Orchard Flooding? The solution may be in Sims
June 21, 2010
I ain’t kidding – Sims just happens to be one of my all time favorite games. For one you get to play God on the cheap. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to some of you who are really unfortunate to know me personally (btw, can I borrow some money?). As I happen to have a pretty bad inferiority complex and from time to time, all of us closet pyscho’s would like nothing better than to take a holiday from our own loser flesh - but seriously, I think PUB should seriously consider simulating flood conditions in Singapore, instead of trying to play police and thief.
Firstly, simulation software makes far more sense than employing stadium loads of people who would normally just climb down a storm to shine their torches here and there (along with maybe disappearing for a few hours for a power nap); besides in the last few years simulation technology has been successfully used to model everything from freaky weather patterns to shockwave traffic jams – so I can’t understand why it cannot be successfully used as a early warning tool to prevent what recently happened in Orchard Rd. From what I have been able to make out the math is pretty run of the mill; nothing stellar – no rocket science there. I mean, I could just as well adapt some of the stuff that we regularly use for space traffic control and donate it to PUB for a fee or something.
As I said, through the years. I have learnt a hell of alot from just playing Sims. That just goes to show you – life as Forest Gump said is like a box of chocolates – you never ever know what it’s going to turn up.
Darkness 2010
