Singapore Day 3
March 7
Took a train to Punggol, a residential area which is located at the North East side and crashed at Vin’s place.
Punggol has some new HDB which looked very well planned. Only local citizens can buy newly issued HDB flats and needed to have a monthly income below SD$8000 if I am not mistaken. PR can buy HDB flats at the used market but even 2 bedrooms HDB flat in the north east part cost more than SD$350,000.
Singapore has quite a lot of church goers and a few megachurches. On the front page of strait times there is news that one of the megachurch is going to invest SD$310 million to co-own Suntec city. I don’t consider myself religious but decided to check out a mega church with 18,000 people in Suntec City.
Had lunch with my aunt at Orchard road
and catch up with XiaoRui in the afternoon.
Went to Harbour front and took the Sentosa train (SD$3) to the newly opened casino, Resort World.
For Singaporeans and PR holders, they will have to pay SD$100 to go in because the government discourages the locals from visiting the casino.
Some expensive shopping place in the casino
Met up with cousin Ling and she drove me around the city at night and bought me to Mustafa centre, a 24 hours mall which has a good variety of products.