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Joseph Schooling greets his father Colin at Changi Airport on Aug 14, 2016. Photo: Jason Quah
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Male Cyclist
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Keep Fit Exercises
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Thursday, August 18, 2016
More than Devil Curry ~ by MELISSA DE SILVA
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PUBLISHED: 10:30 PM, AUGUST 17, 2016
UPDATED: 7:49 AM, AUGUST 18, 2016
SINGAPORE — So, how did Eurasians come to be in Singapore anyway? A Eurasian is someone who has both Asian and European ancestry. Many Singaporean Eurasians trace their heritage to European colonisation in Asia, first of the Portuguese in Asia back in the 1500s (in Malacca, Sri Lanka, Goa and Timor), then the Dutch (Malacca, Sri Lanka and Indonesia) and finally the British.
Some of these Eurasians came to Singapore to seek their fortunes and ended up settling here, just as ancestors of other Singaporeans, who journeyed from India, China, Indonesia and the Middle East. Some were born in Singapore as first-generation Eurasians, from unions between Europeans and Asians. It was also the norm then for Eurasians to marry within their community, producing second- or third-generation
Eurasian children.
According to the census in 2010, the Eurasian population here is at 0.4 per cent of the population, or 15,581 in total. Despite the small population, the Eurasians have made a significant impact here. Here are five other things to know about them.
SPORTS IS KIND OF THEIR THING
Even before Joseph Schooling’s scintillating win at this 2016 Rio Olympics, Eurasians have enjoyed a long history of excellence in sports. This goes back to the colonial era, when Eurasian families valued sports as character building.
In 1931, Alice Pennefather, of Scottish-Japanese descent, became Singapore’s first women’s singles badminton champion at the Singapore National Badminton Championships. She continued to win titles until the 1950s. The versatile sportswoman was also the first non-European Singapore Ladies Tennis Champion
in 1936.
It was the Eurasians who formed the Singapore Hockey Association in 1931. In 1956, the Singapore hockey team went to the Melbourne Olympics. The team placed eighth, ahead of Malaya. Half of the team comprised Eurasians, including captain Percy Pennefather, Rudy Mosbergen and Osbert Rozario.
Edmund William Barker, former Minister for Law (1964 to 1988), was the first President of the Singapore National Olympic Council. He led the construction of the National Stadium in the 1970s. He was a star athlete and captain of the soccer team at Raffles Institution, and was of Portuguese, Irish, Japanese, Scottish, Malay and German heritage. His Portuguese great-great-great grandfather Dr Jose D Almeida (1784 to 1850) was one of the first 10 Europeans to settle in Singapore.
THEY STARTED THE SINGAPORE RECREATION CLUB (SRC)
The formation of the SRC in 1883 was a reaction by the Eurasian community against the Singapore Cricket Club’s barring of non-Europeans. They set up their own sports club exclusively for Eurasians, the SRC, on the Padang directly opposite the Singapore Cricket Club. In 1955, club membership was opened to non-Eurasians.
THERE ARE ROADS NAMED AFTER THEM
Cashin Street
Named after Singapore’s first Eurasian millionaire, Cashin, a lawyer’s clerk in the 1880s who invested in opium farming and property.
Desker Road
Named after Andre Filipe Desker (1826 to 1898). He was born in Malacca and became a philanthropist to Singapore’s Catholic schools and churches.
Galistan Avenue
Named after orchid cultivator Emile Galistan, founder of the Malayan Orchid Society. One of his best-known hybrids, the Aranda Hilda Galistan, is named after his wife.
Koek Road
Named after lawyer Edwin Koek, a Malaccan of Dutch-descent, who practised in the 1870s and 1880s.
Norris Road
Named after Richard Owen Norris and George Norris, sons of an officer in the East India Company. Richard Norris’ great-granddaughter, Noel Evelyn Norris, was principal of Raffles Girls’ School from 1961 to 1977.
Tessensohn Road
Named after Edwin Tessensohn (1855 to 1926), who came to Singapore from Malacca in his teens. He was the first Eurasian to be a nominated member of the Legislative Council and in 1894, became the president of the Singapore Recreation Club.
THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR OWN MOTHER TONGUE(S)
Eurasians, having many threads of heritage, may technically count various European and Asian languages among their wealth of mother tongue inheritance, such as Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Chinese and the Indian languages.
The mother tongue spoken by the Portuguese Eurasians from Malacca, though, is a creole language called Kristang — a creole is any language formed by an intermarriage of two other languages — developed from the presence of the Portuguese in Malaya. Kristang comprises a largely Malay grammatical structure and Portuguese vocabulary.
It is an endangered language, with less than 100 fluent speakers in Singapore, most of whom are elderly. There is currently a revival movement among younger Eurasians to learn this language before it is lost, initiated by National University of Singapore linguistics undergraduate Kevin Martens Wong. For information on Kristang classes, check outhttps://www.facebook.com/kodrahkristang.
THEY HAVE A WIDE VARIETY OF SURNAMES
Many Eurasians have European surnames, which can tell you what countries their European ancestors came from. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list:
Germany: Hochstadt, Keller, Klass, Neubronner, Oehlers, Schooling (an anglicised variant of Schilling)
Britain: Batchelor, Branson, Campbell (Scottish), Clarke, Hogan, Leicester, Moss, Scully (Irish), Sheperdson, Smith
Denmark: Jensen, Lange, Olsen
The Netherlands: Ess, Hoeden, Marbeck, Minjoot, van Cuylenberg, Vanderstraaten, Westerhout
Portugal: Aeria, Carvalho, Coelho, Cordeiro, De Almeida, De Cotta, De Silva, De Souza, Gomez, Lazaroo, Nonis, Oliveiro, Pestana, Pereira, Pinto, Rodrigues, Theseira
Melissa De Silva writes about Eurasian culture and identity at https://eurasiansg.com. She has been published in literary journals in the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong. She is currently working on a novel about Eurasian identity.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Joke ~ Bag It!
'Bag It' is the name of a shop that sells very expensive bags. It has 2 shops in Far East Plaza, and the price on Level 2 is lower than Level 3 ...Obviously!
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Saturday, June 11, 2016
This is Talk Cock the Chicken, and it has something to say
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This is Talk Cock the Chicken, and it has something to say.
This is Talk Cock the Chicken, and it has something to shout about.
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Warning! Potential Chain Email Message!
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One Billion Educational Chain Message Warning!
Today, with the click of a button, a message can be forwarded to hundreds of people at no apparent cost to the sender. If each of these "Good Samaritans" send the message to only ten other people (and most send to huge mailing lists), the ninth re-sending results in a billion messages, thereby, clogging the network and interfering with the receiving of legitimate e-mail messages. Factor in the time lost reading and deleting all these messages and you see a real cost to organizations and individuals from these seemingly innocuous messages.
How do you recognize a chain letter?
Sample of Chain Message Propagation:
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One Billion ~ What does Billion actually mean?
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Subject: One Billion ~ What does Billion actually mean?
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
The Billion Dollar Question.
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One Billion
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The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109.
example... "a world population of nearly 5 billion".
So basically...
I Billion
= 1,000 million
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This method used is currently popular and is known as the Short Scale.
Another method used is called the Long Scale which is not popular probably because it is impossible, very remote & non-realistic in most cases & usage.
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Fish:
Oiy! The figures correct or not?
Apple Lamb:
of course not lah
editor sleeping lor
Fish:
... wishful thinking... probably.
I think should be something like this...
RM2.6 billion = S$875,000,000
... base on rate from internet...
... so the editor missed 3 big important zeros.
... BUT in an exam... he or she will get ONE BIG ZERO!
Jackfruit Cup:
Maybe typo... Million not billion
Apple Lamb:
billion is correct
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May 26, 2016
KL to have donation law in place before 2018 election
KUALA LUMPUR
WHEN Malaysia holds its next general election in 2018, a law should be in place requiring political parties to disclose all funding from foreign sources and local interest groups so as to prevent electoral meddling, said the minister tasked with fostering political integrity in the country.
The announcement came as questions persist over the origin of the RM2.6 billion (S$875,000) found to have been deposited into Prime Minister Najib Razak's personal account before the 2013 general election.
Paul Low, chairman of the National Consultative Committee on Political Financing - formed in August by Mr Najib following uproar over the deposit - yesterday updated the media on the planned political donation act.
Speaking at the Malaysian Institute of Integrity in Kuala Lumpur, he said the last meeting to iron out details will be held in July before the draft is submitted to the Cabinet, reported Berita Harian.
"Once the law is adopted in 2018, all political parties must disclose information about their donors, the amounts they receive and how would the money be spent," Mr Low added.
"This is to help restore the trust that had been eroded between political leaders and the people," Mr Low, who is also minister in the PM Department in charge of governance, integrity and human rights, pointed out.
According to him, any money coming from outside the country, even if owned by a Malaysian, must be scrutinised.
The law would also target political financing from government-linked companies, the Sun Daily quoted him as saying.
Mr Low suggested the Election Commission play the supervisory authority, taking over from the Registrar of Society, which is over-burdened
Mr Najib was cleared in January of corruption by the Attorney-General over the RM2.6 billion donation.
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Long and short scales
The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for integer powers of ten, that use the same words with different meanings:
For integers less than a thousand million (< 109) the two scales are identical. From a thousand million up (≥ 109) the two scales diverge, using the same words for different numbers; this can cause misunderstanding.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Billion (disambiguation).
A billion is a large number with two distinct definitions:
American English always uses the short scale definition but British English has employed both versions. Historically, the United Kingdom used the long scale billion but since 1974 official UK statistics have used the short scale. Since the 1950s the short scale has been increasingly used in technical writing and journalism, although the long scale definition still enjoys common usage.[3]
Other countries use the word billion (or words cognate to it) to denote either the long scale or short scale billion. For details, see Long and short scales – Current usage.
Another word for one thousand million is milliard, but this is used much less often in English than billion. Some languages, such as French or German, use milliard (or a related word) for the short scale billion, and billion (or a related word) for the long scale billion. Thus the French or German billion is a thousand times larger than the modern English billion.
History
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word billion was formed in the 16th century (from million and the prefix bi-, "two"), meaning the second power of a million (1012). This long scale definition was similarly applied to trillion, quadrillion and so on. The words were originally French, and entered English around the end of the 17th century. Later, French arithmeticians changed the words' meanings, adopting the short scale definition whereby three zeros rather than six were added at each step, so a billion came to denote a thousand million (109), a trillion 1012, and so on. This new convention was adopted in the United States in the 19th century, but Britain retained the original long scale use. France, in turn, reverted to the long scale in 1948.[4]
In Britain, however, under the influence of American usage, the short scale came to be increasingly used. In 1974, Prime Minister Harold Wilson confirmed that the government would use the word billion only in its short scale meaning (one thousand million). In a written answer to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP, who asked whether official usage would conform to the traditional British meaning of a million million, Wilson stated: "No. The word 'billion' is now used internationally to mean 1,000 million and it would be confusing if British Ministers were to use it in any other sense. I accept that it could still be interpreted in this country as 1 million million and I shall ask my colleagues to ensure that, if they do use it, there should be no ambiguity as to its meaning."[3]
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Sample of my potential movement to stop Chain Messages.
Also, describes briefly what 1 Billion actually mean.
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One Billion Educational Chain Message Warning!
Today, with the click of a button, a message can be forwarded to hundreds of people at no apparent cost to the sender. If each of these "Good Samaritans" send the message to only ten other people (and most send to huge mailing lists), the ninth re-sending results in a billion messages, thereby, clogging the network and interfering with the receiving of legitimate e-mail messages. Factor in the time lost reading and deleting all these messages and you see a real cost to organizations and individuals from these seemingly innocuous messages.
How do you recognize a chain letter?
Sample of Chain Message Propagation:
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Parking Advice ~ This picture so funny!
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
The words say:
Many three year olds
have trouble staying
withing the lines.
Maybe if you practice
coloring this turtle, it will
help with your parking.
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Turtle Parking ~ PDF Links:
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
What are the differences between Arteries and Veins?
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What are the differences between Arteries and Veins?
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
What are the differences between Arteries and Veins?
Are there valves in arteries?
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Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In contrast to veins, arteries carry blood away from the heart.
Veins are less muscular than arteries and are often closer to the skin. There are valves in most veins to prevent backflow.
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