Earlier
this month, I attended the official launch of the Council for Third Age web portal
and their new logo. It was held at the National Library Building at Victoria
Street. After the official speeches by the guest-of-honour, Senior Minister of
State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr Heng Chee How, and the Chairman of
C3A, Mr Gerald Ee, and the explanation-cum-demonstration of the features of the
new portal by Mr Paul Hidalgo, Senior Manager (Communications), myself and
another guest from the National Library spoke briefly.
While Ms
Valerie Siew, Assistant Direct, Public Library Services, spoke about the collaboration
between the National Library and the C3A, I basically shared my views of the
new portal and my experience in nostalgia/heritage blogging. I found this new
portal very senior-friendly and encouraged the seniors present to share their
memories there – which ultimately will also be deposited at the Singapore
Memory Project, I suppose. I liked the very bright and cheerful appearance of
the C3A site. The feature I liked most was the ability to increase the size of
fonts with just 1 click. In fact, all the menus and buttons can be open with a
single click. Check it out for yourselves here.
I met some
old friends and made new ones at this event. Here are some photos.
This is the
new logo of the Council for Third Age.
The two
VIPs launching the new portal officially.
Me giving
my presentation.
Me with
Paul Hidalgo.
Met my good
friend Dick Yip and we decided that the C3A Portal needed a ‘relaunch’ by 2
very thick-skinned FOYers (Friends of Yesterday.sg).
I chatted
with the minister after the launch, and the first question he asked me was
whether or not I knew James Seah. I told him that James was a fellow Foyer and
Memory Ambassador of SMP. Those who have read my book, Good Morning Yesterday,
would also know that he contributed three stories. Too bad he was not able to
attend the event.
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