SG needs more informal occasions for family bonding
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President Tony Tan Keng Yam says Singapore needs to create more informal occasions for multi-racial and multi-generational family bonding.
President Tan said this to reporters at the Singapore Zoo on Sunday evening where he attended the "Moon Night" celebrations for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The festival is an occasion for family and friends to gather and admire the harvest moon.
With a host of educational activities about the moon's effect on animal behaviour, the event also raised awareness about biodiversity and nature conservation.
As part of the programme, President Tan released fireflies into the Zoo's mangroves, as part of ongoing efforts to reintroduce the insect into Singapore's mangroves.
He said: "I don't think wildlife is a charity but it's an attraction. I think it's something which is well worth supporting. And of course I'll be very happy to help the Wildlife Reserves in their effort to attract more corporate sponsorship from companies. Not only the Zoo of course, but the Night Safari, and of course the Bird Park. I think all of these are wonderful amenities for Singaporeans."
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zz why is he talking about such trivial crap.
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and that is our $4mil daft sponsored decisively-victorious elected president.
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Only one thing to say to this:
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rooks like not much difference from prataman...
I think we give him 1-2 years and he will disappear into the shadow and only appear once or twice per year...
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Only one thing to say to this:
same guy who wonder why McSpicy is so spicy?!
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
rooks like not much difference from prataman...
I think we give him 1-2 years and he will disappear into the shadow and only appear once or twice per year...
I think so too.
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no doubt symbolic gestures are important to the president....it would be more heart warming for him to offer mooncakes personally to old folks and the needy....
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no doubt symbolic gestures are important to the president....it would be more heart warming for him to offer mooncakes personally to old folks and the needy....
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He can bond with his bird at the bird park.
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yar, bird park got alot of 'kukus'.
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To have personal space and moments to be enjoy peace and quiet is also very much appreciated.
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releasing fireflies! wow!
how long do they survive anyway..........? -
everything also need monmey. gathering outing also need money. so the problem si si stil money, momstly from income. no jobs no income. so we should look at the poroblem at root cause level. where the jobs? goes to cheap labor, alien ones
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Make it more affordable and easily accessible to ahve such a informal activities for the families.
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create... informal... occasions...
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
was it meant to be an ironic statement or did TT just believe what he just said
