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.

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!

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Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

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Do inform all others about this.



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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.

A Comedy on Subprime Mortgage Crisis

This is a satirical comedy about the Subprime Crisis in the US which has affected the world

severely. The two Johns are old hands in comedy and will bring on the laughs.

Tell Me Why

Have you ever heard a young boy singing so beautifully and perfectly?

Tell Me Why....is a song of PEACE in world that is filled with hate and violence.

When he sang that song, Declan Galbraith was only about 10 years old. Today, he is 18 and a star.

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Kew Ong Yah Temple

This is the page from the October month of the ATC Heritage calendar 2009. It shows the Hougang Tao Mu Gong otherwise more commonly known as the Temple of Kew Ong Yah ( the 9th Deity ).
It is situated along Upper Serangoon Road and was established by the late Mr Ong Choo Kee, a businessman.
Devotees normally gather on the morning of the 9th Day of the Lunar month and they will accompany an urn of burning josssticks placed on a special sedan chair. The procession will then proceed to the Whampoa River to welcome the deity. Today that ceremony has shifted to the Serangoon River.
Quite often, a "tangki" or temple medium in a trance -like state will be along too.

Kitchen Fire: What you must know

Watch this video so that you know what to do in the unfortunate event that there is a fire in your kitchen. Knowledge is always an asset !