Our Vision: The Singapore Club in Australia

Our Vision: The Singapore Club in Australia

Hi all, we have received some more questions about why we are doing this, we have received many encouraging support from fellow Singaporeans who share our vision and we really look forward to one day we can have our own club house. Which is simply named, the Singapore Club in Australia

Many a times we have drive along the congested and  haphazardly planned streets of Sydney, we often have to passed by many clubhouses from many different communities in Sydney, they includes the Russian, Croatian, Austrians, Slovenians,etc. Even our northerly neighbour, Malaysia has something called Malaysian Hall which provides cheap accommodation for Malaysian students in Sydney! So where is our Singapore Club house??

We hope to provide a meet up place or a club house for all Singaporeans, ex Singaporeans, expatriates or ang moh who has worked in Singapore before but came back to Australia.

In order to achieve this.. We hope to have a physical club house or at least a kopitiam which we can call our own... where anyone can turn up any time to talk cock or have a quick meal or beer or a  nice cup of kopi-o.

The club will have the following...

Dining facilities in the club:

Bar

In this club house, there's a fully stocked and licenced bar which will serve your typically tiger beer on draft, Tsingdao beer for uncles or cocktails for our younger ones.

Singapore Restaurant:

Since we are in Australia, typical Singaporean food, that taste like Singaporean real Singapore food like Laksa, Hainanese chicken rice, are hard to find. Most of them have been customised to Australian taste buds. For E.g. the Laksa in Australia are typically "Curry" noodles... or do not have the "Laksa" taste that we are all so familiar with.

Compiling the picture has made me hungry and I am sure without naming the food above you would  know exactly what they are!

This restaurant will also be a showcase for Singaporean food and will always welcome everyone including local aussies.

We might be able to hold some entertainment like inviting your favourite pop star to perform in our restaurant!

Kopitiam:

Although we like good Australian coffee from  Gloria Jeans, or your local coffee stall outside your office etc, some of us prefer our favourite cup of kopi-o, We hope to recreate a true "kopitiam" in our clubhouse, with food served like laksa, prawn mee, hainanese chicken rie.


Services for new migrants in the club

With this physically club house, we will have established our presence and we will be able to do what we are currently doing and will be able to do much more!
We hope to provide a one stop service for everyone which may include the following

• The club house might also be able to offer job opportunity for newly migrants in search for a job 
• JP services for certifying documents if there is a need
• Temporary accommodation for students who are in need of a night's accom due to unforeseen circumstances.

Services for Singaporeans living in Sydney

• Meet up place for all Singaporeans in Australia
• Mahjong sessions
• Cooking lessons
• Singles meet up and much more
• Mother Tongue language classes

Have we forgotten other Singaporeans in Other states of Australia? - NO!
We have not forgotten you.. we would like to thank you for your support since day one and  we hope to bring this club house to your state in the near future too


We hope you share our vision, and hopefully one day, we will achieve our goal. Thanks everyone for your support and encouragement so far..

Mahjong Anyone? -Interest Check - Sydney NSW

Mahjong Anyone? -Interest Check -  Sydney  NSW or surrounds

Hi All, we have receive some email queries about having mahjong session or keep a database of mahjong kakis.. .  We think that this is a good idea!

We will organise one if there's good response.

If you are interested in attending the mahjong session meetup, can you please contact us via the contact us page?

Please let us know if you just interested to attend and your location and whether you have a mahjong set /mahjong table at your house and if you are willing to open your house for our members to attend.

Thanks!!

Share your funny experiences as a new migrant to Australia

I can certainly remember a few!

I pulled into a Manual Cash Wash station.  A$8 to A$10, ok lah.  Cannot compare to Singapore's cheap labour S$3.  In Singapore, we have the Banglas lined up systematically washing each car and here I had been waiting 10 minutes already ... still no one came.  I then realized, Manual Car Wash means you wash the car YOURSELF!  Alamak, still got to pay so much.  I miss my maid!

The word "ta" is commonly used by Ozzie friends and the cash out chicks.  I was wondering why they keep telling me "bye bye" even before I could finish what I want to do or say.  Ooohh, ta means thank you!

I wasn't used to people calling me "Love" too but now I kind of like it! ;-)

I can't stand it at first when I have to say and listen to "How r'ya" so many times a day.  Some do not seem so sincere anymore.  They speak as though they have a barb wire clamped on each side of their jaw!  More and more, I find myself using the OZ terminology occasionally mixed with some Singapore slang, which drives them just as crazy.  "I need to do a U-e lah"; "Let me have my breakkie first, ok or not?";  "Alamak, I am becoming spoofier!"

Tell me a few funnies, ok?

Singles only meetup - Sydney NSW (Interest Check)

Singles only meetup - Sydney NSW - Interest Check

Hi All, we have receive some email queries about having a Singles only meetup.
We think that this is a good idea!

We will organise one if there's good response.

If you are Single and interested to attend the Single's only meetup, can you please contact us via the contact us page?

Lake Macquarie is only a short distance from Sydney, located between The Central Coast and Newcastle.

Lake Macquarie is only a short distance from Sydney, located between The Central Coast and Newcastle.

Recently, we invited our favourite uncle, Uncle Phil, to join us for a fishing trip on Lake Macquarie. The main idea is to get him away from busy Sydney onto a more idyllic location which Australia is famous for.


The lake itself is the largest coastal saltwater lake in Australia, over four times the size of Sydney Harbour.



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Arriving at Lake Macquarie is easy from Sydney. Just head north and find your way to the F3 Entrance at Wahroongah (near to Hornsby) and take the freeway. Travelling on the F3 freeway from Sydney will have you arriving in 90 minutes!!

For east Lake Macquarie (Swansea, Belmont, Charlestown) take the Budgewoi Swansea Charlestown exit and use the brown and white signage.  For west Lake Macquarie, take the Morisset, Toronto or Cardiff exits and use the brown and white signage

The lake is 24 km long and has 174 km of foreshore, with it's beautiful bays and beaches.
The eastern side of the Lake Macquarie Area border the Pacific Ocean with it's long sandy beaches.
On the western side Lake Macquarie adjoins the Watagan Mountains.
The Lake Macquarie region offers opportunities for Fishing, Swimming, Water Skiing, Surfing, Boating, Hiking, Horse Back Riding, Wine Tasting and much more.


Read more about the lake here and what it can offer here:
http://www.lakemacquarie.com/
http://www.visitlakemac.com.au

Uncle Phil has a nice time cruising on the lake on our boat, and thanks to his blessings and the luck that he bring with him, we have a good catch! We brought home 5 fish! However, our total catch of the day is 10 but we need to put 5 back into the lake! :(

In his own words, this is one of the best trip away from Sydney that he had, "plan also can't plan until so good!"

Singaporeans in Brisbane Contact

Singaporeans in Brisbane Contact

Thanks to the generous helping sprit of Singaporeans,  We at Singapore Club in Australia is happy to bring you this good news!


Although most of us are based in Sydney at Singapore Club in Australia, a fellow Singaporean residing in Brisbane, Queensland has been kind enough to be a contact point for Singaporeans who have questions regarding Brisbane or Queensland!! 


This means that the club is really living up to it's name.. helping Singaporeans in Australia!

Now we have expanded our reach and trying to help Singaporeans in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth!!

If you have any questions about Brisbane or Queensland, he might be able to advise. To utilise this service, please contact us via the contact us page and we will forward your questions to him promptly. 


You can also find us on our facebook groups

Singapore Club in Australia - Founded by us
http://www.facebook.com/groups/singaporeclubau/ 

Singapore/Australia - Founded by Thomas Tan
http://www.facebook.com/groups/193346864096551/ 

Prologue

I have always use the alias I.S since i started out my adventure in the Internet. That was in 1997.

I was invited by SG club from EDMW forum to start blogging my thoughts being a Singaporean residing in Australia. It was a WEIRD feeling. I always wanted to write, normally i write chinese but anyhow, quick intro about myself.

Internet always has been a interesting virtual space where you had to have the benefit of doubt while reading anything. I remembered when i first started out my adventure in "WWW." I had people asking me same question over and over again, which made me so irritated that i had to reply this :

"a/s/l please" (which denotes age sex location)
"anytime, twice a week, on the bed" (my automated reply)

:P it works and i stop receiving pranks after a while.

Enough for the gags, I am long "expired" according to Singapore standard by the men. Seriously, I've got "complaints" that if i am lucky in our oriental culture terms, i would have grandchildren in 5 years time. I currently reside in south australia, used to stayed in Melbourne for some time. I have been in Australia 4years thereabouts. By and by i will add in some stories of how i ended up being a KBW (key board warrior) in a foreign land.

I.S