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14th Year: 2012
May
- Seva Talk at RI

Jun
- Stacks in S'pore & Partner Yoga

Jul
- Racial Harmony Day at Unity Secondary School

Aug
- AOL Adv Course & Grandpa's Gifts

Sep
- Family Gathering & Yuki's Wedding in KL

Oct
- Tribal School Project, Jharkhand, India
- Children's Garden Home, Nairobi, Kenya
- Shooting Wildlife in Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya
Nov
- Rock Climbing at Safra Yishun

Dec
- Skiing at Secret Garden + Great Wall of China

 
   

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7 MAY 2012: Dinner with Liz Poey

Anne Choo shares 2 common alumni with me - Queen Mary College in London and National Junior College in Singapore. And we also share a common greatest teacher of all time - Elizabeth Poey!

So when Liz invited to her home for a chat about my seva projects in Africa with a few like-minded friends, I brought with me a surprise to Liz - her long lost student Anne. And what a wonderful gathering of good friends over dinner.

At Liz's home Liz Poey and Anne Choo
   

14 MAY 2012: Seva Talk at Raffles Institution

Thanks to Eddie and Steffen's invitation, Alvin gave a talk on social transformation for their JC2 students who would soon be embarking on community service projects. Alvin shared his Seva 2011 experience at the Children's Garden Home in Kenya.

Seva talk at Raffles Institution to JC2 students
Telling the story of Kenyan street children...
Stef
Steffen, Eddie and Alvin

Students in top colleges are materially, informationally and technologically enriched to serve humanity and the world. But are they spiritually nurtured to have the compassion to love each other and care beyond their self interest? That, I think, must be the overarching calling to all teachers of today for the development of loving leaders of tomorrow.

Interestingly, at the end of Alvin's talk, those who stayed behind to engage him with deeper and broader questions about helping the poor were all foreign students. None from Singapore...

Foreign students eager to hear more after the talk
   

27 MAY 2012: Robyn the Handygirl

Who do you call when you have handy work to do? Robyn Yong.

She single-handedly 'renovated' Alvin's office with the best of professional touch.

Robyn doing handyman work in Alvin's office
Nothing can challenge Robyn
Robyn putting in another nail
     
Robyn sings

Compensation for Robyn's handy work was a hearty karaoke session at Safra Jurong.

Alvin and Jin singing...

   

 

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