Johann Low

火曜日, 3月 22, 2005

[Weddiing dinners and casino]

My cousin is getting married soon. In fact he is legally married as he ROMed last yr. This yr he will be holding his wedding dinner. He is a high-flyer and we had predicted he will prob hold his wedding dinner in one of the most prestigious hotels in SG. His salary per month is abt 3 times mine. But to quite my suprise, he told he actually has a budget and I was even more suprised when he told me how much it was.

Imagine someone with a monthly salary of 4-5k, not to mention his spouse who is prob earning 3-4K per month. Most would predict they will prb hold their wedding dinner @ Pan Pac, Meritus Mandarin, Fullerton. But understandlingly due to his committment at home, he had to really cut down. His mum needs long term medication and various check-ups and they are certainly not cheap.

Imagine me, a polygrad who does not even earn $2k per month. If I were the son, can I afford to keep up a monthly medical bill of a few thousands? Imagine a young couple who are both poly grads both earning abt the same amt of money. How long do they need to save up to so call hold a proper decent wedding dinner at some 4-5 star hotels? Wedding dinners are not cheap, of cos it depends on the location as well. But still, not cheap.

To me wedding dinners are totally unneccesary. I do not see the need to pull off a huge expensive party with relatives,distant relatives,closed friends,not so closed friends to come and eat then fuck off. What's the point? Marriage is a big event yes. But considering the fact that wedding dinners are so expensive. Dumping tens of thousands of dollars for some 9 course dinner is really impractical.

There's no need to invite people whom u have not seen for 10-20 yrs just for a meal. And often the bride and bridegroom do not have so much time to enjoy the delicacies. they will have to move ard, take pictures, toasted and get drunk in the end. They will be so dead tired in the end to do anything later. *ahem* hehe.

Thus most young couples these days rather do away wif such formalities. Just a normal buffet dinner or small wedding dinner at a resturant or hotel wil suffice. The most important thing is the atmosphere and who you are celebrating with. Its the quality of the celebration, not quantity.

Now abt the recent hot topic of building a casino. As mentioned by QQ, they are going to build it anyway. Why bother to ask so many opinions? Religious grps of cos WILL oppose. Christianians,Muslims,catholics WILL OPPOSE.

Oppose oppose la, if the gahment ARE going to build in the end, what can they do? Rally? Riot? go to the streets to protest? No, this is Singapore. Anyway, I do not see anything wrong with building one casino here. Typical local peasants are reading too much into it. Our dear gahment has mentioned, the casino will be only one of the selling points in a theme park/entertainment center. The main objective is to make SG attractive to lure in the big bucks.

The gahment prob fear more than anyone else that opening a casino will cause society instability. They will implement a whole set of facilities and regulations to make sure all these so called negativity of gambling will be kept to a min. Building a casino will greatly boost the economy of SG esp the tourism industry.

Singaporeans are gambling all these while. Buying 4D,horse,soccer betting. Of cos there will be people who are buying it for a fling or thrill. I believe most people who bet are betting for the fun of it. There will be extreme cases of cos. Gambling is already here, it will not make a big difference if they are going to open a casino or not.

Saw something abt opening the elite grps in SG. What a joke! The elites of SG will be confined to the local Uni like NUS n NTU. That's all. Why? Cos most people still think anyone with great academic results is an elite. And these elites are from JCs,NUS. Broaden the circle of elites? Perhaps its easier to spread the legs of those NUS bimbos.

Fuck the elites.

elow at 12:11 午前 |

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