road trip - in singapore! (:

we drove from East Coast Park to Mount Faber to Kranji farms to Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve. in a day.

just like when i was little, and my dad brought us on little road trips every weekend (:

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today, i realised singapore has a lot of potential for tourism-related development.

Mt Faber, with the cable cars and pretty greenery, has the potential to become the equivalent of The Peak in Hong Kong. with some exclusive residential estates, high-class bars and modern landscaping, Mt. Faber can become so much more!!!

& then, Kranji has the resources to turn into something like Perth's renowned Margaret River. there were so many cockles to be caught (: slow-moving getty, organic farms, lots of untouched forest land......why not have a mini back-to-nature respite in Singapore? then we wouldn't need to go to Malaysia or Indonesia for those weekend getaways.

read this article a few months ago about how singapore lacks A New Singapore Story to lure investors. Ecotourism and/or a more vibrant nightlife could be the answer.

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btw, saw soooo many indian foreign workers watching/playing cricket at Boon Lay today. also passed by several workers' quarters in the day. the quarters are placed really out-of-the-way...not like serangoon gardens proposal.

wonder how the foreign workers feel, to be so ostracised?

seeing the hordes of people speaking in a different language, obviously of a different lifestyle and mindset...i felt quite overwhelmed. with them so entirely disintegrated from everyone else, are foreign workers a social bomb waiting to explode?