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GayLoong reads story about his mother, Gecko, to children at library..serious

dr.wailing

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About 120 children paid rapt attention as he read them a story book, and even chirped like a lizard for dramatic effect......

What kind of lizard (leezard) chirp???

Wah lau, in addition to misleading Sinkie adults and senior citizens, LHL is misleading Sinkie children too.
 

laksaboy

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I guess the 120 kids were the brats of various grassroots people. :rolleyes:

If I were a typical parent, I would rather have my kid spend his/her time more productively.

And if I were a kid, I would rather spend my weekend in a more fun way.
 

frenchbriefs

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I guess the 120 kids were the brats of various grassroots people. :rolleyes:

If I were a typical parent, I would rather have my kid spend his/her time more productively.

And if I were a kid, I would rather spend my weekend in a more fun way.

what is more productive than listening to ur future father in law,the royal family of the country tell u bedtime stories?
 

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Pinky the story teller

By Charissa Yong
The Straits Times
Tuesday, Oct 07, 2014

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SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong turned storyteller yesterday for a National Library Board (NLB) reading programme.

About 120 children listened with rapt attention as he read them a storybook, Go To Sleep, Gecko, based on a Balinese folk tale. He even chirped like a lizard for dramatic effect.

The event at the Ang Mo Kio Public Library marked the 10th anniversary of kidsRead, a programme in which volunteers read to children from low-income families to help them develop a love for reading.

This is done at 184 reading clubs in schools, community centres, family service centres and voluntary welfare organisations.

From next year, it will expand to include those from families with a gross monthly income of up to $6,000, up from $3,500 currently, so as to reach even more children.

Announcing this yesterday, Mr Lee said: "When a child is young, the best gift we can give the child is the gift of reading."

Since the programme started in 2004, more than 27,000 children aged between four and eight have benefited.

Mr Lee recounted how his mother, the late Madam Kwa Geok Choo, used to read storybooks to him when he was young, and how he learnt to read after she asked him to read a book on his own.

One of his favourite books was The Story About Ping, about a duckling on the Yangtze River.

"One day, I brought the book to my mother and said, 'Please can you read, Mama, read me this story again?' She said, 'You go and read yourself; you know how to read'," he recalled.

When he had children of his own, he said, he often read to them when they were young as well.

At yesterday's event, held in Ang Mo Kio GRC where he is a Member of Parliament, he also presented awards to the 10 longest-running kidsRead clubs and the 10 longest- serving volunteers.

More than 9,000 volunteers have been involved to date.

Two of them are Mr Jimmy Ho, 71, and his wife, Madam Grace Chng, 66, who started an informal reading programme for primary school pupils in Telok Blangah in 2003, before joining kidsRead a year later.

Said Mr Ho, a retired principal: "We wanted to encourage the children to read. There's a whole new world of learning in books."

Secondary school student Abdul Majeed Abdul Latiff, 14, said he did not have the habit of reading before joining kidsRead at the age of five.

A volunteer for the past three years, he said: "Reading was kind of boring (before). But now I find it a bit more interesting."

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LEGEND

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Re: Pinky the story teller

There's such thing as low income families in his dictionary? :rolleyes:
 

LEGEND

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Re: Pinky the story teller

Everyone belongs to a low income family compared to himself.

Lim Wee Kiak will tell you if Pinky don't earn more than these people, they will not sit down and listen to his stories. :oIo:
 

mojito

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Re: Pinky the story teller

Low income yet there are no poor people in Singapore. Truly a profound mystery!
 
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