In 2009, CAMPing takes on a new meaning.

Calex: I'm going CAMPing next week.
Browx: Where?
Calex: At IMH.

Daniel and I went to the Parliament sitting today. Highlights of the sitting include:

Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State (Law and Home Affairs), saying that the wrong identification of one Raja Izzuwin was an anomaly. When Raja Izzuwin was arrested, and did not carry his IC on him, the police checked his fingerprints and came up with no matches in their database, they could have sent his fingerprints to ICA. Instead, they relied on the criminal to identify himself properly. (Low morale must be infectious, given that people in a certain Provident Fund civil service can come up with the following,

and that whether you perform or not, you'll get the same amount of bonus.)

As a result of that, Raza Izzuwin was charged with parking offences committed by another person.

PM Lee announcing the go-ahead to build 2 Integrated Resorts (IRs), with gaming components (casinos) at both the Marina Bay Front and Sentosa site. This would bring in SGD$5 billion over the next 4 years, and create 35,000 jobs, when the IRs are completed in 2009. He also mentioned that, had not the bid submitters made the MPs and members of the House sign NDAs (see 1, and 2), he would have shown the models (of the IRs?) to the public.

The scale of the IRs is huge, claims Dr Balakrishnan. It would have an aquarium huge enough for a whale to swim in. Free Willy, anyone? Daily membership (aka entrance) fees are $100, or a membership of $2000 per annum. These fees would go to the Singapore Totalisator Board, which someone I knew postulated some time ago in December 2004. People suffering from gambling addiction would get to CAMP at IMH.

Met my cousin, Ju Ee there. Introduced her to Daniel. Both of them spoke like in machine gun speed to each other, after the parliament sitting was over, and we went to Funan Centre to have a drink.