Fengshan CC celebrated the winter solstice on 14 Dec 2019. On that day (dongzhi), the Northern Hemisphere experiences the shortest day and the longest night in the year, and it is customary to make and eat tangyuan or balls of glutinous rice, which symbolise family reunion. 225 participants ate tangyuan together at the event in Heartbeat@Bedok. Read More »
Jurong Spring Zone B RC volunteers spent more than 6 months planning to build a haunted house for their residents to have a fun time. The Creepy Night @ JSB finally came on 30 Nov 2019 on the hardcourt at Jurong West St 41. Professional make-up was done on some ghostly characters lurking in the tent covered in black sheets. Outside the tent were hung 6,618 used plastic bottles wrapped in ... Read More »
The Minions are celebrating a yellow Christmas with their fans in the Frasers Property malls. On 30 Nov 2019, the Minions joined 178 shoppers around the Christmas tree at Waterway Point. They were given Minions t-shirts and googles. There were games, dancing, lucky draws and banana fishing to engage the shoppers. #minionsxfrasers Read More »
A 12.8m-tall Christmas tree was lighted up at UBS’s Appreciation Night held at Hotel Fort Canning on 29 Nov 2019. With a base diameter of 4.5m, the tree was made from discarded plastic bottles. 6,000 flowers were cut from bottles by volunteers from UBS, Lasalle College of the Arts, Community Foundation of Singapore (CFS), AWWA, Halogen Foundation Singapore and Care Corner Seniors Services. The project kicks off UBS’s Sustainable Arts ... Read More »
The Plaza Singapura Snow House gives you an authentic sub-zero experience from 26 Nov to 26 Dec 2019. 10 tons of real snow is produced on-site using a specially designed gun in the snow chamber, where the temperature can go as low as -10 degrees Celsius. The 2-storey Christmassy snow house with a slide between the floors measures 12m by 7.5m and 7m high. Admission tickets are given to those ... Read More »
Cycling Without Age Singapore connects senior citizens with the community and helps them beat social isolation by giving free trishaw rides. On 15 Nov 2019, 161 seniors from various nursing homes and eldercare centres were brought down to Sentosa Cove to enjoy rides on 10 trishaws owned by the charity. They were also treated to lunch, games and calisthenic sessions. Read More »
Alcon celebrated the launch of its new contact lens manufacturing platform, DSM Flex, with a cultural and team-building retreat for its staff at Star Vista on 21 Nov 2019. One of the activities was for all the 270 personnel to draw traditional Indian designs on pieces of foam boards and acrylic mirrors. These pieces were later assembled by Vijaya Mohan and her team of artists to form a rangoli-like floor ... Read More »
Darrshan Raj snagged the record of the youngest Singaporean to reach Mount Everest Base Camp with father, Thurairajasingam, on 14 Jun 2019 at 1.40pm Nepal time. At just 8 years 11 months, the Primary 3 boy from Yio Chu Kang Primary School spent his after-school hours for the past 1 year at The Right Fit, a boutique gym owned by his father, to prepare himself physically and mentally for this ... Read More »
The first recycling drive organised by the Singapore Youth Group of Rajayoga Power Transcendental Meditation Society brought in 3.5 tons of recyclable waste products, among them 10,590 plastic bottles. On 24 Nov 2019 at Woodlands Galaxy CC, the bottle caps were pasted on boards to form the words: ‘Go Zero Waste SG’ which stretched 6.3m by 4.7m. Read More »
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