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According to SLA, the restaurant was awarded the tender for a historical former British military barrack at #01-05, 7 Dempsey Road, and will offer a “Singapore dining concept, a mobile cooking studio for an immersive Singapore culinary experience and indoor and outdoor dining spaces set amongst lush greenery”.

When contacted by 8days.sg, Violet Oon shared that “it is still early days”, and plans for the new restaurant are still in the works.

Violet Oon’s subsidiary company, Halo Concept, submitted the winning rental bid. It outbid seven other bidders to clinch the tender, property news portal EdgeProp reported.

At S$52,615 (US$40,270) a month, the bid for Violet Oon restaurant was the highest among the other offers, which reportedly ranged from S$20,000 to S$33,295.

Two other parties submitted the second-highest bid amount, at S$33,295 a month. They are reportedly local F&B group Culinary Arts, which runs concepts like popular Indian fine-diner Revolver, and Urban Group, which currently operates restaurant-bar Contemporary Melting Pot & Bar at the same spot at 7 Dempsey Road.

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“Primary 1 to Primary 4 was a bit tough because when kids are younger, they don’t know how to react to different people. As long as somebody is different from them, they treat them differently,” she said in a podcast last year.

“I had to go through different things, but because of all this, it made me really tough.”

Things were slightly better in Primary 5 and 6 with some friends who made sure she felt included, Yip recalled.

She then became wheelchair-bound from about 12 years old.

In the water, however, she felt free.

Yip’s first introduction to the pool was at age 6, when her two older brothers Alvin and Augustus were taking lessons at a Kallang swimming complex.

“It wasn’t until I found swimming that I truly found myself,” she has said.

DEVELOPING A WINNING HABIT

In 2004, she was talent-scouted by a volunteer from the Singapore Disability Sports Council, and began to swim competitively.

Her first competitive meet – the national junior para championships – was just months later. She bagged golds in all her events.

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Pregnant women are another example, said Seto. They need “extra protein to support the growth of the baby and the placenta as well as to handle the increased blood volume and changes in the body”, she said. That means consuming 1.1g/kg each day. “The protein requirements are even higher for multi-foetal gestations: An extra 25g per day on top of the daily protein requirements for regular pregnancies,” said Seto.

As with everything in life, you can have too much of a good thing when it comes to protein. For one, no matter how exalted protein is among the fitspo crowd, the excess amino acids are still going to be stored as fat by your body.

Health-wise, extra protein intake can lead to elevated blood lipids and heart disease because high-protein foods tend to be high in total and saturated fat. And you can’t ignore the fact that too much protein can tax the kidneys and pose an additional risk to people predisposed to kidney disease.

If you’re confused by just how much protein you should consume daily, it’s best to consult a dietitian to help you figure it out, especially if you have health concerns.

CAN INCREASING OUR PROTEIN INTAKE HELP WITH WEIGHT LOSS?

There is research that suggests eating more protein than you need may promote weight loss. For instance, a 2017 study found that those who ate a high-protein diet of 1.34g/kg for more than 75 per cent of the six-month duration experienced significantly more weight loss than the group who followed dietary requirements.

Meanwhile, eating like a gym bro (up to 1.6g/kg per day), according to a 2015 review, helped promote weight loss, reduce body fat and maintain muscle mass.

A reason why protein is heralded as a weight watcher’s ally is because a higher intake of this macronutrient increases levels of the appetite-reducing hormones GLP-1, peptide YY and cholecystokinin, while reducing levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin, according to Healthline.

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Here’s an excerpt from the conversation: 

Tiffany Ang:
You have one more year left to study. Do you think that you want to try more internships next year? 

Syauqina Amalyn:
For now, I’m actually very open to doing more internships because I intentionally scheduled my classes to just take up less than half of my week so that I can still spend some time to look for another internship role to fill up my time before I graduate. It will probably be my last internship stint to get a sensing of what I would want to do before I graduate. 

Tiffany:
Help me to understand … what is this craze about trying to do as many internships as possible?

Maybe I belong to that school of thought where, “It’s the school holidays, just enjoy yourself,” or “Let’s just finish up all your credit so that you finish school and then just get straight to work.”  

Toh Yan Yun:
I feel like the craze is because there’s a shift in mindset that students don’t really prioritise school that much anymore now that we’re in (university). We hear GPA is not really that important; you can just get (a) 3.5 GPA. The more important thing is that you have work experiences to bolster your portfolio. 

For me, I know that I want to be in journalism. So what is going to set me apart from people who want to be in journalism is how many internships I’ve got lined up behind me and how relevant my skills will be so that I can assimilate very quickly into journalism when I eventually want to apply for a full-time job. 

Tiffany:
So why not just quickly get it over and done with, and then after that, start your career from there?

Yan Yun:
It’s just the anxious feeling that what you have is not enough. Okay. I think it’s because (of) LinkedIn. You see people on there with like what Gerald said, six to seven internships, and then you’re there with one or two internships. 

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POTENTIAL BUS CONNECTIONS BETWEEN AIRPORTS

A Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR line would also be a gamechanger for the Singapore-Melaka market as the train would stop in Melaka. But when researching the white paper, I never imagined Singapore-Melaka would be considered in the current environment as a potential airline route.

Buses now frequently connect Singapore with Melaka in as little as four hours. As some netizens pointed out, the door-to-door travel time on the bus takes about the same amount of time as the new flight. Driving a car can be quicker, depending on traffic conditions.

The new Scoot flights will be mostly aimed at transit passengers, but are connecting flights at Changi Airport the best option for passengers travelling from other countries to Melaka?

A direct bus from Changi Airport to central Melaka – preferably an electric bus – would be a more sustainable option for such passengers. Melaka visitors from outside the region already have the option of flying to KLIA and hopping on one of the many buses that run from KLIA to Melaka in about two and a half hours.

In future it may be possible to even provide airside bus connections from Melaka Airport to both KLIA and Changi Airport. These would enable passengers to proceed directly to international airports without having to go through immigration until they reach their destination.

Such buses are now used to connect several airports in North America. For example, passengers can board secured buses to Philadelphia International Airport after going through security at the small airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania, or Atlantic City, New Jersey. Just like when taking two flights, bags are transferred from the bus to the connecting flight.

At Hong Kong International Airport, there are now secured airside buses to and from Macau as well as Zhuhai.

Authorities from Singapore and Malaysia would have to agree on such a concept. While this seems unlikely – even a landside bus from Singapore to Johor’s Senai Airport was rejected several years ago – the increased importance of sustainability could result in logic prevailing over politics.

Currently there are only landside buses from Changi Airport to Johor Bahru with passengers required to go through immigration at Changi and again at the Johor-Singapore Causeway.

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SINGAPORE: Several Housing and Development Board (HDB) blocks in the Farrer Park area had their water supply cut after a pipe leak, national water agency PUB said on Sunday (Sep 1).

The agency was alerted to the leak near 65 Tessensohn Road, towards Rangoon Road, at about 4.30am on Sunday.

A service crew was sent immediately to isolate the leak. Water supply to several HDB blocks in the area was disrupted, said the agency in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon.

Water wagons were deployed to 47 Owen Road, 49 Dorset Road and 9 Gloucester Road to provide water for residents. 

Water supply to the affected blocks was restored at 9.15am and pipe repairs are ongoing, said the agency.

 “The leak caused some damage to Tessensohn Road and we are working with the Land Transport Authority to assess the road’s condition,” said PUB, adding that the road is closed to traffic in both directions.

“We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will provide an update when the road is reopened.”

PUB is investigating the cause of the leak.

Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar Alvin Tan said in a Facebook video at about 9.45am that the water supply has resumed and that “it is all working normally”.

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