OPINION: 'You can't buy prestige and culture for S$225 million' - Alexis Ong

CNNGo.com, 17 Nov 2011
The Housing Development Board (HDB) has just unveiled its new baby, an eco-friendly waterway that runs through the northern town of Punggol.
The board's apparatchiks have gone so far as to claim that “some call it the ‘Venice of Punggol’."
To be perfectly honest, I’m pretty sure that nobody calls it that even if the government threw down S$225 million to build it. Full story