Ways to help Tidal Wave Victims...

Hi All,
Below are just some of the info (each method of donation is separated by a line of ***) I've received via email/ read on the papers and tot that I should just share with you, as an individual, so that our collective efforts could will mean something.

Pls play a part in helping the others... in other words, let's pay it forward.

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FROM NOW TILL 2 Jan 2005

You may wish to drop off the following donations in kind:
i.e.: Food (canned, pre-cooked or ready-to-eat packets), Medical Supplies like bandages and paracetamol & Blankets

AT the following Ananda Travel's branches:

MAIN BRANCH : CITY HOUSE
36 Robinson Road #01-01
Opening Hours: Weekdays: 10am to 7pm, Weekends: 10am to 6pm

OUB CENTRE
1 Raffles Place, #37-00 OUB Centre
Opening Hours: Weekdays: 9am to 7pm, Saturdays: 9am to 5pm

PEOPLE’S PARK CENTRE
101 Upper Cross Street #B1-23/24
Opening Hours: 10am to 9pm daily

CAUSEWAY POINT
1 Woodlands Square #01-37
Opening Hours: 10am to 6pm daily

For further information, pls contact:
Adeline Ee
Manager, Marketing Communications
Ananda Travel (S) Pte Ltd
DID : 6435 8422
Fax : 6535 3810

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Requested by Sri Lanka
Tents, pre-cooked or ready-to-eat meal packs, water purification tablets, wheat flour, rice, other staples, medicine (paracetamol, antibiotics), wound dressings, suture material, vitamins, rehydration salts, vaccinations for cholera, malaria tablets, saline intravenous infusions, portable generators, clothes and blankets.

Requested by India
No in-kind donations. Only bank drafts and cheque donations. Contact Mr Avinash Singh Gill, First Secretary, High Commission of India, 31 Grange Road, Singapore 239702. Tel: 6238-2514/24 or e-mail: hcihoc@pacific.net.sg

Attention bank drafts to: Prime Minister National Relief Fund. Attention cheques to: The High Commission of India, Singapore.

Requested by Indonesia
Relief supplies of any sort.

Drop-off venues
For Sri Lanka: Ananda Travel's branches during office hours. Tel: 6435-8422/18.

Virar's Rehab Centre at 553A Balestier Road. No 2, Changi South Avenue 2, Singapore 486354.

Small parcels can be sent to SriLankan Airlines, 133 Cecil Street, Keck Seng Tower, #13-02, Singapore 069535.

Donations can be sent to the Sri Lanka High Commission, Goldhill Plaza, #13-07/12, 51 Newton Road, Singapore 308900.

For Sri Lanka and Indonesia: Restaurant 1827, The Arts House, Old Parliament Building, 1 Old Parliament Lane.

For Indonesia: The Embassy of Indonesia. 7 Chatsworth Road, Singapore 249761. Tel: 6737-7422 Contact the Secretariat, Network Indonesia on 6433-4932.

General collection
Singapore Polytechnic, at counters along the walkway between Dover MRT Station and the polytechnic. 6pm to 9pm.

Donation of essential food
From Jan 1 to 31 next year, the public can buy NTUC FairPrice Food Relief Packages, comprising milk, rice, tuna and cream crackers, for $10. The purchased packages will be directed to Mercy Relief for airfreight to stricken areas.

Donation boxes are available in NTUC FairPrice outlets and Shell petrol stations islandwide


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Those who wish to donate food items can now purchase food relief packages for $10 each from NTUC FairPrice. All food packages will be passed to recipients (tidal wave victims) through Merry Relief.

Pls pass the msg around.

Thanks,
Sharry

Oh no!!! I'm broke (~ _ ~)

Dear All,
It's almost official... after having spent my savings on my school fees and the various x'mas presents and my haircut (Darn! cost me 200 bucks to get a haircut, double highlight & treatment)! Haiz... X'mas. Tis' the season to be sorry... lalala~lalala...

Anywayz, my head is pretty much red and with red streaks even. I look even more stylo-milo as a lian-mei now. Will add on the pix once possible for your reference (& don't u dare use it for anything else).

I've a bag of xmas' presents from office... HATE choc with nuts... and no one in my family eats it anyway. But I still do get them anyway. Haiz. Can't b rude to the sender right? After all, the person didn't know. So my choc is up for grabs =P

An interesting Email that I'd received...

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be  true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

Some interesting HTML links!

Cute cute X'mas Animation
http://www.tongcom.co.kr/dingani_13.htm

Bo-liao link (listen carefully....sounds like william hung)
http://www.asiantown.net/blog/fla/are_you_dumb.swf

My pix Part 2!

This is me &...him (" ,)

me!

Hello! Just trying out my pix which was taken at the Japanese Summer festival!