Update An additional walk has been scheduled on Saturday, 1st July. Remember that the booking lines open tomorrow morning!

In the coming quarter, guided tours to Chek Jawa in Pulau Ubin have been scheduled for Sunday, 16th July and Monday, 17th July at 8.30 a.m. on both days.

Visits to Chek Jawa have to be managed to prevent its delicate habitats (there are more than one) from becoming wasteland. As walks can only be held in daylight hours at the lowest of low tides, dates for walks are very limited. Time and tide, as they say, wait for no man.

How do you book a place on the walk?

Well, at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday, 1st June, NParks' Pulau Ubin Hotline – 6542 4108 or 6545 4761 – will open to take bookings for the July walks. Be patient, persistent and polite. Bookings are usually snapped up really fast. To be fair to everyone, each booking call is limited to 10 places.

If you manage to sign up, please note…

A plea from the Chek Jawa guides:
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Please do not sign up and then don't turn up.

This deprives genuine visitors of a place.

Also remember that the volunteer guides take leave during weekdays to be there for those who signed up. Just because the walk is free for you doesn't mean that there isn't a cost to the volunteers who make it possible.

This plea is especially directed to those who sign up in large groups.

from wildsingapore-weekly

Name me three museums in Singapore that are not run by the National Heritage Board.

Got you there, didn't I? International Museum Day 2006 is your opportunity to discover Singapore's museums. More importantly, you'll learn more about a whole range of local heritage topics and issues. And of course, it'll be fun!

If you want a sample of a few different museums, you might want to try the Museum Hoppin' Trails. These self-paced, themed trails will provide quick introductions to several museums in Singapore. There will be special programmes lined up at each of the museums along the trail. I've previewed a few of the sights along the trails.

UPDATE: The MIA Trail is fully booked!

Since yours truly will be guiding, I must recommend the M.I.A Trail. This once-off guided night tour will start at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, leading on to Kent Ridge Park, followed by Reflections at Bukit Chandu and finally, Memories at Old Ford Factory.

What's the common thread? What does nature have to do with World War II?

The clue is in the title of the tour. To find out what the common thread is, join us for the tour!

26 May, Friday
Tour A: 5.30pm – 12am
Tour B: 6.30pm – 1am

Email eileen_ng at nhb dot gov dot sg to register. Fully booked!

When: 19 – 24 May 2006
Where: GV Plaza, Plaza Singapura (Dhoby Ghaut MRT)
Movie Schedule
Tickets at S$9.50 from the GV Plaza box-office, AXS stations or online

Date 28th May 2006
Meeting Time 4.00am
Meeting Venue To be confirmed
Walk Venue Beautiful Kusu Island
Cost $15 per person

To sign up, please email reefwalk at bluewatervolunteers dot org with your full name, contact number, email, total number of participants, contact of next-of-kin, age of children (if any).

What is a ReefWalk? Visit Blue Water Volunteers’ ReefWalk blog

P.S. Why so early? The tide needs to be at its lowest for you to see the amazing organisms which populate the shore of Kusu Island. Any later, and you won’t see anything.

If you're not voting, maybe you can go cheer our boys as they take on the Boys from Brazil in Nokia's Defend Your Turf.

Saturday, 6 May at Siloso Beach, Sentosa from 8 am to 8 pm.

Their website, unfortunately, has a severe lack of details. Quite shocking really. They went to all this trouble to set it up, but never packed it with content. Anyway, if it's from 8 am to 8 pm, I trust there had better be some carnival going on!

But don't blame me if these guys don't deliver!

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Still on the Beautiful Game, the National Library Board is holding a Football Double Bill on Saturday, 13 May.

This exciting two-parter will see two experts talk about the other aspects of football, offering a different perspective into the game we think we know so well. The first is a video recording of a talk given by Prof. David J. Hand from Imperial College on the study of probability and coincidences.

The second is by Wan Kong Wah, a principal research engineer who will touch on the various developments that have taken place in relation to the game of football in recent years.

National Library, Level 5, Possibility Room Part 1 – 3.00pm to 4.00pm Part 2 – 4.00pm to 5.00pm