Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

I was around Suntec City yesterday, and was surprised to see that World War I memorial fenced up like a prison:

(Sorry for the poor picture quality; Nokia’s 2 megapixel cameras are good for daylight pictures, not twilight pictures)

In the name of security for IMF delegates, Suntec City faced the same fate:

Anti-personnel fences that are tested against the weight of potential protestors. Apparently, the government is extremely worried for the welfare of the IMF delegates.

Amidst all the security measures, you can find scenes of unusual vibrancy. Talk about the Disneyland with the death penalty!

Already, the pumped up security measures have taken a huge toll on the number of shoppers in the mall. Usually, the passageways are so crowded that you would nearly have to squeeze between the gaps in the slowly flowing crowd in order to even get somewhere.

Here’s a picture of an arcade on 10 Sep 2006:

And all that hyped up security? WAIT! Is that a hole I see in their fence?

Oh, and did you hear? Hotel retailers in Singapore are complaining about the falling occupancy rates, after raising prices in anticipation of high take-up rates. Apparently, the Singapore government forgot that the “high take-up rates” are caused by non-governmental organisations, which follow the IMF each year, to every location to demonstrate.

When they kicked them out, they also killed the room up-take. Not to mention that visitors normally shy away from the host of the IMF for the duration of the meeting because of the protests.

Now we can only just hope that the 16,000 figure is sufficient to fill the Suntec City’s malls when the rest of Singapore is kept away from it.

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