Just completed my sharing at Tampines Regional Library on ‘Parenting in the New Infocomm Age’ Seminar - Using New Infocomm To Improve Primary Children’s School Subjects.

If you were at the seminar, hello and thanks for coming by. As promised, here are the list of resources which I’d shared about earlier. If you have any questions for me, feel free to post them in the comment section below this post.

For those who weren’t at the seminar, the resources below were shared with the parents present. I demonstrated how these can be used to teach and learn with their primary school children.

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Last week, my lovely team at 24seven had our first team retreat at Aloha Loyang. The 3 days spent together was a fruitful and rejuvenating experience. We’ve got quite a lot of stuff ironed out and planned. 2010 is looking very exciting!

We’ve also invited fellow bloggers and friends for a BBQ on Wednesday night. It was a simple affair and everyone had fun (right?). I love gatherings like this. Fuss-free and casual.

As the team was occupied with “tasks” on hand that night – Kris and me at the BBQ pits, Eevon the bartender and Diana ensuring everyone gets food to eat, we didn’t have extra pair of hands for photo taking. Thanks to those who came and brought home happy photos from that night!

My best shot from that night thanks Chin for this!

More of his photos can be found on flickr.

Remember sometime ago I posted about N.E.mation 4? After many months of hard work and craziness, the 10 final clips are published and ready! And you get to help decide which team will fly to USA!

YES! Voting is now on till 1 Feb 2010! With 10 amazing clips created by our finalists, the decision is going to be tough!

Each of you are allowed to vote once using each of the three available channels of voting.

1. Via Website

2. Via SMS

3. Via 3G video call

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I’m sure you do! His face was plastered everywhere in Singapore when he mysteriously escaped from detention in February 2008. And was recaptured in Johor Bahru on April 1, 2009. This major event had surfaced an important team of people whom we, the general public, don’t really see or know about. I’m talking about the Internal Security Department.

“Huh? What Internal? What’s that?” – that’s your reaction right? Yap! Mine too! But thanks to this opportunity to help spread words about the career fair for Ministry of Home Affairs (and also thanks to help from google), I am now less bimbo-tic on such things. *coughs*

Alright, so what is ISD? And what do they do? If you want to read the corporate and proper version about ISD, please go here. I am going to try explain it based on my own understanding.

This group of people working at ISD manages and deals with highly classified stuff, hence there are little awareness about them and what they do. But there is a wiki page on them with not much information either.

To put ISD’s work in context, the following are some of the key events which involved the resources from the Internal Security Department…

• The Maria Hertogh riots in 1950. This you cannot not know about right? We study about this riot back in school.
• In 1965, the MacDonald House bombing by Indonesian saboteurs that killed 3 people.
• The bombing attack plot by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in 2001.
• And the recent (and my title for this post) long manhunt for Mas Selamat.

If you would like to find out more about a career or how life is like being part of the Internal Security Department, pop by Marina Square this weekend at the Ministry of Home Affairs Career Fair 2010

Date: 15th – 17th January 2010 (Fri – Sun)
Time: 11.30am – 9.30pm daily
Venue: Marina Square Central Atrium

You can post your questions to the Home Team on their facebook page.

Home in on a career that makes a real difference

Real. Rewarding. Respectable.

Disclaimer: This post is a paid advertorial to create awareness for MHA’s career fair.