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You are invited to join fellow alumni at the Stanford Club of Singapore movie screening of the local film, “The Carrot Cake Conversations” 11 July 09, 430pm at Sinema at Old School, followed by drinks at Timbre.

Spend a relaxing Saturday afternoon at the creative arts hub known as Old School, situated atop Mount Sophia. Sinema provides for a cozy cinematic experience with plush leather seats and state of the art projection and sound system. Following the movie, we will have a short drinks session at Timbre, located just beside Sinema in the Old School compound. You’re welcome to join us for the movie, drinks or both.

To reserve your place, please fill in the form below and email it to Ms. Clarice Li and Mr. Kenneth Goh. Reservations must be received by 4 July 2009.

We look forward to seeing you on 11 July! A description of the movie to be screened is appended below for your reference.

The Carrot Cake Conversations (PG)

2008 | Romantic Comedy | English | 96mins
Official Selection - Anchorage International Film Festival, 2008
Director: Michael Wang
Cast: Adrian Pang, Alaric Tay, Andrea Fonseka, Danielle O’Malley

The Carrot Cake Conversations is the story of four strangers, who find themselves stranded in Singapore, two days before Christmas and how they find companionship over a plate of carrot cake and a conversation.

The story follows the journey of Kate, a failed American actress, who’s in transit in Singapore for one night, on her way to New Zealand to set up her dream Café.

Kate meets Daniel, a dishevelled businessman who recently caught his wife cheating on him, Matthew, a rich property mogul who finds himself at the crossroads of his life, and Ruth, a prostitute who longs to be Singapore’s first blues singer.

In their conversations, they talk about love, life, loss, carrot cake, Singapore, being alone, Christmas, their dreams, their fears, their hopes, and at the end of this one night, because of their conversation with a complete stranger, they become different people.

This story seeks to prove the possibility that a conversation can change everything and that sometimes in life, all we have to do is talk.

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Do come down and join us for DUAL Drinks every third Thursday of the Month! It will be a great time to relax, catch up with old friends, and meet new people!

Date:                Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Time:               7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:         Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery
                        30 Merchant Road #01-05/06 Riverside Point
                        Singapore 058282
                        Tel: (65) 6438 7438
Cost:                $5 for 2 soft drinks
                        $15 for 2 beers

We live in an unprecedented environment of global pressures which have impacted all of us personally.

Reaching out to those who have been retrenched is an initiative by DUAL as we continue to be relevant to our alumni members. DUAL is organizing a series of 5 sessions called “WHO MOVED MY RICE BOWL?”

The Third Session: Is the Bowl Half Full? Financial Health and the Family

Date:          Thursday, 30th July, 2009
Time:          7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue:       The American Club
                 Colonial, 3rd floor
                 10 Claymore Hill
Cost:          $35, payment at door

Finger Food will be served. Though payment is at door, no show will still be charged. Space is limited.

Programme
7:00 pm Registration & Networking
7:30 pm Programme begins

Panelists Christopher Humphrey, Thio Eng Huat, Dennis Tan, and Yah Sian Yang

This is a closed door session targeted at only alumni members and ideally, only the retrenched.

RSVP By 26th July, 2009 to Ms. Ng Hau Yee.

We hope that at the end of these sessions, we would have fostered a network of relevant contacts for your support and further employment prospects. We also look forward to your active participation.

Professor Chris Hsee on “The Art and Science of Happiness”

Once again, Chicago Booth will be hosting its Global Leadership Series event.

On Thursday, July 9, Professor Chris Hsee, the Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing will be featured. Professor Hsee, who received his PhD from Yale and joined the Chicago Faculty in 1993, will speak on “The Art and Science of Happiness”.

In this talk, Professor Chris Hsee will share with you insights from a new science which we call “hedonomics.” While economics studies how to maximize wealth with limited resources, hedonomics studies how to maximize happiness with limited wealth. Building on empirical research in this field, Hsee will introduce 10 practical strategies that you can use to make yourself, your friends, your employees and your clients happier without having to spend more money. These strategies tap on topics ranging from how to make decisions, through how to pay others, to how to give gifts.

Join us for a sensible study at ways to optimize happiness in your workplace and beyond! We welcome colleagues and members of the Singapore business community to this lively event.

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” Dale Carnegie

Date:         9 July (Thursday)
Time:         7:00PM – Registration
                 7:30PM – Presentation and Q&A
                 8:30PM – Networking Reception
                 9:30PM – Event concludes
Venue:       Chicago Booth, Asia Campus
                 101 Penang Road (at Clemenceau)
                 Singapore 238466
Cost:         $20 includes wine and appetizers
Topic:        “The Art and Science of Happiness"

Please see the event website for more information, and the registration site to register.

This year’s book prize winner, Yap E-Lynn, reflects on her trip in this essay.

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On April 28, at the Stanford Club’s Annual Dinner, our Guest of Honor Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Community, Development Youth and Sports and at the Ministry of Transport, presented this year’s Book Prize Awards to our three winners.

Ms. Yap E-Lynn of Raffles Institution (JC) was our Grand Prize winner. She will be hosted for a one week stay at Stanford campus coutesy of the Stanford Club of Singapore and Singaporeans@Stanford.

Our two runners-up were Kwan Jin Yao of Hwa Chong Institution and Zhang Yi-Tao of Raffles Institution (JC). All three students received two books from the Stanford Bookstore plus letters of commendation from the Club. Competition Chair Don Huse shared that this year’s competition had attracted more than 120 applicants. Each of the three winners had demonstrated excellent communications skills, a record of achievement both in school and in the community, plus high levels of poise and maturity.

Congratulations to E-Lynn, Jin Yao, and Yi-Tao!

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On March 15, our Book Prize Panel of Judges interviewed each of this year’s eight competition Finalists. Following these meetings the Judges selected this year’s three Book Prize Winners. These three will be invited to the Club’s Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation on April 28. At this event we will announce the name of the Grand Prize winner who will be then be sent to Stanford campus for a one week stay.

Book Prize Committee Chair Don Huse has announced the names of the three Book Prize Winners (listed below in alphabetical order):

• Kwan Jin Yao, Hwa Chong Institution
• Yap E-Lynn, Raffles JC
• Zhang Yi Tao, Raffles JC

The other finalists are:

• Nadhirah Alwi, Temasek JC
• Goh Li Sian, Hwa Chong Institution
• Jannelle Lau, Dunman H.S.
• Lim Wei Sheng, Raffles JC
• Wang Yizhen, Raffles JC