I always wonder why the ugly MOE(environment) has to occupy that location.
Cant they have their hq somewhere in AMK or Jurong?

Troll detected ^ ^

Buona Vista is getting a dramatic new transformation...thanks to the Biopolis which seemed a relatively recent push.

Believe the MOE building was completed in 2000

Buona Vista is getting a dramatic new transformation...thanks to the Biopolis which seemed a relatively recent push.

Believe the MOE building was completed in 2000

Hmmm.. I think he was referring to the Environment Building right?

Hmmm.. I think he was referring to the Environment Building right?

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oops! i totally didnt see that....must have been reading too:bash: fast

yah the location of the Environment Building (Ministry is now called MEWR) is definitely very very prime.....but it was built many years ago in the 80s...

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oops! i totally didnt see that....must have been reading too:bash: fast

yah the location of the Environment Building (Ministry is now called MEWR) is definitely very very prime.....but it was built many years ago in the 80s...

Haha. No worries. I read it twice before realising myself :lol:

I think he edited ;-)

yeah its a confusion when they renamed ENV for environment and MOE for education anyway, if you were to notice, almost all goberment agencies are located close to MRT stations...its just for convienece for everyone...

e.g
MOE
ENV
BCA
URA
Revenue house
HDB
(old HDB)
MHA
etc

I always wonder why the ugly MOE(environment) has to occupy that location.
Cant they have their hq somewhere in AMK or Jurong?

The same can be said of The Treasury (Ministry of Finance) sitting on a prime spot at High Street between Funan Centre and the Singapore River waterfront.

You guys need to be updated to avoid confusion. Ministry of Environment has been renamed National Environment Agency(NEA) quite some time ago. Its a stat board.

I always wonder why the ugly MOE(environment) has to occupy that location.
Cant they have their hq somewhere in AMK or Jurong?

Cos gov is rich.:)

You guys need to be updated to avoid confusion. Ministry of Environment has been renamed National Environment Agency(NEA) quite some time ago. Its a stat board.

HAR?!

no no.

Min Env has not renamed NEA!
Min Env has been renames Ministry of Environment and water Resources MEWR.

NEA, is a stat board under MEWR. NEA deals with hawkers, dengue, environment/nature reserve.

HAR?!

no no.

Min Env has not renamed NEA!
Min Env has been renames Ministry of Environment and water Resources MEWR.

NEA, is a stat board under MEWR. NEA deals with hawkers, dengue, environment/nature reserve.

oops.....

Where is the MEWR building and what does it look like? Any pics?

Last time Temasek Tower was called Treasury Building and housed various ministries, the tower also built by the govt. CPF Building is also in very prime location.

Isn't the Istana and Istana park a property of the government ? :-p

Singaporeans love acronyms.

from talkingcock.com, the contents of which definitely fit in with this forum's kopitiam:

In Singapore, the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB),
And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP).
Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB).
If that's not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and get more from you.
So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA),
Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB).
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.
When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital(MOH),
You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund.
If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you,
And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).
To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway (COE).
If that doesn't help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP) on the roads.
If you don't own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT),
OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).
Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax,
Not even the good old place we used to go because it has become
So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!

WITS Work Improvement Teams Waste Individual Time Session/ We Idle Together Session
UOB United Overseas Bank You Owe Bank
TCS Television Corporation of Spore Talk Cock Station
SIA Singapore International Airlines Suffer In Agony or Sex In Air
SGH Singapore General Hospital Sure Giveup Hope
SDU Social Development Unit Single, Desperate and Ugly/ Sexually Depressed and Unwanted
SBS Singapore Bus Service Super Blur Sotong/ Screwed-up and Bad Service
SAF Singapore Armed Forces Serve And Forget
PWD Public Works Department Purposely Want to Dig
PUB Public Utilities Board Pay Until Broke
PSI Pollution Safety Index Please Stay Indoors
PSA Port of Singapore Authority Poor Ships Ahead
POSB Post Office Savings Bank Purposely Owe Some Banks
PAP People's Action Party Pay And Pay
OUB Overseas Union Bank Owe Until Bankrupt
OETI Ordnance Engineering Training Institute Only Eat, Talk and Idle
OCBC Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Owe Cash, Boh Credit
NUSSU NUS Student Union No Use, So Screw Up
NUS National University of Singapore Never Use Sense/ Not Up to Standard/ Nothing Up Stairs
NUH National University Hospital Never Use Heart
NTU Nanyang Technological University Ninja Turtle University
MRTC Mass Rapid Transit Corporation More Road Tax Coming
MRT Mass Rapid Transit Mad Rush to Train
MOE Ministry of Environment Muggers Only Environment
MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore Mad Accounting System/ Must Always Suffer
LTA Land Transport Authority Long Tio Ah (crash!)
JTC Jurong Town Council Jokers Training Centre
HDB Housing Development Board Highly Dangerous Building
GST Goods and Services Tax Government Salary Tax or Go Squeeze Them
ERP Electronic Road Pricing Everytime Raise Price or Everyday Rob People (contributed by Judhi)
EDB Economic Development Board Enough, Don't Bluff
DBS Development Bank of Singapore Damn! Boh Salary
CPF Central Provident Fund Cash Prior to Funeral or Coffin Provision Fund
COE Cetificate of Entitlement Cash On Expressway or worse, "Si hor yi" (give them after death)

Where is the MEWR building and what does it look like? Any pics?

http://www.nea.gov.sg/cms/sei/Contact_building.jpg

It is located along Scotts Rd (near Newton MRT). Its views (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=166031) are definitely very prime.

It looks ok what. I especially like the brown windows! :weird:

cheers

excelsvr

Looks so.... erm 1980s

Looks so.... erm 1980s

It was built in the 1980s :)

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