well said! plus all the pinoy shits and indian stingy shit
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[Breaking News] Sinkapore Flyer pok gai liao!
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Our tourist numbers probably also includes daily workers from JB. So the actual figures may be smaller than sinkees are told.
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whats new...massaging of stats is PAP's greatest strengths as there are inadequate checks and balances in the system.
whats new...massaging of stats is PAP's greatest strengths as there are inadequate checks and balances in the system.
a few days ago, i was in library reading something, then i smell some shitty smell, look around, see two indian woman talking. They stinks. Did they fxxking use industrial chemical cleaner to spray in istana after that man left?
It's in their diet. Ah Nehs eat a lot of hot spicy food and put coconut oil in their hair. But have you ever smelt the BO from blacks? It's not nice.
They do have a certain smell but not likely due to spicy food. Coconut oil is a factor, but do the young Ah Nehs these days use coconut oil in their hair? Still they smell bad..
Kelings nuke their vegs and fruits beyond recognition. Their diet is totally carbs and fats which is why they smell bad and have high cholesterol levels.
Best to allow 81 to take over running of the Flyer.
If the ppl who are running the stupid ferris-wheel are smart, they should convert it into a budget hotel.. 2hours for 40 dollars... I tell you.. it will be such a hit. . more of such "flyers" may be built elsewhere on this island..
Seriously.. turn those things into a transit hotel.. and watch business boom until those bearings and wheels that rung that thing go super hot.
Seriously.. turn those things into a transit hotel.. and watch business boom until those bearings and wheels that rung that thing go super hot.
How the hell is this attraction still in business? Together with the Tiger Balm Gardens, this place has been around decades. Even with a newly built MRT station on its door step, who wants to go there?
Just raze the whole thing to the ground and build some condominiums.
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PAP cooking the numbers again
The Flyer has many issues. The first thing is that as a form of getaway / recreation for locals, it is not even on the radar since it is too expensive and even worse, it is not easy to get to via public transport.
You would have thought the related government agency - STB? - would have learnt from the mistakes of Sentosa, Haw Par Villa, that Tang City thing and other attractions. It seems that they are allowing themselves to repeat the same mistakes again and again. Perhaps during this time, they expended all their top minds on planning MBSS and Sentosa Resort World.
You would have thought the related government agency - STB? - would have learnt from the mistakes of Sentosa, Haw Par Villa, that Tang City thing and other attractions. It seems that they are allowing themselves to repeat the same mistakes again and again. Perhaps during this time, they expended all their top minds on planning MBSS and Sentosa Resort World.
I thought the flyer was a private initiative? The cost was too high and they charged too high a price. Even with local discounts at half price, it is still very expensive by any standard.
By going through receivership, the next owner can buy in at much reduced price, and hopefully that will bring down ticket cost. Probably temasek can take over for national service.
MONEY at all costs
http://www.aaj.tv/2007/08/biggest-wheel-set-to-turn-in-singapore/
Biggest wheel set to turn in Singapore
By: AAJ News Archive, Uploaded: 31st August 2007
Please, don’t call this a Ferris wheel, officials stress.
‘We don’t use the F-word,’ says Florian Bollen, the chairman of Singapore Flyer, a giant slowly-rotating observation wheel, which he says will be leagues apart from its old-fashioned little brother at the fairground.
At 165 metres (545 feet), or 42 storeys high, the Singapore Flyer will be the largest observation wheel in the world, said Bollen.
The project, still under construction, is tentatively expected to open in the city-state next March.
Bollen’s Singapore-based company, Great Wheel Corp, is also building wheels in Beijing and Berlin which will edge out the Singapore Flyer as the world’s biggest when they begin turning in about two years, he says.
“It’s a completely different generation of wheels by comparison to the old-style Ferris wheel,” Bollen told reporters on Thursday.
He says Britain’s London Eye, which opened at the turn of the century and is 30 metres lower than Singapore’s wheel, was the first of the new generation.
“It’s a huge success story. It really has created something completely new, and that’s why we thought building these wheels is a good thing,” says the German, who came to his new venture from the financing of films.
Unlike cramped Ferris wheel carriages which hang in the open air, the Singapore Flyer and other large observation wheels feature fixed “capsules”.
The Singapore Flyer’s capsules — about the size of a city bus — are air conditioned and can carry up to 28 people. Passengers are free to walk around and will not feel movement or vibration, the company says.
“And when you’re up on top of the wheel, you really have the feeling of being on top of the world,” Bollen says.
“It’s just a very slow, nice experience. It’s all about the view.”
The Singapore Flyer will be located on the Singapore waterfront across from the Marina Bay Sands casino complex set to open in 2009, and near the pit area of a Formula One Grand Prix street race to be held for the first time in 2008.
Lacking natural attractions, the wealthy nation has embarked on a major campaign to spruce up its tourist appeal. For 29.50 Singapore dollars (19.37 US), passengers on the Singapore Flyer will get a 360-degree view of up to 45 kilometres across the island republic and into neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia, the developers say.
Higher-priced tickets include food and drinks.
The project, worth about 240 million Singapore dollars, is a private venture backed mainly by German investors. But Bollen says it has received strong marketing and other support from the city-state’s tourism board.
He declined to reveal the rent they are paying for the site. Bollen says his company was the only bidder for the project designed by Kisho Kurokawa Architects and Associates of Tokyo, along with Singapore’s DP Architects.
The builders are Mitsubishi Corp and Takenaka Corp of Japan.
Each ride on the flyer will last about 37 minutes and while passengers wait for “takeoff”, they can wander among two lower levels of shops, restaurants, and a tropical rainforest.
It is marketing itself as a venue for everything from business meetings to weddings.
The 28 capsules on the wheel will be able to move about 10 million people per year, Bollen adds.
About 40 percent of revenue is expected to come from corporate clients and another 30 percent from travel agents, says Patsy Ong, managing director of Adval Brand Group Pte Ltd, the marketing agents.
Bollen says his firm is in “very active discussions” with civic authorities in New Delhi and Mumbai about possible wheels there too.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2007
you fly into london, you will see london eye as your plane comes to land, so london eye is a landmark and it makes nice viewing.
you fly into sg, you only see water and ships, this sg flyer does not fly and it is fucking expensive, for a family man, its silly to go in this piece of junk.
I hope they dismantle it, and sell for scrap.
you fly into sg, you only see water and ships, this sg flyer does not fly and it is fucking expensive, for a family man, its silly to go in this piece of junk.
I hope they dismantle it, and sell for scrap.
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