http://www.chipengseng.com.sg/administration/NewsReports/4844a959-7d98-4594-b6ed-6ff2eebb9b5e_CESCL_Results_Presentation_1HFY2009_12Aug09.pdf

HDB Contract at Sembawang

• 471 units, contract value $49 million

=> $104k Per Unit

The Pinnacle@Duxton

• 1,848 units in seven 50-storey residential blocks

• Contract value $289 million

=> $156k Per Unit

• HDB Contract at Queenstown

• 1,394 units w/facilities, contract value $188 million

=> $135k Per Unit

• HDB Contract at Sengkang

• 698 units with facilities, contract value $124 million

=> $178k Per Unit

• HDB Design & Build Contract at Punggol West

• 729 units with facilities, contract value $156 million

=> $214k Per Unit

My heart is really turning cold at the prices.”

Let me give you some professional non-emotional reply (trying to parrot someone), we will always keep it affordable.

Then have one super-know-all employed at public expense (ain’t going to cost millions) to correct such misinformation lah.

Analyze clearly ? Just provide the facts (transparency) and let people (give them the necessary education) draw their own conclusion.

By all MEANS,
throw in more statistics;
compare apple with orange;
divert attention;

To an END,
negating the social security role of a government.

Go on and duplicate the regime of our Main Stream Media here, online. One only needs a heart to just simply go back to the basics of ‘GOVERNMENT’.

5 room 400k+
4 room 350k+
3 room around 300k

I started paying attention to prices since 1 year ago and prices have kept escalating…despite the economic downturn. In 1 year, prices seem to have gone up 10-25 percent.

My heart is really turning cold at the prices. I truly feel the PAP will not stop until they drain us of every cent we have.

Even if we are willing to take loans, HDB is no longing providing lower interest loans as it used to. Guess they feel that they could use the money for their bonuses instead.

Even if I am willing to settle in a ulu ulu place, I end up losing much subsidies for not living near parents. Am I better off?

Sometimes, I look around me, and I feel like crying. I feel compelled to join everyone in the mad scramble for money like the incumbent is doing…and run away from this melting-pot as soon as we possibly can.

Consumer behaviour is highly illogical as Mr Spock will say.
The $20 plate of chicken rice is not necessarily 7 times better than the $3 plate.
The more expensive the car you buy the smaller it gets.
A $50,000 watch tells the same time albeit more accurately, but by how much?
A Prada handbag functions for exactly the same purpose as a $5 lelong handbag.
What drive this highly illogical behaviour is branding.
That make a product cost so much more than its worth because they have managed to convince the consumers to believe that is is worth that much more.

If the $20 chicken rice is recognized to be much tastier (because of the chef’s skill) by the majority of people or has special expensive ingredients, it is called capitalism.

If it is the same quality as the coffeeshop one, its called stupid consumerism.

1. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sg_Review/message/2242
2: http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=3095#more-3095
3: http://disgruntledsporean.blogspot.com/2006/04/critique-of-pap-govt-by-mr-see-leong.html

Judge for yourself..

interestingly we are now discussing if our posts will be deleted,
and the tile of this topic looks awfully apt
: )

Have one to be party affliated to have views?
It is not an either/or situation.
It is not black or white, but a cotinuum of different shades of grey.
Let the story continues.

we need more like you in TOC to put things in perspective.

Thanks. If any post should disappear, I would say this entire article should be removed. It had already been rejected due to it’s poor quality of analysis which is further based on misformation and imagined theory from what I see. Even 1 min is also too much time spent on this when I first see it. I merely commented, seeing that ppl could beconfused, such as thinking that these are facts and correct, and that people snub it to hide something . Just like to highlight something:

In the past, people think that the world is flat and establish theory and reasoning that is based on it. Such as a ship will drop if you travel to the edge of the world. Now, obviously now with knowledge everyone knows that earth is spherical. But without knowledge, people do see that theory as convincing, because it explains their daily (maybe also narrow) observation. While observation and thinking is good, and is the basis of new discovery, the difference between scientist and article as such is that scientist keeps an open mind that their theory may not be true and seek to 1st disprove it, then prove it. Don’t think your imagined theory as a truth.

Further on, the things stated is just like telling ppl in 21st centuary that the earth is flat based on someone’s observation and telling us what we should do! When we know it is spherical in shape. Not only the knowledge is lacking, the analysis is also illogical even if the information provided is assume to be true.

I merely noted that emotions and unpleasantness can be stirred up by such misinformation judging from the comment, thus commented. Don’t really care if my post is deleted or not. Understand that people are unhappy, thats a fact. But still we have to think and analyze clearly.

amazing your post is not moderated. I wrote some posts that were a lot tamer that critique the writers and my post get moderated from cyberspace into deep space. Watch this one disappear also.

Rather unusual pseudonym you got. By what the heck.

You asked “How come KopitiamApek is so sure ? Is he a HDB Staff ? Ex Staff ? ”
I ask “How come you so sure it is the truth?”
Do you need to be staff or ex-staff of anything to know anything?