As some of you might know, I tutor English to 2 students and 1 of them is struggling with English although her spoken English is pretty good. There seems to be a huge disparity between her spoken and written English, and this has affected her self-confidence before I tutored her as she was failing the...
Category: <span>community service</span>
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Scam Alert!!
If you recently received an email from Rebecca Wilson from Twinlinks and the body of the message is as follows: Hello,Let’s do a 3-way link swap with your website http://melfann.blogspot.com. I’ll give you two links in exchange for one from you.3-way linking is a very effective link building strategy. Since you’re getting the links from...
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Pray for Japan
I know that I haven’t been blogging lately and it is kind of depressing to end my hiatus on this note. I am sure that all of you have heard of the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami in north-eastern Japan. I urge everyone to pray that there will be more survivors found. I am...
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Doggies
My colleague recently adopted a Bichon Frise which had been neglected by its previous owners for 2 whole months! Thankfully for the doggy, my colleague and her hubby adopted it and he’s now in their home. That said, the 2 months of neglect has resulted in the puppy having severe separation anxiety and mouth/ gum...
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It’s a dog’s life
Gor and I went to ASD (Action for Singapore Dogs) on Saturday as part of a volunteer charity service. We went there to paint their fences and so some landscaping work. Painting really takes up a lot more time than I had expected. That’s me squatting down and painting the bottom bits…. (Above) Gor and...
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3Rs…do your part
Let’s do our part for charity as well as the earth. YMCA will be having a drive! Step 1: collect your old clothes or newspaper Step 2: bring them down to YMCA of Singapore @ 1 Orchard Road, Level 3 carpark from 15-17 May between 9am to 5pm to exchange accordingly: 2kg newspapers = 1...
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Community teamworks 2008 I volunteered with a bunch of colleagues for today’s Pizza making session with some teens from the Students’ Care services. The youths ranged from 12 to 18 years old and all of them are troubled children. A couple of them have learning disabilities (dyslexia, autism etc) and have gotten in trouble with...
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Morbid Thoughts On Body Parts
Earthquake in China. My heart goes out to those who have died in this earthquake. It is shocking to hear that the death toll and injury toll have both hit the thousands. What is especially saddening is that the deaths are mainly children as a school building had collapsed. The funny thing is that after...
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Encounter With Cult Members
I forgot to blog about this on Monday. I met a bunch of Korean Christians outside Queenstown MRT and guess what? They’re preaching about God the Mother. While that is fine with me, they started saying that Catholics and other Christians are following the ways of men and not the Bible. What the…by then, I...
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What was God thinking?
Hmmm….after talking to Geraldine today at the Catholic Welfare Centre, she got me to think what was in God’s mind to allow the tsunami incident to even occur. Is it a wake up call for indifferent people like me to sit up, take note, repent and revere Him? Or is it to tell the world...