Hint of irony. Mordant humour. Bare-faced gumption... Not on your nelly; no-where whatever in evidence.
"Tengah to be developed into a "Forest Town"', chief story page 1 of today's Straits Times, relegating the public spat between PM Lee, his wife and sister over the glorification of the former PM/late father to the inner pages.
More local green credentials soon to add to the Republic's list: the recently awarded World Heritage Botanical Gardens (where the English first trialed rubber for the SE Asian tropics); proliferation of roof-top gardens; water reticulation; vines, plantings and motifs covering facades and balconies of towers island-wide. Currently opposite Al Wadi at the bottom of Geylang Road we have piling one side, while adjacent the odd soil-testing and load-bearing exploration that involves mounting concrete blocks skyward in order to ascertain required foundations and reinforcing steel. In 18 months the Malays were due to receive a cultural/heritage centre to match the recently opened Indian in Campbell Lane—shops, apartments, foodcourts and recreation areas included. Possibly some forest.
NB. Within the Life! pages further good news: travellers transiting in SG will soon be afforded the same opportunity as at other global airports viewing art during stop-overs. “Art on the fly.” (Changi of course already features dancing brass tears that have been synchronized to classical music scores.)
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