Majulah Singapura

Based on the article in the Sunday Times (H11), what is your stand? Should there be a boycott of eateries and restaurants who don't serve our country's top-quality tap water?

I used to frequent La Forketta, and while we always order drinks anyway, I don't think I'll head back anymore.

"The managing director of Italian restaurant La Forketta, Ms Gracie Vitale, said: "Our patrons are serious diners and come for our food, not to taste water. It's the customer with a budget who insists on tap water."

Aside from the fact that I have absolutely no idea why a mid-priced Italian restaurant thinks their clientele is formed by "serious diners", I am boycotting snobbery. What a shitty thing to say about customers. Stupid Dempsey and its high horse.

We are Saving Charmaine.

Charmaine is 4 years old. She is diagnosed with Stage Four Neuroblastoma.

Organized by F-Entertainment, Saving Charmaine - Life Your Life 2009 band our talents for a cause. Powered by Charmaine’s well-wishers, Saving Charmaine – Life Your Life 2009 aims to raise $50 000 for the Saving Charmaine Fund. Proceeds from this event will be channeled to Charmaine’s family for her other medical and treatment expenses beyond the initial deposit that was raised.

This event merges the world of music with a cause. Saving Charmaine – Life Your Life 2009 is a celebration of life through music. With Zouk as the Venue Sponsor, Saving Charmaine - Life Your Life 2009 will entertain you with the best local acts in town as you do your part for Charmaine.

A testament to our Singapore spirit and the Singapore soul, Saving Charmaine – Live Your Life 2009 wants you to make an impact in Charmaine’s life. Our volunteers, performers, bands, sponsors, partners and supporters are in on this. We know compassion is not pegged to a value. We help, because we can.

We are Saving Charmaine. Are You?

Event: Saving Charmaine – Live Your Life 2009
Venue: Zouk Club
Date & Time: Saturday, 25th July 2009 5pm to 9pm
Sunday, 26th July 2009 6pm to 10pm

Limited Tickets. Ticket proceeds will go towards the Saving Charmaine Fund.
Purchase your tickets at any Tickets.com outlets or visit www.tdc.sg for more details. Ticket sales start 13 July 2009.

Performances (Day 1):
OUTOFRANGE
THE SALLYS
STUDIO WU
VOODOO DRUMS
ACADEMY OF ROCK
LEESON
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

Performances (Day 2):
ACADEMY OF ROCK
SAMBIESTA
WAITING FOR NOTHING
CARACAL
STUDIO WU
S.P.O.N.G.E
GREAT SPY EXPERIMENT



Check out the Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95975488518.

So within 4 years if a person sells more than one property he/she is liable to be taxed, depending on whether said person is deemed to be a "trader"?

Why are there no details about what constitutes as a trader?

What if a person decides to downgrade (e.g. S$2 million home to a S$500,000 condominium)? Why should anyone be taxed for that? Let's assume the first home was bought in pre-crisis 2008, and homeowner cannot afford the current payments and is forced to downgrade.

So much for curbing inflation in a stable market. They've only succeeded in inducing an unhealthy climate of nerves and confusion.

Does anyone know where to go for leather cleaning/care service. Preferably affordable. Thanks!!

Except in very limited circumstances that do not apply to most married women, under Singaporean law, a man who rapes his wife is not considered to have committed rape.

This campaign is calling for this to be changed - so that all forced sex would be treated as rape, regardless of whether the parties are married.



Please sign and pass the link on via email, Facebook, Twitter, LJ etc. The site also has some resources if you are interested in spreading the word in other ways.

Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
ISBN: 9789833782765
Author: Loh Kah Seng
Publisher: SIRD
Year: 2009
No of Pages: 189
Product ID: 434

Publisher
http://www.gerakbudaya.com/products-page/sird-new-releases/making-and-unmaking-the-asylum-leprosy-and-modernity-in-singapore-and-malaysia/

Blog
http://unmakingtheasylum.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/17/

Making and Unmaking the Asylum is a book which tells of two entangled stories – one of the misapplication of modern medicine – and the other of the resilience and resourcefulness of those who suffered from the disease and its terrible consequences.

It is also a book which demands that we examine the nature and consequences of our unceasing pursuit of modernity. It calls to attention the discomforting shape of our beliefs in modern science, disease and contagion.

( Click here to find out more about the concert! )

Hello everyone!

It was at the end of last year that I posted about Latin and ancient Greek lessons here in Singapore. The first session is over, and if you'd been there, you'd be able to read Latin and Greek now!

So, if it ever crossed your mind to learn these classical languages, don't miss the next session for beginners starting this Sunday.

Latin
2-4 pm every Sunday for 10 Sundays starting 5/7/2009
Tanglin CC

Ancient Greek
4-6 pm every Sunday for 10 Sundays starting 5/7/2009
Tanglin CC

The course fee is $100 for PA members, $110 otherwise.

Call Tanglin CC (62513922) for more information, or register online at http://one.pa.gov.sg . Search for course codes C13747584 (Latin) and C13747671 (ancient Greek).

Are you interested to watch any or all of the football matches in the Asian Youth Games 2009 ? The top 3 best commenters will receive a pair of SEASON tickets each to watch all the football games for the Asian Youth Games 2009. Hurry and comment now why you should be the one winning this pair of tickets!

Click here to see the schedule of the games – http://mhisham.org/?page_id=405

You may either leave your comments here or mail to WinAYG09FootballSeasonTickets@mhisham.org
 

Helping to spread some awareness here..some of you readers might have heard of little Charmaine's plight.

Charmaine has neuroblastoma, a form of cancer and is at her 4th stage of chemo now. Her condition is very serious as the cancer has spread to her bone marrow and bones. She is four, slightly older than my Joy.

Charmaine's medical treatment will cost a lot of money. About half a million dollars as an upfront deposit to send her to New York for treatment.

If you can help, please do. You can contact her mother, Cynthia, at www.ourfeistyprincess.com

You can also contact Charmaine's god mother at ourfeistyprincess [at] gmail.com.

The blog is http://ourfeistyprincess.blogspot.com .

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Do check out the webby and help if you can. It's always heartbreaking to see children in such life-threatening condition..

Get ready your astro-suit for this:

This is not just another party under the stars, it is AMONG them! Twilight Galaxy is an eccentric new dimension of fun, bringing you the best of the local electronica music acts, exciting out-of-the-world food, kickass alien merchandise and friendly beings from other planets.

Be here to catch the otherworldly performance by:
ANALOG GIRL
AMBERHAZE
BREAKBEAT THEORY
COSMIC ARMCHAIR
PERCY & THE STONES

50% of our proceeds go to the Soup Kitchen project, which gives free food to the poor every Monday, and Post-Museum which supports local artists.

( Get your golden ticket* to outerspace at $12 presale! )

As it is a theme party, attendees are strongly encouraged to dress up as anything outerspace-ish. First 30 attendees who dress up as according to theme will get gifts. Get those creative juices churning!

*Includes 1 free booze for attendees >18 y/o, or 1 free juice for the younger ones.

For maps, directions, venue preview, artiste profiles, info about our beneficiary, playlists and dedications, dressing tips, everything else, visit our blog at www.twilight-galaxy.blogspot.com We're also on facebook!

UPDATES:

COSMIC ARMCHAIR WILL ALSO BE PLAYING FOR OUR EVENT.
WE ARE HAVING A PROMOTION NOW. FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, TICKETS WILL BE GOING AT $10 EACH.
FRONT ROW WILL ALSO BE SELLING OUR TICKETS.


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This will be the largest scale SDAM event ever held we are doing it in a warehouse-esque location featuring a collection of top local live acts from our beloved genres alongside DJ talents

First 100 RSVP on our event thread at SDAM.sg will receive a $10 Wrangler Jeans voucher* upon entry!

( More details and lineup here! )

I read in the papers the other day that the LTA has decided to name the MRT station at Bt Timah 'Tan Kah Kee Station'.

Does anyone else think that this isn't exactly a very good idea?  In its initial public consultation exercise, LTA had already stated that "the names chosen should identify the station readily and also have a link to the heritage of the neighbourhood [but] should not be named after public structures, or commercial and residential developments".  In a way, naming it after a person does not violate these guidelines, but if you look at every other station in the MRT network, they are all named after geographical place names for easy idea of where they are.  Already it is confusing enough for those not living in Bt Panjang or Sengkang where each LRT station is (but that is understandable because the LRT is located within a relatively small area).  As far as I can recall, in all the cities around the world that I've been to, all the tube stations are named after physical and geographical place names, not people.

The difference between station names like Mountbatten, Clementi, and Yishun, and with Tan Kah Kee, however, is that the area which the station is located is not called Tan Kah Kee—it's called Bukit Timah or Dunearn.  Even the estate where the station is to be located is called Duchess or Watten (which were the other shortlisted names).  Imagine what would happen if Bras Basah station was named 'De La Salle' or 'St Joseph's' instead, or if the Esplanade station had been named 'Rajaratnam', or Novena Station had been named 'Tan Tock Seng', or Potong Pasir had been named 'St Andrew's' or 'Sherman Venn'?


For reference, these are the LTA approved names for Circle and Downtown Line stations:

Final name (working name)

Haw Par Villa (West Coast)

Caldecott (Thomson)

Telok Ayer (Cross Street)

Downtown (Landmark)

Bayfront (Bayfront)

Rochor (Rochor)

Stevens (Stevens)

Tan Kah Kee (Duchess)

Sixth Avenue (Sixth Avenue)

King Albert Park (Blackmore)

Beauty World (Beauty World)

Hillview (Hillview)

Cashew (Cashew)

Bukit Panjang (Petir)

An online friend off mine is coming to Singapore for a visit and has asked me to suggest a good and relatively cheap place to stay. She thinks she might prefer Chinatown or Little India but is open to any good location. She would prefer a hotel but if too expensive she does not mind hostels.

Any suggestions?

Hey everybody!

Create an experimental film/video of not more than 15mins under the theme “ETERNITY”. No narrative. All films must reach by 09.09.09!

Send your preview DVD, personal information and rationale to:

shypeoplesupperclub

105F Chestnut Avenue,

Singapore 679513

For more enquiries, please email

shypeoplesupperclub@gmail.com

Fans and fiends of old-school goth classics, this upcoming Saturday will thrill you with killer hits from the era of Siouxsie, The Cure, Depeche Mode and Joy Division.

ORIGINAL SIN, the first and only Darkwave/Goth night in SINgapore is where the tragedy's at, melding lush lyrics and vitriolic vignettes that snake its wispy tendrils into the bleak void of your soul. Love lost, decay, and subterranean emptiness, topped with a dose of your favourite poison--there's always the ABSINTHE SHOTS at $8--will infuse this piquant night with opulent colours of introspection and revelation.

Celebrate the fragile human condition with haunting songcrafts and otherworldly offerings of DARKWAVE/OLD-SCHOOL GOTH/ETHEREAL/FOLK from our resident deck masters MENTOR, COSMIC BATTLEFIELD and an appearance by LIQUE. So come dressed in your mourning best, for it's time to bleed out the angst, and wax eloquent about death--after all, Bela Lugosi's DEAD.


Details you'll need:
- 20th June, Saturday
- Cover of $12
- Absinthe shots at $8++, mixers at $10++
- Beers from $6 onwards
- At Blu Jaz Space (on the 3rd floor!!!!!!!)
- Dress in your mourning best!

For more information:

SDAM party pictures – http://www.sdam.asia
SDAM Portal and Forum – http://www.sdam.sg
SDAM Official Livejournal - http://singaporegoths.livejournal.com
SDAM Official Facebook community - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5512868844
Blu Jaz - http://www.blujaz.net

with woe,

Lique

The Substation Moving Images presents
FIRST TAKE
6 July 2009
The Substation Theatre
8pm, FREE ADMISSION

First Take, happening every 1st Monday of the month at The Substation, is a popular screening of new local short films and is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. A platform for new filmmakers and anyone who is interested in filmmaking to meet, exchange ideas and show their work. See the future talents of Singapore film!

1. ONE PLUS ONE / KELLY SWEE / 11 MIN / 2008 / PG

Synopsis:
A story of two lonely people, who have very similar yearnings for somebody to accompany them, due to their solitary lives and an unknown sense of loneliness. The two characters turn out to complement each other.

Director's Statement:
This is the first short film produced and directed by me. I had some hands-on experimentation with cameras since mid 2007, and I learnt my film techniques in school.

2. LOVE LAWS / CHERIYAN LYDIA NATALIA / 17 MIN / 2009 /



Synopsis:
The Love Laws govern who should be loved, how much, and by whom. Despite this, Ammu Kochamma, a Touchable widow, has an illicit relationship with her Untouchable lover, Velutha Paapen, and plans to flee with him. The story unfolds to show the dire consequences of transgressing these rules; thus pushes the characters to their limit. Love Laws explores the meaning of forbidden love against the backdrop of tradition.

Director's Statement:
I sought to create an Indian iconographic piece in the parameters of Singapore while exploring an intense dimension towards the film, filing it with beautiful landscapes while subtly mirroring that of India. Being greatly influence by the works of Director Deepa Mehta and the fascination of the New Indian Cinema, I present a film for all to follow the plight of the characters, while enjoying the emotional journey alongside them.

3. LOL.SG / MARILYN LOO / 18 MIN / 2009 / PG

Synopsis:
LOL.SG is a feature documentary that explores the local comedy scene and the concept of cultural identity in Singapore. “Lame, cliché, boring.” Increasingly, Singapore humour has been labelled as such. However, we offer an alternative and unexpected take on Singaporean humour that shows it is indeed alive and kicking.

Director's Statement:
Humour has proven itself to be a very abstract topic to tackle, but the satisfaction in seeing this project take shape is immense beyond description. LOL.SG is our first full-fledged short and it has been a learning experience. It is about rediscovering Singapore culture, and reflecting what or where the funny is. It is about ignoring that gnawing fear of failure, and taking the plunge to do something meaningful and possibly funny.


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SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME ALL YEAR ROUND! For more information or to
screen your work at First Take, please visit our website at
[url=http://www.substation.org]The Substation - A home for the arts[/url] or contact the Programme Manager of Moving Images
at 6337 7535 / [email]movingimages@substation.org[/email]

First Take is presented as part of The Substation Moving Images
programme and supported by the Singapore Film Commission and has Kodak as our Main Sponsor in 2009!

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