To expose Singaporeans to the Tamils’ Pongal festival, Vijayalakshmi Mohan conducted art workshops with a number of elderly groups and kindergartens using scratch boards. The boards were covered in black paint and on scratching, a very colourful base layer was revealed. 1,010 pieces of the completed artwork were displayed at Tekka Place on 30 Jan 2010. The event ... Read More »
Five-year old twins, Shai Sidhanth and Shai Vaedhaanth Parasuraman recorded their first music CD, ‘Uni5 Rhymes’ and was awarded the record on 20 Jan 2021. The CD contains 8 songs composed by their father, Parasu. The K1 boys have been taking lessons in Carnatic music, a South Indian classical form. They will soon work on their video single. Read More »
The Event Management students of ITE College Central teamed up with Tampines West Merchants’ Association to organise a live streaming Kahoot! quiz on 22 Jan 2021. 1,372 participants in the college, as well as in Tampines West CC, logged in from their computers and mobile phones to answer questions related to Chinese New Year. Read More »
A total of 101 participants took part in the Zoom record attempt organised by The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) on 17 Jan 2021. Most of them signed from their homes to the song ‘Reaching out for the Skies’. SADeaf had earlier organised a remote song signing with 55 participants to celebrate Singapore’s 55th National Day. Read More »
For the 17th year, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) rallied Singapore’s financial community to raise funds for charities by organising the SGX Bull Charge. Because of the Covic pandemic, it went virtual this year. Participants ran at their own pace and space from 30 Oct to 13 Nov 2020. Achieving the greatest distance and setting a national record was ... Read More »
Time4all, a Youtube channel newly set up by 4 friends, welcomed 2021 by conducting a Tamil talkshow livestreamed on the platform. The show ran for 12 hours 33 minutes setting a new Singapore record on 1 Jan 2021. The show explored 6 unique topics, involving 60 speakers aged 6-60 years, and 7 moderators. The channel was set up ... Read More »
Raymond Tan, who had walked along all MRT lines and LRT lines just a month earlier, completed the walk around Singapore in one stretch. From 25 to 27 Dec 2020, he covered a total distance of 159.1 km in 39 hr 50 min. To achieve the record, he was only allowed to have a 5-min break for every ... Read More »
MP Rahayu Mahzam led Bukit Batok East residents in a chicken curry cooking class over the Zoom online platform to wrap up the year. The session was the third edition of BBE Home Cooked Delights. Residents had earlier picked up the recipe ingredients from the CC. 84 participants showed themselves on the platform on 31 Dec 2020. Read More »
Eddie Pan of Taiwan once again led Singaporeans in the Funky Dance made famous by him, but this time over the Zoom online platform. On 26 Dec 2020, 126 participants did the workout, a third of them on location at Our Tampines Hub. The event was jointly organised by the mall and Tampines West CSC. Read More »
