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The Tanjong Pagar Town Council
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Number 77 February 2019
MCI (P) 044/09/2018
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TOWN NEWS
We ushered in the Lunar New Year with toasts, yum sengs,
good wishes, fine food ... and loud singing!
W
hen over seventy tables clap and shout their way through several
verses of Gong Xi Gong Xi, you know the Lunar New Year has been
thoroughly ushered in. We did it at the Summer Garden at SAFRA
Mount Faber on 9 February. The location was great, with floor to ceiling CCTV
near every table, so you could see everything, no matter where you sat.
The entertainment was by local talent groups, who were very good. They
danced, they sang, they made music and – if they were our Sparkletots – they
jumped. (They definitely like the jumping parts best.)
All the Advisers were there and came over to say hello. After presenting
dozens of appreciation awards, Ms Indranee told us the aims of the upcoming
Budget. Then Mr Chan gave us an overview of the issues and opportunities
we face – and went on to reassure the young people in the room that they
would not later have to bear the financial burden of decisions made by the
present government. The Singapore way was to pay as you go. “We will do the
best for your generation. We hope you will do the best for the next,” he said.
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Making Redhill Ready
for Emergencies
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ou need to know what to do in an emergency. You need to get that
knowledge now, before you find yourself in an emergency.
With that in mind, residents were invited to participate and learn
from agencies such as the SCDF, SPF and SG Secure at the 2019 Radin Mas
Preparedness Day.
Held at the Redhill Market concourse, everyone, ranging from young
kids to senior citizens, had an opportunity to learn what to do in an emer-
gency through quizzes, games, virtual reality and hands-on experience.
How to end a shared bike trip
Yellow boxes
Bicycle racks
Missing
Damaged QR-code
QR-code Take a photo
Take a of the bicycle
photo of the parked at a
damaged designanted
QR-code zone
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TOWN NEWS
Snow falls inside Queenstown CC
This Santarinas’ Workshop in Singapore
looked like a corner of the North Pole!
S
antarinas from Queenstown’s Women’s
and Senior Citizens’ Executive Committees
organized a lovely Christmas Tea celebration
for seniors on 8 December last year – and made
presents for everyone.
They arranged a ‘snowfall’ in the function hall
and served tea while the elderly were entertained.
They made Christmas stockings stuffed with
little gifts and Dr Chia Shi-Lu visited every table
and gave one of these to each guest.
Making Muruku in Pek Kio
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hree IAECs and seven other grassroot com- tural items performed by local residents, hands-on
mittees came together to put on an inclusive instructions for making muruku, and a chance to
and entertaining programme to celebrate have henna drawings on your hands.
Deepavali at Pek Kio CC on 18 November last year. Hope everyone enjoyed the food and fun as
Included in the entertainment were cross-cul- much as we did!
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eniors in Henderson-Dawson were treated to
an afternoon of feasting and fun activities at
the Central Singapore CDC’s Festive Cheers
held at the Henderson CC on 17 November last
year.
Generously supported by the Select Group,
they enjoyed delicious snacks and had a chance to
sing their favourite songs and jingles. To cap their
pleasure, everyone got a goodie bag of household
essentials.
SunShine in #My
Buona Vista
P
roject SunShine is an annual charity month organized by the People’s
Association to inculcate the spirit of giving from the more able to the
less privileged in the community.
Throughout the month, Neighbourhood Committee volunteers work with
RC volunteers in their choice of activities, such as refurbishing the homes of
needy residents, visiting orphanages, distributing food items - or arranging
fun activities for underprivileged residents.
This year, Buona Vista division celebrated Project SunShine by hosting 400
residents to a sumptuous dinner coupled with fun entertainment and games
catered to a mass audience.
Minister Chan was delighted by the heartwarming camaraderie shown by
both the residents and volunteers as it exemplifies the gracious community
spirit in #MyBuonaVista.
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TOWN NEWS
Now the Membina Court bus stop is M
s Indranee Rajah officially opened the
sheltered walkway at Membina Court on
Saturday, 1 December.
even more convenient!
“The walkway was built in response to residents
feedback on the need for shelter from the bus stop
along Lower Delta Road,” she wrote on Facebook.
Bus stop 10379 serves nine bus routes at Block 25B Membina Court “This allows them to connect with an existing shel-
on Lower Delta Road. tered walkway to the other blocks.”
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FOOD The Carrara is in Block 2 Jalan Bukit Merah. They used marble, not bricks, to Hakka Noodle is stall #02-15 in the Holland Drive Market and Food Centre. decorate this handsome, instagrammable bistro that’s been in Brickworks for The ladies who run it do an amazing job. Every day, they start serving at a year now. Selected mains with iced lemon tea cost $13.90 from 11.30am to 3.30am and keep at it until 1.30pm, or a little earlier if everything is all sold 2pm weekdays. Or $8.90 between 2pm and 6pm if you’re a student! With deals out. Which happens. Not just because their meals are amazing value for like those, and a mind-boggling selection of gelato, no wonder the Carrara money. Our photo shows one of their $3 meals: a bowl of soup and a plate of bistro/cafe/creamery has become popular. We tried their truffle breakfast noodles topped with minced pork – with lots more pork in the generous selec- pasta ($17.90) and seafood aglio olio ($15.90). Both were excellent. But their tion of yong tau foo. The greens are very young and cooked just right. The gelatos on a waffle ($11) were to die for, see photo. Open Sunday to Thursday, soup is rich and tasty. The noodles are sharp-edged and easy to handle. This is 11.30am to 9.30pm; Friday and Saturday, 11.30am to 10.30pm. comfort food prepared with great skill and attention to every detail. Tuan Yuan Pork Ribs Soup is the front of Block 127 Kim Tian Road. With as Sky Lab Cooked Food is stall #01-228 in Tekka Market and Food Centre. many tables on the extra-wide five-foot way as in the air-con interior, this is Skylab was a space station launched by NASA in 1973 and manned by teams a big, but amazingly efficient and pleasant place for lunch or dinner. You can of astronauts until 1974, when it was abandoned. In 1979, Skylab crashed on place your order with a waitress, or do the whole thing on your phone. Service Western Australia, scattering debris across the Nullarbor, causing a worldwide is fast, presentation is superb, and portions are generous. That bowl on the sensation, and prompting the name for Mr Abdul Gaffoor’s new stall. He right was full of pork ribs! And you can see the sliced pork tenderloin soup cooked prawn vadai the way his mother had when she sold them on the street. bowl is chock-full. $8 each. But the really great thing this restaurant offers is We thought they were the best we had ever tasted ten years ago, and we still the true flavour of old-school Singaporean Bak Kut Teh. Oh, you may miss a think they’re the best. Two for $1.20. Samosas, chaklis, puffs, dosai, uppama, kettle on the table to make your tea, but that jasmine teabag actually does the noodles – the stall carries a wide range of food beside those fluffy prawn job a little better. Open 11am to 11pm, closed Mondays. vadai. Open 6am to midnight, closed Mondays. Home Town is stall #01-05 in the the Redhill Market and Food Centre, next Cockles Char Kway Teow is the name of stall #01-30 in the Bukit Merah to the very popular Ali Fatimah prata stall. We were going to have a couple View Hawker Centre. It has been there a year, but with no fancy sign or of prata for breakfast, but were told we were too late for prata. So we bought photos, if you have never eaten his char kway teow, you’ll probably walk a couple of Home Town’s you tiao to go with our kopi-o-kosong. That made straight by. Unless he’s cooking. That makes a lot of noise. He puts a lot of an even better breakfast. The 90-cent you tiao were excellent, probably just a energy into it. And he cooks every dish separately. Even if you order two at little bigger than average, crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside, just as they the same time! The effort pays off. Our $3 dish had no cockles (– it was a bad should be. The stall has a big selection of traditional fried snacks, many still day for cockles!) but they had all the other solids and sauces you hope for in a hot from the pot. We could not resist trying a 90-cent durian bomb. It had real classic char kway teow, all timed just so. A stall that makes this dish taste this durian, real flavour, but a tough wrapper. We must go back and try more of good without cockles deserves a prize. And many return visits – to try it with their treats. Open 5am to 12.30pm, closed Wednesdays. cockles, prawns, and other frills. Open noon to 8pm, closed Saturdays. Window February 2019 7
If you think the Town
Your Say workers to clear it so as to keep the tremendously. So far she is the best forget! – the Town Council’s Senior
Council has done a good estate clean. officer in attendance, a role model Property Officer, Mr Kamal.
“Even when he has been trans- employee. “I appreciate every moment of
job somewhere, or you have ferred to be in charge of another “Please keep her in your service as your good up-keeping work!”
a complaint, please email estate, we still regard him as one of long as you can.
feedback@tptc.org.sg — or the best because he has a very good “Cheers.” Ms See wrote to compliment
call the Town Council at work attitude – responsible, helpful, senior property officer Max Tan. “I
efficient and prompt. Christina Hoo wrote, “Dear Prime called the Town Council for assis-
1800-272 6415. “Thank you Mr Ken Soon.” Minister, Mr Sam Tan and Mr Kamal, tance regarding the doors to our riser
“Whenever I look at the area of room. Before noon Max was at my
Jeannette sent compliments from Audrey Tong Lee Lin wrote, “ I Telok Blangah Crescent, I feel so for- unit to investigate the problem and
Block 7 Kim Tian Place for Mr Ken have been staying at Strathmore Ave tunate to be here. I love this place. It explain that repairs to the doors were
Soon, her former property officer: for the past nine years and we enjoy is very beautiful with lots of coconut scheduled in November.
“This is a belated thank you and very high standards of cleanliness trees, excellent lighting (including “I asked him to expedite the work
compliments feedback for Mr Ken and hygiene. automatic corridor lights), a lift from as I felt the condition of the doors
Soon – for always being helpful, ef- “Now I need to commend an excel- the hilltop to carry us down to the was unsafe and the next day contrac-
fective and efficient in his service to lent property officer working at your road and an excellent polyclinic at tors came to repair the doors.
the community and estate. office. Bukit Merah. “I was pleased that Max under-
“He has a willing attitude to “Her name is Chloe Gan. “Today, when I came home, I saw stood my concerns, and made special
assist and ‘goes the extra mile’ in “She responds to complaints very the place looking very clean, I feel arrangements for speedy repairs.
helping us. promptly, and ratifies them within a very happy and I appreciate every “I thank you Max and wish you
“For instance: if there happens good time line. I am very impressed effort the Singapore Government, the good health.”
to be an extra load of rubbish not with her and over the past two years, Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong,
cleared one day, he will arrange her standard of service has improved the MP, Mr Sam Tan and – I did not Douglas Wong wrote to
compliment Mr Bilal, a Tanjong
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Pagar-Tiong Bahru division cleaner,
ere are six Ms Yap Gek Luang..................................SXXX1556H and two Veolia employees for their
Kudos
zoomed-in sec- Mr Ashwin S/O Senthilvelan.................. TXXX7882J outstanding efforts.
to the ten prize-winners
Mdm Liu Kwai Peng................................SXXX2487E
tions of pictures “Yesterday evening my fiancee
in our last contest:
Mdm Tong Lay Hong............................. SXXX7337Z
that appear in this news- accidentally threw a box of earrings
Miss Eunice Tan.......................................SXXX3029A
letter. Write the headline Miss Indurani d/o Sekaran Krishnan...SXXX5845H
meant for our pre-wedding shoot
of the story to which each Mr S. Mohamed Akbar........................... SXXX6464Z down the rubbish chute.
picture belongs below it Mr K. Radhakrishnan.............................SXXX0700A “This morning, these three people
... and win a very handy Miss Emily Tang...................................... TXXX5586B took the time and effort to go through
trolley bag! Mdm Ong Geok Eng...............................SXXX6848A the chute and, after 20 minutes, found
the box of earrings among all the
waste.
“The three of them went above and
Entry Form
beyond what was required of them
and for that my fiancee and I are
very, very grateful.”
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