ISSUE 126 • JUL/AUG/SEP 2020 EAST COAST CARING, VIBRANT, NEWS GREEN CELEBRATING SINGAPORE IN THE EAST MCI (P) 128/11/2019 PUBLISHED BY EAST COAST TOWN COUNCIL PAGE 3 PAGE 6 - 7 PAGE 14 How our F&B stallholders Celebrating National A rundown of government are getting through Day from the comfort support schemes and COVID-19 of home subsidies 2 EAST COAST NEWS ISSUE 126 • JUL/AUG/SEP 2020 3 SEEKING EMPLOYMENT HELP? Let Workforce Singapore’s Career Matching Services help you. Register your interest at go.gov.sg/careeradvice-tc HERE’S HOW YOU CAN make full use of this precious document. Remember to WRITE A GOOD RESUME articulate your experiences and competencies in a clear Looking for a job in this current and concise manner. This 3. Include part-time or climate? Here are some tips means leaving out unnecessary contract work commitments on how to write a resume that information and wording your taken up could help showcase your resume carefully in order to not experience and skills. misrepresent your capabilities. Some may leave out part-time, ad hoc or contract work Dealing with retrenchment or 2. Word your resume carefully experience from the resume, redundancy can be stressful, to align with job description believing they are redundant, and having to look for a new and expectations but that is not true. It is job can be very challenging about how you phrase your “After buying ingredients and setting aside money for rent, too. Many may just jump Generally, when writing experiences and match them to How a Nasi Lemak Seller I took home only about $10 every day. Some days, nothing back into applying for jobs a resume that sells your job expectations. It is important at all,” recalls Suzaimi, a resident of East Coast. but finding your next career professional capabilities, to highlight to your prospective requires preparation. you need to analyse the job employer that you are spending STRUGGLED GETTING HELP FROM HIS COMMUNITY description extensively. This time productively as you look In order to survive, he relied on government grants and And of course, your job search way, you can apply similar for stable employment. It could took on odd-jobs like running errands and doing deliveries, begins with your resume. So, terms, concepts and contexts also indicate that you are THROUGH usually for friends who would pay him a token for the help. here is how you can get started when you are writing and adding value to your career on updating your resume. elaborating on your job development by honing skills “My F&B friends know I go to Geylang Serai to buy my experiences. This lets the such as communication and ingredients every day, so they pay me a few dollars to help 1. Fill employment gaps with employer match your skill resourcefulness. COVID-19 them get what they need. Or sometimes my brother – he experience and competencies sets and understand if you Earlier this year, Suzaimi Abdul Rahman was running a does deliveries part-time – has too many parcels to send, are a potentially good fit. If It may seem daunting to join busy nasi lemak stall, going through about 25kg worth of so he passes me the jobs,” explains Suzaimi. A good resume is key to you are required to indicate the sea of jobseekers out there, chicken wings on any given weekday. That is equivalent to convincing prospective your reasons for leaving your but a well-crafted resume can about 200 plates of food. It also helped that his friends would spread word about his employers to call you for an previous employment, stating a help you stand out from the nasi lemak business via their personal networks, and he did interview, so it is important to simple reason will suffice. crowd. However, during the circuit breaker, his business suffered the same for those who also ran F&B businesses. tremendously as sales dropped by about 80 per cent. His stall is located above the main canteen in one of Singapore’s “It was a time when everyone was tight financially, so my army camps, which saw very few people coming in and friends talked about it and decided to help one another OPEN CALL for Wall Mural Designs out during the two-month period. out,” he says. Ever wanted to leave your mark on Plus, the lack of public foot traffic meant he could not bank GROWING UP IN THE KAMPUNG on takeaways, and he also lacked the proper infrastructure Suzaimi’s sense of community came from growing up in a HDB? Now you can! We’re looking to do deliveries at the time. a kampung environment, where his father loved inviting for mural designs for Blocks 110 and people over for makan. And even though he never went 109 on Bedok Avenue 3. to cooking school, his ability to cook came from simply helping relatives whenever they catered events. • Please submit SUBMIT YOUR your designs in “Whenever there was a wedding or event, they called me, ENTRIES HERE PDF, JPG, or and I would just stand there with a long pole and help PNG format. stir the pot. Whatever they put in, I would ask what it is, • Due date is and they would tell me. Over time I learned the order and 30th November amount of what goes in. But I never wrote it down, it’s all 2020. inside my head,” he says. • Open to all East For him, the sense of achievement comes from seeing Coast residents. people enjoy his food. He says, “This stall is just my first or chapter. After COVID-19 dies down, I want to open a shop ectc.org.sg/contact-us outside so I can serve more people. That’s my second chapter.” To support Suzaimi, please contact 9008 8397 4 EAST COAST NEWS ISSUE 126 • JUL/AUG/SEP 2020 5 INTRODUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN-ONLY ZONE (POZ) IN BEDOK TOWN CENTRE NATIONAL DAY 409 410 420 With effect from 1 September 2020 417 th St 1 k Nor Bedo 218 AWARDS Garden Hill Park BEDOK Mkt & TOWN CENTRE Hawker Ctr Heartbeat @Bedok 217 t 1 h S East Coast- Kg Chai Chee CC ort 204 Bedok N Fengshan TC 206 215A BBM L BBM Dijitsun Mall Bedok 215 r 205 212 D 214 th Bedok Ctrl 203 or k N 208 220A do Be Illustration of POZ markings220 211 220C 220B Bedok 219A 219B Interchange 208A Hawker Ctr Bedok Bedok Bedok Ctrl Integrated Pt 219 Transport Hub MDM SUSAN ANG SIEW LIAN, BBM MR VINCENT POH SAY CHIAN, PBM MR ZHANG CHUN HUA, PBM 209 210 Pedestrian-Only Zone Treasurer, Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Bedok Mall Changi Simei CCC Bedok CC SCEC Kampong Chai Chee CCMC Bedok (EW5) Bicycle Parking Area New Upper Changi Rd 24 PBM A message by: Dismount and push your bicycle or personal mobility device 0 0 (PMD) in the POZ, or park them 0 Y Z at nearby parking areas 000 Users of personal mobility aids (PMA) can ride within the POZ MR LIM KEEN BAN MR DAVID TAN CHENG CHIN MR TAN YEN HUI MDM A A MEHRUNNISA Patron, Chairman, Auditor, Treasurer, The Town Council is working closely with LTA to educate Bedok CCC Sunbird-Apollo NC Kampong Chai Chee CCC Siglap CCC residents about the changes MR CHAN LIM YAN MR ALBERT CHIN TYNG LEI MR KEE SEK SOON MR NG SIEW HOONG, LINUS Vice-Chairman, Patron, Vice-Chairman, Member, Siglap CC SCEC Fengshan CCC Fengshan CCMC Bedok CCC 6 EAST COAST NEWS ISSUE 126 • JUL/AUG/SEP 2020 7 NATIONAL Fengshan in the Comfort and DAY Safety of Home Bedok We may have celebrated Singapore’s Kampong Chai Chee birthday online this year, but that did not dampen our spirits! After all, instead of a single celebration, East Coast was buzzing with online National Day festivities all weekend long. Through platforms like Zoom and Facebook Live, Singaporeans at home were able to watch live streams of ceremonies hosted in different zones, and were entertained by virtual performances, quizzes, and singalong sessions. On the morning of National Day itself, there was even a broadcast of the Siglap mobile column as it drove through the Changi Simei streets, showcasing impressive assets from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). Despite being set against the background of a pandemic, the showcase of Singapore’s spirit and unity certainly made this year’s National Day Parade a special one! 8 EAST COAST NEWS ISSUE 126 • JUL/AUG/SEP 2020 9 OUR EAST COAST TOWN MAP Bedok Kampong Chai Chee Siglap Mr Heng Swee Keat Mr Tan Kiat How Fengshan Changi Simei Dr Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman 王瑞杰先生 陈杰豪先生 Ms Cheryl Chan Wei Ling Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo 孟理齐博士 Deputy Prime Minister Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office & 陈慧玲小姐 陈舜娘女士 Minister, Prime Minister’s Office Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies Ministry of National Development Second Minister for Education Minister for Finance Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC & Foreign Affairs Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC Vice Chairman of East Coast Town Council Vice-Chairman of East Coast Town Council Chairman of East Coast Town Council Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC MPS : Every Monday at 8pm, MPS : Every Monday at 8pm MPS : Every Monday at 7:30pm MPS : Every Monday at 8pm (except eve of PH/public holidays) registration starts at 7:30pm MPS : Every Monday at 7:30pm (except public holidays) (except public holidays) Venue : Blk 70 Bedok South Road (except public holidays) (except public holidays) Facebook Page Venue : Blk 408 Bedok North Facebook Page Venue : Blk 119 Bedok North Road Facebook Page Facebook Page #01-278 S(460070) Facebook Page Venue : Blk 131 Simei Street 1 Venue : Blk 30 New Upper Changi Road Avenue 2 #01-209 S(460119) #01-208 S(520131) #01-784 S(461030) #01-38 S(460408) MPS : Last Friday of the Month at 8pm (except eve of PH/public holidays) Tel : 8752 8867 Tel : 9061 4156 Venue : Blk 3 Changi Village Road Tel : 6442 1955 Tel : 6448 6514 (Branch Secretary) Weekdays 1pm - 5pm (Facing Changi Ferry Terminal) Fax : 6442 9210 Fax : 6241 9935 For urgent matters only.