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Keechiu joined St Andrew's Junior College JC1 students in a student-led discussion.

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Why is it important to commemorate Racial Harmony Day and how does it allow us to develop a deeper appreciation for other cultures in Singapore?
Joined St Andrew's Junior College JC1 students in a student-led discussion where we discussed and reflected together on these questions.
We can never be a connector in a fragmented world, if we just adopt simplistic binaries like good versus evil, or democratic versus authoritarian – and stop there. We must develop stronger instincts to bring people together, and understand the fears, concerns and aspirations of other parties.
When people of different races and backgrounds come together, we value add as one nation to the world.
This Racial Harmony Day, let's commit to appreciating and embracing different cultures, for it is through this mutual respect that we can truly achieve harmony.

 

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Keechiu wants to keep building bridges and creating lasting friendships!

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We celebrate My Buona Vista Harmony & Friendship Day today, coming together to celebrate our rich diversity and foster our community unity.
Let's keep building bridges and creating lasting friendships!

 

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Keechiu had an engaging chat.

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An engaging

chat with My Buona Vista residents this weekend. Thank you to everyone who joined us and shared your thoughts!

 

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Keechiu met Mdm Ng.

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During my regular house visit last evening, I met our elderly resident Mdm Ng. She is 93. Despite her hearing problems, Mdm Ng's warm nature shone through, especially when she conversed in Hokkien.
Wishing her good health and happiness with her loved ones.
My Buona Vista
#BVHouseVisit

 

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Keechiu enjoyed the evening with student leaders.

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Enjoyed the evening with student leaders from our post-secondary educational institutions at ITE College East (Simei).
Always happy to hear their thoughts on how we can broaden what success means as a society, and what youths can do to uplift one another.
Our collective responsibility to take care of one another will take us to SG100 and beyond.

 

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Keechiu believes!

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Where do we go with AI next? I think it isn't just about doing things better - but about doing better things too.
We spoke about our vision for AI in Singapore with NUS Provost Professor Aaron Thean at the second edition of the NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education - SCALE's Lifelong Learning Festival this morning.
We can use AI to create the new, perform complex tasks and reduce errors.
But we have seen in the past few years how AI has rapidly pushed the boundaries of possibility across fields like Education, Healthcare, and Transport.
The real potential for us to achieve a breakthrough in education is in how education is conducted. AI gives us the ability to pull together and make sense of different insights in the way we teach and learn. If we apply AI intelligently and wisely, we can mass personalise education and stretch the potential of every individual.
That, to me, is the holy grail of education.
Are we there yet? No. Can we get closer? Yes, I believe we can - and we will.

 

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Keechiu wants to embrace the spirit of lifelong learning.

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Some of us are solitary learners. But perhaps we can also benefit from learning from the experiences and insights of others.
With help from SkillsFuture SG and Lifelong Learning Institute, our five Central Singapore Community Development Council - CDCs are stepping up to build a stronger community. They will support more residents looking to upskill through the refreshed SkillsFuture@CDC partnership announced this afternoon at the Skills for Good Festival@Central Singapore District.
Our CDCs will connect residents to better resources, such as providing a more sector-focused curation to SkillsFuture Advice workshops, which will allow residents to get more tailored career advice and gain more personalised skills.
Well done to all our partners in driving these efforts forward and reminding all of us that we can journey towards personal growth and skills master together.
Let us embrace the spirit of lifelong learning and learn alongside our friends and neighbours.

 

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Keechiu spent the weekend morning with My Buona Vista residents.

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Spending the weekend morning with My Buona Vista residents. A joyous affair filled with great conversations and laughter.

 

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Keechiu was happy to help to distribute the cashcards.

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Following the inscription of Singapore’s hawker culture on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, National Environment Agency (NEA) produced hawker culture-themed cashcards as a token of appreciation for our hawkers.
Happy to help to distribute the cashcards to our local merchants and market stall owners in My Buona Vista, joining them to show support and appreciation for our local businesses.

 

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Keechiu thanks Dr Lai.

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We had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Michael Lai, the President of APM Community Podiatry Clinic for the Elderly, at our Breakfast with Love event this weekend. Podiatry helps to prevent lower limb or associated life loss.
My thanks to Dr Lai and his team for their support and joining us in taking care of our elderly residents in My Buona Vista.

 

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Keechiu joined Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital's organising committee, donors and volunteers at their annual Charity Concert 2024.

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Joined Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital's organising committee, donors and volunteers at their annual Charity Concert 2024. Featured singers and the Ding Yi Music Company performed wonderful renditions of classics and evergreen songs featured at the concert.
Also joined the Board of Directors to sing “每当变幻时” on stage. I’d better keep my day job...

The concert is part of the hospital’s fundraising efforts, which will support their day-to-day operations and enrich the lives of nursing home residents and seniors in the community. I hope Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital will continue to extend its help to those within the community and spread their melodies of hope

 

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Keechiu met Jude.

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When I met Jude yesterday, he shared with me his passion for drawing and his dream of becoming an artist when he grows up.
His eyes lit up as he described his favourite part of school: "Homework!

#BVHouseVisit
My Buona Vista

 

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Keechiu looks forward to more of such partnerships.

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Singapore has established reciprocal green lane arrangements with some countries to facilitate essential business and official travel, but have you heard of our "green lane" to facilitate bilateral youth internships?
In Oct 2022, Ministry of Education, Singapore and Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (MOECRT) signed an MOU for the reciprocal Youth Mobility Programme (YMP) to facilitate more overseas exposure opportunities for our students. Under this MOU, 300 university students each year from the six autonomous universities in Singapore and five Indonesian universities can take up longer internships of up to six months in each other’s country.
We concluded the Technical Agreement on 30 July, which marks the start of the YMP. With this, our students can look forward to immersive and exciting internship opportunities in Indonesia, which will allow them to nurture new friendships and gain new perspectives - instilling greater confidence to navigate the regional market.
Singapore and Indonesia are firm friends. Heartened that our youths can grow and learn together, as they tap on each other's strengths and expertise. I look forward to more of such partnerships between our countries, as well as within the region, to foster mutual growth and strengthen ties!

 

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Keechiu congratulates all.

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Who guards our power grids?
Luqman and Shalihin were both deeply influenced by their fathers' dedication to securing Singapore’s power supply throughout their careers. They will join SP Group where their fathers had worked at for over two decades and enter the energy sector upon graduation.
Luqman and Shalihin are just two of the 204 recipients of the Singapore-Industry Scholarship (SgIS) this year, which are awarded to students who demonstrated strong potential to become future industry leaders. The SgIS reflects the longstanding partnership between the Government and industries, where we hope to raise the talent pipeline of Singapore’s key industries through various internships and professional development. Glad that more companies, across a wide range of sectors such as pharmaceuticals, engineering and social services have come onboard this partnership.
Congratulations and well done to all!
#SgIS2024

 

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Keechiu polled the audience.

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Polled the audience today at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's launch of the Centre of Organisational Resilience and Inclusion (CORI) event, together with industry and community representatives. We discussed what it means for organisations to be resilient. In the face of change, would we rather our organisations be a cast iron rod, strong and unbending? Or a roly-poly toy (what we call a 不倒翁), which can bounce back from any setback?
Or an amoeba, which shape shifts and evolves?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many chose the amoeba.
Resillience is evolution. How resilient we are and can be actually depends on how fast we can evolve. The more diverse our abilities and experiences, the more data points we have, and the faster we will be able to adapt.
We have designed many of our organisations to deal with the here and now, and to pre-empt problems. There’s nothing wrong with that – that’s survival.
But I also hope that in the next bound, our leaders and organisations go beyond survival, and have higher aspirations. Our job as leaders is not just to pursue outcomes – but to have care for organisational dynamics, intangibles and sub-cultures.
If we can design our teams and structures to embrace change, incorporate diversity and work across different objectives and goals, we will shape organisations with a living culture.
We will be strong, nimble and we will maximise our full potential.

 

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Keechiu hails new beginnings.

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New beginnings for NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which will award its own medical degree from 2029 and welcome its inaugural cohort of students for its new programme this August.
The school was established in 2010 to train more doctors to meet Singapore's growing healthcare demands. More than 720 students have since graduated from its MBBS programme with Imperial College London - a partnership that has contributed immensely to Singapore's healthcare sector. Imperial has helped to build the foundation of LKCMedicine, and it is now time for the school to forge its own path ahead.
At the homecoming event, I urged the school to apply the best of technologies and data to the practice of medicine. We must aim to break the trilemma of medical education, and achieve speed, quality, affordability.
While medical education must evolve in tandem with today’s complex healthcare landscape, our students and medical professionals must remain committed to their values and maintain the patients’ trust in them. If we remember that at the heart of the practice of medicine is the care that one has for the patient, then the ethics and the relationships built with our patients will never change.
Congratulations, LKCMedicine! May you continue to nurture a sense of continuous learning in our graduates, and be a trailblazer in the medical field.

 

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Keechiu wants to make the world less imperfect.

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Our perception of humanitarian organisations, such as the Singapore Red Cross, often mirrors the image of a fireman: a hero who swoops in to fight fires and resolve crises.
But their core mission isn’t just about saving the day. It’s also about their quiet, long-term and essential efforts to build capacity – and preventing fires from happening in the first place.
At the Singapore Red Cross Humanitarian Conference today, we discussed how we can all contribute to tackling humanitarian challenges.
Just as a fireman aims to prevent fires rather than extinguishing them, we must focus our efforts on empowering our communities to support and sustain themselves, and to learn how to take care of one another. When we enhance community resilience and self-sufficiency, we are building strong communities that can come together in times of need and thrive in the face of adversity.
We may not be able to make the world perfect. But together, we can certainly make it a little less imperfect.

 

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Keechiu tried a new path.

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Tried a new path today…
Happy weekend! #guesswhere?

 

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Keechiu celebrated Qixi Festival （七夕 ).

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We celebrated Qixi Festival （七夕） yesterday with Our Tanjong Pagar residents.
We also celebrated another happy occasion. Guess what it was

 

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Keechiu met wonderful children.

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Met the wonderful children from We Love Learning (WeLL) Centre at Qixi Festival (七夕) in Our Tanjong Pagar yesterday!

Happy to see their enthusiasm and joy as they participated in the various activities.
My Buona Vista