Ann Yik Seow Hwa is a zoology grad from 1998 and turned ice-cream maker who set up the The Ice Cream Gallery in 2005. How did she learn to do that? Well for the core aspect of making ice cream, she actually apprenticed with an ice-cream maker, working for free in payment for learning ...
A message from the St. Andrew’s Parents-Teacher Association who must be hard at work in preparations for the carnival, now just a week away! The St Andrew’s 150th Anniversary Carnival will be held on Saturday 7th April 2012: 9am to 5pm at St Andrew’s Village, Potong Pasir Ave 3 For mo...
This year, the Earth Hour banner this year bears the phrase “60+”, which means its time to do more beyond the act that started it all – turning off the lights for an hour. Many will dim lights from 8:30pm till 9:30pm on Saturday 31 March as will StarHub’s retail shops and Customer Ser...
“Find your passion with the rejuvenated Raffles Museum Toddycats!” – Raffles Museum Toddycats, 29 Mar 2012: link “Bike Hour is not complicated – “just get on your bike and pedal the sucker” – Cycling in Singapore, 19 Mar 2012: link “Rent a bicycle and ride along Sungei Punggol and Sun...
“Never in my life have I experienced each week passing by so quickly. This year has been filled with a whirlwind of activities for me, and my eyes widen upon the reminder that it is only March. Perhaps I should not have signed up for so many things in the first place, but nothing woul...
Join us in April to meet a relentless champion for the environment and science to hear about his beliefs and values! Professor Leo Tan graduated in PhD in Science from NUS in 1974. Throughout a distinguished career in research, education and public service, Professor Tan has been a vo...
“As of today, the national blood stock level is about 1,200 units, enough for the next three to four days. However, to ensure our ability to continue to meet the daily transfusion needs and bleeding emergencies, we aim to bring the current bloodstock level to at least six days’ supply...
St. Andrew’s 150th Anniversary Carnival, 7th April 2012 http://t.co/E0VwxiUS Sent 45 minutes ago Student reading notes and stroking a resting cat at MD7, scene to brighten my day. Sent 11 hours ago @vivienaomi you don't have to come @chloetanyiting Sent 12 hours ago My Bike Hour Ride ...
Watch my bike ride right now with @RunKeeper Live http://rnkpr.com/a19j08q #RKLive #RunKeeper Ghim MOH canal sure was busy! #bikehour #zd2 on way to Kranji Jurong in peak hour. Strictly for a niche crowd of cyclists #bikehour Lim Chu Kang us crunching gravel, heavy vehicles, soldiers,...
Fri 16 Mar 2012: 4pm @ LT20 – Duan J Gubler on “Dengue, Urbanisation and Globalisation: The… http://t.co/KaUaRcxS Sent 1 hour ago @avareil tell em when you're going in case I am delayed. Shall take my own advise and sleep now Sent 7 hours ago @avareil stay healthy! My next blood donat...
If there is food, Xylo the cat will get to it http://t.co/Ikn7Gl8z Sent 29 minutes ago @beastiet I'm not wearing! Has white collar like some sec school kid! Sent 29 minutes ago @danfriess sigh, I'm conducting the class; prob Lab 7 and pull out a Mac Mini for you; rest have laptops @vi...
Duke University: Department of Biology: Graduate Level Biology Course 216. Sojourn in Singapore: Urban Tropical Ecology. The mix of human ecology, tropical diversity, disturbed habitats and invasive species in Singapore. How Singapore maintains and enhances the quality of life of its ...
@beastiet Yes, I smiled and will go sleep now RTc@beastiet: Nice post! RT @jocelynesze : Tears at Chek Jawa in 2001 http://t.co/HHZ8QwRB Sent 4 hours ago Ha-ha Very good! @jocelynesze : @sivasothi “@jocelynesze : Just posted: "Memory Detail | Singapore Memory http://t.co/45D9nq5l @ram...
@beastiet Yes, I smiled and will go sleep now RTc@beastiet: Nice post! RT @jocelynesze : Tears at Chek Jawa in 2001 http://t.co/HHZ8QwRB Sent 5 hours ago Ha-ha Very good! @jocelynesze : @sivasothi “@jocelynesze : Just posted: "Memory Detail | Singapore Memory http://t.co/45D9nq5l @ram...
“The Department of Biological Sciences at NUS invites applications for full-time, 3-year, non-tenure, teaching track positions at the Instructor/Lecturer level in Environmental Biology. Candidates should have a Ph.D., a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, and a keen interest ...
Cable ties – to the rescue of my pedal cage! http://t.co/Kxs7wfmj Sent 23 minutes ago @VaranusSalvator meant to tell you about the four flattened, baked bird carcasses along the NTU Round Island Bike Rally 2012 last week. Sent 1 hour ago RT @mashable : Your Desk Job Makes You Fat, Sic...
Weiting remembers that she met Jocelyne in 2009 when Jocelyne’s project work group interviewed me and Benjamin Lee. That meeting at Holland Village Starbucks should be recreated one day.
We were just notified – the Assisi Hospice Charity Fun Day will be held on Sunday, 17th June 2012 at St. Joseph’s International this year! A group of friends – “Adrian & Kakis” set up a stall at the Assisi Hospice Charity Fun Day every year. We have submitted our stall application onc...
Cycling kakis at OCBC Cycle this Sunday so will Brompton down to Changi via East Coast. Sent 11 minutes ago Celebrate Earth Hour at Orchard Road on 31 Mar 2012: 8.30pm http://t.co/2o098vw5 Sent 54 minutes ago This year, Earth Hour takes a significant step, encouraging action beyond th...
So while we are trying to earn money for the Assisi Hospice, we are also interested in recycling. And we have learnt to deal with the heartbreaking prices. Yesterday, for example, the price of a woman’s winter jacket with just a few stains, had no takers. The price spiraled down to al...
Pei Rong, my Changi beach sea cucumber student dropped by my office to catch up on a discussion about the heterogenous nature of Changi beach and what we need to follow up as a result of some mapping she did. For starters, we can improve the LSM1103 Biodiversity class’ Changi Beach pr...
First posted in NUS’ “The Change is Me “, 24 Feb 2012 These past few Sundays, I have been meeting kakis (= friends) at Holland Village MRT at 6.30am and cycling down to Changi Village for breakfast via Lornie Road and Tampines. We meet other kakis who begin their shorter ride at a mor...
First posted in NUS’ “The Change is Me “, 14 Feb 2012 As the sun rose last Sunday, 12th February 2012, more than a hundred people walked from the University Cultural Centre up to the Ridge, and across the Gap past Kent Ridge Park to Bukit Chandu. In doing so, they traced the route of ...
“On the 70th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, four World War II survivors, now in their 70s and 80s, recall how the wartime experience wiped out their childhood innocence and honed their survival skills Mention Feb 15, 1942, and some young Singaporeans do not associate it with th...
Wild animal terrorises family http://t.co/3CXmH6Hl Sent 1 hour ago Friend from Holland quotes American sitcom at least five times yesterday: "Modern Family" has IMDB rating of 8.9! http://t.co/Iw87AZ4s Sent 1 hour ago Storming in Bukit Timah http://t.co/YWQzfO7K Sent 1 hour ago Reelin...
St Andrew’s 150th Anniversary: Digest No. 3 http://t.co/ESIBfRpd Sent 1 hour ago @jocelynesze thanks, question answered, unfortunately. Sent 8 hours ago Apparently I have to count Fibonacci number backward or something, to sleep, and not drunk coffee. Sent 8 hours ago @oliviachoong @z...
“I WAS saddened to learn of the death on Feb 1 of Mr Jimmy Chew, 88, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. A group of Japanese high school students and I owe him a debt of gratitude for describing to us his personal ordeal (‘Remembering the ...
This year, the NUS Admissions Publicity Campaign has picked the theme, “The Change is Me”. I was asked to contribute by blogging once a week from now until May 2012 at the NUS facebook page . I was first asked in December 2011 and given a nudge two days ago to have my first post up be...
I don’t want one frequent individual to swamp others, so while I experiment with following interesting, amusing or educational users, I unfollow the high frequency twitterers else they will drown others out. I do likewise for my Facebook news feed and this way, both tools provide an e...
Tue 14 Feb 2012 – The National Heritage Board unveiled six new permanent plaques at the Cenotaph near the Padang in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of the start of the World War II. These six add to the 14 existing plaques unveiled in 1995 as part of the 50th anniversary of the ...
