Edited Introduction for the Orchard Road Facelift

Do you have any idea how much is 40 million dollars? Have you ever wondered how much it can do? It could be used for you to buy so many houses around the world, across the continents, that you could stay in on every travel there. It could be used to buy so many cars that, well, you can change 1 every 2 days. It also could have been used to do more meaningful stuff such as building homes for people who are homeless. It could have been used to build schools so that others can be educated. It could have been pumped into research that would help us.

Well, this was the amount used for the makeover of Orchard Road. The Singapore Tourism Board used this 40 million dollars to install new items such as new street lamps, co-ordinated street furniture, decorative glass panels and potted flower totems. Nothing bad about it, but well, does the makeover worth so much as to a whooping 40 million dollars? I do not think so. In fact, I think that this money is not put to good use as in the first place there are instances where this additional stuff and ongoing construction caused a lot of hindrance and that the changes were not significant enough and much more practical stuff could have been installed.