Tiong Bahru (VERTICAL and HORIZONTAL) Challenge

Hey folks!

Ever wanted to take part in a vertical race?

Well, on 13 December, Tiong Bahru will be host to our very own Vertical Race - up a 30 storey block of flats! There is a horizontal element as well - a 5 km run before we huff and puff up the new flats at Boon Tiong Road....



Online registration for the Challenge is available here.

You can also register at the Tiong Bahru CC personally.

Alternatively, a copy of the registration forms can be requested from TBChallenge09@gmail.com and payment for registration can be submitted via mail of a crossed cheque and duly completed registration form.

Great prizes to be had! See you at the Challenge!

Good Neighbours!

Dear Neighbours and Friends,
This evening at the monthly Seng Poh RC meeting, I was informed of a really lovely award that we can all participate in. Its the Good Neighbour Award!

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Here's the blurb from the HDB website.

Good Neighbour Award

The Good Neighbour Award is co-organised by the Housing & Development Board and People's Association. Supported by the Singapore Kindness Movement and the Singapore Press Holdings, the Award aims to recognise residents who go the extra mile to be good neighbours.

Residents can show appreciation for their neighbour's efforts in making the community a better one by nominating him/her for the Good Neighbour Award.

The nomination exercise will be from 1 May to 31 Aug 2009. Please download the nomination form for submission...........

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There are prizes to be won - $100, $80 and $50 vouchers... but more importantly, its an opportunity to celebrate neighbourliness!

You can also pick up a form at the local CC.

But what makes a good neighbour?

This spiffy website shares some ideas....

Why am I learning how to blog?

Why am I learning how to blog?

Honestly, it is many thanks to PA for sponsoring a course like this to teach the technophobe in me, to learn how to harness the various tools on the internet, to enable better community outreach and collaboration.

This is really one of the most meaningful examples of community capacity building that I have come across in Singapore!

Anyway, we shall see how to introduce this blog to you folks, and also, how to link up the existing wonderful blogs by others relating to Tiong Bahru, to this blog as well.

I shall also be exploring how to work out a framework for collating and arranging information of various types - housekeeping to heritage to latest happenings, on this blog for all to participate in...

All suggestions welcome....