Almost one year past. Still remember the wishes that we made in 28 May 2007?

As some members will be out of town for 5 months near the end of May, let’s have a slightly earlier gathering ^^

Additionally, Kimber & Fitz (Owners of Stepperriders in Mongolia) will be in Sg. They would be joining us  too.

Date: 3 rd May 08 (sat)

Time: Approx 12noon ~ 3pm

Plan: Dining & Chit chatting in a Buffet restaurant (TBC)

Sugguestion: http://www.qualityhotel.com.sg/incoutlet/lotus-restaurant.asp (More sugguestions are welcome!)

Please make yourself available. Do free feel to suggest a place to eat if you have something in your mind!

Cheers and Cya

1) Sport Climbing Unlimited - open to member and non member. Pay $10 and get unlimited climbs on all walls from 10am - 9.30pm. Participants will receive a free event t-shirt, supper and free coffee and tea at 12 midnight and certificate of participation.

2) 24 hrs Air Weapon Challenge - For Shooting Club members only. Pay $40 per team of 4 pax to join in this challenge. Kindly contact my colleague Jones – yjones@safra.sg if you have any enquiries on the competition.

3) Bowling Marathon Challenge – Kindly contact our Orchid Bowl at 6759 9737 if you require more information.

4) Flea Mart - 20 stalls selling clothes, shoes, toys etc will be operating from 10am over the weekend.

5) Harry Potter Movie Marathon - Participants will pay $10 and get :
a) Watch 5 Harry Potter movies throughout the night from 8pm
b) Free goodie bag worth $20
c) Free flow of coffee and tea
d) Free event t-shirt
e) Free supper at 12 midnight
f) Free light snacks throughout the night

6) Breakfast Spread -
a) Participant pay $10 for the event t-shirt and receive free breakfast on 9 Dec from 8am - 10am.
b) Breakfast only - $2 (member) , $4 (guest). Starts on 9 Dec from 8am - 10am.

7) Experience snow and Giant x’mas tree light-up at 7pm on 8 Dec. There will be Santa Claus appearance and x’mas caroling. Free to all.

SAFRA Yishun Running Club 1st Location Run on Sun, 9 Dec at 7am. Participants can signup for SYCC Running Club to join the run and receive goodie bag.

SAFRA member can register for Sport Climbing Unlimited, Movie Marathon and join Breakfast Spread via www.safra.sg/safraonline

1) No food (i.e. no chocolate as gift, no mango as someone may allegy to it >_<)

2) No voucher

Venue: (Weiye’s house) Blk 124B bukit merah view #03-396

Date:29 Dec 07

Time: 4pm to 10pm

Agenda:Celebration of New year and post-X’mas.

Cya soon ^^

Date:28~29 Dec 07

Agenda:Celebration of New year and post-X’mas.

Not 100% attendance in the Oct gathering, but it is 81%. Let’s have another outing to maintain the bonds. There will be gift exchange session. Some minor rules for the gift to make it more fun:

1) No food (i.e. no chocolate as gift)
2) No voucher
Cya:)

It has been a long break before we all gather together and have fun!Let’s maintain the bonds that we built in Mongolia! Kindly make yourself available on the following time and date.

Date: 6th Oct 07

Time: 4pm ~10pm

Plan: Dining & Chit chatting & celebrating the birthday for XX & XX (Let’s guess)

Venue: TBC

We are looking forward to see all 16 members! ^^

Hope everyone has settle down though many of us do miss people and life there. Do feel free to join us for some workout!

Coming program:

Date: 21 July 07 (SAT)

Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm

Court: 1 (AS AT THIS MOMENT, the 2nd court is availabe, if more people turn up, YY be happy to book 2 court)

Venue: Kreta Ayer CC (near Chinatown MRT)

Dinner/Refreshment: ChinaTown market

Andass Teu

Andass is a research student at NTU, in the area of photo-thermal imaging. Outside of school, he is a prolific travel cum freelance photographer.

With a strong belief in giving back to the community, he serves as an executive member of the National Youth Achievement Award Council (NYAA) in nurturing youth development in Singapore, as well as the chairman of an interest group, Young Photographer’s Network (YPN).

After understanding the difficulties the Mongolians face with regards to basic housing, Andass hopes that his participation in the project can help to bring about an improvement in the living standards of some locals, and also be an opportunity for his own self development. In the team, he will be needed to harness his photography skills to capture the happenings of the entire trip.

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Evelyn Yap

It will be updated soon

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Goh Eng Eng

A working professional keen to do her part for society, Eng Eng has been active in community service since her school days.

In 2004, she chose to take a leave of absence from work for a cause, joining Love@PreyVeng, a Youth Expedition Project by Singapore International Foundation, to assist in the building of a basketball court for an orphanage in one of the poorest province of Cambodia.

3 years on, with another opportunity to serve an overseas community in this project, Eng Eng decided that it’s time again to roll up her sleeves, get out of affluent Singapore and help some needy people in Mongolia have a proper home. In serving others, we learn.

She will be editor for the project scrapbook – a memoir of experiences and activities for the community service work in Mongolia, a collection of thoughts and reflections of team members in a service-learning expedition, and a resource for like-minded people with a passion to serve society.

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Gracia Lee

It will be updated soon

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Kanni Chan

Joining a community service initiative like Project Hearts for a Roof is what Kanni has always wanted to do. She is a working professional in her twenties who believes that everyone has a part in contributing back to society.

Despite having to take 3 weeks of annual leave from work, made all the more difficult because of her busy responsibilities, she is all ready to go ahead with the project and face the mountain of work that is likely to pile up during her absence.

With her technical knowledge, she is the webmaster of the project website, collating the team’s requirements and liaising regularly with web-designers to create a comprehensive iPaLs portal that communicates information on the project to people accessing the site from any corner of the world. An avid photographer, she will be one of the main photographers of the trip, taking down precious moments of the stay in Mongolia.

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Koh Yeng Yeng

“Being a volunteer gives me a lot of joy and happiness, and added meaning to my life. I enjoyed doing community services because I believe, in the process of serving, I am learning from the people whom I served.” said Yeng Yeng, a trained psychologist, social worker and staff nurse. This is her personal belief that drives her on to serve the needy and the less fortunate, both locally and internationally. She had participated in several community projects in India, Cambodia, and America. Through this project, she hoped to discover her untapped potential and capabilities, and also hope to bring out the best of each and everyone in the team She will be playing an active role in providing the welfare and health care of the team.

Hi I’m Yeng Yeng, better known as Y2 within this group of friends. I have been working as a Social Worker, serving people with disabilities for the past 7 years, and the passion to continue working with this group of people is still going strong. Prior to this, I was a Staff Nurse, working in Accident and Emergency department in a local hospital. I graduated recently from NTU with a Master of Arts (Applied Psychology).

I love to travel, as it not only broaden my horizon, but also getting to know the country culture, their people, and also to meet other avid travellers. Whenever I could, I would try to incorporate community work during my trip. The most recent one was in USA when I was there for a conference; I was working with a group of people with disability who is staying in the community.

I have several motivations when I decided to embark in the HEART FOR A ROOF project. The first is to challenge myself, to push myself out of the comfort zone of S’pore cushy life, to face the challenge of harsh weather and to test my physical and mental strength beyond my usual limit. Other motivation include, making new friends while strengthening the existing friendships, travelling and discovering MONGOLIA, finding a good excuse to take a long break from work

Through the challenges that I have to overcome with my team members in order to complete the project, I hope to discover my inner strength, untapped potential and capabilities, e.g, new set of skills and knowledge, to face challenges with positive attitude, patience and determination. I also hope to bring out the best of each and everyone in the team. For the Mongolian, I hope to play a part, to give them a home, to shelter them from the bitter winter, thus improving their quality of life.

Anything that is worth doing is difficult, what’s more when we are in foreign land, doing something which we never had any experience in. And with 16 of us living under one roof for the next 3 weeks, what we can expect are the challenges of living together in a foreign land where there is cultural differences, adjustment issues related to food, weather, health issues, problems and difficulties related to the building of houses, time constraint, disagreement and unhappiness arises due to personality crashes and differences in expectation. However, this is a good opportunity for us to put into practice what we have learnt in school eg, problem solving skills, communication skills, negotiation, respecting and understanding each other, being flexible and accommodating. If we could spend time to understand each other perspective, giving in, supporting, and bringing out the best of one and other, working together as a team, with the same goal of completing the project, we would be able to ironed out the differences and overcome all problems faced.

Being a vegetarian and coming from S’pore where we are well know for good food, I would definitely vegetarian mee hoon, mee siam, laksa. If there’s one thing I can bring to Mongolia that would be a massage chair, so everyone can have a good massage after a hard days work. Being a Staff Nurse, I carried extra responsibility of nursing the injured. I worried that I may not be able to cope with the “patients” with their health related issues.

During my free time. I love to read, exercise and listen to music. I enjoy doing community services because I believe, in the process of serving, I am learning from the people whom I served. As I give, I received too. Being a volunteer gives me a lot of joy and happiness, and added meaning to my life.

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Lai Pui Ee

Pui Ee is a 19-year-old student who has a strong passion for volunteerism and has been actively involved in community work for the past few years.

Looking forward to the 3 weeks of project work at Mongolia, Pui Ee hopes to experience the daily hardships and struggles that the locals face, from their perspective. To her, it is a rare opportunity to immerse oneself in a vastly different society and to learn to appreciate each other’s culture and traditions.

Stepping out of her comfort zone, Pui Ee hopes to spread the message of basic housing rights and to help in providing a safe and cozy home for the underprivileged. With the support from her fellow team mates, she sincerely hopes that this trip will help to bring about a positive change to the Mongolian community.

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Leong Lina

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Loke Shuyi

Always on the look-out for meaningful voluntary work, Shu Yi, feels that she has accumulated valuable learning experiences from the charity projects that she has been participating in school.

Grabbing this opportunity, she hopes to reach out further and help create a better living environment for needy Mongolians, so that they would benefit from the project for many good years to come. At the same time, she believes that this is a once-in-a-lifetime service-learning experience and that the process will undoubtedly develop her into a stronger person.

Working hard with the project scrapbook team, she wants to share the experiences of the project to inspire others to join community work and contribute to society and oneself.

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Low Guat Sim

A student still undertaking her tertiary studies, Guat Sim believes strongly in contributing as much as she can to society and has always been active in voluntary work and community service projects. To her, participating in community service projects is a way to gain valuable life experiences and an opportunity to meet people from all walks of life.

Guat Sim joined this project to help build a proper shelter for homeless Mongolians living on the streets. She also sees Project Hearts for a Roof as a rare chance to interact with people of different cultural backgrounds and to foster memorable friendships despite language barriers.

Meticulous in details and strong in planning, Guat Sim plays an indispensable role in organizing the team’s itinerary and activities in Mongolia.

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Madeleine Lam

Always on the look-out for meaningful voluntary work, Shu Yi, an NTU undergraduate, feels that she has accumulated valuable learning experiences from the charity projects that she has been participating in school.

Grabbing this opportunity, she hopes to reach out further and help create a better living environment for needy Mongolians, so that they would benefit from the project for many good years to come. At the same time, she believes that this is a once-in-a-lifetime service-learning experience and that the process will undoubtedly develop her into a stronger person.

Working hard with the project scrapbook team, she wants to share the experiences of the project to inspire others to join community work and contribute to society and oneself.

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Melissa Ho

Melissa wants to contribute to the community before embarking on her career, and hopes that this project will cultivate a sense of independence in her and also foster awareness for the less fortunate around her. She too, has been regularly involved in charity work prior to this trip. Unafraid to explore and try new things, she seeks a new learning experience about the country and its culture during the trip, which she wishes to share with everyone back home when she returns. Melissa is in the sponsorship team and this fun-loving teammate brainstorms regularly with the other team members to come up with fresh snazzy ideas for fundraising.

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TBC: To be confirmed