Friday, September 16, 2011

Oldies are goldies


RECENTLY Singapore and Malaysia made historic agreement on shifting the existing KTM train station from the almost downtown area to the land close to JB. There were a lot of voice with regard to the news. Some are happy with upcoming development while others are unhappy with disappearing of historic icon which is integral part of Singapore's history. Anyway the station eventually had been moved successfully to the designated location. Now some part of railway lines would be reopen to public for the remembrance of history. Just before the final day, some people are going the vicinity to take some picture of historic building as well as railway track. Even some wedding couple are choosing the antique railway line as their pre-wedding photo site. Now people are not necessarily need to rush to get those famous scene after government announce on reopening of some part to public. Perhaps it is another stunt by republic to add one more attraction on the menu of their tourist attraction places. What a clever move is it?

If Singapore could find some value from the scrap, while not for our country, Myanmar? The new government is currently busy with changing some outdated policies. One of them is replacing very old car exercise and the government is exchanging them with with new car import license. As a result, newer cars in the market price declined to 30% while old car price enjoy sky-rocket price due to sudden demands. Anyway, those owners of very old cars are going to surrender their antique cars to authority in the exchange of new car import permission. Then what the government will do with those antique cars? One news read that the authority is going to send those cars to factories where they would be transformed to metal by pressing. If the news is right, it's not wise enough, in my opinion. May be the authority can catagorize to cars based on manufacturing date as well as brands. I'm sure those over 40 years old car factories won't be existing in the world.

So, it should be transformed as a car museum rather than making just scrap metal. I'm sure it'ld be top tourist attraction in the future. Also we can show our younger generation the process of car history. I believe, some of those antique cars cannot be found in the world. The tourist would love to see such grand-father of modern cars. The modern cars are no longer strange to them as they can be easily found in their countries. Meanwhile, those 3 to 4 decades old cars can be seen valuable antique which cannot be bought nowadays. I sincerely hope the authority will take this into consideration to generate a good and attractive car museum for our people.


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