... Driving down the highway at 830am on Monday morning with not a car in sight...how nice......i want to be minister also.....
  
• walesa

  1 Mar 07, 23:05

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Damn.
  
  If all 6.5 million people were to jump up and down at the same time on this little island called Singapore, will the whole island sink by an inch or two?
  
  

  Before you can even set your plan in motion, they'd probably have you up for an illegal assembly and sediting the masses to overthrow the government...
• Xcert

  1 Mar 07, 23:42

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  but of coz....try looking at the living standard in sg and the salaries our MP is getting..... no way to compare with those 2 countries too...

  I dont want to compare.I only care about what happens in singapore when population really hits 6.5million and I dont think I like the idea.
• nismoS132

  2 Mar 07, 02:52

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Damn.
  
  If all 6.5 million people were to jump up and down at the same time on this little island called Singapore, will the whole island sink by an inch or two?
  
  

  answers here.
  
  http://www.worldjumpday.org/
• weiqimun

  2 Mar 07, 08:36

  Originally posted by raymond_sianz:

  Aiya. Ppl short already so sad le. Don't make ppl depress somemore. You think minister really think for the good of the citizen? if he is so nice he won't spend 300k on some stupid campaign to try to find a name for marina bay and in the end still use back marina bay. Some ppl get retarded when they get all. Do you laugh at funny retardedness?

  ............or hold a naming contest for the new budget terminal, the the winning name with the most creative, impressive and representative name for the terminal...BUDGET TERMINAL !!!
  
  i think the 14 year old (somewhere arnd there) kid who won cldn't believe his good fortune. he probably send the contest in jest and guess what, "HE WON!"
• LifeIsWonderful

  2 Mar 07, 11:33

  Originally posted by blueheeler:

  Please Minister Mah, please don't patronise me! I live in a small apartment shared by quite a few others, and I know what 'crowded' means. Don't tell me that S'pore won't burst at the seams unless you come live with me. Oh...please don't take that as a serious invitation.....

  
• will4

  3 Mar 07, 12:28

  Originally posted by blueheeler:
  S’pore’s National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan recently talked about S’pore’s population going up from the current 4.5m to 6.5m in the future. Mah said [b]Singapore will not be “bursting at the seams” when that happens.
  
  Logic at work here: SÂ’pore has 690km2 of land. Divide that up with 6,500,000 people, 9500 people per square kilometer. Cosy enough for you?
  
  But I suppose if you are living in a huge bungalow shared by 4-5 people, you won't really feel the 'crush', would you?
  
  Please Minister Mah, please don't patronise me! I live in a small apartment shared by quite a few others, and I know what 'crowded' means. Don't tell me that S'pore won't burst at the seams unless you come live with me. Oh...please don't take that as a serious invitation.....[/b]

  The reason for trying to increase the population to 6.5 million is they predict the no of Sporean planning to migrate is high.
  
  
• (human)

  3 Mar 07, 13:29

  This bunch of people make us feel that thier decision is to make how much dollar out of it not according to how much you and me are going to suffer later. What a bunch of people.