What happens after Ecoventure 2010
Question: What do you get when you take 1 Programmer, 1 Teacher, 1 Reporter + 1 Mr Chew and you put them together?
Answer: You get Ecoventure 2010 post-events!
Amazingly, a representative from each group (Mr Chew in his own league though) met up
and had a fruitful (I use Medic Kor Kor's term) discussion regarding our post-event activities.
How did this come about? To be honest, it was pretty spontaneous. To cut a long story short, (someone has been complaining that I write long long long long proses) it all started with an email, more emails, multiple smses of the same message, hasty phone calls, more phone calls, a certain fast-food restaurant, a certain other (but not fast-food) restaurant, lunch - main course, chat, discussion, cakes, chat, discussion, phone call, Mr Chew arrives, drinks, discussion and finally, there you have it - post-event activities! Like magic, no? ^^
Post-Expedition Service: Farming
Discussion: Students or Residents to manage the farm?
Most likely a collaboration with a school as an activity for their ECA or for CIP hours
Most likely a collaboration with a school as an activity for their ECA or for CIP hours
- Purpose: Promote Sustainability, Environmental-friendliness and Healthy Living (eat more vegetables!)
- Benefits for the school: Educational, Therapeutic and involves Recycling and Reusing of plastic bottles for planting herbs in.
- Plants: Lettuce, Kai-Lan, Spinach, Lady finger, Cherry tomatoes, Long beans, basil, pandan, mint (Harvests possible every 30 days! ^^)
- Starting it: Start off with a pilot test first before attempting to expand into a larger scale with scaffolding to allow multiple levels for planting
- Maintenance: Crops will be table-top based in Styrofoam boxes - clean and easy to maintain
- Materials: Seeds (from Mr Chew), infrastructure (probably the one contributing to the greatest cost for this project), manpower (students)
- Manpower: Briefing for students about how to care for the plants necessary
What else needs to be done?
- Contacting the school for a discussion of details
Post-Event Fun + Follow-up to Farming: Organic Farming, Microwave Cooking
Find yourself stuck alone at home with no food to eat? Need a quick fix for a meal? Take a handful of leaves from your garden and let Mr Chew teach you the magic of mircowave cooking! It's fast. It's simple. It's not messy. But most importantly, it's delicious!
Venue: Kitchen at SengKang CC
Date and Time: To be confirmed
Cost: (Of course you have to pay for the ingredients!) To be confirmed
Menu: 1 Chicken Dish, 1 Fish Dish, 1 Pizza Dish, 1 Mixed Vegetables Dish
Post-Event Fun: Cycling
Date: 16th July 2010
Time: 8.30pm (Please have your dinner before coming! If you would like to have dinner together, do let us know and we can meet earlier to eat together! ^^)
Meeting Place: ECP's McDonald's
Route: Just follow us! (We will be doing a recce a week before to make sure that we won't get lost so don't worry! ^^)
If you've all been following the blog, tweets and emails closely, you will realise that 17th July was the proposed date for our BBQ. Therefore, can I ask whether you're all still interested to have the BBQ as well? We can still have both if many people are for the idea. ^^
Please vote!
Actually, I think I might have missed out on some details during some parts of the earlier discussion as I was rather busy with something else... Jun Wei and Kenneth, please let me know if I've made any mistakes or if you would like to make additional announcements. Thanks lots! ^^
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background of the first photo looks like a courtroom!!!!