the garden slug

There is nothing more exciting and more fun than a food-related project. Well, to us, at least.

shareURmeal Singapore is a community campaign from 22 – 28 August 2011 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 $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

“Like” shareURmeal’s Facebook Page to show some love & support, and to find out more about who you’ll be helping + the kind folk behind this super-awsum projekt.

We’re pretty sure we’d be able to meet, or even exceed, the targeted 1,600 food photos this year. GANBATTE KUDASAI!!

If you have just 9 minutes to spare today, watch this episode from The Street Times.

Favourite quote:

“In fact, you should love them more because they are being very honest with you.”

We will be at Hong Lim Park for an amazing event called PinkDot. We hope to see you there too!

Business as usual from 9.00am tomorrow (Sunday 19/6/2011).

Every year we show our support for PinkDot by putting up a poster or two, blogging about it, and maybe sponsoring something or other.

This year, we are going to do something different. We are coming out, and we are making a statement.

The Garden Slug is closing shop today, a Saturday, to support The Freedom To Love by having the entire team attend PinkDot. Yes, all twenty of us will be there.

This. Is. BIG. Hokay? ‘Coz we never, never, never, never, ever close shop on a SATURDAY, yo.

We are proud to say that our team of Slugs comprises smart & passionate people from all walks of life, we welcome anyone as long as they’re willing to work hard. Same goes for the way we treat our customers – we don’t care whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or heterosexual. We welcome you without discrimination. (Oh, except when you have noisy, unruly children we really wish you’d go away. But ah well, even rude, ugly children shouldn’t be discriminated against. Here’s to democracy & having the freedom to breed.)

We’re also really excited about today because we are taking this opportunity to make this a team outing!

We have ourselves some awsum pink t-shirts

We printed and ironed-on the t-shirt artwork ourselves. Actually the printer ran out of ink, but we think it looks kinda trendy

We’re also sponsoring a Pink Drink for the event. The first 2,000 registrants will get our homemade sekret recipe Pink Drink HEHE, so come early!

We hope to see some if not all of you today too. Seriously, dude, it’s 2011. We reckon we no longer have to “fight” for acceptance, and that most Singaporeans are really cool about having lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual family members. No seriously, a lot of you have straight friends & family and you sekretly (or openly) think they’re kinda weird and gross right? Listen to us – don’t be a**hole. Straight people were born that way, okay?

See you at Hong Lim Park today (Saturday, 18/6/2011) @ 5.00pm!

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… more like we operate a straight-friendly place.

We did say we are coming out this week, didn’t we? More on this soon.

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!