Tabla, 8 December 2012

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 042/11/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,2012 SfSl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    167 1 IT STARTS with one ingredient. Love. That is how these three women, (from left) Aarti Sequeira, Devagi Sanmugam and Dalvinder Dhami, started amateur cooks, making meals for their families out of love, bringing ingredients together with a little heat and passion, before fame knocked on their kitchen windows.
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    • 189 1 SANA, THE KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI GIRL’S ALL GROWN UP PAGE 16 LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WORLD’S OLDEST MARATHONER PAGE 23 LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WORLD’S OLDEST MARATHONER PAGE 23 BLINDNESS NO BAR FOR MIRIAM BATLIWALA PAGE 2 BROTHERS ARE SINGAPORE’S INDIAN ROJAK MASTERS PAGE 11 Get tabla! delivered to
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    • 7 1 FOR MORE ON THE QUEENS: PAGES 12-14
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  • NEWS
    • 909 2  -  Unable to see since the age of 12, Miriam Batliwala has lived her life without fear and shares her adventures and misadventures in her first book SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg THERE is a French word for someone like Miriam Batliwala, force d’yme which means fortitude. Despite a
      PHOTO: SHEELA NARAYANAN  -  909 words

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    • 146 3 CONGRATULATIONS TO BLPL SINGAPORE ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ENTERPRISE 50 AWARD a wt BLPL -V ft** W BLPL Singapore owns and operates a growing container fleet of ***** TEU's including temperature controlled containers and Special Equipments for carrying Odd Sized Cargo. Recently launched two dedicated container vessel services from Singapore
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  • BUSINESS
    • 692 4  -  biz matters: Abhijeet Tiwary (country manager, South-east Asia, Titan Industries) PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg TIME has not stood still for Titan in Singapore. The Tataowned watchmaker has been in this country for the past 10 years but it is in recent years that Titan has made bigger strides.
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    • biz notes
      • 94 5 THE Maldives government says it will disregard the Singapore High Court’s order to stay the termination of a 2010 contract for modernising and operating Male airport by a GMR Group-led consortium. GMR, which is Indian owned, had taken on the airport contract and committed to
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      • 75 5 IN NOVEMBER 2009, India introduced restrictions on foreign tourists visiting India. It required tourists to leave a 60-day gap between consecutive visits to the country. That restriction was relaxed on Dec 3. The restrictions were imposed in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks when
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      • 92 5 RB CAPITAL Hotels has appointed Park Hotel Group to manage its latest hotel at Farrer Park. The proposed full-service hotel, will have 300 rooms and will open in the first half of 2015. The hotel will be situated above Farrer Park MRT
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      • 97 5 THE Tamil Nadu government plans to auction 1 gigawatt of solar power capacity next month. The tender, issued on Dec 6, is for the “procurement of solar power from developers establishing solar power plants of 1 MW or above capacity in the
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    • 230 5 biz SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) chairman Lee Boon Yang said at the media group’s annual general meeting on Nov 30 that the company is studying the possibility of hiving off its retail properties into a real estate investment trust (Reit). Dr Lee said the group
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    • 444 5 Commodities trader Olam battles to regain investor confidence ON NOV 20, short-seller Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research, announced to a group of hedge funds and institutional investors in London that he was shorting Singapore-listed Olam International’s stock. In a 133-page report Muddy Waters said that
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    • 14 5 U S RS54.39 A$0.95 ¤0.76 £0.62 S$1.21 Exchange rates as of Dec 6, 2012
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    • 9 5 S I N G RS44.59 US$0.81 A$0.78 ¤0.62 £0.50
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 207 6 / 7 ASIA faces challenges in managing capital flows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and policymakers would be wise to strengthen their toolkits to deal with unpredictable and often excessive flows, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Dec 4. He said the world was
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    • 517 6 / 7 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke of the need for a new balance in three key areas: economic growth, national identity and meritocracy at the People’s Action Party (PAP) conference on Nov 2. While acknowledging that the PAP Government must adjust where the balance
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    • 121 6 / 7 Underground storage... two giant rock caverns, built 130m under Jurong Island, to be used for storing oil and petrochemicals are set to be completed by next June. On Dec 4, Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan said in a blog post that he visited the caverns recently,
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    • 203 6 / 7 Singapore artist’s work sells for $3.7 million... Tan Swie Hian (right) has become the most expensive living artist in Singapore. His oil and acrylic painting, When The Moon Is Orbed (140cm x 206cm, far right), sold for 18.975 million yuan (S$3.7 million) at
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    • singapore snippets
      • 103 6 / 7 THE number of measles cases trebled last year, largely due to incidents of young children not being vaccinated, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its annual report on communicable diseases. The infection rate had declined rapidly since the introduction of compulsory vaccinations in 1985. But last
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      • 132 6 / 7 SOME 90 workers were injured after a three-legged jackup rig they were working on at Jurong Shipyard suddenly tilted to one side on Dec 3. The Ministry of Manpower said the majority of the workers had minor injuries. Chief executive of Sembcorp Marine, parent
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      • 88 6 / 7 SINGAPORE is still seen as the fifth-least-corrupt country in the world, according to a ranking by Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 measures perception of corruption by aggregating results from 13 independent surveys. Singapore scored 87 on a scale of 0-100 where 100 is
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      • 109 6 / 7 THE Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) and Singapore Business Federation have issued advice to bosses on dealing with staff grievances after being left “distressed and concerned” by last week’s strike by SMRT drivers. The five-page document has been sent to 20,000 companies that together employ 1.9 million
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    • 520 8  -  innovation Some viruses even get incorporated into our genomes PRASANNA R. KOLATKAR Prasanna R. Kolatkar, PhD, is group leader with the Genome Institute of Singapore and adjunct associate professor at both NUS and NTU. WE LIVE in a world where every living thing is exposed to attack
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    • 598 11  -  The Hawker Master 2012 title holds a lot more meaning for two Indian brothers JAYASHREE PANICKER selling rojak. tabla@sph.com.sg FOR mother of five Madam Anis no trip to Geylang is complete without snacking on Indian rojak served at the Rojak and Mee Siam stall run by two
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    • 947 12  -  Singaporean mum is a cook in demand after reality show SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg WHEN Dalvinder Dhami was a young bride of 21, the Singaporean moved to Sydney to be with her husband, a Sikh-Australian. She soon burnt the telephone lines calling her mum, asking her
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    • 202 12 Preparation time: 30 mins Cooking Time: 2 hours Serves: 4 to 6 people Ingredients 1 kg leg of lamb diced 1 cinnamon stick 2 tsps coriander seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp chilli powder or dried red chilli 1 sprig curry leaves 125ml
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    • 1090 13  -  From blogger to television star SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg AT SOME point in Ms Aarti Sequeira’s life she was going to be the next Christiane Amanpour, or at least produce a Christiane Amanpour show on CNN. But the Mumbai-born, Dubai-bred 30-year-old left a career in journalism and found a
      PHOTO: FOOD NETWORK ASIA  -  1,090 words
    • 291 13 Preparation Time: 5 min Cooking Time: 20 min Serves: 4 to 6 Ingredients: 1 cup basmati rice 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1/2teaspoon cumin seeds 1/4teaspoon asfoetida powder (hing) optional, but recommended 1/2medium white onion, finely diced 2 green cardamom pods,
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    • Article, Illustration
      1039 14  -  Singapore culinary expert has also made a name for herself in the Middle East SURESH NAIR tabla@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE'S “Spice Queen” Devagi Sanmugam (below) comes in many flavours… oops, I mean her lifestyle more than her culinary career. You name it and she has done it in the world
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    • 274 14 Preparation Time: 20 mins Cooking time: 25 mins Makes 8 pasties Ingredients 2 red apples, skin, core and chop finely 40g caster sugar 80ml water 2cm piece cinnamon stick 1 tbsp lemon juice 1/2 tbsp QBB ghee 1 tsp plain flour, to thicken Pastry ingredients
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    • 165 21 44 Percentage of Singapore’s labour force which is female $14 million Cost of the Singapore Cruise Centre’s facelift 18,000 Indians living and working in Sweden who will get social security benefits in the host country 100 iPads will be available for loan at Bukit Merah Public Library 7.1
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    • 411 21 “Kids are allowed to watch violence but not intimate scenes because such scenes are ‘adult’ in nature. How does any of this make sense.” Director Sudhir Mishra accusing Indian censors of double standards “I know that in Hindi, Aakash means sky. I want to encourage partners around
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    • 590 22 Choose from tyres, rims and car servicing packages AS THE Christmas season is upon us, it is time to think about presents. While gift hampers and gift vouchers are usually the easiest option, buying something a bit more personalised will always be appreciated. And hobby
      PHOTOS: STAMFORD TYRES, SHEELA NARAYANAN  -  590 words
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    • 68 6 / 7 omc na^ First time in Singapore! Experience the wonders of robust flavours in 69 varieties ofchaats only at Bikanervala. Specially prepared for you by guest chef from India! I Date: 7 to 16 December 2012 Prices: $16 Adults, $12 Children (Below 12) Prices includes unlimited servings ofchaats, jalebi, sweets, soft
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    • 103 8 ANNUAL SAMAGAM 2012 5 th Barsi of Sant Baba Nahar Singh Ji Sunehranwale At Babe-ke Machap, Johor All are welcome y Guru Ku LangO ar wi be served. PROGRAMME Arambh of First Round of Akhand Paaths Sat 8.12.2012 at 10am Final Paath Da Bhog of all Akhand Paaths Sun 16.12.2012
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  • EDUCATION
    • 501 9  -  SIN DA organises a one-day programme, a first, to promote family resilience JAMUNA SUNDARAJ jamunas@sph.com.sg SUNDAYS, for some, are meant for relaxing before the hectic week starts again. And for others it is a time for family and friends and if the weather permits, a
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    • 411 10  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of three Indian schools here to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, GIIS) SAHAJ SOOD, Class 11 A-Level ON JULY 20,
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 220 10  - Gandhiji our hero SAMRIDDHI KUSHWAHA, Class VB THE primary students of DPS celebrated Gandhi Week from Oct 1 to 5. We began by listening to Bapuji’s favourite bhajan, Vaishnav Jana To, written in the 15 th century and composed in Gujarati. It was sung by Shreya Suresh Kumar of Class
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      • 304 10  - Picture perfect French lessons made easy ARVIND S. NATARAJAN, Class 6C I JOINED the French class in April and I was happy to discover that my teacher had planned lots of engaging activities to make this foreign language easy for us to understand and master. We have all been trying
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    • 288 9 m "I extend 1 my J i fp tijjS'dn Vn delivering cellent; emicjresuftST nsistently." SI Capt Sanjay Mittal Parent of Aman, IB Year 2, GIIS Queenstown Campus and Dhruv, Class 10 IGCSE, GIIS East Coast Campus (2012 Testimonial) GIIS'focus on providing a strong academic foundation and holistic development, makes it
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 608 15 Bollywood’s No. 1 director Karan Johar believes profession and passion go together Indo-Asian News Service HE IS passionate about his work and believes in the power of cinema, and that is the reason he mostly manages to hit box office bull’s eye,
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    • 697 16 Sana Saeed, best remembered as 10-year-old Anjali in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, makes a comeback to the big screen NOT many actresses in Bollywood can say that their first film featured them alongside Shah Rukh Khan. But Sana Saeed (right) is one of them and no,
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    • 344 17 Prabhu Deva thinks young choreographers of today are doing a superb job HIS name is synonymous with dance in the Indian movie fraternity and Prabhu Deva, who has been wooing audiences for almost two decades with his sleek and heart-pumping dance moves, needs no introduction. He
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    • 203 16 Radha Madhav Satsang Invites All For The Bhagvad Gita Srimad Bhagwatam 13-22 December 2012, 7.30 9pm Daily The Bhagvad Gita Day 1 Essence of the Gita Day 2: Understanding Karm (Action), Gyan (Knowledge) and Bhakti (Devotion) Day 3: The difference between worshipping and loving the Divine Day 4: Navdha Bhakti
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 29 17 AAMIR KHAN KAREENA KAPOOR RANI MUKERJI a FILM BY REEMA KATGI TALAA mvp a Some Sexual References NC16 |And(Druq Use IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES NOW SHOWING Golden Villages
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    • 44 18 DECEMBER ISSUE OUT NOW! YOUNG PARENTS BABY PARENTING SEMINAR 2013 TOPICS No more picky eating Infantcare 101 Is it an emergency? Help Baby meet his milestones Jan 26, 2013 Shangri-La Hotel $15 per person/$20 per couple (includes $30 goodie bag and tea reception) www.youngparents.com.sg/events
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 279 18 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You will spend most of your time this week with your family at home. However, your irregular attendance at work may be a concern. Taurus Sudden travel plans could lead you to places from your childhood. But tension at work may be on the rise. Gemini This
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    • 302 18 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 1.30pm VIJAY TV: 47 Naatkal 3pm VTV: Mappilai 4pm STAR GOLD: Asoka 4.30pm ASIANET: Loudspeaker (Malayalam) 9pm VASANTHAM: Aduthu Varisu/VTV: Nenjirukkum Varai 10pm ZEE CINEMA: God Tussi Great Ho/ STAR GOLD: Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? 11pm SUN TV: Whistle 11.30pm SONY MAX: Dostana Saturday 11am VTV: Aasai
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  • RELAX
    • 415 19 TALK The Radha Madhav Satsang is presenting a talk by Sushri Gopeshwari Devi Ji on the Bhagvad Gita and Srimad Bhagwatam. Free admission. When: Dec 13 to 22, 7.30pm Where: At Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple, 73 Keong Saik Street (Dec 13 to 18); at Radha Kunj, 43
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    • 45 19 ART EXHIBITION DiverCities The Little Red Dot is an Asian contemporary art exhibition featuring artists from India and Singapore. Free admission. When: Until Dec 8, 11am-6pm Where: The Arts House, Old Parliament Lane Contact: 8201-4757 or log on to www.artcinnamon.com
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    • Article, Illustration
      206 19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which country did Tintin go to on his first adventure in 1928? a) France b) Soviet Union c) New Zealand 2. The Vanderhook brothers and Justin Timberlake are partners in owning which social networking site? a) MySpace b) Facebook c) Orkut 3. Which singer was the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 331 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Drove up the wall 6 Immediately, if not sooner 10 Et cetera, according to Seinfeld 14 Fiji neighbour 15 Highway hauler 16 Chug-___ 17 Ness of The Untouchables 18 Penn of pictures 19 El (weather phenomenon) (weather phenomenon) 20 Ryan or Tilly 21 It author 24 Do
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    • 65 19 SUDOKU The objective is to place the digits 1 to 9 only, once in each of the small 3x3 squares. At the same time, you must create a row of unique digits going across and down over the large grid. DID YOU KNOW India produces around 39 per cent of
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 231 20 What is an Entre Pass? Entre Pass is a facility for a foreigner to start business in Singapore. Without a local director a foreigner can do business, meeting certain conditions. If a person can confidently venture we help in getting Entre Pass for him/her. If he does good business, he
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 31 20 SOLUTIONS sudoku crossword quiz 1. Soviet Union 2. MySpace 3. Rebecca Black 4. A boat 5. 84 years 6. Red Baron 7. Jordan 8. Floyd Mayweather Jr 9. Kangaroo 10. Hamlet
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 358 22 Choose from tyres, rims and car servicing packages A Minor Servicing Package includes a check on all fluids, beltings and hose conditions and tyre balancing or rotation while a Major Servicing Package includes engine treatment, renewing auto transmission fluids and brake servicing. As part of the festive season, Stamford is
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  • SPORTS
    • Article, Illustration
      303 23  -  What you did not know about the world’s oldest long-distance runner Compiled by Jamuna Sundaraj G Fauja Singh, 101, moved to London in 1992 from Jalandhar to live with his youngest son and has run nine marathons. G In 2004, he was featured in an advertising campaign for
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    • 917 24  -  If Kallis continues for two more years they will rule for long columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg WHILE some of us in India dramatise the effect of 22 yards of turf, cricket has shown this week that, when armed with a bit of spirit, home advantage
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 281 23 FLEXI FITNESS Takes care of Health, Fitness and Performance FLEXIFITNESS congratulates ASHLEY LIEW for his win in Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2012 (2hr 45min 08sec) FLEXIFITNESS COACHING: 1) Long Distance Training For Group 2) Personal Training Our Proven Results: Ashley Liew (1) Has done 2hr 35min 40sec at Gold Coast
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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