Lunch with CEO, Capitaland ILAC, Mr Wong Shean Fine

CEO talks r aplenty when u come to SMU..n I had the privilege of attendin e talk by Mr Wong Shean Fine, CEO of Capitaland ILac..the division responsible for created the IR proposal..their proposal in my opinion was way superior than the one being proposed by Genting as genting was merely goin to copy universal studios’ concepts. The governments’ guideline was to create something out of this world..a first in the world..n a concept full of innovation..

Afterall..it is the govt’s goal to put Singapore on the world map of tourism..n to achieve a one of its kind status..the govt went to opt for.. .. …a copycat..reconstructing whatever other universal studios had…a rationale I can never understand. Is it an attempt to boost ties with Malaysia?..i dunno..but wat I do know is that ILAC’s proposal will not jus sit there on its own..its goin to go places..n true enuff…the govt has asked them on the possibility of building it elsewhere other than on Sentosa. Meaning to say we might hav a third IR..hm…all of a sudden..

ILAC’s proposal was based on the theme of Aquatic Life. I am not a gd salesman of the proj but it has a lot of robotics in it..they secured the services of the creators of the robotics who made movies ‘Free Willy’ and ‘Jurassic Park’ possible. Visitors will be able to swim with ‘free willy’ and other cartoon characters and the sea creatures can even imitate your moves in water..how cool!..if u shake ur head..the dolphin will shake her’s..

And they will also educate on the history of Aquatic life..n include the evolution of the creatures and also how future creatures will look like..with mutation n further evolution. U can even create ur own virtual sea creatures n hav it fight with someone else’s in their virtual arena..

You will also be wearin tags where a central computer will keep track of the places u have gone to and when u pass by robotics…they would ask u whether u liked ur previous visit to dat certain shop..ultra cool..haha..

They hav a lot of other features as well…coral riffs n stuff..jus too many to name..even the outlook of the premise is cool…but like I said..i’m not a good salesman on this one..but at the end of the day..Universal studios are makers of amusement parks..jus how their franchise system is more creative and ‘first in the world’ really remains to be seen.

I jus hope I get to see Capitaland ILAC’s proposal put into construction. But meanwhile..it is toast to the CEO and swallowing unagi at sun dining (e place where they serve steak at SGD98 per serving and which my lunch was claimed 100% from SMU..lol).

P.S> The cute gurl I met at my previous visit is still workin at Sun Dining..lol..