DISASTER: Canvas roof at YOG venue *SCAPE fell apart under heavy rain
August 18th, 2010 | 
Author: In yet another embarrassing blow to the credibility of the Singapore YOG Committee (SYOGOC) and the PAP regime, a free shooting event at YOG venue *SCAPE Youth Space was stopped abruptly when the canvas roof covering the basketball court fell apart under heavy rain.
According to the official Singapore 2010 YOG website, the YOG’s FIBA33 (basketball) will be the first international street basketball event to be held in the *SCAPE which will also be one of the venues for the Culture and Education Programme.
The shocking incident was reported in the afternoon by an auxillary police officer Mr Mohamad Zen on his Facebook:
[Source: Mohd Zen Facebook]
Mr Mohd Zen wrote that the roof canvas gave way suddenly due to the heavy downpour and the water came down hard into the spectator stand.
His account was corroborated by a report by Yahoo News just minutes ago.
When contacted by Yahoo News, SYOGOC said the incident occurred at 4.2o pm.
“The canvas roof in front on the sideline had given way due to heavy pooling of rainwater. Some FIBA officials and SYOGOC staff got wet but, no one was injured. The Skills Challenge for Basketball at *scape Youth Space has been cancelled today [Tuesday] due to weather conditions. It was originally scheduled to take place from 4pm to 6pm,” the spokesperson added.
[Source: http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/18/canvas-roof-falls-apart-at-yog-basketball-venue/]
The identity of the contractor responsible for putting up the roof canvas is not known, but SYOGOC probably has some explaining to do as the incident could pose a grave danger to the participants at the event.
This is the first YOG event which has been cancelled as a result of dismal weather condition.
There were no immediate comments from Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the PAP minister in charge of the YOG. Neither did the state media carry any reports on it.
In an interview with BBC News a few days ago, a smug Dr Vivian proclaimed that the YOG is “a chance to extend Singapore’s image as an efficient globally connected city.”
Besides showcasing the very real infectious apathy of Singaporeans, it has now displayed the utter incompetence, ineptitude and impotence of the PAP regime to the entire world with this disastrous screw-up which should not have happened in the first place.
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Tags: *SCAPE, canvas roof fell apart, Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, Y O G, Youth Olympic Games
Oh no, what a shame!
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Oh… Blame it on the heavy rain.
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Nobody is to be blamed except Singaporean. They never go to hold up the canvass with all their might and protect the PAP’s reputation. Its must be Singaporean.
Moreover sometime it cannot be help.
Rain caused the canvass to fall.
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So Singaporeans ‘bochaping’ YOG actually saved their own lives. One more reason for boycotting YOG, because the facilities aren’t safe.
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In the real world you pay peanuts to monkeys. In Sinkapore, you pay milions and you get a bunch of clowns doing monkey business…. LOL
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The roof could have beeen made stronger.
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WE WANT VIDEOS OF THE EVENT. PREFERABLY IN HD.
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Lucky we didn’t listen to PM LEE ah long to give FULL support to the YOG.If this game was FULL of SUPPORTOR sure someone will get injured,or maybe…….
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You can’t blame the contractor because it is a once in 50 years rain event and it would not be reasonable to expect the contractor to erect a structure that can cater to that. Besides, it would be too costly to erect one that would cater to such rare heavy rainfall. Afterall, the budget for the YOG is already blown by 300%.
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This is what happen when you take a sporting event and try to twist it into a marketing “Singapore” campaign to place us on the global radar screen! So smart of Dr. BoLanKissAss!
Instead of using proper sporting venue like Indoor Stadium, etc. they choose Orchard! What a $400 million dollars joke!
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Like that SFI ‘dog food’ case.
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there only 2-3 major contractor that do almost all the work in singapore so not hard to find out. but this kinda structure usually do not give way.
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no amount of engineering can prevent a roof from collapsing.
get real u peasants!
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This is the result of “everything cheap and good’ mentality. Even FTs/FWs are classified as.. cheaper, faster and younger. So what do you expect with such a mentality ?. Well, we shall all see the results sooner or later. The sooner the better. Because not everything cheap is necessary good. There is a price to pay for everything. This is a big let down and a disgrace for Singapore. Now the whole world knows the meaning of… cheap and good.
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yes .. can someone dig or post the video of the roof collasping??
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shitisdelicious, did YOU go and support the yog? Did YOU volunteer to help? Did YOU contribute ANYTHING towards it at all? If not, SHUT THE FUCK UP instead of badmouthing Singaporeans. TREACHEROUS SCUM like you should be hung, drawn and quartered after being beaten half-dead and your remains fed to all the unwanted foreign parasites
The collapse of the tent was substandard workmansip pure and simple. The tent is SUPPOSED to remain standing in most storms, but clearly it didn’t. WHO was the vendor that supplied it? WHO were the vendor’s workers and supervisors? HOW did the vendor land the job? WILL the VENDOR be penalized for providing a substandard product?
A BoI should be convened because this incident could have resulted in serious injuries or even death. Then again, what’s the point? By now everyone knows that BoIs here are just whitewashes to cover up the blunders of the elite scholars in charge. To the miws, everything that goes wrong is ALWAYS the fault of evrything and everyone else EXCEPT themselves.
Just look at how the BoI into the Tonle Sap dragonboat tragedy exonerated all the officials involved and even blamed the rowers themselves for deciding to go ahead with the race and not putting on their lifejackets. Look at how the Nicoll Highway trial resulted in the 2 LTA officials implicated being only fined because “they never intended for any of this to happen” while the Japanese engineers were sentenced to prison as though they caused the tragedy intentionally.
There is only one solution for this: regime change.
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THEY ALSO KNOW WAT IS MALU??!!!!! EVEN THOSE ROOFS OF “WAKE CEREMONIES” DOWN MY HDB DOESN’T COLLAPSE!! SUCH A DISGRACE!!!
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COCK UP AND STILL WANT MEDALS?!! UNIQUELY SINGAPORE!!!
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Hmmm….Mostly probably after a few days of prolonged analysis and brainstorming by the creme de corps of experts and consultants from the ministry in charge, our Dr Yaacob Ibrahim who is Minister for the Environment and Water Resources will declare, ” The cause for the collapse of the canvass roof is due to sudden intense rain”.
Then our Taichi master MM Lee will again come to his rescue and said, “No amount of engineering can prevent the canvass roof from collapsing and the main culprit is GOD”
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@SidneyDelphy
He’s referring to the people who helped with the evacuation who are the ones who deserve medals. Not the contractors who put up the tents.
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Hmmm….Mostly probably after a few days of prolonged analysis and brainstorming by the creme de corps of experts and consultants from the ministry in charge, our Dr Yaacob Ibrahim who is Minister for the Environment and Water Resources will declare, ” The cause for the collapse of the canvass roof is due to sudden intense rain”.
Then our Taichi master MM Lee will again come to his rescue and said, “No amount of engineering can prevent the canvass roof from collapsing and the main culprit is GOD”
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Looks like the roof was caught off guard
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More news from china : 昨日，举重女子58公斤级较量上午11点在新加坡Toa Palph体育馆打响。中国17岁小将邓薇表现出色，以抓举110KG、挺举132KG、总成绩242KG的表现获得冠军。赛后，教练马文辉评价说，邓薇是一名领悟力很强的小队员，在中国女举备战伦敦奥运会面临人才断档的情况下，邓薇和其他小队员都成为了重点培养对象。
忧
记者栽落看台
就在邓薇一步步距离冠军越来越近的比赛过程中，发生了一起意外事件。由于赛场内临时搭设的摄影台扶栏出现问题，正在采访拍摄的一名来自国内的央视记者不慎从摄影台直接摔翻到看台席。随后该记者被救护车送往了医院，目前具体伤势还不明朗
Cheaper, faster ….sad…
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Bo headline news leh…
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No amount of engineering could prevent the collapse!
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As what our MM said – It’s “ACT OF GOD”.
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Today’s Chinese newspaper never mentioned anything about this incident. So is covered up.
Likely all the canvas are in dangerous state as it put up by same contractor. Better avoid these places.
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Who ask him to come for YOG??? Guai guai stay in China, nothing like this will happen liao!!! Blame himself for being KPO & backside itchy!!!
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“Singaporeans cannot expect facilities not to collapse on them”
That’s it folks. That’s the ultimate mother of all arguments to end all children arguments.
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So embarrassing.
The whole world must be laughing at us.
How to attract foreign investments like that.
Investors will be afraid that factory roof will collapse on its workers and machinery.
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Don’t worry, this kind of thing only happens once every fifty years. Even if it happens six times in two months, it’s still not the government’s fault, it’s an act of God. Blame him, why don’t you?
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Huh? I saw a report in TODAY newspaper on this. Before making comments such as “neither did the state media carry any reports on it”, read the newspapers properly first.
MOD’s note:
The article was published 8 hours before TODAY.
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ACT OF GOD? Even He shows his displeasure of YOG!
Also you pay what you get Lowest bidder lowest quality
Unreasonable to be CHEAPERER BETTERER AND FASTERER (ok last one dont really apply here)
Dont bother about BOI la This only publicise their ass covering to fool those who believe in its findings
@无能政府
TOTALLY AGREE
@lol
@mozp
Do you mean video of the structure falling or the aftermath
For the former I think you have to be really lucky no need to say HD
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The power of internet.
Truth will always prevail
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Charm si. Looks like Sin YOG is jinxed and doomed to fail with one reported thing after another goin wrong. IOC mus b daft to think Sin can do magic to rekindle their precious but stillborn infant YOG flame, they mus b sorely disappointed by now. If anything, Sin only serves to remind the other countries in the world how right and smarter they were not to b sucked by IOC to pay high price for an infantile game.
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First the roof, then flood next. And all these YOG nonsense will be swept away!
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Aiyoh! Excuse me! It is just another “freak” event once in every 50 years lar!
Never mind whatever has happened, life still goes on as usual and this bunch of million-dollar nerds will still receive their multi-millions of dollars of remunerations at the end of the year!
La,la,la, their are “deaf” to all criticism and “no-spur” at their back can push them to strive for improvement as they have total immunisation to be “faster, better and cheaper”!
Only the “commoners” have the obligations to be more “efficient, effective and proficient”!
A big thank you to TR for taking this valuable news to its readers!
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Even the Earthly God on this Little Red Dot cannot prevent the Heavenly God from showing the displeasure to all the earthly abuses to the hardpressed young and old Singaporeans.
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Hahaha! Fail! Fail some more.
I am overwhelmed with schadenfreude.
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Wow, so happening and I miss them all!
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Seriously, i am wondering why there isn’t any MP fighting for poor citizen like us in the parliament to question on all these matters?
ITs really wasting tax payers money by hosting the city celebration where only 300 turned up for seats of 3,000 and during opening, only 50 turned up for Click Five performance. What a shame.
So much set-up, i supposed would have costs more than 1.5mill to do so and payable to vendors such as momentum events, really wasting tax payers money. Now no people, they ought to cut down costs by closing the city celebrations immediately.
The roof drop down is a total failure by poor management skills.
Really, its wastage of tax payers money again.
Last i heard that YOG over spent its initial allocated budget.
Now, who is checking these accounts? Who is ensuring tax payers money are spent wisely, carefully and being scrutinised carefully?
Seriously, If i can get myself into parliament, would love to find out from our ministers in charge.
Super wastage of fundings.
Rather use the fundings to better usage such as to combat the flooding issue, reduce the ERP charges, improve traffic systems, healthcare for all, etc. I mean, there are so many the govt can do than spending like this.
Sad.
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@ disappointed_citizen
How many times you want to repeat. $387 million is the actual budget. We only downplay it to $104 million to win the bid. The Olympic Committee doesn’t like the hosting country to spend so much. We are scholar leh, even my chauffeur is a scholar. You think we will estimate wrongly by 300+ % meh.
Check accounts? HAHA! You must be joking. As long as our white party is around, who dare to check our accounts. Even Ong teng chong can’t do anything about it.
You in the parliament? This is even a greater joke. Are you cold blooded? Can you lie through your teeth? Do you treat foreigners better than your mother? Do you treat money more important than the livelihood of Singaporeans? Can you shut your ear automatically when criticized? Can you sleep with a guilty conscience?
If you can accomplish all the above, then welcome to the “Ivory Tower” club. If not, then carry on eating your dog food and see your CPF getting wiped out!
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@mod
(Lincoln:
August 18, 2010 at 4:03 pm)
Oh lame, it takes 8hrs and 1min to prepare the article from draft, proofing, typesetting to publication. They are 1 minute earlier than you.
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Yo (or Yog)! Maybe, just maybe, Vivian Balakrishnan will finally ride into the sunset with his last $$$$$$$$ paycheck (and 8-month maximum bonus as GDP growth will hit highwater performance mark of 10%) in March 2011 when the Civil Service fiscal year ends.
The Pariah, http://www.singaporeenbloc.blogspot.com
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Nobody watch also lah, collapse so what.. Nobody really affected.
There are no real photos and videos of it as well, becos nobody cared!
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The information are shared in a nice fashion with the readers.
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I agree with some of the other posters about this video.
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