As the year rolls on, punctuated by traditional festivals such as Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, Cheryl is guided by her family members through preparing and cooking many dishes such as mooncakes and the pyramidal bak-zhang. Showcasing the traditional dishes, in the prelude to preparing them, is a vehicle for exploring the legends and myths that provide the backdrop for the festivities.

Making Aunty Khar Moi’s Snow-Skin Mooncakes

The family stories that Cheryl knew from her childhood are peeled away like an onion to reveal deeper truths. With trust built through shared cooking experiences, older family members bond with Cheryl and show her how the family as it is today came to be. The passions, the quirks, the prejudices that are handed from grandparent to parent are teased forth in conversational manner and provides a window into the social and political norms of the Singapore’s early days.

Beyond the prism of Singapore’s history, there are side trips that dig into other cultures and demonstrate life’s little lessons; how cooking for a loved one can sunder cultural and formal values when Cheryl visits her Korean mother in law; a visit to Cheryl’s ancestral village in China that show how people are products of their current social and political environment and even a little jaunt with friends in the heart of America demonstrate the true power of chicken rice, no matter how poorly it is made.

Adventuring with friends to discover food is a common and theme that riddles the book. The need to find the best foods, shared by the stereotypical Singaporean, leads Cheryl to befriend some of the best chefs in Singapore and other mere mortals. Together they come, they see, they eat, they comment, they share recipes and it is detailed with a whole lot of fun. Passion, energy and the excitement of the food hunt and the joy of discovery is as close as it gets to what it means to be a Singaporean.

So do you want to salivate over this book? Moderate English fluency is handy for appreciating the little gems that are secreted into the accessible passages. Some very good recipes are handily unveiled at the back of the book that should provide inspiration for Dear Reader’s next cooking adventure. It is also interesting to see how one can turn the act of cooking into a novel format, something that stands out in literary landscape dominated by crime, fantasy, conflict and romance.

A Tiger in the Kitchen exposes what it means to be a Singaporean and how it works in practice. There are threads that run from our forefathers to us, and food is a daily ritual where we reinforce the legacy and use it to thread with the people around us. This is Cheryl’s journey of exploring her roots and offers many practical tips on how to win friends and influence family.

Let us tuck in!

By Debbie Ng, a marketing communications manager at NVPC, who gets a lot of fulfillment working in the non-profit sector. A self-confessed animal lover, she recently started a blog to rehome dogs.

Take a step back and look around you on this tiny island. What likely greets you is an urban environment made up of modern buildings, clean, neat streets and well-dressed people rushing through their busy lives at a frantic pace. How often do you pay attention to the disabled lady outside the train station, trying to make a decent living from selling tissue paper, or the old man pushing a cart laden with cardboard on the busy road?

We do not often take time to think about those who are less fortunate than us and what we can do for them, because we are caught up with our daily lives. The fact is, in Singapore, someone does go hungry every day, even as you and I are enjoying our lunch. Another may be going through a family crisis while another is on the brink of suicide. Others may be struggling with mobility issues.

These situations seem bleak. But, the good news is, they do not have to face this alone. Not if you can lend a helping hand.

Research done by the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) has shown a steady rise in volunteerism from 9.3% in 2000 to 23.3% in 2010. This shows that more people in Singapore are giving their time. But imagine if the remaining 75% stepped forward. So many more could be helped.

Inspiring more people to step up

That is the aim of “Walk with me”, this year’s International Volunteer Day celebrations organised by NVPC. It aims to inspire more people to give by volunteering towards a cause they are passionate about. “Walk with Me” will take you beyond the glitter and glamour of our urban streets to a side of Singapore that is hardly ever seen. Featuring an interactive exhibition showcasing various social needs in Singapore, participants can experience the challenges beneficiaries face daily through hands-on experience, simulation through their five senses and the use of multi-media technologies.

‘Experience with me’ – An Interactive Exhibition

The interactive exhibition, “Experience with Me” covers five areas – Animals and the Environment, Community, Special Needs, Elderly and Health.

The exhibits in the Animals and the Environment feature interesting concepts including a wildlife enclosure by the Animal Concerns and Research Education Society (ACRES), a forest trail by National Parks (NParks) where participants will learn tree tagging, try their hand at guiding and find out about how unique images of animals are captured.

In the Community exhibit, a typical one-room flat in Singapore will be reconstructed. Often, many occupants of one-room flats live in cluttered, accident-prone environments that pose health risks caused by beg bug infestations and lack of personal hygiene. Supported by Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society, participants will experience the living conditions of such flats and learn interesting facts about assistive devices used in these homes.

The area on Special Needs includes experiencing the challenges of the hearing-impaired, physically-handicapped and the visually-handicapped. Participants will learn sign language and lip reading skills taught by the Singapore Association of the Deaf and experience using various handicap assistive devices.

Based on Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Dialogues in the Dark programme, a dark room will be constructed where participants will use their other senses to go through life without their sense of sight. They will be led by a visually-handicapped guide through various activities in the dark, in various settings including a living room, kitchen and shopping centre.

Participants will also get a chance to experience the ageing process, what it is like to not be ambulant and suffer from common elderly ailments like stroke, gradual loss of sight and touch at the exhibit by Bright Vision Hospital.

The exhibition aims to raise awareness of these needs and inspire participants to pledge their volunteer hours with one or more of the close to 50 non-profit organisations from the five areas, present at the larger exhibition area “Connect with Me”. They can easily do so through pledge cards or online at the event.

Walk, Pitch and Rock for Your Cause

Apart from pledging their hours, participants can inspire others to volunteer towards their preferred cause through a symbolic walk for causes. This is where participants show their support for charity by wearing a T-shirt supporting a cause they are passionate about and rallying others to join them on a walk along Orchard Road, to the event at SCAPE. The walk happens every hour on the hour from 10am to 3pm and is open to anyone who wants to make a difference to the community.

Non-profit organisations will also get a chance to raise awareness for their cause through a live “Fire Pitch”. The pitch will be made to a corporate audience. The two organisations with the most creative or compelling pitch will walk away with sponsored funding for a proposed initiative or programme.

To complete the celebrations, the day will culminate in a rousing rock concert organised by YMCA of Singapore, to appreciate and thank volunteers for all their efforts and contributions towards the community.

Please Walk With Us

“Walk with Me” hopes to bring awareness to Singaporeans of the countless needs in the community we live in and of the fact that we can play a part, even with our busy schedules.

Every bit of effort adds up. Whether you are an individual, a corporate organisation or a charity, you can play a part to give and inspire others to give.

At the IAVE World Volunteer Conference held in Singapore in January 2011, Dr Kenn Allen of Civil Society Consulting, a Washington DC-based consulting firm, presented an executive summary of the Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project, a multiyear research project that conducted in depth interviews with 47 of the biggest global companies in the world. These companies included luminaries such as Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Samsung, Standard Chartered Bank and The Walt Disney Company.

This was the first project of its scope and kind and its purpose was to look at:
—Differences in corporate volunteering trends across the world;
—How global companies organise and manage their volunteer efforts.

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7 trends identified in organising corporate volunteering in global companies.

Corporate Volunteering is now a strategic asset that is specifically used to meet business goals. It can build effective teams within the workplace and strengthen employee loyalty and pride in the company.

Inspiring practices is a better way of describing great corporate volunteering ideas since it allows for practices that best serve each situation. On the other hand, “best practices” usually describe popular practices which may not serve well sometimes.

Global and local partnerships with NGOs is an essential element of corporate volunteering because NGOs provide expertise that can guide corporate involvement such as leveraging employees personal professional skills and using existing metrics.

Different philosophies and operations drive corporate volunteering across different companies. It is usually better to implement programmes locally, based on the framework which has been set by the company.

Skills based and International volunteering are new trends. Results are highly effective as employees enjoy the opportunity to use their personal & professional skills and they enjoy travelling; however there are major hurdles in scaling these types of programmes up.

Many companies are not doing due diligence in measuring and evaluating the impact of employee volunteering programmes and seeing if they are meeting their goals. NGOs often can provide their own metrics when companies feel that it is too expensive to do their own impact evaluations. There is no global standard for measuring employee volunteering.

Innovative technology has been used for some volunteering projects, but many times its use is routine and limited. In many cases the workplace may create challenges in accessing technology that supports corporate volunteering.

By Terence Chong, a sociologist and Chua Ai Lin, a historian, writing on behalf of the Singapore Heritage Society.

In land-scarce Singapore, the tension between heritage and modernity is not unusual, as the on-going debate over Bukit Brown Cemetery demonstrates. This debate is the latest in a long line of struggles over important national spaces such as the National Library building in Stamford Road and Bidadari cemetery in Upper Aljunied Road, both of which have been irretrievably lost to the nation.

In July this year, the Urban Redevelopment Authority announced that Bukit Brown Cemetery would be needed for future housing and in mid-September, the Land Transport Authority revealed plans to begin constructing a dual four-lane road through Bukit Brown Cemetery in early 2013. The road will affect about 5,000 of the approximately 100,000 graves.

Troy Chin’s Loti is the textbook we wished teachers would force us to memorise back in the day. In a word, it endears us to remember everything that was fun about going to school, without the perennial dread of exams and homework. The premise is simple: Loti revolves around Huang Shuwen and his adventures with his friends both in and out of school. The title of the novel gets its name from a dog that Shuwen later encounters and befriends.

Throughout the story, we as readers are slowly taught to look at the world through the eyes of a young boy; and that world is a strangely familiar one.

It is not only that Shuwen asks questions we ourselves have once always wondered but perhaps never got answered, (like, would the ceiling fans ever come off their hinges?) it is that the questions he asks are very much the questions we might have asked. The people that populate the school and home of loti, likewise add plenty of personality to creating an authentic prepubescent growing up phase. It is a phase that many of us look back on fondly, whilst at the same time recognising that it can be both an exciting and dangerous time for any child growing up.

It is not only Shuwen that is growing up here, however.

There is without a doubt a charm in the world that Chin creates, a charm that resonates with the inner child inside all of us. His thoughts on the way life works and how it should work might have once been our thoughts. Loti reminds us of how we ourselves once viewed our surroundings and the people around us with such child-like naiveté.

Not childish, mind you, for not everything in Shuwen’s world is seen through rose-tinted glasses. Loti tackles some deep issues in a light-hearted way; things such as the perception of Mother Tongue, global warming and even having a foreign student in class. These are issues that constantly surface in Loti and are often relatable to students; for let us be honest with ourselves, who has not gone through our local education without once experiencing the berating of parents’ with regards to grades, or the dull drone of a teacher’s voice?

Chin’s art direction for Loti removes any doubt that this is a world yet untouched by the constant cynicism present in ‘adult’ realities. Reminiscent of Japanese Manga styles, Loti emphasises innocence, so do not expect hyper realistic characters, flashy styles or detailed rendered environments. Instead, the drawing is cartoon-like, peppered with the familiar use of Manga tropes; and this actually works in its favour. We are, after all, invited into the mind of a boy at the cusp of Primary 2. The end result is a lovely hearkening to the flavour of yesteryear’s comics like Archie or Peanuts.

Loti is an addictive read, not only for children of all ages, but it makes for fantastic parent-child reading time as well. For the children, Shuwen’s search is a magical story of discovery and growing up; and the lessons Loti teaches are both heartfelt and memorable. For adults, it is a invitation into a world once thought buried in the past – an invitation that asks Loti’s readers to don their old uniforms and reminisce about an innocence that can only stem from one’s schooling days.

A World of Loti

Loti is a daily, four-panel, slice of life comic strip that began its run on September 30, 2008. The story follows the inquisitive Huang Shuwen and his five Primary 2 friends as they go about their adventures in and around their neighbourhood. The comic strip has been released as books with bonus comic strips added.

Meet the cast of Loti.

You can also download the character themed emoticons and wallpaper from Loti website.

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Each book captures 1 term of the school year, depicting all the Singaporean festivals and activities that punctuate each quarter of the local calendar. Terms 1, 2 and 3 are out.

You can also get your Loti from the online store.

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Build your own Loti! All you need is a colour printer, scissors, some PVA glue or glue tape, patience and lots of LOVE. Take a picture of him at your favourite places and contribute to the Loti sightings album on Facebook!

Students who are Singapore Residents can win the Ipad and a plaque of participation for their school, by finding the most innovative way to fit the GEW Compass Ring around everyday objects, such as the wheels of a bus or a pair of spectacle frames.

4 simple steps before 31 October 2011

1. Download the GEW compass ring from www.gewsingapore.org/ring-it.html

2. Create a picture or an image that fits uses the GEW compass ring

3. Post the image on the GEW Singapore Facebook Group Wall at www.facebook.com/groups/256969217665585

4. Ask your friends to like your contribution

You can contribute as many pictures as you want.
Receive the prize at Grand Cathay Cinema at 10.30am on 8 November if your picture has the most likes.

The Winner: Junling Toh
“Apple products are definitely one of the daily objects that are commonly seen everyday, everywhere. I would place the RING-it button on a typical iPhone’s Home Button, since it would definitely be very conspicuous. With the multi-coloured palette against the striking black background, it is almost impossible for RING-it to go unnoticed! – R.I.P Steve Jobs, the Master of Innovation.”

By BG (NS) Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister of State (Manpower), one of the two Ministers of State (National Development) and is one of the five Members of Parliament (MPs) for the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (Marine Parade GRC).

I was interviewed by The Straits Times and LianHe ZaoBao on Bukit Brown. These are my thoughts on the matter.

What it means to me

Our history and heritage is precious. They are anchors to our past even as we look forward to our future. It matters because in some shape and form, it makes us who we are and not just any global citizen. There is something distinctive and special in being Singapore and Singaporean. Our past belongs to us and no one else. For me, it is this sense of our nation that makes it all worth fighting for.

I miss the old National Library. The architecture does not mean much to me but it was a place where I spent many a holiday working as a librarian, sorting out library cards and slotting books back on the shelves. I miss Bidadari Cemetery and its wonderful sculptures, as I would its present wide open expanse where I bring my kids to run and cycle. I have fond memories of the old National Theatre where my mom brought me to watch the inter-school drama competitions. I remember the old open-air cinema in Holland Village as I do the drive-in in Jurong. One of the earliest memories I have of yueh char kway was in the Margaret Drive Hawker Center. Loved the way they pulled the dough, fold it, and repeat it again. And the final deft press with the single chopstick before it slides into the hot vat of oil. I know this well as I had practiced it often with my plastacine at home! The Hawker Center was just pulled down. That same store had been there all these years. I do not know where they have gone to.

These are our memories because we lived through it. But it will not be my children’s memories. They will create their own. I have a sense and feel of the images and experiences of the past but it would not be the same as how my parents felt as they lived through their years. And the cycle continues with new memories created and old ones stored and become etched in time. Some will fade, some will endure. And we need to keep what we can. Physical markers are important because they help us remember our past. Original markers would be best. But can markers exist in different forms?

Wearing different hats

When I came to Ministry of National Development, I asked for a brief on our efforts on this front. Bukit Brown was one issue I wanted to understand better. I wanted to know if we had thought it through. Like many, I wondered if we could have kept more of our past and not just give them up in the name of progress and development.

I have come to realise that my colleagues in Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) care a great deal about these things. More than many give them credit for. I respect them for it. In our earlier years, our priorities had been to quickly develop, get the economy right, house our people etc. But we also realised that we were losing some of our precious past. The conservation arm of URA was set up to ensure that we tread carefully. We have conserved more than 7000 buildings and have earmarked areas like Kampong Glam, Little India and Chinatown for conservation. There are many other areas and buildings where we have also deliberately left undeveloped. But URA also have the uneviable responsibility of planning for our future while preserving our past. How do we strike a balance?

Some have chided us for not taking a holistic all round view.

We have an entire country squeezed into just over 700+ sq km. We need to decide how best to allocate land to live in, play and work, land for catchment and defence needs, and how we preserve our environment, heritage and history. Few countries, if any, need to make these choices. They all have a hinterland to shift things to.

We need to also look ahead and project our needs. I have taken a look at our 2025 plans and beyond till the middle of this century. The Bukit Brown area would be required for future developments. We will defer the bulk of Bukit Brown Cemetery till much later. Perhaps 20 years and beyond. In the next 10-15 years, we would develop the southern part, where the Police Academy presently stands, as part of the extension of the Toa Payoh area.

We do not only wear the Bukit Brown Cemetery hat, but the many other hats of our present and our future. And yes, we also wear the hat that cherish our history, heritage and environment.

Why the road? Where was the consultation?

The immediate concern, which had been building up, is the traffic needs of the outer ring road. This is the series of roads (Still-Eunos Link-Bartley-Braddel-Lornie-Adam-Farrer-Queensway) which from British days serve as an alternate bypass to the city. We have been broadening all the roads. Lornie is a present 7-laner (and narrower lanes at that ie. not your typical width lanes). It is now a bottle-neck at peak hours and traffic will increase by a projected 20-30% by 2020.

We had been deferring work for the last few years to determine how best to meet the needs. We did not consult because it would not be appropriate as it could have implications on existing houses along the way. Land development is market sensitive and it impacts on people’s house values or if assymetric, people could profiteer. We are not able to discuss some of these plans openly.

We decided that we should not eat into our nature reserve. Bukit Timah and our Central Catchment are two particularly precious tracts of our environmental heritage. It is already precarious being too close to the road. Encroachment would cause the forest to slowly die more than the number of metres taken up. (And to reiterate. Golf courses are part of the re-development plan going forward. A road via the golf course will go nowhere unless you bulldoze through the nature reserve. In any case, it is within the catchment zone and heavy development cannot take place.)

We explored the range of options. Building a viaduct entails much foundation works and will require space to build. This would be the same if we had done that in Bukit Brown Cemetery.

Tunneling would seem the most logical option. I thought so too. But it is not. MRT tunnels are small compared to what would be needed for 8 lanes. It’d need to be 30+ metres deep to be viable. And it would be a technological challenge. All our other underground roads are cut and cover meaning we dig the hole and then cover to form a tunnel. Boring a tunnel for 8 lanes is not something we are able to do.

We finally concluded that the road via Bukit Brown Cemetery was the best option. It was not an overnight decision. We spent the last few years working out possibilities as we widened the rest of the other roads.

What about our heritage?

We were well aware of the implications and the value of our nature reserve on one side and the history captured within Bukit Brown Cemetery on the other. It was not an easy decision. It’d have been far easier to defer it and not do anything.

When we finally decided that it was to be a road through Bukit Brown Cemetery, my URA colleagues began to discuss with the main stakeholders before the announcement of the road plan. They had discussed with some members of Singapore Heritage Society, met a few personalities passionate about the place and importantly, to talk to the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan. We wanted to settle some of these broadly before bringing in formally a larger group to be the advisory committee. It was not about whether to build the road or not but to see how best we can document this part of our heritage, with emphases on the area affected by the road and a longer term effort for the rest of Bukit Brown Cemetery.

This is a great opportunity to bring together different groups to not only document, but to see how best to raise greater awareness of the history that is captured within Bukit Brown Cemetery. As I mentioned earlier, the bulk of Bukit Brown Cemetery would not be developed for awhile. Like what we are doing with our Rail Corridor, we can discuss considerations to be factored in when development does take place (again, it is many years hence and may be premature in any case). In the interim, we can talk about what we may want to do in the next few decades. And what we may wish to do with the place in the next few years.

Bukit Brown Cemetery need not be a place for the dead. It should be a place for the living. I do not know how long the interest will last. I look at our other historical memorials. Much as we wax lyrical about them, the numbers who do visit are very low. We should take the opportunity to kindle new interests and re-kindle old ones.

In an ideal world, I keep everything. Why not if I can afford that? I can cite how London cherishes its past and prevents unnecessary development. But I do not have the space of greater London nor the land that the rest of UK affords.

But I can figure out how best to keep this history and heritage alive in different ways. If we are not ‘pantang’, I can see small clusters of cemetery parks amidst development. Some prominent tombs can be re-located (a number were re-located to Bukit Brown Cemetery anyways) to other places. I should document not just the physical but also the stories and rituals that will fade with the generations.

Next steps

My colleagues and I share the sentiments of many who are championing the cause of our past. I respect the passion that many have shown. It shows that we have many who care. That is important.

Some have accused us of selling out and for not caring for our heritage they way they do. Some issue political threats. Each will have to decide on the approach we wish to take. I discuss and share perspectives where I can. But I have to admit that at times, when I read the posts on the Facebook groups, it does not sound that I would be able to meaningfully contribute to their conversations.

But I am grateful to those with whom I have corresponded. I appreciate those who have stepped forward to join Dr Hui who would be heading our effort on the documentation front. Thanks to those who have also agreed to come on board to help in different ways. I am also thankful to the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, Peranakan Association and Singapore Heritage Society, as well as our partners from National Heritage Board, National Library Board and National Archives of Singapore. URA will take the lead as we work this effort collectively.

As we remember our past and build our futures, I believe that it is a path best journeyed together.

Do you want a really COOL volunteering experience!

Join us at Scape on 26 November for International Volunteer Day and we will give you a GOOD reason to talk to anyone that interests you, tell them what excites you and hear what they have to say about themselves. Here, you can connect with organisations that matter to you and use this event to springboard yourself into your passion.

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Share your stories of doing good well, whether it be with your entrepreneurship, your innovation, your volunteering or your donations. Show us what you got and blow us away! Meet the passionate individuals in Good Paper and find out why they choose to get involved. Discover the secret sauce that keeps us going every day.

Find us at our booth. Alongside with us will be products from Mother and Child Project, sewn and made in Singapore by disadvantaged mothers, up for sale.

We will love to see you at the really awesomely super duper COOL place to be on 26 November!

He may not have a Wikipedia entry yet, however Chua Thian Poh has been a long serving Chinese community leader and in partnership with the government, created the 10 million dollar Chua Thian Poh Entrepreneurship Education Funds, which is being used to foster entrepreneurship and innovation education at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to enhance their Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation Education. National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduates now have the opportunity to develop their community leadership skills, thanks to a generous donation from Mr Chua to enable NUS to set up a community leadership programme. Mr Chua’s donation to NUS further reflects Mr Chua’s history as a highly successful businessman and effective community leader.

The Entrepreneur

Leaving school at 16 years of age, Mr Chua struck out from his father’s business and became a millionaire at 21 years of age by producing metal hooks and spikes for the logging industry. The business collapsed when timber prices dropped a year later. In the 1970s he ran an import/export business from Indonesia and once again lost millions during the 1978 devaluation of the Indonesian rupiah, which occurred in response to a fall in oil prices and decrease in Indonesian foreign reserves. Since 1983, Mr Chua has been in property development and is one of Singapore’s richest men and the chairman of Ho Bee Investments, which specialises in high end residential projects in London, Singapore and Shanghai. It also operates many other local and international businesses such as printing, engineering and petrol kiosks.

The Community Leader

1993 marked the start of Mr Chua’s involvement in the Community when was invited to join Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI). 3 years later he was elected to the executive council at the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK), which is the largest Chinese Clan in Singapore representing more than 4,200 members. He has served other community organisations such as:

• Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) – Provides education, employment and income support for disadvantaged Chinese families through 11 CDAC centres.
  
• Central Singapore Community Development Council – Provides community assistance to more than 970,000 residents in 7 Group Member Representations (GRC) and Single Member Constituencies (SMC) in the Singapore’s Central District.
  
• National Arts Council (NAC) – A statutory board set up under Ministry of Information Communications and Arts (MICA) to spearhead the development of arts in Singapore.

In March 2010, Mr Chua was elected the president of the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (SHHK) and later that year he became the Chairman of Singapore Federation of Chinese Clans Association (SFCCA) which represents more than 190 Chinese Clan groups in Singapore.

Come to the inaugural National University of Singapore Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Symposium 2011

Why
Hear from an international panel of community leaders and academics on community building and leadership. Talk to the speakers and other distinguished guests over a fine dinner. This event will also launch the Chua Thian Poh Leadership Programme at National University of Singapore.
When
Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 3pm all the way to dinner which starts at 7pm
Where
Chua Thian Poh Hall, University Town, National University of Singapore
How
Register online at https://usp3.nus.edu.sg/ems_isis/event_reg.jsp?eventtpctrl_seq_n=1123&event_c=101140