Fascinating stories of the ultra in Singapore

[Altivo]

Wealth Over the Edge: Singapore

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412...dsk=y&dsk=y

 

$26,000 cocktails. Traffic jams freckled with Ferraris. The world's sternest city is now the richest. Why?

By Shibani Mahtani

 

It's midnight on a Saturday night at the Marina Bay Sands resort near the sparkling Singapore River, and all the boutiques are shut. But past a cosmetic-surgery clinic and a Ferrari accessories store close by, a large crowd is getting increasingly agitated. Dozens of hopefuls are clamoring to get in to what is billed as the world's most expensive club, Pangaea.

 

Tight-fitting Herve Leger bandage dresses are practically a uniform here, often paired with Christian Louboutin heels and Chanel 2.55 bags, as women try to befriend club goers who are lucky enough to get past the red-velvet barrier and bouncers. It is frequently the leggy models, part of the club's core demographic, who succeed. Out-of-town visitors who negotiated their way onto the guest list weeks earlier are turned away, even after offering to pay more than $3,000 for a table. The nightclub is completely full.

 

Past the bouncers, a walk through a long tunnel with blue ultraviolet lights and a ride up an elevator reveal one of the world's most exclusive parties.

 

Michael Ault, Pangaea's founder, sits at the club's most prestigious table by the bar, on cushions covered in exotic African ostrich skins. His table is covered with bottles of Belvedere vodka, Cristal champagne, buckets of ice and dozens of glasses for his friends. His wife, Sabrina Ault, a former fashion model and now his business partner, wears a fake shark's head and wields a plastic gun while dancing on a table top. At Pangaea, all surfaces are made for dancing

[Rncw]

wah..that club must have lots of pretty delicious meimei...many ATBs or not

[Porker]

wah..that club must have lots of pretty delicious meimei...many ATBs or not

 

Please lah only high class social escorts ok?

[Shull]

Please lah only high class social escorts ok?

 

One of your playground too? [laugh]

Edited March 8, 2013 by Shull

[Rncw]

Please lah only high class social escorts ok?

 

wah...you regular.....???? i cannot afford...maybe i go look for a job there and hope to catch some rejects.....

[Jman888]

wah...you regular.....???? i cannot afford...maybe i go look for a job there and hope to catch some rejects.....

 

 

dun look down on yourself, you can hook up with some rich tai tai

[Rncw]

dun look down on yourself, you can hook up with some rich tai tai

 

 

i always looked down myself whenever i am infront of pretty ATBs naked....and also looked down at the meimei's meimei

[Assaxefour]

Pangaea is just a LSB for the rich. low class local staff and FT of course.

[Ahtong]

Sabrina Ault quite chio. Looks a bit like Jaymee Ong

[Rncw]

Pangaea is just a LSB for the rich. low class local staff and FT of course.

 

the LSB for the rich is upclass for the poor bro.....

[Wyfitms]

Thanks, TS. Very interesting read.

[Viceroymenthol]

The only time poor peasant men like us can get into Pangaea is to work as table wiper and toilet cleaner there... if you are handsome, maybe can go in as gay boyfriend of so-and-so....

 

Reading all this makes me feel happy and sad at the same time.

 

Happy that Singapore is fast becoming a Monaco/Switzerland of the East and that will put us on the world map for years to come.

 

Sad because only a few Singaporeans qualify to be in that exclusive clique of the global super rich (US$500m and up).

 

The rest of us are just the "servants" of the global super rich, going about our mundane jobs and lives, trying to eke out a decent living, pretending to be "rich".

[Ahtong]

Luxury nightclub Pangaea unveils Asia's most expensive cocktail

 

 

Singapore - You could probably buy a lot of things with $32,000, but how about spending it a cocktail? Local luxury nightclub Pangaea and luxury jeweller Mouawad unveiled Asia's most expensive cocktail, The Jewel of Pangaea, at a launch event on Friday night.

 

Created by Singapore's award-winning mixologist Ethan Leslie Leong, the extravagant cocktail is concocted using some of the most expensive ingredients in the world.

 

The drink is made using a gold-flecked Richard Hennessy cognac, a smoke-infused raw sugar cube with Jerry Bitters, topped with 1985 vintage Krug champagne and lastly garnished with a Mouawad Triple X 1-carat diamond attached to a chain.

 

Founder of Pangaea, Michael Ault says, "The price isn't about what's in the drink, but rather the experience that is created around the serving of the cocktail. When a guest decides to buy The Jewel of Pangaea, the entire club stops and the recipient becomes the focal point of the room."

 

The Jewel of Pangaea was prepared by Leong for the first time with much fanfare at the launch event. He was accompanied by an entourage of Pangaea girls, one of whom carried a ring with the Mouawad diamond on her finger. The drink was mixed in front of guests and presented in a silver and crystal champagne flute to Ms Sabrina Ault, the owner and Creative Director of Pangaea.

 

"The Jewel of Pangaea was custom-designed to actually taste great. Most of the expensive cocktails around the world simply throw a precious diamond into a martini, but in this case I wanted to use the most premium products available, and ones that would perfectly complement the stunning Mouawad 1-carat diamond," said Leong.

 

With the finest ingredients money can buy and a ceremonial presentation to boot, this drink gives new meaning to the phrase "on the rocks".

[Elfenstar]

the LSB for the rich is upclass for the poor bro.....

 

What is LSB?

[Vid]

Wah... $15,000 a table 6 figure bills Got money also cannot waste like that lah.

 

I only eat $3 chicken rice

[Myxilplix]

That's the plan what, Singapore be like Monaco. All the rich tax evaders stay in Monaco.

 

The local people serving the rich can go stay across in France and travel in everyday to work.

[Galantspeedz]

What is LSB?

 

la sup bar

[Wt_know]

be proud ... if stay in HDB, must be $1M a unit, buy car coe must be $100K, else where got face

at home must also suit up with Armani or Hugo Boss ... you never know your HDB may appear in WSJ one day

 

Singapore: The World's Richest City

 

http://live.wsj.com/video/singapore-the-wo...E9-B479E5E08127

Edited March 8, 2013 by Wt_know