.: yukun :.

Notice how the various bodies of authority here on this island seems to be all having the same retarded mindset no matter what kind of situation or problems they face?

Traffic jam?
Put up more ERPs and increase road tax.

Passengers eating in public transport?
Fine them.

Drunk driving?
Increase alcohol tax.

More people are taking up smoking?
Increase tobacco tax.

Orchard Road getting too predictable?
Lets build ANOTHER redundant shopping mall.

Work force not enough?
Lets welcome more foreign workers.

Population figures dropping?
Dangle insignificant money carrot to encourage couples to fuck more.

Don't know who to use as host for big televised event?
Gurmit Singh (again!)

Ran out of ideas for TV programming during the festive season?
Repeat old crap because the consumers are idiots that have been brainwashed by the governing authorities since the longest time ever.

Government approves of casino opening.
Goverment sets up anti-gambling council.

YOU DON'T SOLVE AN ISSUE BY GIVING A SOLUTION THAT LEADS TO OTHER PROBLEMS!

You cover up one hole by digging another hole and so forth. I swear monkeys make better decisions than the people that are in-charge of this fucking excuse of a country.

So it's 2010 and the anticipation lies in the opening of the two Integrated Resorts. OK, lets be honest and call it what it's meant to be. CASINOS. Do you really care if both of which have countless restaurants, bars, shopping malls, cineplex and the usual crap that's ALREADY AVAILABLE at every bloody corner you turn? Besides the theme park at Resort World, everyone else is just interested to throw their lives away at the casino gaming tables. Sorry if I seem negative but I work in the casino management line and for every 10 people I meet, 8 will not succeed in making money; especially when they don't have some kind of play system to adopt.

Anyway back to the rant. Due to the excitement of the upcoming opening at Resort World and the predictable sudden influx of visitors, now Sentosa wants to increase the entrance fee into the island... apparently to encourage people to take public transport instead of driving in. The problem lies with the infrastructure of the island. The island has more than enough space to make wider roads. They fuck-up their initial development and refuse to remedy it despite one of the IRs being situation on it. So in order to solve the traffic problem? Increase cover charge. Sounds pretty familiar. 101 in problem solving, Singapore style.

And from insider source, they are also intended to increase the entry fee via monorail from the usual $3 to $5... once again, "to cope with the heavy human traffic". Seriously, what the fuck? The reason Sentosa has been a white elephant in the first place... is the stupid transport system within the island and the pointless entrance charge. How many bloody attractions have come and gone on that island?

Personally, if I was running Sentosa, I wouldn't care if it was flooded with people. More is always better than some. That's the whole idea of trying to put the IR there in the first place, right? And now they want to curb car / human traffic. That makes as much cock sense as... the four Banglahs groping the Thai transvestite incident.

Hello, just admit that you (Sentosa) just want to make more money out of these (hidden) charges. You know it, I know it. So stop beating around the bush. Not every Singaporean is a stupid as you think we are.

Thankfully, I'll have NOTHING to do with Resort World, Sentosa and whatever upcoming idiotic bureaucracy that is to follow. I await April's opening date for...