Resolve

On December 31, 2004 · 41 Comments · In Uncategorized
iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? — Harry Con­nick Jr. — When My Heart Finds Christ­mas, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music.

You’re meant to make res­o­lu­tions on New Year’s Eve for the new year. Last New Year’s Eve, I made the res­o­lu­tion that I would not make any res­o­lu­tions any more, at least, not in public.

At the very least, though, I will make it a point not to for­get Box­ing Day, even if at the moment, I am feel­ing shitty about being an arm­chair aid-giver, and sit­ting here now still, doing what some may say is merely diss­ing local big­wigs for not doing enough. But as some say, at least they’re doing some­thing.

Com­fort­Del­gro, the trans­port giant, has very com­mend­able employ­ees and dri­vers who have donated $50,000 to the Red Cross fund, OCBC has ‘raised $487,000′; Hong Leong Foun­da­tion has ‘donated $200,000′ and will direct all pro­ceeds from their pur­chase of Rus­sel Wong’s exhibition’s open­ing night to the Red Cross fund.

And, ‘for Sem­b­Corp Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment, it had valu­able con­tacts with those in the karang guni trade. And so it mobilised its net­work of karang gunis to go house to house in HDB estates to col­lect clothes for the sur­vivors. Quek Keng Kwang, Gen­eral Man­ager, Sem­b­VISY Recy­cling MRF, said, “Most of them will­ingly donate all the cloth­ing which have been col­lected and this is their hard earned money everyday.“‘

There are a lot of peo­ple and cor­po­ra­tions who have helped, or tried to help, even if they’ve been a com­plete moron and donated a pair of high heel shoes (I read this some­where but I can’t find the link). But as I was telling LMD, who was so alarmed at the sud­den and unchar­ac­ter­is­tic ‘right­eous anger’ on this blog that she thought some­one with a con­science had hacked into my Blog­ger account, I am not about to pat these peo­ple on the back and say well-done, espe­cially when they can do a whole lot more. What some of these giant local cor­po­ra­tions (quasi-corporations included) are doing right now is akin to some­one wit­ness­ing a per­son get­ting seri­ously hurt in a car acci­dent and then merely leav­ing a packet of tis­sue paper for the victim.

But New Year’s Eve is New Year’s Eve, and don’t let any­one begrudge you for going out and hav­ing a good time. Life has to go on, even in a dis­as­ter zone. But what­ever you do, don’t for­get Box­ing Day 2004, raise aware­ness when­ever you can.

P.S. Sim Mong Hoo, not only are your prod­ucts ugly, your peo­ple are still flog­ging your iPod killer, while the iPod’s peo­ple have taken down the Christ­mas trim­mings. (From atyp­i­cal Sin­ga­porean)

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    Well said.
    I couldn’t believe I got hurt by two of my clos­est peo­ple last night.
    One of them is about the tsunami issue.
    And he didn’t even bother to ask me any­thing before judg­ing.
    For fuck sake.
    Tonight I have been invited to an A grade party.
    Have a Pre­pos­ter­ous New Year!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    Well said.
    I couldn’t believe I got hurt by two of my clos­est peo­ple last night.
    One of them is about the tsunami issue.
    And he didn’t even bother to ask me any­thing before judg­ing.
    For fuck sake.
    Tonight I have been invited to an A grade party.
    Have a Pre­pos­ter­ous New Year!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3962297 yj

    Well, SWH did donate $500K (and Cre­ative $250K): http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,293271,00.html? — let’s all cut the man some slack once in a while, yah? Even if his prod­ucts are ridicu­lous knock-offs.

    Curi­ous: Any thoughts on this ST forum let­ter — http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/forum/story/0,5562,293212,00.html? — “Not right to party as Asian states grieve?”

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3962297 yj

    Well, SWH did donate $500K (and Cre­ative $250K): http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,293271,00.html? — let’s all cut the man some slack once in a while, yah? Even if his prod­ucts are ridicu­lous knock-offs.

    Curi­ous: Any thoughts on this ST forum let­ter — http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/forum/story/0,5562,293212,00.html? — “Not right to party as Asian states grieve?”

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3165535 Lit­tle Miss Drinkalot

    No, my point is — it’s fine if you don’t com­mend them, but I think it’s not right to con­demn them (this is the impres­sion I get from your right­eous anger posts). Any help, no mat­ter how lit­tle, is still help. One packet of tis­sue paper is bet­ter than none.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3165535 Lit­tle Miss Drinkalot

    No, my point is — it’s fine if you don’t com­mend them, but I think it’s not right to con­demn them (this is the impres­sion I get from your right­eous anger posts). Any help, no mat­ter how lit­tle, is still help. One packet of tis­sue paper is bet­ter than none.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5692349 Merv

    It ok to give a packet of tis­sue paper, if you can­not afford to give more than that.

    It is not ok to proudly declare out­stand­ing prof­its year to year, and when the time comes for you to be stand up and be counted, give so little.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5692349 Merv

    It ok to give a packet of tis­sue paper, if you can­not afford to give more than that.

    It is not ok to proudly declare out­stand­ing prof­its year to year, and when the time comes for you to be stand up and be counted, give so little.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3165535 Lit­tle Miss Drinkalot

    I find your anal­ogy a bit off, but this is how I see it — If the some­one could have saved the victim’s life but only left the tis­sue and the vic­tim died as a result (because no one else was around to offer help), then ok, con­demn. But this isn’t the case.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3165535 Lit­tle Miss Drinkalot

    I find your anal­ogy a bit off, but this is how I see it — If the some­one could have saved the victim’s life but only left the tis­sue and the vic­tim died as a result (because no one else was around to offer help), then ok, con­demn. But this isn’t the case.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5692349 Merv

    Is this the case that the sit­u­a­tion of the vic­tim is so bad that no one can save it, so every­one can give a pittance?

    Its not how much you give, its the por­por­tion of your wealth you give.

    If you are a mil­lion­aire and you give $200,000 its fine.
    But if you are a $2000 a mth wage earner, $200,000 is mighty impressive.

    Nobody expects you to give all your weath, but please, dun give like 0.0015% of your prof­its ok?

    see my post so see what i mean.

    http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2004/12/deafening-silence-of-corporate.html

    it shows how much you care. For big com­pa­nies, which have big­ger finances,clout,networks, their con­tri­bu­tion have as greater impact.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5692349 Merv

    Is this the case that the sit­u­a­tion of the vic­tim is so bad that no one can save it, so every­one can give a pittance?

    Its not how much you give, its the por­por­tion of your wealth you give.

    If you are a mil­lion­aire and you give $200,000 its fine.
    But if you are a $2000 a mth wage earner, $200,000 is mighty impressive.

    Nobody expects you to give all your weath, but please, dun give like 0.0015% of your prof­its ok?

    see my post so see what i mean.

    http://atypicalsingaporean.blogspot.com/2004/12/deafening-silence-of-corporate.html

    it shows how much you care. For big com­pa­nies, which have big­ger finances,clout,networks, their con­tri­bu­tion have as greater impact.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    Enough has been said. Do it.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    Enough has been said. Do it.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2588087 Jayaxe

    Er, my 2 cent’s worth. Ok, I see that every­one has a point but I believe what LMD said is ‘more agreeable’.

    The mea­sure of the amount of help need not nec­es­sary be pro­por­tion to what a com­pany earns. You can­not force the com­pa­nies to donate a cer­tain amount any­way. So, I don’t really see the point of con­demn­ing the so-called ‘pal­try’ amounts donated.

    Every sin­gle dona­tion counts and it’s all down to the col­lec­tive help from all over the world. And the whole world is really help­ing, which is good to see.

    The most impor­tant thing is that we should be united in help­ing in what­ever ways we can. Cheers and Happy New Year to all!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2588087 Jayaxe

    Er, my 2 cent’s worth. Ok, I see that every­one has a point but I believe what LMD said is ‘more agreeable’.

    The mea­sure of the amount of help need not nec­es­sary be pro­por­tion to what a com­pany earns. You can­not force the com­pa­nies to donate a cer­tain amount any­way. So, I don’t really see the point of con­demn­ing the so-called ‘pal­try’ amounts donated.

    Every sin­gle dona­tion counts and it’s all down to the col­lec­tive help from all over the world. And the whole world is really help­ing, which is good to see.

    The most impor­tant thing is that we should be united in help­ing in what­ever ways we can. Cheers and Happy New Year to all!

  • Anony­mous

    I’ve usu­ally been put off by the very mis­er­able mon­e­tary dona­tions made by some govt-linked orga­ni­za­tions. I can remem­ber that inci­dent when our Sin­ga­pore Gov­ern­ment donated a grand $90k for a recent tragedy and got them­selves 1–2 min­utes of air­time on national TV. It was quite a joke to me. $90k is some­thing you trans­fer with­out any­body know­ing, espe­cially if you are the government.

    I also tend to believe that pro­por­tions mat­ter more, but at the same time it should be noted that net profit doesn’t always result in a greater abun­dance of cash. Some of these dudes make their prof­its in the stock mar­ket, or invest­ing in prop­erty, or other stuff, so if they can dish out a few hun­dred thou­sand at a time I think it’s a rea­son­ably big amount.

    This time around I think we should give credit where it’s due. SG Govt has put in $5m, and is send­ing troops, equip­ment and sup­plies that amounts to about $20m. Of course since the troops would have been bum­ming around in Sin­ga­pore any­way we can’t take the $20m at face value, but over­all it’s still a good contribution.

    In the end it’s not so much how much we give, but I pray that the money really gets to those who need it. It’s going to be a huge task to pre­vent cor­rupt offi­cials or oppor­tunis­tic rebels to seize sup­plies just like how they do in parts of Africa.

    It’s also impor­tant that we not for­get about this cat­a­stro­phe so quickly and that if requests for aid come in the fol­low­ing months or even years, we should be will­ing to help in our own lit­tle way.

    chrischoo

  • Anony­mous

    I’ve usu­ally been put off by the very mis­er­able mon­e­tary dona­tions made by some govt-linked orga­ni­za­tions. I can remem­ber that inci­dent when our Sin­ga­pore Gov­ern­ment donated a grand $90k for a recent tragedy and got them­selves 1–2 min­utes of air­time on national TV. It was quite a joke to me. $90k is some­thing you trans­fer with­out any­body know­ing, espe­cially if you are the government.

    I also tend to believe that pro­por­tions mat­ter more, but at the same time it should be noted that net profit doesn’t always result in a greater abun­dance of cash. Some of these dudes make their prof­its in the stock mar­ket, or invest­ing in prop­erty, or other stuff, so if they can dish out a few hun­dred thou­sand at a time I think it’s a rea­son­ably big amount.

    This time around I think we should give credit where it’s due. SG Govt has put in $5m, and is send­ing troops, equip­ment and sup­plies that amounts to about $20m. Of course since the troops would have been bum­ming around in Sin­ga­pore any­way we can’t take the $20m at face value, but over­all it’s still a good contribution.

    In the end it’s not so much how much we give, but I pray that the money really gets to those who need it. It’s going to be a huge task to pre­vent cor­rupt offi­cials or oppor­tunis­tic rebels to seize sup­plies just like how they do in parts of Africa.

    It’s also impor­tant that we not for­get about this cat­a­stro­phe so quickly and that if requests for aid come in the fol­low­ing months or even years, we should be will­ing to help in our own lit­tle way.

    chrischoo

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Agree, Chris Choo. What’s impor­tant is what these peo­ple do in the com­ing months, or years, and how aid is actu­ally moved to the places and peo­ple that need it. But as with a cat­a­stro­phe as tremen­dous as this, my knee-jerks set off a chain reac­tion which ends up with shoot­ing my mouth off (tran­scribed onto the keyboard/screen).

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Agree, Chris Choo. What’s impor­tant is what these peo­ple do in the com­ing months, or years, and how aid is actu­ally moved to the places and peo­ple that need it. But as with a cat­a­stro­phe as tremen­dous as this, my knee-jerks set off a chain reac­tion which ends up with shoot­ing my mouth off (tran­scribed onto the keyboard/screen).

  • Anony­mous

    It seems inap­pro­pri­ate to slam oth­ers’ aid efforts. We are pro­vid­ing mil­i­tary aid, which will cost 20 mil­lion for 2-week deploy­ment. Our mil­i­tary bases have also been open for use to trans­port sup­plies to Indonesia.

    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/125044/1/.html

    Such aid can boost the aid effort more than what dol­lars donated to Red Cross can achieve.

  • Anony­mous

    It seems inap­pro­pri­ate to slam oth­ers’ aid efforts. We are pro­vid­ing mil­i­tary aid, which will cost 20 mil­lion for 2-week deploy­ment. Our mil­i­tary bases have also been open for use to trans­port sup­plies to Indonesia.

    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/125044/1/.html

    Such aid can boost the aid effort more than what dol­lars donated to Red Cross can achieve.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4146500 Bub­ble­mu­nche

    Aiyoh, SWH don’t own Cre­ative lah. The share­hold­ers do. SWH is answer­able to the share­hold­ers, as sim­ple as that ;)

    I don’t con­demn the ‘pal­try amount’ because so far, I’ve con­tributed only SGD$100 to the wel­fare fund, which amounts to around 0.4% of what I earned last year. Kudos to any­one who gave any­thing above 1%: you have my respect :)

    Any­way, it’s New Year’s Eve. Let’s all toast to a can of Jia Jia Liang Teh and pray for a beau­ti­ful New Year. Cheers!

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4146500 Bub­ble­mu­nche

    Aiyoh, SWH don’t own Cre­ative lah. The share­hold­ers do. SWH is answer­able to the share­hold­ers, as sim­ple as that ;)

    I don’t con­demn the ‘pal­try amount’ because so far, I’ve con­tributed only SGD$100 to the wel­fare fund, which amounts to around 0.4% of what I earned last year. Kudos to any­one who gave any­thing above 1%: you have my respect :)

    Any­way, it’s New Year’s Eve. Let’s all toast to a can of Jia Jia Liang Teh and pray for a beau­ti­ful New Year. Cheers!

  • Anony­mous

    Hi, every­one

    Thought you might like to know — if you haven’t already — that Mercy Relief (“MR”) and Sin­ga­pore Soka Asso­ci­a­tion (“SSA”)are jointly coor­di­nat­ing relief efforts for Aceh and Sri Lanka. Not much dif­fer­ence in list of sup­plies required as already reit­er­ated by inter­na­tional media and blog-owner him­self but, ah… heheh, just to re-cap. [Blog-Owner pls don’t stran­gle me for mak­ing this redundant]

    A. Cash dona­tions:
    We already know where to go and / or what to do. We can also con­tribute through Tele-Mercy dona­tion lines at
    * 1900 911 1150 ($50 dona­tion)
    * 1900 911 1110 ($100 donation)

    B. Dona­tions in kind:
    Essen­tials required are…

    1. Med­ical Sup­plies: Water purifi­ca­tion tablets, parac­eta­mol, antibi­otics, dress­ing, suture mate­ri­als, dis­pos­able syringes, intra­venous infu­sions (saline and dex­trose), san­i­tary pads;
    2. Blan­kets, white cloth;

    3. Food, potable water. [Impor­tant: Pls do remem­ber to check expiry dates before donat­ing per­ish­ables. Thanks.]

    Vol­un­teers are needed to help with the pack­ing and gen­eral han­dling of sup­plies. These are the 4 Col­lec­tion Cen­tres which have been set up by MR and SSA.

    1. SOKA HQ, 10 Tampines St 81.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Dec 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tampines
    Bus: 293 (green)

    2. SOKA Senja Cen­tre, 11 Senja Road.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Choa Chu Kang / Bt Pan­jang
    LRT: Senja
    Bus: Upper Bt Timah — 170, 178, 180, 460, 961
    Bt Pan­jang — 171, 176, 177, 187, 190, 963, 970, 75

    3. SOKA Youth Cen­tre, 156 Pasir Pan­jang Road.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Har­bourfront
    Bus: 10, 30, 51, 143, 188, 521, 176

    4. The Cor­po­rate Build­ing, 144 Robin­son Road, 3rd Flr.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Mon, 03 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tan­jong Pagar or Raf­fles Place
    Bus: Robin­son Road — 10, 70, 75, 97, 100, 130, 162 (until 7.30/8pm only), 196, 608

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    Hi, every­one

    Thought you might like to know — if you haven’t already — that Mercy Relief (“MR”) and Sin­ga­pore Soka Asso­ci­a­tion (“SSA”)are jointly coor­di­nat­ing relief efforts for Aceh and Sri Lanka. Not much dif­fer­ence in list of sup­plies required as already reit­er­ated by inter­na­tional media and blog-owner him­self but, ah… heheh, just to re-cap. [Blog-Owner pls don’t stran­gle me for mak­ing this redundant]

    A. Cash dona­tions:
    We already know where to go and / or what to do. We can also con­tribute through Tele-Mercy dona­tion lines at
    * 1900 911 1150 ($50 dona­tion)
    * 1900 911 1110 ($100 donation)

    B. Dona­tions in kind:
    Essen­tials required are…

    1. Med­ical Sup­plies: Water purifi­ca­tion tablets, parac­eta­mol, antibi­otics, dress­ing, suture mate­ri­als, dis­pos­able syringes, intra­venous infu­sions (saline and dex­trose), san­i­tary pads;
    2. Blan­kets, white cloth;

    3. Food, potable water. [Impor­tant: Pls do remem­ber to check expiry dates before donat­ing per­ish­ables. Thanks.]

    Vol­un­teers are needed to help with the pack­ing and gen­eral han­dling of sup­plies. These are the 4 Col­lec­tion Cen­tres which have been set up by MR and SSA.

    1. SOKA HQ, 10 Tampines St 81.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Dec 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tampines
    Bus: 293 (green)

    2. SOKA Senja Cen­tre, 11 Senja Road.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Choa Chu Kang / Bt Pan­jang
    LRT: Senja
    Bus: Upper Bt Timah — 170, 178, 180, 460, 961
    Bt Pan­jang — 171, 176, 177, 187, 190, 963, 970, 75

    3. SOKA Youth Cen­tre, 156 Pasir Pan­jang Road.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Har­bourfront
    Bus: 10, 30, 51, 143, 188, 521, 176

    4. The Cor­po­rate Build­ing, 144 Robin­son Road, 3rd Flr.
    Oper­a­tional Period: Mon, 03 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tan­jong Pagar or Raf­fles Place
    Bus: Robin­son Road — 10, 70, 75, 97, 100, 130, 162 (until 7.30/8pm only), 196, 608

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    Hi, every­one

    Thought you might like to know — if you haven’t already — that Mercy Relief (“MR”) and Sin­ga­pore Soka Asso­ci­a­tion (“SSA”)are jointly coor­di­nat­ing relief efforts for Aceh and Sri Lanka. Not much dif­fer­ence in list of sup­plies required as already reit­er­ated by inter­na­tional media and blog-owner him­self but, ah… heheh, just to re-cap. [Blog-Owner pls don’t stran­gle me for mak­ing this redundant]

    A. Cash dona­tions:
    We already know where to go and / or what to do. We can also con­tribute through Tele-Mercy dona­tion lines at
    * 1900 911 1150 ($50 dona­tion)
    * 1900 911 1110 ($100 donation)

    B. Dona­tions in kind:
    Essen­tials required are…

    1. Med­ical Sup­plies: Water purifi­ca­tion tablets, parac­eta­mol, antibi­otics, dress­ing, suture mate­ri­als, dis­pos­able syringes, intra­venous infu­sions (saline and dex­trose), san­i­tary pads;
    2. Blan­kets, white cloth;
    3. Cloth­ing: Tops with sleeves, long pants, good under­wear (no worn out ones pls) and rain gear, all prefer­ably sorted by gen­der and age;
    4. Food, potable water. [Impor­tant: Pls do remem­ber to check expiry dates before donat­ing per­ish­ables. Thanks.]

    Vol­un­teers are much needed to help with the pack­ing and gen­eral han­dling of sup­plies. These are the 4 Col­lec­tion Cen­tres which have been set up by MR and SSA.

    i. SOKA HQ, 10 Tampines St 81.
    Hot­line: 6787 3255
    Con­tact: Ms Tan Gek Noi [Hp 9677 1991]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Dec 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tampines
    Bus: 293 (green)

    ii. SOKA Senja Cen­tre, 11 Senja Road.
    Hot­line: 6766 8674
    Con­tact: Mr Lam Shyy Jong [Hp 9757 8660]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Choa Chu Kang / Bt Pan­jang
    LRT: Senja
    Bus: Upper Bt Timah — 170, 178, 180, 460, 961
    Bt Pan­jang — 171, 176, 177, 187, 190, 963, 970, 75

    iii. SOKA Youth Cen­tre, 156 Pasir Pan­jang Road.
    Hot­line: 6473 1711
    Con­tact: Melvin [Hp 9012 9659]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Har­bourFront
    Bus: 10, 30, 51, 143, 188, 521, 176

    iv. The Cor­po­rate Build­ing, 144 Robin­son Road, 3rd Flr.
    Con­tact: Adrian [Hp 9459 9249]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Mon, 03 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tan­jong Pagar (nearer) or Raf­fles Place
    Bus: Robin­son Road — 10, 70, 75, 97, 100, 130, 162 (until 7.30/8pm only), 196, 608

    Inter­ested vol­un­teers can go to any of the col­lec­tion cen­tres or con­tact Mercy Relief at 6332 6320 or query@mercyrelief.org.

    And if you have car­ton boxes or know where to find some, pls do pass them over to these col­lec­tion cen­tres. They badly need them to pack the sup­plies. I just dropped off 23 pieces at SSA Senja Cen­tre and am going out again later to beg some aun­ties from the NTUC Fair­price branch in my neigh­bour­hood. keekeekee

    Okay, that’s all. I’m out of here. Have a great blessed 2005.

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    Hi, every­one

    Thought you might like to know — if you haven’t already — that Mercy Relief (“MR”) and Sin­ga­pore Soka Asso­ci­a­tion (“SSA”)are jointly coor­di­nat­ing relief efforts for Aceh and Sri Lanka. Not much dif­fer­ence in list of sup­plies required as already reit­er­ated by inter­na­tional media and blog-owner him­self but, ah… heheh, just to re-cap. [Blog-Owner pls don’t stran­gle me for mak­ing this redundant]

    A. Cash dona­tions:
    We already know where to go and / or what to do. We can also con­tribute through Tele-Mercy dona­tion lines at
    * 1900 911 1150 ($50 dona­tion)
    * 1900 911 1110 ($100 donation)

    B. Dona­tions in kind:
    Essen­tials required are…

    1. Med­ical Sup­plies: Water purifi­ca­tion tablets, parac­eta­mol, antibi­otics, dress­ing, suture mate­ri­als, dis­pos­able syringes, intra­venous infu­sions (saline and dex­trose), san­i­tary pads;
    2. Blan­kets, white cloth;
    3. Cloth­ing: Tops with sleeves, long pants, good under­wear (no worn out ones pls) and rain gear, all prefer­ably sorted by gen­der and age;
    4. Food, potable water. [Impor­tant: Pls do remem­ber to check expiry dates before donat­ing per­ish­ables. Thanks.]

    Vol­un­teers are much needed to help with the pack­ing and gen­eral han­dling of sup­plies. These are the 4 Col­lec­tion Cen­tres which have been set up by MR and SSA.

    i. SOKA HQ, 10 Tampines St 81.
    Hot­line: 6787 3255
    Con­tact: Ms Tan Gek Noi [Hp 9677 1991]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Dec 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tampines
    Bus: 293 (green)

    ii. SOKA Senja Cen­tre, 11 Senja Road.
    Hot­line: 6766 8674
    Con­tact: Mr Lam Shyy Jong [Hp 9757 8660]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Choa Chu Kang / Bt Pan­jang
    LRT: Senja
    Bus: Upper Bt Timah — 170, 178, 180, 460, 961
    Bt Pan­jang — 171, 176, 177, 187, 190, 963, 970, 75

    iii. SOKA Youth Cen­tre, 156 Pasir Pan­jang Road.
    Hot­line: 6473 1711
    Con­tact: Melvin [Hp 9012 9659]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Fri, 31 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Har­bourFront
    Bus: 10, 30, 51, 143, 188, 521, 176

    iv. The Cor­po­rate Build­ing, 144 Robin­son Road, 3rd Flr.
    Con­tact: Adrian [Hp 9459 9249]
    Oper­a­tional Period: Mon, 03 Jan 04 — Sun, 09 Jan 05
    Oper­a­tional Hrs: 8.30am to 8.30pm

    How To Get There.
    MRT: Tan­jong Pagar (nearer) or Raf­fles Place
    Bus: Robin­son Road — 10, 70, 75, 97, 100, 130, 162 (until 7.30/8pm only), 196, 608

    Inter­ested vol­un­teers can go to any of the col­lec­tion cen­tres or con­tact Mercy Relief at 6332 6320 or query@mercyrelief.org.

    And if you have car­ton boxes or know where to find some, pls do pass them over to these col­lec­tion cen­tres. They badly need them to pack the sup­plies. I just dropped off 23 pieces at SSA Senja Cen­tre and am going out again later to beg some aun­ties from the NTUC Fair­price branch in my neigh­bour­hood. keekeekee

    Okay, that’s all. I’m out of here. Have a great blessed 2005.

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    Sorry about that dou­ble post­ing! My cat jumped on the key­board and some­how hit the Enter key.

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    Sorry about that dou­ble post­ing! My cat jumped on the key­board and some­how hit the Enter key.

    Delta Nighthawk

  • Anony­mous

    stu­pid cat.

  • Anony­mous

    stu­pid cat.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Thank you Delta Nighthawk and cat.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4402416 Tsuyu

    I have been a silent reader for quite some time. And for the first time, I have some­thing to say.

    It is always so much eas­ier to com­ment and judge. So much eas­ier to fin­ger and fault than to appre­ci­ate. Far too easy to com­pare and to critisize. =)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Thank you Delta Nighthawk and cat.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4402416 Tsuyu

    I have been a silent reader for quite some time. And for the first time, I have some­thing to say.

    It is always so much eas­ier to com­ment and judge. So much eas­ier to fin­ger and fault than to appre­ci­ate. Far too easy to com­pare and to critisize. =)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Not wrong there, Tsuyu. That’s why blogging’s easy.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Not wrong there, Tsuyu. That’s why blogging’s easy.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    That’s why we blog.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5025720 Airbag

    That’s why we blog.

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