Youth Day outreach @ Orchard Road

The Workers' party Youth Wing Exco and members did a public outreach on 24th June 2007 along Orchard Road.

This outreach was to create greater awareness and exposure of the Workers' Party Youth Wing which a lot of people is not aware of. People often associate the hammer with WP. Therefore, for this outreach we only wanted to use the WPYW logo.

We were divided into two groups of 8 people with Perry (YW President) and Salim (YW Vice-President) leading these teams. Initial response from the public was quite cold. People refused to accept the pens even though its FOC and some would shun us too. I don't know was it because we were from the WP or these people just could not care? Oh yes, we were surprised to find more foreigners than locals along Orchard Road on a Sunday afternoon!

However, as we went on we got the hang of it too. Very soon, everyone in my team is engaging with people and we were very on the ball. We started to look out for people and some even approached us :) We walked down from Orchard MRT to Somerset MRT, at times we stopped at traffic light junction to talk and reach out to people. And yes, we welcome feedback on this event and we hope to make it better the next time round.

The message on the card says, "On behalf of the Youth Wing, we would like to wish everyone a Wonderful Youth Day!!! As part of our growing process, we are constantly looking at expanding the Youth Wing. If you think you have what it takes, drop us an email at: youthwing@wp.sg or you may visit our website at www.wp.sg/youthwing/index.php"

We ended the day with an excellent picture taken in front of the Youth Park :)

Long day!

It was a pretty long day for me today. In the morning, the Workers' Party organised a Hammer Sales briefing cum Thank you lunch at HQ. Choong Yong and myself were involved in the briefing and therefore we had to be there earlier. This briefing cum lunch was from 11-2.30pm.

In the afternoon, Youth Wing had organised an outreach programme at Orchard Road for Youth Day. We also gave out pens to commemorate Youth Day.

2 groups of Youth Wing exco and members walked down from Orchard Road to Youth Park under the scorching sun. We started the event at about 3.30pm and ended it in about an hour time. We all met up at the Youth Park because its a youth outreach done by the Workers' Party Youth Wing :) All of us had done an excellent job, give ourselves a round of applause!

Picture on top: Workers' Party Youth Wing Exco

Oops! Not done yet....after the outreach, we had a Youth Wing meeting which ended at 6pm. Shortly when I reached home, I'm on my way to a Hougang Temple dinner!!!! Exhausting day it was.



Oh! But we certainly enjoyed ourselves :)

1-Day Pengarang Trip

Yesterday, our agency (H42-Peggy Lim & Associates) went on a 1-day Pengarang trip. We met at Marsiling MRT at about 8am and we made our way there. The females form the majority of our agency :)

It was more like an educational tour. Fruit farm, mango plantation (the mangoes were so good that everyone left the place with at least 3 kg on hand to carry back home), Herbal farm (where some of our girls learn about herbal leaves, etc) and Ostrich farm.

The picture above shows me carrying a 2 day old ostrich. Apprehensive was the word to describe my feeling. I was afraid of hurting the ostrich which looks so fragile. The farm had quite a number of ostriches. We also managed to catch a pair of mating ostrich :)

The highlight of yesterday's tour was the viewing of the fireflies. Peck San brought a bottle of mosquito repellant which was definitely useful. All 15 of us got onto a boat at around 8.30pm and we were off to the very deep and remote side of the JB river. Oh ya, we were all told to wear life jackets before going onto the boat.

When we finally reach the area, a whole stretch of fireflies greeted us. Oh, what a sight! It was so beautiful and amazing. None of us had ever seen fireflies before and everyone was mesmerized by it. Some of them even managed to catch a few to examine it.

We reached Singapore customs at about 11pm. It was indeed an interesting day. Thank you gals, you all had made the trip more fun :)

"H42 - RESCUE TEAM"

CPF Min. Age may be raised to 65

CPF Min. age may be raised to 65.

This is definitely not a surprise, especially for people in the Financial Industry such as Insurance. Day in day out, these group of people is always on the go, educating people on the importance of risk management, wealth management, retirement planning.

I remembered I was asked by one of my advisers on tips on how to sell. Ironically, I was using this example.

Our generation (70s era and above) will definitely face this issue. Its just a matter of time because our CPF min, age is to be 62 and min. sum is $120, 000. Unlike our parents, their min. age was 55 and the min. sum was not as high as ours. Therefore, we should all be planning for our retirement. Of course there will be people who are able to have this amount of money in their CPF, but how many of them? Will you be one of them? Don't forget you have housing loan, education loan to pay off.

So now you realise that you may not be able to get your hard-earned money out from CPF. What do you do? Invest your CPF money, give it the potential to grow, to make better returns, so that when you reach age 62 or now age 65 you will have money to take out.

Therefore, whoever is complaining about this change, have you seriously listened to what your adviser told you or you always take them for granted when these are the people that can give proper advice?

The Youth Parliament (Workers Party, 50th Anniversary Event)

The Workers Party is turning 50 this year!!! Hip Hip Hooray! We are the longest alternative party in Singapore. That is really quite a feat.

A series of celebrations will be conducted to mark this memorable event. The first in line would be the first and so far one and only 'Youth Parliament'.

'Youth Parliament'
Always wanted to express your views? Will you or your friends between 15-30 years of age be interested to participant as a debater for this event on 5th August 2007.

The Press would be present to mark this memorable event.

Please contact either Lilian (lilian@wp.sg) or Bernard (bernardchen@wp.sg) . We look forward to your participation in making this event a successful one.