gamble
Thursday, October 09, 2008 (12:11 PM)
for some reason, the debate about having a casino in singapore disappeared. i don't know how. it does appear that everyone's not really interested in what happens. or maybe we just know that voicing out is pointless because the big brother always has a justifiable reason that we cannot refute. or is it that we just want to act as if we are concerned.
at the end of the day, why does it really matter?
it's like the mas selamat incident. it was like an enormous issue but in spite of the unsolved case of the missing person, and a dangerous one at that, everything went back to normal. it's like it never happened and the posters disappeared. did he really escape? are we too unconcerned?
getting back, i guess having casinoes is really fine. even if the $100 entry fee is imposed, we can always stick to visiting genting. at the end of the day, we are making money off the foreigners and then sending it to malaysia.
we never seem to be fair to our own. having to pay for casino entry, having to pay more for an SIA flight... and i have run out of examples. = =
i believe having casinoes is really good for the economy. in spite of the belief that chinese are compulsive gamblers, i'm not expecting a lot of chinese to be visiting our casinoes. i'm guessing more russians will be spotted. the recent food festival in russia saw consumers snap up the local dishes like laksa and chicken rice exhorbitantly priced at over $50. they are so rich, it doesn't seem to matter to them. it appears that they are the biggest spenders in the world. maybe i should get some russian connection and work over there.
be sure to spot me at the roulette table when the casinoes open at sentosa in 2009. i'm sure the russians don't play that back home. at least not their own version.