News Flash

While dear dear is watching the boring wrestling, i update my views on news.

Tiong Bahru market
Heard fr news that there is an excessive $700k aft the upgrading of Tiong Bahru market. And the hawkers are questioning on how it'll be returned to them. To cut the story short, what shock me is:
1. How come so much excess? How is the costing derived initially? Understand that hawkers need to fork out $3k - $8k for the upgrading proj depending on their nature of biz.

2. Somehow it has been sort of decided that only 70% (ard this %) of the $ will be returned to the hawkers while the bal 30% will be set aside as reserve for contingency plans and helping of the needy. This really shock me as this is hawkers' hard earned $. How can it be decided by some committee membera as how the excess $ shld be allocated. It sounds gd that its for gd purpose but it really makes me wonder. Is it out of hawkers' willingness. What contingency plans. If a particular hawker decides to give up his store, will he enjoy the benefit?

Overall, just feel sad for these hawkers. Also make me wonder if this is another NKF. And it also makes me wonder abt my mum's flat upgrading. She also pays a few k for it. Any excess? Where is the transparency?

NewWater
Also heard that newWater will be issued for spectators of the NDP'07. Suddenly i recalled that dear dear shared his concerns over newWater. His fab is using newWater for some cleaning process. Apparently, despite all efforts to further "clean" the newwater when it came to his fab, some how the water causes algae in the pipes and the machine/process need to be shut down. Apparently,the newWater is worse off than the industrial water that his fab is using. Can u imagine that? We can't drink industrial water but it seems to be more stable than newwater? Just wonder on the safety level of newWater. Will we be genetically alter if we do drink this water? Hee all these qns came shooting us as dear dear & i will discussing.

Guess that is why they are also looking at converting salt water to drinkable water too. Understand that this process is very much costly.

Hee all the abv are just my(our) thoughts ;) and shld not be used for any legal and court purposes...ha ha ;p

New updates ended at 11.40pm ha ha.