HDB residents urged to interact with neighbours
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SINGAPORE - Residents should step out of their flats and interact with their neighbours, and take part in community activities to build friendships, urged Minister of State (National Development) Tan Chuan-Jin.
As the Housing and Development Board (HDB) kicked off the first event in its inaugural Community Week yesterday, Mr Tan said forging community cohesion is a key priority of the HDB.
"Homes are really about the community. It is about family, it is about the cohesion, the friendship, the relationships that exist between neighbours, between neighbours on the same floor, floor to floor, block to block," he said.
"And that is something that HDB is interested in. It is not just about the brick and mortar of building buildings."
Mr Tan was speaking at the launch of Heartland Youthoria!, an exhibition to celebrate and encourage youth involvement in housing estates.
A section of the exhibition allows youths to express how they feel about their housing estates. This includes a wall of drawings depicting good deeds performed by neighbours and Lego models of what students think is their ideal community.
Another section allows students to make a pledge on how they plan to improve their community.
Heartland Youthoria! kickstarts the Community Week by the HDB - a week-long initiative to build better ties between neighbours and build stronger communities.
Heartlanders can look forward to a line-up of activities, including a student race across five HDB towns and the first vertical walk in an HDB estate.
Community Week is part of the overall strategy of the HDB's Community Relations Group, which was formed in 2009 to look into building community ties in the heartlands.
A key initiative by the group has been the launch of the Heartland Ambassador Programme, where students are trained to spread the word on community living and being good neighbours.
To date, some 600 students have been trained as ambassadors.-- TODAY
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Can cook curry or notch?
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"in order to afford the fucking flat, i have to work OT until late... how to interact?"
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Papigs, stop being such a pain in the arse, being such an irritating and condescending nannies. You are paid to be govt to take care of us not nag at us to do as you please.
Hopeless! Forever, commanding the citizens to do this and that, damn lah Papigs! Bread and butter issue is the main concern.
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ai li huan loh nin na beh
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ya la, jiak ba bo sai pang!
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*knock knock*
Neighbour: Yes?
Me: My Gabramen told me to interact with you.
Neighbour *closes door*
*knock knock*
Neighbour: Yes?
Me: Interact leh. Come interact leh.
Neighbour calls police.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
"in order to afford the fucking flat, i have to work OT until late... how to interact?"
That's where u need to be cheaper better and faster in your work.
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Originally posted by Nelstar:
*knock knock*
Neighbour: Yes?
Me: My Gabramen told me to interact with you.
Neighbour *closes door*
*knock knock*
Neighbour: Yes?
Me: Interact leh. Come interact leh.
Neighbour calls police.
I would be more worried if the neighbour said OK.
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Originally posted by charlize:
I would be more worried if the neighbour said OK.
I tried my best and I have no regrets.
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Will Tan Chuan-jin be forging community cohesion tomorrow?
Hello-Goodbye.
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why HDB?
coz that will exempt ministers who live in their lush landed properties??
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Originally posted by laurence82:
why HDB?
coz that will exempt ministers who live in their lush landed properties??
No need to interact for those not in HDB.
That's why they hardly step out and only appear once every 5 years for GE. -
If I cannot cook curry, interact what fuck?
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Originally posted by mancha:
Will Tan Chuan-jin be forging community cohesion tomorrow?
Hello-Goodbye.
wei wei wei...
how dare you say he live in HDB? the guy live in ivory tower one you know?
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Sorry I'm too busy interacting with my friends to interact with my neighbours -_-"
Most of us work till late everyday. Any spare time is spent with family and friends.
Neighbours are just a hi and bye thing
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Originally posted by elindra:
Sorry I'm too busy interacting with my friends to interact with my neighbours -_-"
Most of us work till late everyday. Any spare time is spent with family and friends.
Neighbours are just a hi and bye thing
You need to be cheaper better faster.
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Where can we find time especially in the society where most of us only care for ourselves these days?
We can't. That's for sure, but that is a fact.
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Originally posted by elindra:
Sorry I'm too busy interacting with my friends to interact with my neighbours -_-"
Most of us work till late everyday. Any spare time is spent with family and friends.
Neighbours are just a hi and bye thing
No wonder they only perform walkabouts every 5 years. They got more friends.
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Walao eh. Can hear they upstair neigbour footsteps. Then the downstair neigbour can hear my footsteps. Then sometime can hear the neighbour arguing.
Isn't that enough interaction...morse code.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
wei wei wei...
how dare you say he live in HDB? the guy live in ivory tower one you know?
That's why I ask will he be there tomorrow.
He come. blah blah blah and he is gone.
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Dear Mr Tan,
Please describe the family structure of five of your neighbours.
If you cannot do that, please ZIP.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
Dear Mr Tan,
Please describe the family structure of five of your neighbours.
If you cannot do that, please ZIP.
He not living in HDB.