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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian



Winners!

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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian



Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers took the stage!



We entertained the crowd with 'Top of the World'.

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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian

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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian

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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian







Lucky Draw prizes 1 - 5

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23.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Eunos Division)

Eunos division's Mid Autumn celebration took place on 23rd Sep 2012, a week after Hari Raya celebration.

The event was held at the multi purpose hall of Blk 669 Jalan Damai. A total of 270 tickets were sold in all. Eating mooncakes and carrying brightly lit lanterns are activities one cannot do without during Mid Autumn festival. Apart from that, the night was filled with exciting games and enchanting performances. Mr and Mrs Pritam Singh together with fellow volunteers wrapped up the beautiful evening with 'Top of the World' by Carpenters.

When the kids were asked"Will all of you come back next year?" the response was a resounding YES!

The volunteers efforts were paid off


Photo credit: Lee Li Lian



Volunteers who sweat it out for the event.
Thank you everyone!

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The Aljunied-Hougang Town Council Eunos Spring NRP team marking the completion of one chapter of the upgrading program. Many thanks to all residents, HDB officers and all members of the NRP Working Committee for your part in this effort.

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Joo Chiat Today


A cycleabout around Siglap

3 weeks ago, a group of 4 of us decided to cycle around the Siglap neighbourhood to check things out on a Saturday morning. Below are photographs from the cycling trip.



LTN Coffeeshop – our ‘base’ during GE2011


Starting off from LTN 24-hour coffeeshop in Siglap, along East Coast Road. There is no market or hawker centre within the Joo Chiat SMC. There are only a few clusters of coffeeshops within the SMC, with this cluster being the busiest. Being right at the centre of Joo Chiat SMC, we had often used LTN as the meeting point and base during GE2011. The WP press conference in Joo Chiat SMC just before polling day was conducted at this coffeeshop by Mr Low Thia Khiang. It is also one of the nearest coffeeshop to my home. During GE, I often had supper here in full campaign gears. That gave us good opportunity to meet up with residents having their supper out, even at midnight! LTN coffeeshop is busier at night than in the morning.
Just before cycling off, we met a group of cycling enthusiasts who had just returned from Changi point. The group cycles every Saturday from Siglap to Changi and back. Let us all remember to cycle safely.




Jln Tua Kong market



Chatting with fruit stall owner



Another market besides the first market



Our first stop was the Jln Tua Kong cluster of shops. After the closure of the Siglap market nearly 30 years ago to make way for the current Siglap Centre, this has become the only market for Siglap residents (this was not the original location the market stalls had shifted to after moving out of Siglap). There are 2 shops side-by-side selling wet and dry stuff, open only in the mornings. I was told by a resident both market owners used to be business partners but have taken to run each shop separately now. I have not verified story though.




A coffeeshop that has ceased to be


Beside the market is a coffeeshop that I used to frequent. The former operator is a keen supporter of WP. He had volunteered to distribute my campagin materials during GE2011 to all his customers. He had to cease operations at the end of last e year when rental was doubled from $5,500 to $11,000. I met this former operator again last week when selling Hammer newsletter at Blk 58 New Upper Changi Road market. He told me the next operator after him operated only for a few months and had to stop as business could not cover operating costs. It is now used as a warehouse.
Across the road, another coffeeshop shop had been converted to a French fine dining restaurant. That did not last very long as well. This is a quiet neighbourhood, not a place that can deal with high rentals for F&B operations.



Legal loan sign next to Elite Park playground



Next, we cycled around the Tua Kong neighbourhood where I had met some nice residents during GE. I am still in touch with some of them via Facebook, emails and SMSes. We pedalled labouriosuly up the Elite Park hill, one of those places where I had loved to cycle to when I was young. Parts of Tua Kong was still underdeveloped up till the 1980s, with squatter and kampong houses, offering me some adventure to kill my afternoon boredom.
There is a nice playground in the area. We cannot help but notice a ‘legal loan’ advertisement stuck on a PUB box along the road. Such loan advertisements seem to be a lot more common now. You can easily find them around the streets of Singapore, despite it being illegal to put up such notices.





Young resident proudly showing off the neatly manicured garden patch outside their house



We next made our way through Yarrow Gardens into the single direction small roads of Siglap. I decided to visit a resident who had earlier posted on his Facebook about clogged up drains around his house. Shortly after GE2011, following feedback from this resident, I had written once to PUB over these same drains and they had responded rather quickly to repair the drains and remove plants growing inside cracks in the drain.
Apparently, the plants had grown again and were choking up the drains. It was nice to note that when we reached there, PUB had already cleared up the plants and removed debris that had choked up the drain. So we spent our time chatting with the resident and his children, and admiring the garden he had maintained in the public space outside his house.
Another morning of cycleabout was done. We had chatted with several residents and it was time for our group to return to my house and get ready for a Hari Raya lunch event we were going to.





Returning home and saying “hello” to residents as we went along

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Aljunied GRC


Mr Chen Show Mao joining different groups of residents who held their own Mid-Autumn celebrations.

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The Workers' Party‎‎

“I’m quite clear that if we want to contribute towards substantive reform in a certain policy area, we don’t necessarily take the confrontational route,” Lim, who practices a martial art called wing chun, said in an interview in her office in June. “If you feel you really want to achieve some policy change, you have to use various ways of getting there.”





Sylvia Lim in Opposition Praising Singapore Economy Seeks Change
www.businessweek.com
When Sylvia Lim entered Singapore politics in 2001 as an opposition member, her father said he would visit her in jail, recalling how past adversaries of the ruling People’s Action Party were sued, bankrupted or imprisoned.

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"The NRP upgrading for Eunos Spring was originally polled in April 2011 by the former Aljunied Town

Council. That exercise secured less than 50% approval. The Aljunied-Hougang Town Council worked

together with the NRP Working Committee that included local RC representatives and HDB officers from

late 2011 to early 2012 in a second attempt to bring the upgrading project to Eunos Spring."

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http://www.hougang.org.sg/media_release_04Oct2012.php

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29.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Paya Lebar Division)



Paya Lebar Division of Aljunied Constituency Committee celebrated Mid-Autumn last Saturday evening at the Maplewood Park near Blk 138 Lor Ah Soo.

Residents gathered to enjoy mooncakes and tea, and the children were happily playing with the traditional paper lanterns. The emcees kicked off the performances with a rendition of a mid-autumn favourite 望星空＋十五的月亮。Before leading residents on a simple walk around the park, Mr Chen introduced the Senior Mobility Fund (SMF) scheme that benefits residents who might need new aids like wheel chairs and walking frame.

The programme for the night carried on after the lantern parade. Adults were queuing up to try to crack the 30 lantern riddles while children were later thrilled by the magic show. A pomelo peeling competition saw two 'premiere league' boys quickly unskinning the pomelos, with the younger kids watching in awe. Adult helpers of the young kids then took to the stage for round 2 of the competition. Aside from peeling of pomelo, we had a talented volunteer who created fun characters from pomelos and the residents were asked to guess the weight of the bird and the pig.

The evening came to a nice end with a song item 月亮代表我的心 by the organising committee and volunteers, along with the MP, Mr Chen Show Mao.

Photos: Lee Teck Meng

— at Maplewood Park.

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29.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Paya Lebar Division)



Paya Lebar Division of Aljunied Constituency Committee celebrated Mid-Autumn last Saturday evening at the Maplewood Park near Blk 138 Lor Ah Soo.

Residents gathered to enjoy mooncakes and tea, and the children were happily playing with the traditional paper lanterns. The emcees kicked off the performances with a rendition of a mid-autumn favourite 望星空＋十五的月亮。Before leading residents on a simple walk around the park, Mr Chen introduced the Senior Mobility Fund (SMF) scheme that benefits residents who might need new aids like wheel chairs and walking frame.

The programme for the night carried on after the lantern parade. Adults were queuing up to try to crack the 30 lantern riddles while children were later thrilled by the magic show. A pomelo peeling competition saw two 'premiere league' boys quickly unskinning the pomelos, with the younger kids watching in awe. Adult helpers of the young kids then took to the stage for round 2 of the competition. Aside from peeling of pomelo, we had a talented volunteer who created fun characters from pomelos and the residents were asked to guess the weight of the bird and the pig.

The evening came to a nice end with a song item 月亮代表我的心 by the organising committee and volunteers, along with the MP, Mr Chen Show Mao.

Photos: Lee Teck Meng

— at Maplewood Park.

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29.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Paya Lebar Division)



Paya Lebar Division of Aljunied Constituency Committee celebrated Mid-Autumn last Saturday evening at the Maplewood Park near Blk 138 Lor Ah Soo.

Residents gathered to enjoy mooncakes and tea, and the children were happily playing with the traditional paper lanterns. The emcees kicked off the performances with a rendition of a mid-autumn favourite 望星空＋十五的月亮。Before leading residents on a simple walk around the park, Mr Chen introduced the Senior Mobility Fund (SMF) scheme that benefits residents who might need new aids like wheel chairs and walking frame.

The programme for the night carried on after the lantern parade. Adults were queuing up to try to crack the 30 lantern riddles while children were later thrilled by the magic show. A pomelo peeling competition saw two 'premiere league' boys quickly unskinning the pomelos, with the younger kids watching in awe. Adult helpers of the young kids then took to the stage for round 2 of the competition. Aside from peeling of pomelo, we had a talented volunteer who created fun characters from pomelos and the residents were asked to guess the weight of the bird and the pig.

The evening came to a nice end with a song item 月亮代表我的心 by the organising committee and volunteers, along with the MP, Mr Chen Show Mao.

Photos: Lee Teck Meng

— at Maplewood Park.

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29.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Paya Lebar Division)



Paya Lebar Division of Aljunied Constituency Committee celebrated Mid-Autumn last Saturday evening at the Maplewood Park near Blk 138 Lor Ah Soo.

Residents gathered to enjoy mooncakes and tea, and the children were happily playing with the traditional paper lanterns. The emcees kicked off the performances with a rendition of a mid-autumn favourite 望星空＋十五的月亮。Before leading residents on a simple walk around the park, Mr Chen introduced the Senior Mobility Fund (SMF) scheme that benefits residents who might need new aids like wheel chairs and walking frame.

The programme for the night carried on after the lantern parade. Adults were queuing up to try to crack the 30 lantern riddles while children were later thrilled by the magic show. A pomelo peeling competition saw two 'premiere league' boys quickly unskinning the pomelos, with the younger kids watching in awe. Adult helpers of the young kids then took to the stage for round 2 of the competition. Aside from peeling of pomelo, we had a talented volunteer who created fun characters from pomelos and the residents were asked to guess the weight of the bird and the pig.

The evening came to a nice end with a song item 月亮代表我的心 by the organising committee and volunteers, along with the MP, Mr Chen Show Mao.

Photos: Lee Teck Meng

— at Maplewood Park.

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29.09.2012 - Mid Autumn Celebration 2012 (Paya Lebar Division)



Paya Lebar Division of Aljunied Constituency Committee celebrated Mid-Autumn last Saturday evening at the Maplewood Park near Blk 138 Lor Ah Soo.

Residents gathered to enjoy mooncakes and tea, and the children were happily playing with the traditional paper lanterns. The emcees kicked off the performances with a rendition of a mid-autumn favourite 望星空＋十五的月亮。Before leading residents on a simple walk around the park, Mr Chen introduced the Senior Mobility Fund (SMF) scheme that benefits residents who might need new aids like wheel chairs and walking frame.

The programme for the night carried on after the lantern parade. Adults were queuing up to try to crack the 30 lantern riddles while children were later thrilled by the magic show. A pomelo peeling competition saw two 'premiere league' boys quickly unskinning the pomelos, with the younger kids watching in awe. Adult helpers of the young kids then took to the stage for round 2 of the competition. Aside from peeling of pomelo, we had a talented volunteer who created fun characters from pomelos and the residents were asked to guess the weight of the bird and the pig.

The evening came to a nice end with a song item 月亮代表我的心 by the organising committee and volunteers, along with the MP, Mr Chen Show Mao.

Photos: Lee Teck Meng

— at Maplewood Park.