Singapore: 'Botanical capital of the world' - apparently.

[JR8]

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'Lighting up the night sky: Giant man-made 'Supertrees' illuminate city as part of huge £350million gardens project to make Singapore 'botanical capital of the world'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... t-sky.html

[nakatago]

Singapore is out to show the world the best/most/biggest/capital of/superlative anything of the world, apparently.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Definitely a superb example of a gigantic eyesore if you ask me. (I know, you didn't ask - see some things are free after all)

[nakatago]

But if they come up with something of this magnitude, I'll be seriously impressed: http://youtu.be/1H_m8vPBC2U?t=1m2s

[Vaucluse]

The city-state needs to keep pumping . . . it has little else to lure tourists.

Come to Boleh-Land to see billions thrown at ridiculous projects to show the superiority of the Malay rulers.

Singapore? Pffft . . . amateurs in public spending

[Travailes]

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'Lighting up the night sky: Giant man-made 'Supertrees' illuminate city as part of huge £350million gardens project to make Singapore 'botanical capital of the world'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... t-sky.html

If they stopped cutting down indigenous trees and replacing grass with concrete this eyesore would be completely unnecessary. Mind you it does have equally absurd bedfellows - MBS / Art Science etc.

[JR8]

.... and so the relentless march of concrete goes on. And yet they consider it progress...

[Vaucluse]

.... and so the relentless march of concrete goes on. And yet they consider it progress...

I look around our suburb and most of the people have concreted over their yards . . .

In some ways East is east and West is West . . . ad infinitum absurdum Kiplingum

[JR8]

Ah! Te sunt a latina scolaris.

[Vaucluse]

Surprisingly six years of it at school . . . and unsurprisingly never used it . . .




. . . until now

[nakatago]

Surprisingly six years of it at school . . . and unsurprisingly never used it . . .




. . . until now

Who uses Latin regularly outside of the Catholic church and Latin language classrooms?

...and speaking of usage, it's like pedestrian overpasses built 10 meters away from a pedestrian crossings, that traffic light near the museum and Bras Basah MRT (the street where you can cross with 3 big steps)...

[x9200]

Surprisingly six years of it at school . . . and unsurprisingly never used it . . .




. . . until now

Who uses Latin regularly outside of the Catholic church and Latin language classrooms?

Doctors (MDs).

[JR8]

Surprisingly six years of it at school . . . and unsurprisingly never used it . . .
. . . until now

I can't recall how long I had to learn it for. I do find it useful, even sub-consciously, in understanding the meaning of words in English and other European languages.

[JR8]

If they stopped cutting down indigenous trees and replacing grass with concrete this eyesore would be completely unnecessary. Mind you it does have equally absurd bedfellows - MBS / Art Science etc.

Talking about absurd buildings I recently passed SoTA in it's fully completed state. Good grief, talk about ridiculous and architecturally clichéd. I reckon they'll be looking to pull it down in a decade or so...