Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Low Thia Khiang 

A Singaporean politician and businessman. Currently the leader of the Workers' Party (WP) and the leader of the opposition in Singapore's Parliament.

Born in: September 5, 1956, Singapore
Studied in: Chung Cheng High School, NUS( National University of Singapore)
WP won in this year's (2013) Punggol election

 He joined the Workers' Party (WP) in 1982, and was subsequently appointed its Organising Secretary. At the 1984 general election, he was the election agent for the party's then Secretary-GeneralJ. B. Jeyaretnam, in his successful campaign to win the parliamentary constituency of Anson.

[edit]1988 General Election

In 1988, Low represented the WP in a televised debate with the PAP government on proposals to create an elected Presidency for Singapore, where he engaged Ong Teng Cheong and Lee Hsien Loong (who would later become the President and Prime Minister of Singapore respectively). In the general election later that year, Low, together with Gopalan Nair and Lim Lye Soon, contested the Group Representation Constituency (GRC) of Tiong Bahru and finished second with 42.2% of the vote.

[edit]1991 General Election

In 1991, Low, as the Workers' Party's Assistant Secretary-General, won the Hougang constituency in the 1991 Singapore General Elections and entered Parliament. In 1992, Low was appointed by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to be a member of the Cost Review Committee. After a year of intensive study, Low decided to produce his own independent report as he had a different perspective from the other members of the committee.

[edit]1997 General Election

Low was re-elected as the MP for Hougang at the 1997 general election.

[edit]2001 General Election

On 27 May 2001, he became the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party, replacing J. B. Jeyaretnam. He was re-elected again as the MP for Hougang at the 2001 general election.

[edit]2006 General Election

At the 2006 general elections, Low won his fourth straight term for the Hougang constituency. He received 13,987 of the votes cast, a 62.74 per cent victory margin which is an increase of 7.74% from the last general election in November 2001. His opponent from the People's Action PartyEric Low, received 8,306 votes.[4]

[edit]2011 General Election

Between 1997 and 2011, Low and Chiam See Tong were the only two elected opposition Members of Parliament (MP) in Singapore's Parliament, which had 83 seats. However, he led the Workers' Party to a historic breakthrough in the 2011 Singapore general elections, with a victory in Aljunied GRC. The win marked the first time ever that an opposition party had won a GRC, bringing an additional five Workers' Party MPs into Parliament.

Monday, 22 April 2013

Low Thia Khiang is a Singaporean politician and businessman. He is currently the leader of the Workers' Party and the leader of the opposition in Singapore's Parliament.

Evelyn Tan

        Evelyn Tan

Born in: October 7 1976. 
Student in: Chung Cheng High School, Temasek Junior College, National University of Singapore(Degree in Mathematics)

 In 1997, she joined the Star Search Singapore and became an actress after making to the top 20 which allowed her to be offered a contract. The following year, after she became an actress, she won the most popular newcomer poll in star awards 1998. In 1999, she and Dreamz FM, a local band performed the song "together" which is the National Day theme song at the 1999 Singapore National Day Parade. She joined the newly formed SPH Mediaworks in 2001.When SPH MediaWork's parent company. Afterwards she resigned due to family reason.

  She married Darren Lim, a fellow actor whom she met during her career. Evelyn Tan and her husband, Darren Lim could not eat their 8 course dinner during their wedding as they kept shuffling between their 2 banquet hall. Evelyn Tan gave birth to 3 kids and surprisingly, she gave birth to her 3rd children without any painkillers. She plans on home schooling her 3 kids, covering core subjects yet focusing on language skills, morals and value. This should allow Evelyn's children to have a good chance of getting academic excellence while lessening the demands and stress from the highly competitive and rigid education system. During the season of hand foot mouth disease, before Evelyn gave birth to the 3rd child, all of her kids caught it but don't seem to be bothered about it. Evelyn Tan and her husband took up measures to combat the hand foot mouth disease by giving their kids more vitamins and enforcing good hygiene habits.

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

picture of low thia kiang and hi wife taking their wedding photo taken at chung cheng high main.Mr Low and his wife Han Mui Keow returned to their alma mater Chung Cheng High School for their wedding photos. They met at the school and got married in 1982.

Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Low Thia Khiang


Opposition MP Low Thia Khiang was a problem child in Chung Cheng High School 40 years ago.
But he made a dramatic turnaround after a teacher took him under his wings.
The school was also where he met the girl who later became his wife.
Mr Low, who has been MP for Hougang since 1991 and is also the Workers’ Party secretary-general, is one of 41 former students featured in a book, written in Chinese, to mark the school’s 70th anniversary.
Others include banker Wee Cho Yaw, architect and urban planner Liu Thai Ker and former Education Ministry senior parliamentary secretary Ho Kah Leong.
Mr Low, who lost his mother at a young age, had little interest in his studies.
A teacher once flung his school bag out of the classroom to make him come to his senses, but this did not change his attitude. His grades continued to lag behind those of his classmates.
His Secondary 2 results were so poor that his elder sister had to plead with the school principal for him not to be retained at the same level for another year.
Mr Low, now 52, is quoted in the article as saying: “I certainly was a problem student. I caused trouble during lessons, didn’t hand in my homework, came late to school, played truant and committed almost all the offences, big and small.
“Many teachers shook their heads when they saw me. They thought I was a hopeless case. Only my biology teacher, Mr Liao Rong Sheng, didn’t think so.”
Mr Liao was patient with him. He never lectured the boy. Instead, he would give him lifts home in his Volkswagen and chat with him along the way.
And when Mr Liao and his family went to the movies, he invited the boy to go along.
This teacher’s care for him made all the difference: He stopped being rebellious and bucked up in his studies.
His school days took on a different hue in his fifth year at Chung Cheng when a girl by the name of Han Mui Keow became his classmate.
He liked her but her seniors warned her that he was a bad hat. She was undeterred.
Nine years later, in 1982, they tied the knot and returned to their alma mater for their wedding picture.
Mr Low went on to teach at Pei Dao Secondary School and later became the supervisor of a commercial school.
His wife is now a housewife while he runs a signage business.
He said: “I especially cherish the school’s philosophy of excellence of education for all kinds of people. Without that, my life would not have turned out for the better.”