Just how much is $10 million?

[Confuseous]

The big news is that Lee Kuan Yew has pledged a personal donation of S$10 million to set up a Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism to promote the learning of the mother tongue and English for preschoolers. This comes on the heels of Goh Chok Tong's speech at the Credit Suisse Philantropists Forum on 7 April 2011, when Goh made mention of the US$100 million from the family of the late Ng Teng Fong for setting up a fund for needy patients at a new hospital in Singapore. The Singapore government has an incentive for 2.5 times tax deduction for donations to Institutions of a Public Character.

BTW, don't buy the book "My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey" thinking it will solve all your problems in acquiring a second language. This is what the author writes: "My big mistake... in the midst of our messy, massive exercise to revamp the education system, I realised I had been wrong in my premise (that anyone intelligent will be able to master languages)". Not everyone gets paid handsomely for making mistakes.

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-much-is-10-million.html

 

[Cestbon]

10 million!
a) Only can buy 20 pigeonhole base on current price
b) Only can sponsor 100 scholarship for U
c) Buy 100 car

 

[lianbeng]

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-much-is-10-million.html

lianbeng replies u, "$10,000,000"

 

[palden]

A lot to me.