One of the fellows’ comments from last night’s reunion was “Thanks for this unique and beautiful friendship” When I think about it, it is indeed unique and beautiful. 34 of us, who were students from 5 Asean countries, were selected and offered a scholarship for a semester study in two prestigious Singapore’s university: National University…
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Hugs for ASEAN Children Charity Bike and Run
Celebrating Singapore International Foundation (SIF) 30th Anniversary, a group of SIF Alumni Indonesia hold a fund raising campaign to help ASEAN children impacted by COVID-19. The fund raising was actually initiated for our SIF Batch 1996 Alumni. But for Indonesia, later the theme was adopted to incorporate other batches. It is named “Hugs for ASEAN…
Mendaki Mount Ventoux, Rute Tour de France 2021
Pagi ini saya buat group meet up dengan teman-teman T-4 Cycling Club di Zwift. Rutenya agak ambisius: mendaki Mount Ventoux (di Zwift disebut Ven-Top). Mount Ventoux ini salah satu tujuan bersepeda terkenal di Perancis. Menjadi semakin populer karena dimasukkan dalam salah satu stage rute Tour de France. Terakhir tanggal 7 Juli 2021 kemarin. Berelevasi 1990…
Vesak Day Ancol Ride
Took opportunity of Vesak’s public holiday by easy cycling ride at Ancol theme park Jakarta. Ubai and Rosa joined me and Elok for the ride. We came quite early, around 6 am, which gave us a nice weather, and relatively empty park to cycle around. We capped off the morning with a nice breakfast at…
SIF 96 25th Anniversary Virtual Reunion
What does quarter of century do? You become older. Your kids no longer stay with you. Change of order in government. A movie became classic. Internet revolutionized everything. So it’s relatively long time. And that’s how long we’ve been connected to each other. Back in 1996, Singapore International Foundation offered competitive scholarships for young talents…