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Friday (14/08/2009), my company held again another Suka Suka Makan Party for 2009. As usual, I was mainly the one who did all the arrangements. This time round, we had Nyonya food. But this time, the food from this caterer was not so impressive.
My Share
Saturday morning supposed to go to Springfield Secondary School with Lincoln, he gave a missed due to not feeling well. The MP and Joanne Hsu(First Singapore Lady to Scaled Mount Everest) were there to officiate the opening of the Rock Wall and also to create a Singapore Record for vertical climb of 8850m in the event called "Together We Climb Our Everest".
The Opening Ceremony and the Wall
Me (No.135) in action
After that, went over to the carnival and surprised to see the Girls Brigades doing Balloon Sculpturing, so I went over to Kaypo a bit till Auntie Irene called me to get some ingredients for her as 小凤 will be there in the afternoon to learn to make Moon Cake.
Soon after I arrived there, Nicole and Mabel also arrived but still no signs of 小凤... Finally, she turn up late. As for Margaret, she went to attend a Seminar and not able to come.
Chocolate Moon Cakes by Mabel
Traditional Moon Cakes by 小凤
Sunday, we got even more better stuffs. We (Auntie Irene, Nicole, Margaret, 小凤, Auntie Ping and me) prepared Agar Agar Moon Cakes with the moulds bought by Michelle.
Agar Agar Moon Cakes, Wanna have a bite???
Agar Agar Moon Cakes
Agar Agar Moon Cake's Durian & Yolk which was left over
For dinner, we had a wide spread of dishes...
鱼鳔肉圆汤
风味鸡
We had 金瓜炒米粉 for dinner. This was what we did on Saturday... So relax... :D
Yummy yummy 金瓜炒米粉Sunday morning after tution, went to Auntie Irene House again. So surprised to see a pot of Rosemary plant... Auntie Irene and Nicole went to Marine Terrace in the morning to buy it.
YCIS Net of Young NTUC organised the trip to Marina Barrage on 07/02/2009. As I was involved in the committee, I was there early as to "Chop" a good place for the participants.
There is no entrance fee, with free shuttle bus from Maina Bay MRT Station and Marina Barrage is a great place for picnic, gathering, relaxing, kite flying, sight seeing, etc.... :D
The event ended in the evening after a guided tour around and to the Gallery.
About the Marina Barrage
Built across the mouth of the Marina Channel, the Marina Barrage creates Singapore’s 15th reservoir, and the first in the heart of the city. With a catchment area of 10,000 hectares, or one-sixth the size of Singapore, the Marina catchment is the island’s largest and most urbanised catchment.
Together with two other new reservoirs, the Marina Reservoir will boost Singapore’s water catchment from half to two-third’s of the country’s land area. The Marina Barrage is the result of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s vision nearly two decades ago when he envisaged damming the mouth of the Marina Channel to create a freshwater reservoir.
3-in-1 Benefits
a. Water Supply
The Marina Barrage is a dam built across the 350-meter wide Marina Channel to keep out seawater, forming Singapore’s first reservoir in the city and 15th reservoir. Marina Reservoir combines with the future Punggol and Serangoon reservoirs will increase Singapore’s water catchment areas from half to two-thirds of Singapore’s land areas. With the barrage in place, the Marina Basin will turn into a body of freshwater through natural flushing in one two to years. The freshwater will then be treated using advanced membrane technology before consumption.
Local catchment water is one of the Four National Taps, with the other three being imported water, NEWater and desalinated water. As one of the pillars of local water supply, Marina Reservoir will meet more than 10% of Singapore’s current water demand.
b. Flood Control
The Marina Barrage is part of a comprehensive flood control scheme to alleviate flooding in the lowlying areas in the city such as Chinatown, Boat Quay, Jalan Besar and Geylang. During heavy rain, the series of nine crest gates at the dam will be activated to release excess storm water into the sea when the tide is low. In the case of high tide, giant pumps which are capable of pumping an Olympics-size swimming pool per minute will drain excess storm water into the sea.
c. Lifestyle Attraction
As the water in the Marina Basin is unaffected by the tides, its water level will be kept constant all year round. This is ideal for all kinds of recreational activities such as boating, windsurfing, kayaking and dragonboating etc.
It was a sunny Saturday morning. After collecting the food for the staffs from Auntie Irene, I headed towards Chinatown Point. Upon reaching the Taxi Stand, could already see a long queue snaking till outside Macdonalds. As time passed by, the queue grew to an unbelievable length.
These were what the people queuing for!
As the collection (pre-ordered through phone or internet about 2 weeks ago)/sales of calendar started, it was then that they found out most of the people queuing in front were there to purchase on site, but there were 200 copies only. The 200 copies were sold like hot cakes and sold out in less than half an hour. Many in the queue were making noise as they were there very early to queue as they were unable to pre-order, but yet cannot get. 国贤 tried to pacify them by starting a counter for then to place the order first, and will notify them when available.The autograph session started at about 2.40pm instead of 2pm and went on till 6pm where the queue finally ended.And according to Violet, she had 2000 plus signatures signed and her right hand was very tired, but she was very happy.
Inside of Chinatown Point
The queue continues ....
The queue under the hot sun ....
The stage of the Autograph session
晓英, Addy and Violet 粉樱
晓英 and Violet 粉樱 with guests 
Ready, get set, go
Autograph session in progress
"Thank You"
国贤 interviewing 粉樱 as she signs on the Calendar
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