I would like to invite everyone here to air their views about this latest PAP move to allow for corporatising of hawker centres,.....
apart from driving the last of the precious and cherished hawkers into retirement or into selling all kinds of "high priced foods instead of looking after those who do their "cottage" industry types of foods with their "commercial" rents... Now they wanna let their kakis in sheng siong and NTUC take over hawker centres....
Please leave the damm hawkers alone dammit!!!
INSTEAD of inviting a bunch of people who know jackshit about hawker centres like Elim Chew (wtf does selling clothes to kids gotta do with hawker centres???) they should have just gotten the likes of Dr Leslie Tay (from I eat.ishoot.i post) or the like.....
or they can't handle the truth????
what the bloody pap should do is to leave whatever close at heart to the people alone. yep! leave the hawker centres alone. DO NOT UPGRADE. upgrade is just an excuse to raise stall rentals which in turn raise the food prices which in turn ends up the common folks gotta bear.
who benefit from such redundant exercise? no one. only the gov! but the more disastrous outcome is the actual spirit or essence or unique feature of a particular retro hawker centre is permanenlty killed. the end result: lesser patrons due to higher food prices due to higher rental. if u look closely at the upgraded hawker, it actually isn't any much better b4 it was upgraded.
those million $ minitoots DO NOT eat at hawker centres. they do not know what simple enjoyments we folks treasure. the only thing in their mind is MONEY & MORE MONEY. it's best they leave what's not broken untouched, unadulterated and undone.
if a hawker centre really needs upgrading, people would know when and how to complain. then maybe a petition should be the set to gather whether the majority wants it to be upgraded.
that's look fairer and practical. personally, i love a haphazard hawker centre. it has this particular feel that we are living in singapore and enjoying the same honest to goodness and inexpensive traditional hawker foods.
so paps, if u r reading this:
LEAVE OUR HAWKER CENTRES ALONE...AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF DOMINATING OUR LIVES!!