Yet again, our social event for raising fund for the Sepilok Orang Utan is on again and it would be on Malaysian National Day! This coming Sunday! I know all of you cant wait for another installation of this event! So Lau, Grace and I have pulled force together and here we are!
This time the jazz band is gonna be fluidy ... brillant and most importantly soulful!
So do come on down and join for a night of indulgence in Malaysian cuisine, culture and most importantly 'saving' one of the most beautiful creation that nature can offer us: Orang Utan!*
*Whatever you spend that night on food and drinks that night will contribute to the fund-raising.
So don't wait you can RSVP with me at jacqueline.kueh@gmail.com or look us up in FAcebook: Jungle Jam Part 2 Melaka 31 August 2007 9pm
Details below:
Date: Friday 31 August 2007
Venue: Melaka, 27 Ropemaker's Field, London, E14 8BXMap
Tel: 020 7536 9256 (restaurant)
0783 656 0998
Nearest station: WestFerry DLR
Time: 9pm till late
Food: Malaysian/Indonesia buffet and drinks
Email your guestlist to: jacqueline.kueh@gmail.com
See you all that night,
Ulu gange
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Runners for Cardiff Half Marathon - One and only - Sie Lau!
Sie Lau
*Lau, Arvind and Ulu gange
This is my fifth half marathon in Cardiff. I aim to complete the race in a better time than my personal best of 1 hour and 47 minutes. It’s also great to see some other coming along too this year. I am confident the team will collectively raise significant sum for Jacqueline’s Sepilok Orang Utan Volunteering Program. So dig deep and sponsor us.
SIE LAU
*Lau, Arvind and Ulu gangeThis is my fifth half marathon in Cardiff. I aim to complete the race in a better time than my personal best of 1 hour and 47 minutes. It’s also great to see some other coming along too this year. I am confident the team will collectively raise significant sum for Jacqueline’s Sepilok Orang Utan Volunteering Program. So dig deep and sponsor us.
SIE LAU
Runners for Cardiff Half Marathon - Rina , Arvind & LiPeng
Rina Ng
Rina and her dearest supporters: (left to right) Heidi, Novi and Rina.
Run the race with Endurance
Finally decided to sign up for the half marathon in Cardiff. Feeling a bit uneasy at the beginning, Had a blackout during the training and taken by the Ambulance…oh well, that was once upon a time and Now…. Felt so much better and fully committed to complete the race with Endurance. Will be huffing and puffing all the way to the finish line. Peace Out!
RINA
ARvind Kannan
*Arvind is the one in purple in the picture.
This is my first half marathon effort in the U.K but I feel energized by my super enthusiastic team mates. If the wind and the weather favor me,I shall complete my run in record time. Although completing this would be a challenge in itself, it feels good that there is a cause behind it. Say a little prayer for me :)
-A-
Lipeng Law
Joined the race so I did not have to join a gym...This is my first run in Europe so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll keep running!
LIPENG
Rina and her dearest supporters: (left to right) Heidi, Novi and Rina.
Run the race with Endurance
Finally decided to sign up for the half marathon in Cardiff. Feeling a bit uneasy at the beginning, Had a blackout during the training and taken by the Ambulance…oh well, that was once upon a time and Now…. Felt so much better and fully committed to complete the race with Endurance. Will be huffing and puffing all the way to the finish line. Peace Out!
RINA
ARvind Kannan
*Arvind is the one in purple in the picture.
This is my first half marathon effort in the U.K but I feel energized by my super enthusiastic team mates. If the wind and the weather favor me,I shall complete my run in record time. Although completing this would be a challenge in itself, it feels good that there is a cause behind it. Say a little prayer for me :)
-A-
Lipeng Law
Joined the race so I did not have to join a gym...This is my first run in Europe so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll keep running!
LIPENG
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Runners for Cardiff Half Marathon - Sisse & Kobe
Sissie & Kobe Chan
It’s been a year since we got married & we thought we’d set ourselves a challenge by doing the half marathon in Cardiff!! We’re not really the sporty type – but we will do our best to try and finish it!! It’ll really be a big achievement for us both!!
SISSE & KOBE
“Go Go Go… run, run, run… must persevere!”
“I can do everything through Him
who gives me strength!”
Philippians 4:13
It’s been a year since we got married & we thought we’d set ourselves a challenge by doing the half marathon in Cardiff!! We’re not really the sporty type – but we will do our best to try and finish it!! It’ll really be a big achievement for us both!!
SISSE & KOBE
“Go Go Go… run, run, run… must persevere!”
“I can do everything through Him
who gives me strength!”
Philippians 4:13
Thursday, August 9, 2007
News: Sepilok as Top Rainforest Centre
The Star - Nation News
Thursday August 9, 2007
Sepilok set to become top rainforest centre
KOTA KINABALU: Sepilok, known worldwide as a premier orang utan conservation area, will consolidate its place in the world map once Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi opens the nearby Rainforest Discovery Centre.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to open the centre, some 30km from Sabah's coastal town of Sandakan, on the first day of his two-day visit to the state from tomorrow.
Located within the 4,500ha Sepilok-Kabili forest reserve, the RM6.7mil centre would, among others, enable visitors to experience a walk within a rainforest and its canopy.
Its director, Datuk Sam Mannan, said the centre demonstrated the importance of the department’s efforts in managing forests for society's benefits.
“It also showcases the department’s continued relevance despite declining timber production from natural forests,” he said yesterday.
Mannan said visitors to the centre would experience the diversity of plants in the rainforest through its Discovery Garden.
He said those arriving at the centre would go through the visitor building which will house an exhibition focusing on forest biology interpretation and biodiversity.
Thursday August 9, 2007
Sepilok set to become top rainforest centre
KOTA KINABALU: Sepilok, known worldwide as a premier orang utan conservation area, will consolidate its place in the world map once Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi opens the nearby Rainforest Discovery Centre.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to open the centre, some 30km from Sabah's coastal town of Sandakan, on the first day of his two-day visit to the state from tomorrow.
Located within the 4,500ha Sepilok-Kabili forest reserve, the RM6.7mil centre would, among others, enable visitors to experience a walk within a rainforest and its canopy.
Its director, Datuk Sam Mannan, said the centre demonstrated the importance of the department’s efforts in managing forests for society's benefits.
“It also showcases the department’s continued relevance despite declining timber production from natural forests,” he said yesterday.
Mannan said visitors to the centre would experience the diversity of plants in the rainforest through its Discovery Garden.
He said those arriving at the centre would go through the visitor building which will house an exhibition focusing on forest biology interpretation and biodiversity.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Jungle Jam Part 2 Melaka - Malaysia National Day
Jungle Jam Part 2 Melaka 31 August 2007 9pm
Do visit the Facebook event link.
This is yet again our 2nd event for raising fund for the orang utan in Sepilok, basically sponsoring me to go to Sepilok to volunteer for 2 months, where 85% of the ££ donated is for the maintenance of the husbandry and adoption of 2 baby orang utans.
It would be something similar than before, but we would be doing it in conjunction with Malaysian National Day.
Petronas is legendary for its heart-warming and poignant national (merdeka0 advertisement. My personal favorite is this
This year, I think Petronas comes out with a voting poll to elect the favorite among all.
Here they are.
Advertisment 1: It's my fav from above
Advertisment 2: Forward Looking
Advertisement 3: Wasp stinging experience & Circumcision!! hehehe ok ok ... Value of Friendship
Advertisement 4:See the world through our Youth
Advertisement 5: A variant of the 4th Advertisement
Advertisement 6: Our Identity
Advertisement 7: Can what today's work be the foundation of our future plan?
Do visit the Facebook event link.
This is yet again our 2nd event for raising fund for the orang utan in Sepilok, basically sponsoring me to go to Sepilok to volunteer for 2 months, where 85% of the ££ donated is for the maintenance of the husbandry and adoption of 2 baby orang utans.
It would be something similar than before, but we would be doing it in conjunction with Malaysian National Day.
Petronas is legendary for its heart-warming and poignant national (merdeka0 advertisement. My personal favorite is this
This year, I think Petronas comes out with a voting poll to elect the favorite among all.
Here they are.
Advertisment 1: It's my fav from above
Advertisment 2: Forward Looking
Advertisement 3: Wasp stinging experience & Circumcision!! hehehe ok ok ... Value of Friendship
Advertisement 4:See the world through our Youth
Advertisement 5: A variant of the 4th Advertisement
Advertisement 6: Our Identity
Advertisement 7: Can what today's work be the foundation of our future plan?
This is why Orang Utans is worth saving from extinction!
Orang-utan communication is like charades
* 00:01 02 August 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
* Rowan Hooper
Gina gestured for the banana. When Erica offered her a stick of celery instead, single mother Gina, 42, impatiently gestured again. When Erica held up the banana, Gina clapped. She's better behaved than Theodora, a feisty teenager who throws sand when she is misunderstood.
Gina and Theodora are orang-utans, two of six females that have now been found to communicate with gestures in the same way as people do when playing the game charades. Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne at the University of St Andrews, UK, presented the apes with one tasty and one not-so-tasty food item that could only be reached with human help.
As in charades, when the orang-utans' signals were completely misunderstood, they broadened the range of signals used and avoided the one that had "failed". When they were partially understood – when they were offered celery instead of a banana, for example – they narrowed down the range of signals used and repeated them.
Subtle distinctions
"The different communication strategies employed by the orang-utans in our study demonstrated that our subjects were acting on the mental state of the experimenter," says Cartmill, who designed the experiment to study whether the animals could modify their communication when misunderstood.
The animals showed that they went beyond a "he understands me" versus a "he doesn't understand me" dichotomy, to include more subtle distinctions in knowledge states.
In terms of a theory of mind – the ability to attribute different mental states to others – it's similar to what you would see in young humans, Cartmill says. "Young children do use both persistence and elaboration when they are misunderstood, but may employ slightly different strategies."
The charades strategy used by the orang-utans is a powerful way of selecting effective signals and getting at a specific meaning she says.
Sequences of charade-like behaviour have so far only been observed in zoos, but Cartmill says she expects wild orang-utans to possess the same communication abilities.
"A system for achieving common understanding more quickly by adjusting your communication to how well your recipient understands you would be particularly useful in a semi-solitary species," she says
Cartmill and Byrne tested an adult male, but he was not responsive. Orang-utans have the greatest sex differences of all the apes, so it may not be surprising to see differences in communication behaviour between them, says Cartmill.
Journal reference: Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/jcub.2007.06.069).
* 00:01 02 August 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
* Rowan Hooper
Gina gestured for the banana. When Erica offered her a stick of celery instead, single mother Gina, 42, impatiently gestured again. When Erica held up the banana, Gina clapped. She's better behaved than Theodora, a feisty teenager who throws sand when she is misunderstood.
Gina and Theodora are orang-utans, two of six females that have now been found to communicate with gestures in the same way as people do when playing the game charades. Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne at the University of St Andrews, UK, presented the apes with one tasty and one not-so-tasty food item that could only be reached with human help.
As in charades, when the orang-utans' signals were completely misunderstood, they broadened the range of signals used and avoided the one that had "failed". When they were partially understood – when they were offered celery instead of a banana, for example – they narrowed down the range of signals used and repeated them.
Subtle distinctions
"The different communication strategies employed by the orang-utans in our study demonstrated that our subjects were acting on the mental state of the experimenter," says Cartmill, who designed the experiment to study whether the animals could modify their communication when misunderstood.
The animals showed that they went beyond a "he understands me" versus a "he doesn't understand me" dichotomy, to include more subtle distinctions in knowledge states.
In terms of a theory of mind – the ability to attribute different mental states to others – it's similar to what you would see in young humans, Cartmill says. "Young children do use both persistence and elaboration when they are misunderstood, but may employ slightly different strategies."
The charades strategy used by the orang-utans is a powerful way of selecting effective signals and getting at a specific meaning she says.
Sequences of charade-like behaviour have so far only been observed in zoos, but Cartmill says she expects wild orang-utans to possess the same communication abilities.
"A system for achieving common understanding more quickly by adjusting your communication to how well your recipient understands you would be particularly useful in a semi-solitary species," she says
Cartmill and Byrne tested an adult male, but he was not responsive. Orang-utans have the greatest sex differences of all the apes, so it may not be surprising to see differences in communication behaviour between them, says Cartmill.
Journal reference: Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/jcub.2007.06.069).
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Entry For Flora London Marathon Ballot 2008
I have signed today for the balloting exercise for London Marathon 2008. So has Lau.
Fingers crossed that we will get it, so that we can raise fund for the Sepilok Orang Utan.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Flora London Marathon
Date: 05-Aug-2007 22:35
Subject: Entry into the Flora London Marathon 2008
To:
Dear Ulu Gange,
Thank you for registering to enter the Flora London Marathon 2008 ballot.
Please come back on Friday 30th November to see if you were successful in the online ballot.
If you need to contact the organisers please quote the reference number 109745 and call 0207 90 20 200
Please do not enter via the postal system as this will cause your entry to be made void
Have you considered running for charity? Why not run for one of the charities listed on our site?
Don't forget you can start your training now. If you need any help, why not click here for your training guide.
http://london-marathon.co.uk/site/?pageID=2&article=148
Thank you.
Regards,
The Flora London Marathon 2008 Team.
Fingers crossed that we will get it, so that we can raise fund for the Sepilok Orang Utan.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Flora London Marathon
Date: 05-Aug-2007 22:35
Subject: Entry into the Flora London Marathon 2008
To:
Dear Ulu Gange,
Thank you for registering to enter the Flora London Marathon 2008 ballot.
Please come back on Friday 30th November to see if you were successful in the online ballot.
If you need to contact the organisers please quote the reference number 109745 and call 0207 90 20 200
Please do not enter via the postal system as this will cause your entry to be made void
Have you considered running for charity? Why not run for one of the charities listed on our site?
Don't forget you can start your training now. If you need any help, why not click here for your training guide.
http://london-marathon.co.uk/site/?pageID=2&article=148
Thank you.
Regards,
The Flora London Marathon 2008 Team.
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