Subject: Letter to Minister
Dear Minister,
I take this opportunity to extend my warmest greetings to you.
However, I wish to bring an issue to your attention and I hope it has not escaped your oversight considering the same Sennett Estate we live in. Opposite of us, lies Windsor Hotel that supposedly caters to genuine tourism. But of late, I noticed its former glorious status has degenerated into one of sleaziness, comparable to both Hotels 81 and Fragrance respectively.
On every weekends, I would not fail to hear shouts of challenge to fights or petty quarrels breaking out from their premises which can be heard clearly at our residences across the road. Curious, I went to ’survey’ the area myself to get a better picture of what transpires in that hotel on a daily basis. What I witnessed really shocked me as there are clear breaches of the law coupled with blatant disrespect for it that our neighbourhood is not accustomed to.
The hotel clubs there are not only filled with China Women singing to lecherous men waiting to bed them after ‘working hours’ (as I understand) but also full of Thai Coyotes whose roles do not differ much from their PRC counterparts. Ingenious of the hotel to disguise what really goes on with their rather decent outlook. These sleazy people are housed in our estate rented out specially for them by the way. Patrons could also be seen smoking freely inside air-conditioned areas together with hotel staffs although there are signs displayed otherwise. Supply and possession of controlled drugs is common occurrence too.
Our locale is becoming increasingly problematic even with the takeover of your colleague, Mr Sitoh. Majority in our district especially your good self, had voted for him but we are not getting the deal of: 1. Upgrading, 2. Facelift and 3. Most of all, Safety. Our area is now more so than ever, filled with foreigners up to no good. (spillover effect incidentally, from your GRC).
Potong Pasir borders with Marine Parade but sorry, I notice your colleagues are not managing the constituency well. A/P Fatimah Lateef is the worse among your lot as is someone else who is not worth mentioning as she is notorious enough in the whole of Singapore. Even my friends in Bt Panjang knows her ‘moniker’. Geylang Serai is filled with these kind of nonsense from Windsor all the way to Geylang Lors 24 and 40. I distinctively remembered A/P Fatimah once proudly declaring in a mandarin newspaper to one of our Mediacorp Artist who labeled her constituency as being “physically dirty & immoral”, that she would like to take him on a ‘tour’ to her turf. With this kind of standard and she still dares to make such proclamation just exposes the deep level and state of denial your party is in.
I do not feel secure at all entrusting my silver years and the future of my children to your cabinet like before when The Honorables Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong were in charge. Instead, we are getting MPs who are so detached and whose bad reputation of being “Barbarella Posh” never seems to erode from them.
Yours sincerely,
Fernando
