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09-01-2015, 09:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://thetwophilo.wordpress.com/201...oost-and-poop/ (http://thetwophilo.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/fernvale-lea-columbariums-old-folk-homes-nimby-etc-a-case-of-lkys-chickens-coming-home-to-roost-and-poop/)
As for those future Fernvale Lea residents who have no intention to upgrade, downgrade or even uproot (at least at this point in time) not wanting to live beside what is effectively a gigantic urn of incinerated bodily ashes of the dearly departed (kept in some 90,000 urns according to some estimation) because of feng shui, taboo and other religious and/or superstitious reasons is to my mind perfectly justified.
There are going to be very practical problems, as pointed out by some, of a continual flow of vehicular and human traffic generated by the presence of the columbarium, and temple. For the sake of illustration, if we assume that family visits are restricted to only Saturdays and Sundays, there possibly would be an average of some 860 single visits per Saturday and Sunday throughout the year (assuming universal filial piety amongst the Buddhists).
But it is quite likely that each urn interred at the columbarium would generate more than one set of visitors ranging from filial descendants family members and relatives to friends of the dead, who would likely turn up in small groups coordinated or on their own and that would certainly all add up to a constant flow of vehicular and human traffic. Now when you add into the equation, peak periods of festive days like All Soul Days, temple festivities, movement of funerary employees, related logistics and their vehicles, etc one can well imagine the extent of DEGRADATION that Fernvale Lea residents would suffer in their daily lives at home.
A man’s home is his castle but tell me who would like it if his castle is being constantly beleaguered and besieged by a columbarium throng?
If the 5,000 odd landed property residents of Serangoon Gardens can have their way with regard to the foreign workers hostels – now fenced off from the SGE with a separate access via an off SGE access road to boot, one fails to see why the HDB should want to deliberately antagonise the would-be residents of Fernvale Lea with such short-sighted and cock-eyed planning and development?
One more example of PAP GE ‘death-wish’ or is it a matter of a moribund and inapt political leadership complemented by an incompetent and indifferent civil service?
In the final analysis, I think they are really two of a kind and probably deserved each other. What do you think?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197582-Columbarium-–-LKY’s-chickens-coming-home-to-roost&goto=newpost).
http://thetwophilo.wordpress.com/201...oost-and-poop/ (http://thetwophilo.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/fernvale-lea-columbariums-old-folk-homes-nimby-etc-a-case-of-lkys-chickens-coming-home-to-roost-and-poop/)
As for those future Fernvale Lea residents who have no intention to upgrade, downgrade or even uproot (at least at this point in time) not wanting to live beside what is effectively a gigantic urn of incinerated bodily ashes of the dearly departed (kept in some 90,000 urns according to some estimation) because of feng shui, taboo and other religious and/or superstitious reasons is to my mind perfectly justified.
There are going to be very practical problems, as pointed out by some, of a continual flow of vehicular and human traffic generated by the presence of the columbarium, and temple. For the sake of illustration, if we assume that family visits are restricted to only Saturdays and Sundays, there possibly would be an average of some 860 single visits per Saturday and Sunday throughout the year (assuming universal filial piety amongst the Buddhists).
But it is quite likely that each urn interred at the columbarium would generate more than one set of visitors ranging from filial descendants family members and relatives to friends of the dead, who would likely turn up in small groups coordinated or on their own and that would certainly all add up to a constant flow of vehicular and human traffic. Now when you add into the equation, peak periods of festive days like All Soul Days, temple festivities, movement of funerary employees, related logistics and their vehicles, etc one can well imagine the extent of DEGRADATION that Fernvale Lea residents would suffer in their daily lives at home.
A man’s home is his castle but tell me who would like it if his castle is being constantly beleaguered and besieged by a columbarium throng?
If the 5,000 odd landed property residents of Serangoon Gardens can have their way with regard to the foreign workers hostels – now fenced off from the SGE with a separate access via an off SGE access road to boot, one fails to see why the HDB should want to deliberately antagonise the would-be residents of Fernvale Lea with such short-sighted and cock-eyed planning and development?
One more example of PAP GE ‘death-wish’ or is it a matter of a moribund and inapt political leadership complemented by an incompetent and indifferent civil service?
In the final analysis, I think they are really two of a kind and probably deserved each other. What do you think?
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197582-Columbarium-–-LKY’s-chickens-coming-home-to-roost&goto=newpost).