Update 24/8/2010: TARGET REACHED!!! Thank you all for your participation & support! <3 <3 <3
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Shareurmeal Singapore is a community campaign from 21 – 27 August 2010 to raise awareness about the plight of low-income families in Singapore.
There is no donation involved on your end. So, what can we all do to help? Just take a photo (or two, or twenty!) of what you’re eating.
Very simply, here’s what happens:– for every photo you send in, the sponsor donates SGD$3.00 to TOUCH Community Services. That’s it, no catch. TOUCH then uses the sponsor’s donation for their food programme that targets needy/ low-income families.
Indeed, it is easy as 1-2-3, yes?
1) Take a photo of any meal you’re having (doesn’t have to be a TGS meal!)
2) Send the photo to shareurmealsg@gmail.com
3) Tell others to do it too
Join Shareurmeal’s Facebook group to show some love & support. Or go to the Shareurmeal webpage to find out more about who you’ll be helping + the kind folk behind this awsum projekt.
The Garden Slug is proud to support TWC2 (Transient Workers Count Too) and HOME (Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics).
Why? Because TGS itself is owned, operated & staffed by a healthy mixture of local & foreign talent. The cause is one that is very close to our hearts.
We all get along really well with each other here at TGS, regardless of our backgrounds. We have fun, we have our ups & down, we treat each other like family.
We are aware, however, not all foreigners have it so good.
Being a cosmopolitan migrant society, it is shameful that not many of our foreign worker friends are being treated right in Singapore.
As part of our ongoing Commitment to Social Responsibility programme:
1) For TWC2, we translated their sixteen-page SMS helpline from English to Chinese.
TWC2 will also be doing up Tamil, Indonesian, Malay and Tagalog SMS helplines as soon as they trial run the effectiveness of the Chinese version.
2) We crafted & sponsored Brownie Popsicles for H.O.M.E.’s volunteer event (tomorrow!)
Do check out the TWC2 and HOME websites & give in whatever ways you can 
Let’s not just tolerate, let’s embrace diversity.
Meet Wangwang!
He is a mid-sized adult male dog who looks like a Japanese Shiba and mongrel cross. He is a little hard of hearing and his eye sight isn’t tip top, but otherwise he is in perfect health ( The vet has given him a clean bill of health)
Wangwang is a gentle soul who loves people ( and doggy treats!) and would make a perfect companion. Contact Fiona at HP 97456657 or fiona4674@yahoo.com (
Please note that Wangwang is not approved for HDB apartments)
We are all loved, give some love back! woof
We heart their tagline and we heart Benedict, one of our regular customers The Garden Slug is happy to contribute in a teeeny tiny way to Benedict’s new project.. Check out www.applesoranges.weebly.com
He is organzing a free motivational workshop for teens and adults alike, that will help them better understand and harness their inner potential. Are you aspiring to be a pop star, but nerding behind your laptop 24/7 and doing nothing about it? Benedict’s your man then!
The team from applesorages is made up of passionate young students from the local universities, let’s all lend them some support and give them an encouraging shout out!
Sorry about the horrid rhyming.. I’ve yet to shake off the melatonin stupor.. Apples!! Yes, this is our latest community project for www.projectkyrie.com Last week, Nicholas ( sweetest sweetheart this side of the east and he cooks too! ) asked us if we are keen to participate in a soup kitchen programme, where they feed 200+ needy folks twice per mth. They’ve already found someone to provide the food, so we thought apples may be a good addition to a well-rounded meal. Off I went to the wholesale market and loaded 2 cartons of these juicy babies into the slime-green slug mobile..
The people who manage Projectkyrie are mainly Catholics, but they truly embrace diversity.. The needy folks who benefit from this food programme are from all religions, race and creed. There is no discrmination whatsoever. We like !
Only 3 more days to National Day… I’ve always appreciated the peace in Singapore, so let’s take it 1 step further, and truly celebrate diversity too!
Peace~om~Peace.
Thanks to the wonderful folks who supported the pawpledge stand today, all the muffins crafted by The Garden Slug were sold out as of noon!
However, we”ll have a new batch out tomorrow, ie, Sunday 14 June. Same place as per the blogpost above.. If you’re planning on visiting the uber popular PC show at Suntec city, swing by and say Hi to Fiona, Pauline, Bec and Lynn. See ye~
The Garden Slug hearts the good folks from http://pawpledge.wordpress.com/ who are doing so much good stuff for the neglected cats and dogs on the streets of singapore.
So, we made them these mega cute mini blueberry muffins that are topped with fine white chocolate.Check out those edible kitty sugar milk logos on top! — erm, just to clarify, these muffins are for our 2-legged friends… They are not meant for consumption by cats and dogs!
They are available for sale at:
Venue: The PawPledge Kiosk –Suntec City Mall, Level 3,
Happy Kidz level, Front & Back Atrium (Near Toys R Us)
Date: 13/14 June 09, 12-6pm
100% of proceeds goes towards the animals! ( Note, Pawpledge doesn’t use the funds to buy LV handbags or Holland Rd condos even though we all concur that “we live in a modern world these days”…..sorry, i couldn’t resist.. ) :-0
See you slugphiles there !!:-)
The good people from Zurina Bryant Photography studio just sent us these lovely pics.. The “lovely” would refer to Zurina of course.. Check out how resplendant she looked in that pink dress!
Check out our wane ( and sweaty..) expressions.. we had to lug the gawd-heavy slug wares up and down 2 flights of stairs which were cobbled and uneven.. Yup, no elevators at Oldschool.. But it was all worth it !!
Well, Joe slug and I DID turn out in pink actually. Joe claimed that the argyle print on his polo T is pink…. and I was wearing my electric pink sneakers..
Glam people in pink ! quite “Tatler” we thought.. Erm.. is that a lady in a B&W polka-dotted frock? Wrong party you are at, darrrling… ( unless of course you’ve got pink accessories that we can’t see… Eh eh, you naughty slugphiles…. stop all that imagining ok? I am referring to pink sneakers like mine, of course ! wahahahah !! I kill me ! )
These are sooo delicious, if I say so myself… Sweet Cherry tomatoes marinated with seasoned olive oil and tossed with herbed crumbly feta cheese and stuffed olives. Yums !
The Garden Slug proudly sponsored the food for Shades of Pink, by up-and-coming photographer Zurina Bryant. This cool event ( lots of people in electric pink wigs!) was curated by the stylo-mylo folks at www.2902gallery.com Do say Hello to Gwen if you pop by Gallery 2902 at Old School, Mount Sophia. They have an incredibly beautiful work space complete with their own vegetable garden ! We’re glad that Zurina managed to raise funds for the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation.
Our pink-inspired menu for Shades of Pink:
- Blueberry Muffins frosted with white chocolate and topped with logo icing of the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation
- Big Bowl of fluffy Pink Marshmallows
- Cucumber hollows stuffed with Smoked salmon, cream cheese and fresh chives
- Little cups of marinated cherry tomatoes with Feta and stuffed olives
- Guiltless Buttermilk chicken skewers with Tri-coloured flame-grilled antipasto
- Cheese Board with selected premium cheese selection and water crackers and red grapes
- Cranberry-dusted Signature semi-sweet Chocolate Brownie popsicles
- Red ripe Strawberries dipped in exquisite chocolate and dusted with saltless crumbed pistachio
Buon Appetit!
