Is it worth to spend so much on NDP?

• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 19:42

  How many millions spent on NDP?
  
  Is it worth it??
• FireIce

  9 Aug 05, 19:44

  it's our nation's bday party leh
  how can be cheapo?
• Marco_Simone

  9 Aug 05, 19:45

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  it's our nation's bday party leh
  how can be cheapo?

  While the poor rummage through dustbins for dinner...so many people having it shiok over at the Padang...
• TehJarVu

  9 Aug 05, 19:47

  simi birthday party, propaganda lah, like a communist country.
• FireIce

  9 Aug 05, 19:48

  maybe cut down on the fireworks
  
  suka suka oso pom.......
  
  one shot $10K leh
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 19:48

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  it's our nation's bday party leh
  how can be cheapo?

  cost cutting measures taken ... and then this??? make sense???
• ditzy

  9 Aug 05, 19:48

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  simi birthday party, propaganda lah, like a communist country.

  Don't kaypoh lah, go watch your csi on channel 9 lah.
• I-like-flings(m)

  9 Aug 05, 19:51

  Originally posted by Marco_Simone:

  While the poor rummage through dustbins for dinner...so many people having it shiok over at the Padang...

  that's life......
• TehJarVu

  9 Aug 05, 19:52

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Don't kaypoh lah, go watch your csi on channel 9 lah.

  my lag lag webcast is on leh, trying to see jay boy and his simi palm leaf in the performance
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 19:53

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  maybe cut down on the fireworks
  
  suka suka oso pom.......
  
  one shot $10K leh

  10K?
  
  
• I-like-flings(m)

  9 Aug 05, 19:55

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  my lag lag webcast is on leh, trying to see jay boy and his simi palm leaf in the performance

  u lag too ar... good that mean it's a global issue... not bias no kelong...
• freedom4ever

  9 Aug 05, 19:57

  but they saves alot on manpower. a lot of free slaves to make use of.
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:00

  Originally posted by freedom4ever:

  but they saves alot on manpower. a lot of free slaves to make use of.

  imagine if not for the "Free labour" more $ needs to be pumped in...
• TehJarVu

  9 Aug 05, 20:00

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  u lag too ar... good that mean it's a global issue... not bias no kelong...

  can see rui en later. dunno wat time is the 10K each pom fireworks?
• dragg

  9 Aug 05, 20:01

  coz cutting only hurt the workers. so they dont care.
  
  
• I-like-flings(m)

  9 Aug 05, 20:04

  Originally posted by TehJarVu:

  can see rui en later. dunno wat time is the 10K each pom fireworks?

  see also no use.. lag so much... got sound no visual sometime... sianz.....10k pom worst is i cant even see it pom lor.. and 10k gone liao
• FireIce

  9 Aug 05, 20:06

  rui en and taufik voices dun go well together............
  
  and the song............suxx.....
  
  still prefer "home"
• Medicated Oil

  9 Aug 05, 20:30

  If they do a simple celebration, the people will complain.
  
  When they do a grand celebration, the people also complain.
  
  So, no matter what is done, sure got some one to complain.
  
  
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:30

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  rui en and taufik voices dun go well together............
  
  and the song............suxx.....
  
  still prefer "home"

  this year all the songs dun taste well to the ears
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:31

  Originally posted by Medicated Oil:

  If they do a simple celebration, the people will complain.
  
  When they do a grand celebration, the people also complain.
  
  So, no matter what is done, sure got some one to complain.
  
  

  it is not complain... is to justify mah... our hard earn $$$ leh
• I-like-flings(m)

  9 Aug 05, 20:33

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  rui en and taufik voices dun go well together............
  
  and the song............suxx.....
  
  still prefer "home"

  i prefer the "home" mtv last yr.. got alot of cute xiao mei mei.. some from tkgs one..
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:36

  so all the singers and performers hav to pay them?
  
  How abt the boi boi and ger ger from the schools har???
• hisoka

  9 Aug 05, 20:39

  have to agree why must spend so much not like do ndp we will feel patriotic or happy.
  
  no diff one dun waste the money go and istribute to us or the poor the pple will be more happy
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:41

  anyone know the actual amount set aside for this?
• sgboy2004

  9 Aug 05, 20:43

  All these cost $$$
  
  

  Logistics is a key element in organising a complex event like NDP 05. This includes the provision of supplies, amenities and services.
  
  The essential items and logistics support for NDP 05 include:
  
  More than 180,000 Funpacks
  Over 300,000 meal packs and food for participants and spectators, which are able to feed the entire Yishun estate for one meal
  More than half a million litres of water, for Funpacks, rehearsals, and working parties, about ½ the size of a swimming pool
  More than 15 tonnes of ice
  More than 10,000 square metres of tentages for various purposes, about the size of a football field
  More than 100 containers and pre-fabricated houses for command posts, medical posts and storage
  More than 100 mobile latrines
  More than four kilometres long of barricades