Comments (0) We thought due to the current developments, we would never see another kite event, but finally, its back again, Singapore International Kite Day @ Punggol and Teens’ Day 2010. Tickets are available at $3 each and features many exciting stunt kites.
How do you feel when you are being interviewed? For me, it was my 2nd phone interview but the first one that got published onto the national paper, Straits Times and the best part, the front page of the Home Section, ok, you might be thinking what’s the big deal since its not the front page of Straits Times, but personally I thought, at least it is on the front page of a section.
It was a 20 minutes phone interview which the reporter, Weizhen from Straits Times, who tried to find out from me what Punggol.org was all about and how the portal and forum has connected the residents. The article, titled Digital Kampung, highlighted the impact of community forums and I shared my many memorable experiences with Weizhen.
Frankly speaking, there are times that I want to give up on the forum, its growing and its definitely not easy to manage. With such high profile publicity it has gotten now, greed comes in and there will be people who will want to claim credit from it. But no matter what happens in the future, I’m glad I was once part of history that brought Punggol to the cyber world and shared with many beautiful people whom some has became my best of friends. The forum has grown and now I’m out to experience new stuff like updating everyone via Twitter. I got to admit, it is the forum that brought me to where I am today and really, I can’t bear to leave it.
Many people who have thought that I’ve earn quite abit from the forum, but actually I don’t. Special thanks to Victor who host the website and forum and me for managing and sourcing for contents, its actually non profit and you might be thinking, how come 2 crazy guys are doing this when they have their own full time job to do, family to look after and lessons to attend. Personally, I can only say that when you see everyone enjoying themselves in the forum, sharing information with one another, you just got the sense of satisfaction.
Once again, I just want to say THANK YOU for supporting Punggol.org especially people who have been following me through since it first started in 2006, my wonderful team of moderators (Mike, Jerm, Ks, Ron, FT, cube), my wonderful forum members who have been posting non stop keeping it informative and alive (XFS for the pictures, angry, apache for the nonsense), contributors who have been providing us with information to share with fellow residents and last but not least Victor who gave me the chance to do it. And to Victor, I hope it will go on for as long as it can and I hope to be with it for as long I can. Last but not least my wife who got to put up with me for spending so much time with my laptop to work on the website and forum.
ps: The article published stated that I’m actually one of the co-founders of Punggol.sg. I just want to clarify that its wrong and I’m actually the co-founders of Punggol.org. Trust me, Punggol.org make over is coming real soon.
Punggol Periwinkle RC is organizing Punggol Periwinkle Christmas Care and Share Day. It is for the collection of gifts for the children’s home. Hope everyone will be support this meaningful event.
EP Day will be held at Punggol Gardens on 7 November. Its a pity that I’ll not be able to attend this event since I’ll be engaged with my work. Nevertheless, if you are available, do support this event!
This is the 2nd time that Punggol Gardens is organizing Halloween Party and I gotta admit, every year its a different thing and different challenge. This year’s highlight was the haunted house and the response I heard was pretty good. Everyone came enjoyed and the queue was super long at one point of time.
As usual, I will also try to look for photo opportunity and this time, I’ve got the chance to take a picture with the “ghosts” from the haunted house before they start work.
You might have seen something on my face? No, you are not seeing things but I had my face painted. First time trying out face painting and I thought it was pretty cool. Ethan saw me with the face painted and thank god, he was not scared of me at all after my face was painted. I was quite hesitant to try out the haunted house, but I thought, its a once a year thingy, so I just gave it a shot. My heart was pumping hard when I was in the room, it was super dark, so dark that some of the effects couldn’t be seen. For example, I could only see the eyes of the skeleton but not the bones. But the team of “ghosts” did a fab job. Kudos to them.
During the event, the organizing committee also found some opportunity to take a group photo together. I could only say one thing for the event, though it was raining but it was tiring but fun.
This is Part 1 of the updates for the upcoming Halloween Party @ Punggol Gardens. Its really interesting to see how things are moving and organized, as a co-chair for the event, its really an eye opener for me. Since I’m new to event management for a community event, I’m still learning from my seniors, observing and trying to pick up the important stuff of event management.
A meeting was held last week with the event company to finalize the details. I can’t reveal much now, otherwise, there will be no more surprises for those of you who have bought the tickets. But what I can say is that this is a totally different event, an event which you will never find in any other neighbourhood. There is something for the young and old.
By the way, if you are bringing your children to take part in the mask painting competition, registration opens at 6.30pm.
Stay tuned for more updates!
You can refer to my previous post for more updates on this Halloween party.
Ethan is 3 years old and for the first time, he finally gets to understand what is lantern festival all about, its about eating mooncakes and walking around in the estate with his lantern. Earlier in the day, we went to Marine Parade for prayer session. It was rather quiet this time round cause not many people came.
After that, I brought Ethan with me to my boss’s baby one month old celebration. He was rather quiet, didn’t want to talk much to people (trying to act shy). I realise that after he left the place, he started to become talkative again, hmm, I wonder what do I have to do to make him talk more.
In the evening, I brought him to Punggol for the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration. He was pretty excited at first and was so looking forward to see the Jade Rabbit and Chang Er. But when the Jade Rabbit appeared, he became so scared. I even brought him up close and personal with the Jade Rabbit, but he told me, “Daddy, can we go back. I’m scared!” He was so scared that he didn’t even join in the procession. I’m glad that on the whole, Ethan enjoyed the night especially carrying the lantern and walking about.
You can view the full set of pictures at my Facebook.
If Jingyi is available, I’ll defintely bring him to the next event, a Halloween party at Punggol.
It was the gathering that had been postponed for a couple of times, but usually, when I with these group of friends, its always about our home, food and gossip and of course our usual suaning. Meeting them is really relaxing and defintely, you will forget all the worries you have on your mind. I’m talking about J, S, ST, M, Y, R and his wife.
This time round for this gathering, it was just a small group of us but I guess, its really difficult to organize one big one that suits everyone. I need to thank J for organizing it, afterall, she is my unofficial secretary. It was also the first time that I see R’s wife.
We had our dinner at Marche, other than the companionship, I would say everything else was lousy. The food standard dropped tremendously and worst still the variety was really limited. I do hope to have our next gathering soon, but it will defintely be after mid-November.
Punggol Gardens will be celebrating Halloween this year with the 1st ever haunted house in Punggol! This event will defintely be an enjoyable one and has something that suits the young and old in the cluster. It will be happening on 31st October 2009 @ 7pm at Blk 163A. Its really difficult at times to have such event to be organized in a HDB town, so this is one event that you defintely cannot miss.
Tickets are on sale now at $4 which includes tix to the haunted house, pop corn and pop sickle. You can email me @ ppzw@yahoo.com for ticket details.
There will be LIVE Twitter updates on the day itself @ http://twitter.com/punggollatest.
This event is free and there will be free mini-mooncakes and lanterns given out (while stock last). It will be held on 3 October and looking forward to see everyone.
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