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Let’s Welcome Singapore 2010
 With just over one-and-a-half month to go before the start of the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, SKM is doing our part to get Singaporeans ready!
SKM is using the message, ‘Let’s Champion a Smile and Bring On the Cheer at Singapore 2010’, as a rallying call for all to celebrate and enjoy the Games.
Since June, an interactive video recording booth has been travelling around libraries across the island, inviting residents to record a special welcome to the visiting athletes and guests during the Games. Close to 300 video clips have been collected with special greetings of ‘Yokoso!’, ‘Ahn nyeong ha se yo!’ and ‘Velkommen!’ calling out to our international friends.
The best messages will be compiled into a commercial that could be shown at Games venues’ in August! Haven’t caught the booth yet? Make your way down to three more locations this month:
 16 – 18 Jul: Ang Mo Kio Hub (level 4)
23 – 25 Jul: Wisma Atria (atrium)
30 Jul – 1 Aug: United Square (atrium)
Buses decked out with the welcoming message have also been plying the streets, encouraging all to bring on the cheer for the games. In the upcoming months, posters, badges and cash-counter ‘wobblers’ will also be distributed to partners, to spread the message across the island and build upon the buzz for the Games.
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Cheer for YOG Relay
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Get ready to cheer for YOG!
SKM has created a special yet simple cheer for everyone to adopt during the torch relay run at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore in August.
As the Youth Olympic Flame journeys around Singapore, everyone is invited to cheer the torchbearers as they make their way along our streets in an exciting six-day torch relay. SKM’s unique cheer will help to motivate and encourage the torchbearers along. In addition, colourful ‘cheer sticks’ will be distributed to schools for students who want to support the torchbearers as they run through their neighbourhoods.
Learn this easy-to-do cheer here, and get ready to motivate the torchbearers as they come running through your community!
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Kindness Rocks winners
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Touching, funny and creative – the photograph and video entries that came in for the ‘Kindness Rocks’ school initiative expressed the different ways youths viewed kindness.
The objective of this activity was to get secondary school students to reflect about kindness and inspire them to start showing it. And it was evident that the youths had various interpretations – some used humour, others compared a positive against a negative example, and a few even used a single powerful image, to best exemplify what kindness meant to them.
A total of six winners – three for photography and three for video – were chosen from a talented pool of over 60 entries. They will receive an exclusive Singa goodie bag. A big thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to the winners! Check out the winning entries here.
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Did you know…
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Did you know that kindness can actually keep you sane?
Kindness, like certain medical anti-depressant, actually produces serotonin, which heals wounds, keeps you calm and makes you happy. And research has found that 8 out of 10 patients in a mental institution are serotonin deficient. What this means is that without kindness, we will go crazy!
This is just one of several interesting tidbits unveiled in the new SKM video clip about little known facts about kindness! Want to uncover the secret to staying young? Kindness provides an elusive yet vital link!
Learn more about kindness here, and since you are kind, forward this onto others, so there will be more kindness and sane people in the world!
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Kind Hearts
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SKM is proud to be a supporter of a record-breaking feat – the creation of the largest mosaic of the map of Singapore!
This mosaic was comprised of tiny red origami hearts, each representing a small contribution to the Heart2Heart Campaign which is a fundraising effort by the St John Ambulance Brigade Singapore and the Singapore Heart Foundation launched earlier this year.
The giant mosaic was unveiled during the Heart2Heart carnival held at the open space next to Tampines MRT station on 27 Jun. SKM was present at the event, spreading the message of kindness, by giving out collaterals and inviting members of the public to play simple games. SKM also helped to promote this initiative during the Kindness Cheerfest competition held at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza in May.
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Parental Guidance Advised
For a generation of gracious Singaporean youths, it needs to start with a population of gracious parents, so argues famed business woman, Ms Nanz Chong-Komo.
In an article that first ran in the April/May 2010 issue of ‘Today’s Parents’ magazine, Ms Chong-Komo reminds parents that children learn by observing their parents, thus picking up both good and ungracious behaviours from the adults.
She explains, “We may not think this is a big deal, but small actions can have big repercussions. Gracious kids become gracious adults. Gracious people get noticed, hired, promoted. Gracious people have influence. They are attractive, magnetic, inspiring.”
Read the entire article here. |
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