My apologies Investor.
I know you are
Hope the apology makes you
In fact i did not even mention it was you. So you should have not taken offence. But since you did i still apologize for having been insensitive to your 'harmless remarks'.
Moving on i am gonna ruffle some feathers now:
1) What you showed me at Puteri HArbour was a one-off. Does not happen everyday. If it did it would be consistently upgraded like Spores ferry terminals. Anyway the objective of the SSA is to promote Singapore as an attractive destination for the rich and famous as they wanna get a slice of the pie of the superyatch industry. (Which is expected to grow at 8 to 10% annually. the current value of all superyatchs in the world are estimated at $105 billion). So its objective is to make Spore attractive not bring them to Puteri Harbour.
2) Sentosa Cove residents being super rich would possibly like to explore other Harbours as well. Not just Puteri. So this wont happen in the long term. they would also wanna visit harbours/ferry terminals in and around indonesia apart from advancing into the waters further just for the fun of driving off to places further up and afar.
3) Since you got me to apologise i would also like to add that there was another remark on lambo, ferrari etc Let me tell you i traversed in and out of Malaysia several times this week but hardly gotta see any lambos/ferraris (even when i took Linkdua) today. Even when i used to regularly take Link dua earlier i could never see any of these nice cars. Ofcourse i see the occassional audi/spruced up Mercs and BMWs. But thats where it stops. I also traverse the N-S Hway regularly but hardly see these cars.
4) What i was trying to drive at was that for Iskandar to turn around based on a few lambo here and a few ferraris there... it will never happen. This is my opinion
5) What Iskandar needs is what Spore is doing now.... A critical mass of talent pool and a critical mass of population. Now obviously a critical mass of talent pool will never be reached unless salaries match Spore standards or atleast thereabouts. A critical mass of population (average joes like most Singaporeans like me are required to reside there and purchase their goods and services)
6) That is when the economy will boom, wages will rise, there will be a dearth of talent and thus an all round increase in the strength of the economy and its fundamentals.
7) For now you can point me to wikipedia/IM website and several others. But they are all talking about the same projects over and over again. The same words tipping points are being used all the time.
8) Now if the average joe gets a pay of Rm 1000 including commission you tell me how the economy will improve? Do you even think it will? How many high paying jobs abound? How many? I know I was pointed to a website but i could not find jobs with the kind of pay that will make businesses feel confident about the economic climate and sink their teeth into IM
9) Visit any mall in Spore. See how crowded it is. This is critical mass. Visit any store in IM. Chances are that most of the time the stores are with very few or no people inside unless they are low end stores.
This should give us a pretty decent idea (especially 9) that IMs economy is not on the upswing now. For an economy to upswing it takes a couple of years of govt intervention. In Spore post SARS crisis the govt took several measures which no doubt increased cost of living but also resulted in an all round robust growth of the economy for a country with hardly any resources.
This was the original discussion when you pointed about Puteri HArbour. Whether you were being harmless in your opinion or you were forcefully making your idea is for all to see.
But still i bow down to your harmless remarks since you consider them rude and therefore i ought to apologise.
I hope you practice what you preach and let others share their views instead of "Laughing Your Ass Off" somebody's harmless opinion. That was pure rudeness! Where's your manners?
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