I AM A SONG
I LIVE TO BE SUNG
I SING WITH ALL MY HEART
......John Denver......
Read the full and interesting article, with much more info about the song, about John Denver etc... which I posted at my Wise Owl blogsite.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Pertandingan Kompang
The Serangoon was the venue for Pertandingan Kompang (Kompang Competition) held on Mar 14, 2009. Twelve Teams from all over in Singapore, participated in the Competition. Photos taken by Passion Photographers had been uploaded in the website: http://www.theserangoon.multiply.com/
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Darma Muneeswaran Temple Bursary Awards 2009, cum Launching of Darma Youth Wing
The Guest-of-Honour, Mrs. Lim Hwee Hua, lightes up the lamp to signal the start of Darma Muneeswaran Temple Bursary Awards and Launch of Darma Youth Wing.I was impressed with the way the Event was organized.
Photos taken by Passion Photographers had been uploaded in the website (http://www.theserangoon.multiply.com/). Visit the website to view the complete coverage of this special Event.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Aljunied GRC & Hougang SMC Dialogue Session
MPs from the Aljunied GRC together with Mr. Eric Low were at the Aljunied GRC & Hougang SMC Dialogue Session for GRLs held on March 5, 2009. The Presentations together with speeches/comments from MPs and GRLs were enriching. Now we have a better understanding on why the Government did not reduce the GST. Those who did not attendthe Dialogue Session last night had missed something for sure !!!
Photos taken by Passion Photographers at the above event had been uploaded in our website:http://theserangoon.multiply.com/photos/album/17/Aljunied_GRC_Hougang_SMC_Dialogue_Session_Mar_5_09
Presentation on the Resilience Package valued at S$20.5 Billion.Want to know more ?
Presentation on what the commuters will benefit from the new fare structure.
The savings from transfers from bus-train-bus-train.
An overview of the GRLs at the Dialogue Session held in the Multi-Purpose Hall in The Serangoon
Presentation on what the commuters will benefit from the new fare structure.
The savings from transfers from bus-train-bus-train.
An overview of the GRLs at the Dialogue Session held in the Multi-Purpose Hall in The SerangoonMPs from Aljunied GRC together with Mr Eric Low were at the Dialogue Session held at The Serangoon on Mar. 5, 2009, for GRLs in the Aljunied GRC. We were treated to 2 presentations on the "Resilience Package" and "All Communters will Benefit...." plus speeches/comments actively participated by MPs and GRLs. Indeed, it was an enriching Dialogue Session. Now we have a better understanding why the GST should not be cut! If you were not present, you had missed something !
Click on the link below to view photos taken by Passion Photographers at the Dialogue Session :http://theserangoon.multiply.com/photos/album/17/Aljunied_GRC_Hougang_SMC_Dialogue_Session_Mar_5_09
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Church of Nativity and CHIJ Punggol
This is the page for the month of December of the ATC Heritage Calendar 2009. It shows 2 photos of the oldest Catholic Church for the Teochews in S'pore's North-East region and the old CHIJ Punggol.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Chinese: 圣母圣诞堂) is a Catholic church in Singapore. It is located at Upper Serangoon Road in the Hougang Planning Area, within Singapore's North-East Region.
The church was constructed in 1901, and is the oldest Catholic church for the Teochew community in Serangoon.
History
The origins of this Catholic church can be traced to an attap (thatched roof) chapel that was built in 1853 on Upper Serangoon Road, its congregation comprising mainly Teochew farmers living in Serangoon and Punggol. Subsequently, a brick chapel was built in the area and named St Mary's Church. Father Jean Casimir Saleilles, parish priest from 1881 to 1911, was responsible for building the present church in 1901.
Father Saleilles also helped to spread the Catholic faith to Johore. He founded the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Johor), later renamed the Church of the Immaculate Conception and subsequently designated a cathedral. His good relationship with Sultan Ibrahim of Johor let the Sultan to present the Church in Johor, as well as the Church of the Nativity in Singapore, each a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church of the Nativity's statue still stands in front of the church building.
The Church of the Nativity founded many educational institutions in the region, including the Holy Innocents' High School, Hai Seng Girls' High School (now Hai Sing Catholic School), Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Punggol (now CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity), and Montfort School (now Montfort Junior School and Montfort Secondary School).
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was gazetted as a national monument on 14 January 2005.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Chinese: 圣母圣诞堂) is a Catholic church in Singapore. It is located at Upper Serangoon Road in the Hougang Planning Area, within Singapore's North-East Region.
The church was constructed in 1901, and is the oldest Catholic church for the Teochew community in Serangoon.
History
The origins of this Catholic church can be traced to an attap (thatched roof) chapel that was built in 1853 on Upper Serangoon Road, its congregation comprising mainly Teochew farmers living in Serangoon and Punggol. Subsequently, a brick chapel was built in the area and named St Mary's Church. Father Jean Casimir Saleilles, parish priest from 1881 to 1911, was responsible for building the present church in 1901.
Father Saleilles also helped to spread the Catholic faith to Johore. He founded the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Johor), later renamed the Church of the Immaculate Conception and subsequently designated a cathedral. His good relationship with Sultan Ibrahim of Johor let the Sultan to present the Church in Johor, as well as the Church of the Nativity in Singapore, each a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church of the Nativity's statue still stands in front of the church building.
The Church of the Nativity founded many educational institutions in the region, including the Holy Innocents' High School, Hai Seng Girls' High School (now Hai Sing Catholic School), Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Punggol (now CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity), and Montfort School (now Montfort Junior School and Montfort Secondary School).
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was gazetted as a national monument on 14 January 2005.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Important Advice about SPAM !
GOOD ADVICE FROM SNOPES PLEASE READ.
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with WWW.snopes.Com and/or WWW.truthorfiction.Com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites. I received the advice below from one of my correspondents today.
Advice from Snopes.com MEMORIZE THIS!
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.
2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!
Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run..
Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later!
Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich!
Let's don't make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
PS: Adding your name to a list of names on an e-mail you receive, doesn't work, because you add your name and send it to 10 people creates 10 more petitions!!!, and they just keep multiplying!! Delete them!!!
Do inform all others about this.
unk Dicko
.
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with WWW.snopes.Com and/or WWW.truthorfiction.Com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites. I received the advice below from one of my correspondents today.
Advice from Snopes.com MEMORIZE THIS!
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.
2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!
Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run..
Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later!
Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich!
Let's don't make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
PS: Adding your name to a list of names on an e-mail you receive, doesn't work, because you add your name and send it to 10 people creates 10 more petitions!!!, and they just keep multiplying!! Delete them!!!
Do inform all others about this.
unk Dicko
.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
St Paul's Church...Upper Serangoon Road
This is the page from the November month of the ATC Heritage Calendar 2009.The photo shows the Church of St Paul which was built before WW2. In the past, the Social Welfare Department had used this place as a distribution centre for feeding the poor and underprivileged...many of whom were affected by the war.
Church members helped in the distribution of food.
Today, St Paul remains a clear landmark along the main Upper Serangoon Road opposite to Hougang Street 21 junction.
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