Singapore's Wealthiest People - How rich are they?

Forbes recently released a list of the wealthiest Singaporeans this year. Sadly, I don't believe seeing any article that came with graphical representation of the data so I cracked up a quick chart to see how the folks at the top compare with one another (in US$) :

But for most probably a billion bucks (or five) would be so far out that we can't really get a fix on the magnitude of the sum.

So here's pretty much a gradual scale of what that amount feels like :

• Living in Royal Suite in Burj Al Arab in Dubai for 10 years -- US$ 25 M
• Treating everyone in Singapore to the movies (on weekend) -- US$ 31.5M
  
• Buying a the most expensive yatch, Utopia -- US$ 103M
• Producing Star Wars Episode I, II and II -- US$ 350 M
  
• Changing a Vertu Phone everyday for 10 years -- US$ 730 M
• Total Worth of Manchester United -- US$ 1,186 M
  
• Total Sponsorship of Olympics from 2001-2004 -- US$ 1,450 M
  
• Giving a Segway to every single SAF Soldier -- US$ 1,800 M
• Buying a Learjet 31A business jet -- US$ 2,409 M
• Sierra Leone's 2005 GDP (PPP) -- US$ 4,921 M
  

(Based on figures from Forbes / Wikipedia)

Perhaps I'll look at visualising the data later ... Pretty keen on working on something like that but gave up on that in order to post this earlier....

[Source : Today Article, 24 Aug : Meet Singapore's Richest]