Orchard road is where most of the shopping centres are... yup , English is the main the other two are mandrain and malayu..

Singapore IS one of the most expensive place to own a car.... being a very small island the government came out with a clever way of " controling car population" every car needs to bid for a cetificated of entitlement ( COE) before registering their car.. and the price of coe can be very high. THis COE once reaches as high as S$60,000 or about 20,000 pounds! Today the COE is hovering around $18,000. This COE entiltled you to use the vehicle for only 10 years... so most cars are scrapped before it reached 10 years.. But you can extent the useage of your car by buying a PQP cert . PQP price is based on the 3 months average of the revailing COE prices... the price for PQP now is about 15,000.

Do you know that when the sapphire cossie was launched 18 years ago it cost $140,000!

oh i forgot to mention that to curb traffic congestions... we have ERP gantry or (Electronic Road Pricing) round the island.