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[makapaaa]

<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD><SCRIPT language=javascript> readCookieVbb()</SCRIPT><TABLE id=story_comments border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR id=comments_body><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msgtxt>May 7, 2010

Singapore pavilion at Expo a disappointment

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I WAS in a group of Singaporeans who visited the Shanghai Expo on its opening day last Saturday. After visiting the Singapore pavilion, we all left feeling rather disappointed and humbled.
The Expo is on a grand and spectacular scale with many countries proudly exhibiting their historical, cultural and social characteristics in pavilions of unique architectural styles. For instance, the China pavilion presents externally a meaningful architectural design with impressive animated cultural displays inside.
Visiting the Singapore pavilion, however, was a disappointing experience. The external appearance of a musical box is aesthetic enough. Inside, one is confronted with a path with lit floor signs pointing the wrong way. On the wall are crude displays showing statistics such as population growth and GDP with some Chinese characters too small to read.
The rest is mainly advertisements of a few commercial firms, apparently sponsors, promoting their products. The brief widescreen movie is hardly more than an ad of a major commercial sponsor.
Inside the pavilion there is little that is representative of Singapore except a few orchid plants in the rooftop garden.
There is nothing that refers to our racial mix and harmony, our educational and health-care facilities, our tourist attractions, and our attempts to maximise use of our limited resources of land and water. There is nothing that shows the 'little red dot', with only human resource, striving to build a home for Singaporeans.
Dr Ong Siew Chey


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</TD></TR><TR><TD id=messageDisplayRegion width="100%"><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Peanuts.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: CCLCCLCCL at Fri May 07 17:49:21 SGT 2010
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</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: betweenus777 at Fri May 07 16:56:04 SGT 2010
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Who dare to be original?

It is monkey see monkey do, isn't it?
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: CCLCCLCCL at Fri May 07 12:07:06 SGT 2010
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=AlternatePost cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>You see in our straight jacket enviorns in which we grew up -the consequence is NO ORIGINALITY.

I saw the Dandilion themed UK pavilion, it blew my mind!

Next time Singapore will copy that -alas too late..
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: torquebox at Fri May 07 12:03:40 SGT 2010
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</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: wxy280808 at Fri May 07 10:36:16 SGT 2010
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[makapaaa]

This would have gone well with the pavillion: