Another wave of petition initiative from wayang.com. This time around this petition will be send to DPM Teo Chee Hean . The move is to give out a Special Award to Liu Guo Dong for his achivment in getting the Olympic Silver Medal for Singapore after a 48years drought.
A check with the website has showed about 112 signatories have sign the petition, which is far much lesser then the petition to remove Lee Bee Wah which has more then 5000 signatories.
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5 Stations of the Circle Line was opened by the DPM Teo Chee Chean on 27th May 2009.
They are Bartley, Serangoon, Lorong Chuan, Bishan and Marymount stations and trains will start rolling from Thursday morning.
An estimate of 55,000 commuters are expected to use this five stations daily. The remaining stations will open from 2010. Once fully operational, ridership is around the figures of 500,000 daily.
The tunneling is more then 90% completed leaving the West Coast station which will start excavation soon. The whole project is expect to be completed by September this year.
Six stations have already received the Temporary Occupation Permit - an indication that they will be next in line to be open to the public. They are Dhoby Ghaut, Bras Basah, Esplanade, Promenade, Stadium and Tai Seng.
As for me, my workplace is at One North Station, hope it will be open soon! Need that traffic for business.
Oh Earth Hour is here in another 30mins.. thus I will be darkness and offline.. and NO Candles for me either!!!
Save the Earth, Save Earth Ma Ma!!
Imagine the city skyline in darknes?More than 300 organisations and 3,000 individuals here have pledge to switch off theirs lights for 1 hour next Saturday for 1 hour to mark Earth Hour, a global initiative by World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF).
Next Saturday at 8.30pm local time, people around the world will turn off the lights for an hour, that means our mother earth will take an hour 'rest' and during this hour, electricity consumption will take a dip.
Is really good to see more than 1,800 cities and 80 countries joining hands for a good cause.
As for me, will be 1 hour in darkness, no Television and computer! My bid for mother earth!
Solar Eclipse on 26 January 2009
The best solar eclipse for the decade in Singapore will occur on 26 January 2009. About 72% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon at maximum.
An eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth form a straight line. A Solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes in between the Earth and the Sun.
This year there will be five eclipses that will occur. Only two out of the five eclipses will be visible in Singapore, subject to weather. The next eclipse, after 26th January, will be another Solar eclipse, which will occur on 22 July 2009.
The first solar eclipse of 2009 is an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse. An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon.
In Singapore, the partial eclipse will be begin from 4:30PM to 6:30PM (local Singapore time). Maximum eclipse will be at 5:49 PM. The sun will be in the western sky and during maximum eclipse, 72% of it will be covered up by the moon! It will be a pretty impressive sight. Just pray that the clouds stay out of the way.
Please remember that viewing the sun without proper protection is extremely dangerous. Even when 72% of the sun is covered by the moon, the light is still bright enough to blind your eyes. And please do not try to view the eclipse using sunglasses. They will not protect your eyesight. If you have a pair of binoculars or a telescope, please do not look at the sun through them without proper solar filters that are fitted at the front of your instrument, not at the eyepiece!
Ok so you don't have any telescope, how are you going to view Monday's eclipse then? There are a few simple ways to view the eclipse safely. One is to make yourself a pinhole projector. Get a long box (the longer the better), a piece of aluminum foil, a pin, and a sheet of white paper or you can opt for a quick and easy version using just two pieces of cardboard. Instructions here.
But of course, you can always pay a visit to the Singapore Science Centre's Observatory to view the eclipse together with other astronomers. They will have a variety of telescopes there equipped with proper solar filters but it could be very crowded. Details here.
In memory of Ms Lo Hwei Yen
Is a tragic news that a Singaporean lady was held hostage in India in the recent terrorist attack in the city of Mumbai was found dead.
She is Ms. Lo Hwei Yen, 28 a law graduate of the National University of Singapore, Ms Lo worked with Stephenson Harwood, a foreign law firm based here. She is the first Singaporean to die in a terrorist attack.
"The loss of any life to terrorism is sad, and the loss of a fellow Singaporean is a pain more keenly and closely felt by every Singaporean." Professor S Jayakumar.
See what the insane mind of a terrorist can do? Have they no regards for human life? What if the terrorist's love ones are held hostage? Is there a need for 'an eye for an eye' attitude?
"Do unto others what you want others to do unto you"
Let there be peace on earth....
Let there be peace on earth....
New Zealand Wine Fair 2008
This time round the New Zealand wine was not featured in the Wine for Asia 2008. However it was the Wine Academy Sigapore that co-host this Wine Fair.
This year, the National Library Board's sale is going to be bigger and better with more then 100,000 items up for grabs.
Approximate of 400,000 used books will be on sale at the Singapore Expo Hall 4A, prices ranging from $1 to $5.
The public has a wide choices to choose from, ranging from bestseller fiction, children's books, travel guides and magazines...and many more.
Good thing is, i stay near Singapore Expo..so i gonna be there by 9.30am on friday morning!
The National Library Board Book Sale 2008
Singapore Expo Hall 4A
25th to 27th July
9.30am to 8pm.
Singapore Expo Hall 4A
25th to 27th July
9.30am to 8pm.
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