The ALPS Residences
(In prime pancake country, mind, where all the hills were levelled in the mid-60s for easier housing construction and land reclamation.)
...The Peak of Living
Long horizontal pool featured with covered entertainment verandas one side, screened beach lounges another, and within the water & palm row the long side too. (Routine 96% humidity.)
Design Inspired by The Swiss Alps.
(Meters, spitting distance from the Equator.)
Perfectly unremarkable condo porn, full page in the dependable Sunday Times.
After a few days in the poor cousin Johor Bahru (Malaysia), five hundred metres over the Causeway, one begins again to ponder the full ramifications for this little red privileged hot spot dot since the separation in ‘65 that made the budding autocrat-in-making cry (crocodile tears, according to some). Ramifications for the assumed victor; and not as usual losses the other way round.
NB. A Sea Horse outlet on the rear of the same leaf of the newspaper hints at the reality in the pigeon hole HBD sector: a range of floor mattresses, 50-70% off.
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