Thanksgiving & Honours Night cum 45th Anniversary celebrations

Date : 30th July, 2010

Once again, we gave thanks for God's Providence and honoured those who gave their years of service to PHS. 

There were dance, band, chinese orchestra and choir performances by the students.
It was also the night we presented awards to students who have achieved academic excellence in PHS.

Opening Song

Dance

Choir

Awards-giving

PSG members were invited to the event and to witness the presentation of the Long-Service Award to our PSG member, Ms Wendy Yang.  Congrats, Wendy!

Dinner
After the Thanksgiving event, we had a sumptuous dinner at the Canteen, which was totally transformed by hanging drapes over the canteen stalls. What a clever idea!

It was a special dinner, as former PSG Committee members were also invited. You can say it was a reunion -  an opportunity to "catch-up". Agnes Chan, Elder Sherman Ong, Rose Tan, Jimmy Quah, Bernard and Jacinta Michael were present.

Teachers specially wore ethnic costumes for this occasion.  There were "cheong-sams", punjabi outfits etc.  There was even "dinner-music" to accompany our dinner experience!

Reunion of PSG - former and present, and friends

Mrs Agnes Chan, Jenny Chin, Rose Tan and Elicia Soh

Mrs Sheena Ang and Mrs Boey

Mrs Celia Lee

Mrs Noriko Ide and Mr Elvin Low

Julian and Mrs Susan Chua

Bernard Michael, Jimmy Quah, Rumi and Elder Sherman Ong

Mrs Jacinta Michael

"Dinner-music"

After dinner, we couldn't wait to see the new Sports Hall and we were given a personalised tour.

Wow! What a huge basketball court!

One of the rooms

Lockers

Bars?  (actually..it's gents' toilet)

Band room

Sound-proof room

Multi-purpose hall

Champion volleyballers!

We enjoyed the event very much.  Thank you PHS for inviting and making us a part of the PHS family.

Fake green peas

A friend sent me an interesting article.

Green peas are green rounded pea seeds that are sweet and starchy in taste. Green peas contains twice the protein of most vegetables, so they are a healthy substitute for meat. Three-quarter cup of peas provides 6 grams of protein, plus thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and 645 units of vitamin A.

Unfortunately there are food industries in certain nations cheating customers with fake greens peas which are prepared from toxic chemicals (dyes). These industries prepared the green peas from brown peas (cheaper) by soaking them in dye solutions overnight.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Identification of fake green peas:

1. Put the peas in boiling water for 30 seconds, water turns to green color.
2. After consumption check your tongue for green color stains.  There is also a slight bitter aftertaste.


Symptoms:

1. Stomach irritation, pain or acidity.

2. Urine turns to light green color.
3. Mild headache.


Case study:

Initially, I was not aware of these things. After eating some green peas I experienced stomach pain and found my tongue having green stains.

The following packet bought from Tesco, Penang on 4th July 2010.

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

As a chemist by profession, I did an analysis of above mentioned peas in laboratory and discovered green dyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News paper reference:

China daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/31/content_9664992.htm


D. Bharath Reddy
Research scholar
Centre for drug research
USM, Pulau Penang
Malaysia 11800.

What do you think?  Is there any truth to this?  The newspaper article in the China Daily seems to authenticate the findings.  I love eating the green peas that you can buy from the shops, but this article makes me re-think before eating them.

Celia Lee

Useful tip - Bottle Caps!

Noriko sent in a great idea for Bottle Caps!

It's a useful tip - for recycling mineral water bottle caps.

First, cut right across the mouth of the bottle, at the neck.















Pass the mouth of the desired plastic bag through the neck of the bottle cap, which you just cut.  Let the ends of the plastic bag hang over the bottle-cap mouth.

The next time you want to use the contents of the plastic bag - just unscrew the cap and pour!

It's really an ingenious way of making use of used bottles.  Cheaper than buying plastic clips to reseal your food-stuff etc.

Please give us your feedback!