Was deeply honoured to welcome Joseph Isaac Schooling and his parents, May and Colin Schooling to Parliament House today, where we formally congratulated him on his gold medal and expressed support for Team Singapore in #Rio2016.
Joseph’s win signifies much more than Singapore’s first Olympic gold medal. He sweated and sacrificed. With determination and fire in the belly, he has shown a new generation of aspiring athletes that dreams are worth striving for.
Achievements, too, are more than medals. Many of our athletes have come away from the Olympics with new personal bests, and valuable experience going up against the world’s best. Swimmer Quah Zheng Wen set two new personal bests in the pool. Rower Saiyidah Aisyah (Aisyah Rower) reached the quarterfinals, finishing as 3rd best Asian competitor. Sprinter Timothee Yap and shuttler Derek Wong went up against Usain Bolt and Lee Chong Wei respectively - both the best in the world. They have worked hard, and they all deserve recognition for their efforts.
The Games are still ongoing and our athletes are still competing in their respective events. I hope you’ll join me in cheering on our women’s table tennis team in their semifinal match taking place right now! - LHL
#OneTeamSG
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By now, you have probably heard about my father’s red box. Minister Heng Swee Keat posted about it last week. The red box was a fixture of my father’s work routine. It is now on display at the National Museum of Singapore in his memorial exhibition.
Some of my father’s other personal items are there too. His barrister’s wig (of horsehair) from when he was admitted to the Bar. And a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch given to him by the Singapore Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers after he represented them in the famous postmen’s strike in 1952.
I enjoyed my visit to the exhibition a few days ago. Was happy to hear that many of you went yesterday. The exhibition will be on until 26 April. – LHL
MR LEE'S RED BOX
Mr Lee Kuan Yew had a red box. When I worked as Mr Lee’s Principal Private Secretary, or PPS, a good part of my daily life revolved around the red box. Before Mr Lee came in to work each day, the locked red box would arrive first, at about 9 am.
As far as the various officers who have worked with Mr Lee can remember, he had it for many, many years. It is a large, boxy briefcase, about fourteen centimetres wide. Red boxes came from the British government, whose Ministers used them for transporting documents between government offices. Our early Ministers had red boxes, but Mr Lee is the only one I know who used his consistently through the years. When I started working for Mr Lee in 1997, it was the first time I saw a red box in use. It is called the red box but is more a deep wine colour, like the seats in the chamber in Parliament House.
This red box held what Mr Lee was working on at any one time. Through the years, it held his papers, speech drafts, letters, readings, and a whole range of questions, reflections, and observations. For example, in the years that Mr Lee was working on his memoirs, the red box carried the multiple early drafts back and forth between his home and the office, scribbled over with his and Mrs Lee’s notes.
For a long time, other regular items in Mr Lee’s red box were the cassette tapes that held his dictated instructions and thoughts for later transcription. Some years back, he changed to using a digital recorder.
The red box carried a wide range of items. It could be communications with foreign leaders, observations about the financial crisis, instructions for the Istana grounds staff, or even questions about some trees he had seen on the expressway. Mr Lee was well-known for keeping extremely alert to everything he saw and heard around him – when he noticed something wrong, like an ailing raintree, a note in the red box would follow.
We could never anticipate what Mr Lee would raise – it could be anything that was happening in Singapore or the world. But we could be sure of this: it would always be about how events could affect Singapore and Singaporeans, and how we had to stay a step ahead. Inside the red box was always something about how we could create a better life for all.
We would get to work right away. Mr Lee’s secretaries would transcribe his dictated notes, while I followed up on instructions that required coordination across multiple government agencies. Our aim was to do as much as we could by the time Mr Lee came into the office later.
While we did this, Mr Lee would be working from home. For example, during the time that I worked with him (1997-2000), the Asian Financial Crisis ravaged many economies in our region and unleashed political changes. It was a tense period as no one could tell how events would unfold. Often, I would get a call from him to check certain facts or arrange meetings with financial experts.
In the years that I worked for him, Mr Lee’s daily breakfast was a bowl of dou hua (soft bean curd), with no syrup. It was picked up and brought home in a tiffin carrier every morning, from a food centre near Mr Lee’s home. He washed it down with room-temperature water. Mr Lee did not take coffee or tea at breakfast.
When Mr Lee came into the office, the work that had come earlier in the red box would be ready for his review, and he would have a further set of instructions for our action.
From that point on, the work day would run its normal course. Mr Lee read the documents and papers, cleared his emails, and received official calls by visitors. I was privileged to sit in for every meeting he conducted. He would later ask me what I thought of the meetings – it made me very attentive to every word that was said, and I learnt much from Mr Lee.
Evening was Mr Lee’s exercise time. Mr Lee has described his extensive and disciplined exercise regime elsewhere. It included the treadmill, rowing, swimming and walking – with his ears peeled to the evening news or his Mandarin practice tapes. He would sometimes take phone calls while exercising.
He was in his 70s then. In more recent years, being less stable on his feet, Mr Lee had a simpler exercise regime. But he continued to exercise. Since retiring from the Minister Mentor position in 2011, Mr Lee was more relaxed during his exercises. Instead of listening intently to the news or taking phone calls, he shared his personal stories and joked with his staff.
While Mr Lee exercised, those of us in the office would use that time to focus once again on the red box, to get ready all the day’s work for Mr Lee to take home with him in the evening. Based on the day’s events and instructions, I tried to get ready the materials that Mr Lee might need. It sometimes took longer than I expected, and occasionally, I had to ask the security officer to come back for the red box later.
While Mrs Lee was still alive, she used to drop by the Istana at the end of the day, in order to catch a few minutes together with Mr Lee, just to sit and look at the Istana trees that they both loved. They chatted about what many other old couples would talk about. They discussed what they should have for dinner, or how their grandchildren were doing.
Then back home went Mr Lee, Mrs Lee and the red box. After dinner, Mr and Mrs Lee liked to take a long stroll. In his days as Prime Minister, while Mrs Lee strolled, Mr Lee liked to ride a bicycle. It was, in the words of those who saw it, “one of those old man bicycles”. None of us who have worked at the Istana can remember him ever changing his bicycle. He did not use it in his later years, as he became frail, but I believe the “old man bicycle” is still around somewhere.
After his dinner and evening stroll, Mr Lee would get back to his work. That was when he opened the red box and worked his way through what we had put into it in the office.
Mr Lee’s study is converted out of his son’s old bedroom. His work table is a simple, old wooden table with a piece of clear glass placed over it. Slipped under the glass are family memorabilia, including a picture of our current PM from his National Service days. When Mrs Lee was around, she stayed up reading while Mr Lee worked. They liked to put on classical music while they stayed up.
In his days as PM, Mr Lee’s average bedtime was three-thirty in the morning. As Senior Minister and Minister Mentor, he went to sleep after two in the morning. If he had to travel for an official visit the next day, he might go to bed at one or two in the morning.
Deep into the night, while the rest of Singapore slept, it was common for Mr Lee to be in full work mode.
Before he went to bed, Mr Lee would put everything he had completed back in the red box, with clear pointers on what he wished for us to do in the office. The last thing he did each day was to place the red box outside his study room. The next morning, the duty security team picked up the red box, brought it to us waiting in the office, and a new day would begin.
Let me share two other stories involving the red box.
In 1996, Mr Lee underwent balloon angioplasty to insert a stent. It was his second heart operation in two months, after an earlier operation to widen a coronary artery did not work. After the operation, he was put in the Intensive Care Unit for observation. When he regained consciousness and could sit up in bed, he asked for his security team. The security officer hurried into the room to find out what was needed. Mr Lee asked, “Can you pass me the red box?”
Even at that point, Mr Lee’s first thought was to continue working. The security officer rushed the red box in, and Mr Lee asked to be left to his work. The nurses told the security team that other patients of his age, in Mr Lee’s condition, would just rest. Mr Lee was 72 at the time.
In 2010, Mr Lee was hospitalised again, this time for a chest infection. While he was in the hospital, Mrs Lee passed away. Mr Lee has spoken about his grief at Mrs Lee’s passing. As soon as he could, he left the hospital to attend the wake at Sri Temasek.
At the end of the night, he was under doctor’s orders to return to the hospital. But he asked his security team if they could take him to the Singapore River instead. It was late in the night, and Mr Lee was in mourning. His security team hastened to give a bereaved husband a quiet moment to himself.
As Mr Lee walked slowly along the bank of the Singapore River, the way he and Mrs Lee sometimes did when she was still alive, he paused. He beckoned a security officer over. Then he pointed out some trash floating on the river, and asked, “Can you take a photo of that? I’ll tell my PPS what to do about it tomorrow.” Photo taken, he returned to the hospital.
I was no longer Mr Lee’s PPS at the time. I had moved on to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to continue with the work to strengthen our financial regulatory system that Mr Lee had started in the late 1990s. But I can guess that Mr Lee probably had some feedback on keeping the Singapore River clean. I can also guess that the picture and the instructions were ferried in Mr Lee’s red box the next morning to the office. Even as Mr Lee lay in the hospital. Even as Mrs Lee lay in state.
The security officers with Mr Lee were deeply touched. When I heard about these moments, I was also moved.
I have taken some time to describe Mr Lee’s red box. The reason is that, for me, it symbolises Mr Lee’s unwavering dedication to Singapore so well. The diverse contents it held tell us much about the breadth of Mr Lee’s concerns – from the very big to the very small; the daily routine of the red box tells us how Mr Lee’s life revolved around making Singapore better, in ways big and small.
By the time I served Mr Lee, he was the Senior Minister. Yet he continued to devote all his time to thinking about the future of Singapore. I could only imagine what he was like as Prime Minister. In policy and strategy terms, he was always driving himself, me, and all our colleagues to think about what each trend and development meant for Singapore, and how we should respond to it in order to secure Singapore’s wellbeing and success.
As his PPS, I saw the punishing pace of work that Mr Lee set himself. I had a boss whose every thought and every action was for Singapore.
But it takes private moments like these to bring home just how entirely Mr Lee devoted his life to Singapore.
In fact, I think the best description comes from the security officer who was with Mr Lee both of those times. He was on Mr Lee’s team for almost 30 years. He said of Mr Lee: “Mr Lee is always country, country, country. And country.”
This year, Singapore turns 50. Mr Lee would have turned 92 this September. Mr Lee entered the hospital on 5 February 2015. He continued to use his red box every day until 4 February 2015.
(Photo: MCI)
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現在正是聯合國接納台灣的時候
第76屆聯合國大會將於9/14在美國紐約聯合國總部開議, 21-27日舉行總辯論,討論疫後復甦與永續重建等主題。
外交部今年推案延續 #3大訴求
🔹聯合國應立即採取行動解決2,350萬台灣人民被不當排除在聯合國體系外的情形;
🔹聯合國不當剝奪我國人及媒體進入聯合國參訪、出席或採訪會議跟活動的權利,應立即匡正;
🔹聯合國應確保台灣有權平等、有尊嚴參與實現「永續發展目標」(SDGs)相關會議、機制及活動,並且做出貢獻。
外交部吳部長也直指,聯合國體系在中國施壓下,持續 #錯誤引用 聯大第2758號決議 不當排除台灣參與。台灣是國際社會的良善力量,2,350萬台灣人民的權利不應被漠視。
#HearTaiwan
#UNGA76
As the 76th United Nations General Assembly approaches, it’s high time for #Taiwan to get a seat at the table! Given the lengths we’ve gone to in order to help other countries amid this pandemic and the expertise we have to share with our global partners, Taiwan seems ideally placed to lend some insight into this year’s theme: how to rebuild sustainably in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and revitalize the UN!
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hopes that the UN will #SeeSense and grant our three appeals:
🔹to take immediate action to address the unjustified exclusion of Taiwan’s 23.5 million people from the UN system;
🔹to immediately rectify its discriminatory policy against Taiwanese passport holders;
🔹to ensure that Taiwan is afforded the right to participate in an equal and dignified manner in meetings, mechanisms, and activities related to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and thus make greater contributions.
Minister Wu has also challenged the legal basis for Taiwan’s exclusion, UNGA Resolution 2758, which he says only addresses the issue of China’s representation in the UN and makes no mention of the PRC claim of sovereignty over Taiwan, nor does it grant authorization for the PRC to represent Taiwan in the UN. Only Taiwan’s democratically elected government can represent the country and its 23.5 million people.
#UNGA76 is set to kick off at the UN headquarters starting September 14 and the General Debate will take place from September 21-27.
#HearTaiwan #SDG17 #PartnershipForTheGoals
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This video will show you how to make Fudgy Cake Pops using a Nordic Ware's Baking Pan which I bought in New York (at Sur La Table).
The new innovative two-piece pan design allows you to bake a dozen perfectly round cakes or brownies, easy and fun to decorate! Unlike crumbled up cake pops, the cake is very soft and fluffy. The texture you get is absolutely distinctive! So I recommend this pan if you want to make perfect and delicious cake pops :D
Summer 2012 in New York
http://createeathappy.blogspot.jp/2012/07/summer-2012-in-new-york.html
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Fudgy Cake Pops *I modified the recipe on the Nordic Ware package.
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 20min + baking & cooling & decorating time
Number of servings: 24 cake pops
Note:
1cup = 250ml or 250cc
Ingredients:
((Fudgy Cake Pops))
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 2 bars Meiji Milk Chocolate)
1/2 cup (100g=3.5oz.) butter
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp. cocoa powder
2 eggs
3/4 cup flour (or 3/4 cup cake flour + 1 tsp. baking powder)
1/4 tsp. salt
((Decoration))
12 oz. chocolate bark coating (or 2 Meiji Milk Chocolate Bars)
Meiji Twinkle Chocolate
Meiji Sweet Pen Chocolate
Meiji Sweet Pen White Cream
sprinkles of your choice
24 lollipop sticks
Directions:
((Fudgy Cake Pops))
1. Preheat the oven to 170C (338F). Grease and flour pan.
2. In medium saucepan, over low heat, melt chocolate chips (or 2 Bars Meiji Milk Chocolate) and butter together. Stir until smooth. Remove from heat and pour into medium bowl.
3. Add sugar and mix until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
4. Sift in flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Stir until blended.
5. Spoon the batter into bottom half of pan (without holes) filling each well so it mounds over the top of the pan. (Norpro 1 tbsp. scoop works perfect.)
6. Place top half of pan on top and secure with keys. Bake for 15-18 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out almost clean.
7. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then remove cake pops from pan to cool completely. Trim the edges of cake pops, if needed.
((Decoration))
1. Melt chocolate bark according to package directions.
2. Dip lollipop stick into melted chocolate and insert into cake. Repeat with all cakes. Allow chocolate to cool to secure stick in place.
3. Dip cake pop in melted chocolate, spinning to let excess chocolate drip off. Decorate with sprinkles as desired. If you have a Styrofoam box, you can make them stand to set. Makes about 24 cake pops.
* I didn't have a Styrofoam box, so I coated and decorated the cake pops first (placed them on a parchment paper and set) before I insert the sticks into cakes.
レシピ(日本語)
http://www.cooklabo.blogspot.jp/2012/07/blog-post_25.html
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Nordic Ware Cake Pop Pan (ノルディックウエア ケーキポップスパン)
Bake perfectly round, bite-sized balls of cake or brownie, and serve on a stick!
http://www.nordicware.com/store/products/detail/nordic-ware-cake-pop-kit/700EFD84-2673-11E1-B8E4-005056A42C5A
Meiji Milk Chocolate Bar (明治 ミルクチョコレート)
http://catalog-p.meiji.co.jp/products/sweets/chocolate/010101/08048.html
Meiji White Chocolate Bar (明治 ホワイトチョコレート)
http://catalog-p.meiji.co.jp/products/sweets/chocolate/010101/07036.html?rnd=883c53c8ffc8fd3c1beb3ba8e001b889
Meiji Twinkle Chocolate (明治 ツインクル)
http://catalog-p.meiji.co.jp/products/sweets/chocolate/010124/13554-1.html
Meiji Sweet Pen Chocolate (明治 スイートペンチョコ)
http://catalog-p.meiji.co.jp/products/sweets/chocolate/010125/01826-1.html
Meiji Sweet Pen White Cream (明治 スイートペンホワイトクリーム)
http://catalog-p.meiji.co.jp/products/sweets/chocolate/010125/01800-1.html
What is Cake Flour?
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To start full-scale woodworking, purchase chisels for the first time.
Jig plan convenient for woodworking
[Plan List]
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【Chisel】
I purchased a chisel which is hammered with a hammer (ordinary chisel)
It is a cheap article of about 1,000 yen ~ 2,000 yen for 1 piece at home center · · ·
【Whetstone】
Although diamond whetstone (not electrodeposited article) is high, the reduction of grindstone is small, and it is characterized by the good sustainability of the plane. Moreover, since the diamond is kneaded, it has good machinability and finishes faster than the artificial grindstone.
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【Polishing table】
The polishing table is a portable sharpening stand
How to make here ↓
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【Ibota】
You can tell by watching the movie, but use it with back push.
It has the effect of imprinting on the corner of the whetstone and intentionally clogging.
Use it for the purpose of preventing the side of chisel from being polished more than necessary by back pushing.
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【Nagura (using powdered things in motion picture)】
The fine grinding stone #3000, #8000 is easy to clog.
So you can pre-polish Nakura on the grindstone to make it easy to grind.
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#250 センター試験!メンタルで負けないぞ!
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【1】24年度 Question No. 1
対話を聞き、答えとして最も適切なものを、四つの選択肢のうちから一つ選びなさい。
How many adults are there in the man’s group?
① Two
② Three
③ Four
④ Five
対話スクリプト
M: I don’t have a reservation, but can I get a table for five?
W: Any children?
M: Yes, two.
W: We have a table for four, but we have chairs for children.
【2】24年度 Question No. 7
対話を聞き、最後の発言に対する相手の応答として最も適切なものを、四つの選択肢のうちから一つ選びなさい。
① No, never mind.
② No problem.
③ No way.
④ No, you can’t.
対話スクリプト
W: We have to leave at 6 o’clock tomorrow morning.
M: Should I set the alarm?
W: That would really help.
【3】 24年度 Question No. 16
対話を聞き、答えとして最も適切なものを、四つの選択肢のうちから一つ選びなさい。
What does the man imply?
① Anime is a historical topic.
② Changing topics is difficult.
③ The woman may get a low mark.
④ The woman’s research is worthwhile.
対話スクリプト
M: What is your oral presentation topic?
W: Japanese anime.
M: Remember, the teacher said we should talk about something historical.
W: I think the export of Japanese pop culture is worth looking into.
M: Well, I doubt she’ll accept it. It’s too recent.
W: I’d rather not change it anyway.
M: You’re taking a chance.
W: Yeah, I know.
【4】 25年度 Question No.2
対話を聞き、答えとして最も適切なものを、四つの選択肢のうちから一つ選びなさい。
On what day does the conversation take place?
① Wednesday
② Thursday
③ Friday
④ Saturday
対話スクリプト
M: When do you leave for Spain?
W: The day after tomorrow.
M: Oh, on Friday?
W: Yeah, but I’m going to the airport hotel tomorrow because my flight is very early.
【5】 26年度 Question No. 14
対話を聞き、答えとして最も適切なものを、四つの選択肢のうちから一つ選びなさい。
What is the man interested in at the mall?
① Buying a car.
② Eating sweets.
③ Going bowling.
④ Looking at toys.
対話スクリプト
W: Do you want to go shopping at the mall?
M: That place is kind of boring, if you ask me.
W: But they just opened a new section with lots of new stores.
M: Like what?
W: Clothes, furniture, kids’ toys///
M: That’s all?
W: And a doughnut shop!
M: OK! Let’s get in the car!
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