SG50: Kishore wishes for $50K homes . . .

[Baal]

 

extracted from his article . . .

 

More importantly, we have had no conflict, at home or with our neighbours. Ninety per cent of our citizens live in homes they own. And we have wonderful education, health, civil service and military systems, and so on.

To understand how well-off we are, just read the following aspirations of Indians after they elected Mr Narendra Modi as their Prime Minister. Mr M. J. Akbar, a well-known journalist, asks his fellow Indians: "Why cannot we have a simple home with a toilet for every Indian family by 2022? Broadband in every village? Electricity around the clock? A clean country, rid of garbage and filth that poisons life and nature, by 2019, as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary? These are not luxuries in the 21st century: they are bare necessities."

We have achieved everything on his list and achieved it long ago.

 

Thanks for the article. So its him.

[Super7]

 

Is this the same guy that I heard saying something like......we must feel lucky & fortunate? Coz from the country he came from, theres no proper flushing system, hence Sg has come a long way & we must be thankful for what we have. Its this guy?

 

Anyway, i turned off the TV after hearing those few sentences...

Hope he doesn't mean being thankful equals to not questioning the rulers but accept everything wholesales.

[Wyfitms]

 

So, what can one get for $500K in the real thing, hehe

 

wow, interlace managed to find 1,500 buyers ah?

 

looks like there is a real demand for innovative residential design in SG

[Camrysfa]

 

wow, interlace managed to find 1,500 buyers ah?

 

looks like there is a real demand for innovative residential design in SG

Think Interlace not sold out. 1500 could be family members.

[Mustank]

 

LOL this is great! it really looks like a bunch of containers stacked on top of 1 another!

 

 

my friend stay inside

the facilities is really really

satki until really no joke

Think Interlace not sold out. 1500 could be family members.

 

my friend tell me small units no more

big units still have a lot

[Camrysfa]

Haha, there is also a condo called INTERWEAVE. How does it look?

[Ryu]

$5 meal in CBD, don't think it is possible leh. Everyday eat happy meal?

 

$500 holiday in SG? Go zoo, bird park, science centre, east coast park meh.

 

$50k home? Nowadays $100k home already cannot find leh. In Pulau Ubin maybe?

 

[Mustank]

kishore sounds like

[Ahgong]

the article is written to be a sarcarstic satire.

why are you guys taking it so seriously?

[Volvobrick]

I wished we were celebrating SG@20.... it was so much better in most aspects then, including hope for the younger generation!

 

 

[Camrysfa]

the article is written to be a sarcarstic satire.

why are you guys taking it so seriously?

 

seriously, i think he was trying to be serious.

 

The short bio-data at the end reads:

 

The writer is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was named one of the top 50 world thinkers this year by Prospect magazine, a British publication.

 

think his writeup got into problems when he had to conjure scenarios which involve the number 5.