Little Guilin & Veggie Farm

45 Owen Residents visited Little Guilin and Veggie Farm on 16 May 2009.

There are 57 photos taken, please click onto the camera icon to view these photos.

Cable-Ski@East Coast Park

Cable-ski is a waterskiing / wakeboarding pulled by an overhead cable instead of a boat. Up to eight people can be in the lagoon at a time. The cables there runs at speed varying between 24 and 58kmh.

Fee: $32 an hour (weekdays)
$42 an hour (weekends)

Pre-requisite : participants must be able to swim.

Website: www.ski360degree.com
Telephone: 6442 7318

Humorous and Jokes

CONTENT

Ah Beng Jokes
01. Ah Beng talks about Singapore History
02. Ah Beng bought a Honda
03. Ah Beng and durians
04. Ah Beng Jokes 1
05. Ah Beng Jokes 2
06. Ah Beng Jokes 3
07. Ah Beng Jokes 4
08. Ah Beng Boleh

09. Unbelievable Ah Soh 1
10. Unbelievable Ah Soh 2


OTHERS
01. A Loan
02. Celluar Phone Story
03. Signs of Times
04. Kiddy Riddles
05. Ah Pek and the Pope
06. American vs Japanese
07. Wrong Email Address
08. Lunch-time is Lunch-time
09. Thoughts on Quiet Night - Poem by Li Bai
10. Intertesting Signage
11. Jokes from IMH~~
12. Story of Handphone Systems
13. Another Singapore Story for thinking Singaporean Only


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Management Jokes
01. Types of Corporations
02. Twenty Management Style
03. Difference between You and Your Boss
04. Business Logic
05. Business Courses
06. Tips for Success in Business

Click onto the above link to read Riddles / Jokes.................

Ah Beng Jokes 4

Once upon a time, a group of Ah Bengs stepped into a lounge and wanted the DJ to play the song "Ah Cheng Buey Ro Ti" (In Hokkien means Ah Cheng buys bread).The DJ told them that they only have English songs and told them to re-select another song.

The Ah Bengs were very angry and kicked up a big fuss, claiming the DJ was insulting them. The manager had to intervene in order to calm them down. Finally, after long talk with Ah Bengs, manager found out that Ah Bengs actually asking for the song "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers
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One day, two Ah Lians got into a lift from the 20th storey and want to get down to the ground floor. As they looked at the dial, they could see the number 20 down to number 2. It was then followed by a G. As they not English-educated, they were puzzled and had no idea what the the letter G meant. Suddenly one of them exclaimed excitedly and hit the "G" button.

When they finally reached the ground floor, the other Ah Lian was so impressed and asked the first Ah Lian, "Wah low!, how you know one?" The first Ah Lian replied smugly, "Easy la, G for Gero mah."
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Cantonese Songs

难忘旧爱 by 丽莎 Lisa & The Stylers


夢醒時份 - 陳淑樺


張德蘭
鮮花滿月樓

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The Istana

The Istana was built in 1869 and was known as Government House during the British colonial rule. It was a place of pomp and ceremony. After independence in 1959, it was renamed the Ïstana”and the new Head of State, Mr Yusof Ishak moved in. The grounds are as large as 40 football fields and there are 10,000 trees covering more than 100 species including the Nutmeg tree. There are three other buildings - the villas, the Lodge and Sri Temasek. There are also pons, the largest being the Swan Pond. Visitors can enjoy the greenery of the sprawling grounds, have a picnic or visit the staterooms (fee payable for staterooms).

Opening Days: Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Hari Raya Puasa, Labour Day and the first Sunday of August to celebrate National Day.

Opening Hours: 8.30 am to 6.30 pm

Main Entrance Fee: Singaporean and Permanent Residents –Free. Foreign Visitors - $1.00 per person. Staterooms (Istana Buiding) - $2.00 each for all visitors. These collection are donated to charities.

Specialities: Changing of the Guards Ceremony featuring the Precision Drill Squad from the SAF Military Police Unit on first Sunday of each month at 6.00 pm at the entrance gate of Orchard Road.

Fuk Tak Chi Museum

This museum was central to the Chinese immigrants life – both as a shrine and as a welfare centre. It was built in the formal style of China’s old magistrates’courts. It is said that there are 200 artefacts contributed by former residents of Chinatown including Paranakan jewellery, an opium smoker’s lamp, a charcoal iron and others. The museum occupies the premises of the first-known Chinese temple in Singapore, “Fuk Tak Chi Temple”, which was set up by Hakka and Cantonese immigrants to give thanks to the deity, Da Bo Gong (Local God of the Soil) for their safe journey here.

The location is at Telok Ayer Street and is opened daily from 10 am to 9.00 pm. Admission is Free.

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Great Men Bronze Sculptures

Sir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian and one of the most influential men in human history.

Plato (Greek:"broad")(428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. As the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a Nobel Prize-winning writer, and an artist.

Sun Yat-sen 孫中山 (12 November 1866 or 24 November 1870 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the Father of Modern China. Sun played an instrumental role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in 1911. He was the first provisional president when the Republic of China (ROC) was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered in both mainland China and Taiwan.

Dante Alighieri, (May/June1265 – September 14,1321) was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called Commedia and later called Divina ("divine") by Boccaccio), is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

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Chopin, ( 1 March 1810[1] – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.

You can find all these bronze sculptures inside Parkview Square.