The Wise Old Owl

I am Dick Yip, a retired Senior Education Officer specialising in PE, Sports and the Outdoors, with 4 decades of extensive experience at the Primary,Secondary, JC,TTC,NIE,Sports clubs and NSAs level.I have many diverse interests...travel,music,Badminton,Fishing,ukulele,history... In 2008 was honoured as S'pore's 1st Active Ager INFOCOMM Champion Award Winner. Appointed C3A Active Ager Silver Ambassador 2008, Appointed INFOCOMM 123 Silver Ambassador 2008.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

We Host a Dinner

It was only right and proper that we should host a dinner for our good friends in SGH #1 School. D2 left the arrangements to her GSPS trio o...

Shui Guo Hu Street

After the visit to the currency museum we requested the parent volunteer driving us to drop us off near Watson's. We went in to repleni...

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The History of the 1st YIP ( YE )

This article , which I wrote in 2007 , is on my other private blogsite ...The Yippee Blogsite . I added these 2 pictures. My father, the l...

Real and Counterfeit Money

Paper money was invented in China in the late 8th and early 9th century AD, during the Song Dynasty. China became the 1st country in the wor...

More on the Money Museum

The children with us were very excited by all the exhibits. Not surprising at all as we were all surrounded by money, money and more money. ...

Monday, June 23, 2008

The Numismatic Museum of Wuhan

We returned from that wonderful home visit and gathered at the school . Together with all the 54 kids and some staff, we were supposed to vi...

Visiting a 3 Generation Home in Wuhan

Have you ever sampled Mao Tai ....the ever popular Chinese wine often used for "toasting" at occasions? It is deceiving as it look...

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