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Whole Story: City Harvest Church Singapore

Felix Ker — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:18:04 +0000

Wondering what’s happening? Everyone’s discussing this. Just this morning, there was a mini discussion with the public calling in to share their views.

Here’s what I’ve gathered:

City Harvest purchased a S$310 million stake in Suntec City Convention Centre. Singaporeans who questioned if registered charities should be allowed to go into business and if the income collected by CHC through its Suntec rentals would be taxed.
Members of the church are being investigated for the misuse of funds. The Office of the Commissioner of Charities (COC) and the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) is looking into some financial transactions involving several individuals and companies related or connected to the church.

31 May 2010 – 17 people (including Kong Hee) was ‘picked up’ to assist with investigations. Financial records and computers were taken away from home and offices of the people involved.
Singapore’s City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee and wife Ho Yeow Sun owns two companies. One is International Harvest, which according to company records is a provider of corporate training services and motivational courses. Another is Skin Couture, a fashion company with 3 boutiques in Singapore – Ed Hardy at Heeren, Skin at Great World City and Christian Audigier at Ion.
According to what I read online, members pay (donate) 10% of their salary and senior members pay 20% or more. Someone please verify this.
Earlier this year - Kong Hee is now being accused of plagiarism in his books and website. He copied two author’s’ works without due credit in two books he published – Renewing Your Spiritual Enegery in 90 Days’ Volumes I and II.
12 Jun 2010 – Kong Hee used materials from Leadership Bible, written by three Americans, without crediting any source. StraitsTimes

The Church

Has over 32,000 members.
Has 14,000 sq foot office in Suntec and its own SGD$47 million building in Jurong West.
Has 45 affiliate churches in Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Australia with a total of 48,000 members.
Employs 154 full-time staff and has 15 committees overseeing all its operations.
Spent SGD$40 million in the last financial year.
The church has SGD$103 million in reserves – 2009’s audit

Ho Yeow Sun

Rents a mansion in Hollywood Hills for S$28,000 a month. Source
Last album released – Fancy Free EP (2009-11-16). Sales values of EP unknown.

The above is what I’ve tabulated.

Some say the church is going down, some say that there will still be loyal churchgoers. Now it’s your turn to share with us what you have and know and your thoughts.

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Share the love on Valentine’s Day!

Felix Ker — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:17:48 +0000

This article here is written a little too late for 2009. Maybe you can apply this for Valentine’s Day 2010.

On this day usually couples would specially meet up for a special valentine’s day meal and maybe some programs after that. Usually on this day movie tickets will be sold out too.

You ask. I’m broke (or I’m saving up to marry her soon), what can I do?

You should actually tell her about your financial status (be honest about it!). Pretty sure she won’t feel disappointed since a relationship isn’t a 1-person thing.

I would suggest that you can actually spend the day at home. Think about the ways you can manupulate with my idea and make it better. I’ve just got a very rough idea.

Spend the afternoon shopping for something to cook for dinner. How about preparing Fish & Chips or steak since it isn’t at all hard to prepare? Further more, they wouldn’t cost much.
Preparing for dinner together would definitely bring you together. Don’t you find it sweet to be able to prepare food together?
It’s not weird to have dinner with your parents on Valentine’s Day. Prepare a share for your parents too!
Now do wash the pots, pans and plates together. Blow foam on each other.
(After this) You might want to shower (together?). I’ll pass this since my blog is suitable for the general public.
If you’ve got DVDs, you can both watch a movie together and enjoy some soda (or even ice cream). If not, download Joost and start watching some interesting programs lined up for you. Veoh isn’t a bad choice for videos too! We saved you $20 for movie tickets. Why not donate them to our paypal account? (paypal@felixker.com)
What’s next, its up to you.

What I got above is a very brief idea that can really save you lots yet let your partner feel important.

Hey Felix, I’m not on a budget, but I’m out of ideas.

No matter where you are, I’ve got ideas for you. It’s how you make it possible.

Spend some time doing community service, such as helping out at an old folks’ home or orphanage. That’s a way of sharing your love with the less fortunate. (This idea is highly recommended by felixker.com)
Book a hotel room. I would suggest that you a room on the high level. I don’t remember hotels having any restrictions against outside food in your room. Bring back food from anywhere. You’re free to dine on the bed or at the tables. It’s your room for the day and night! If you’re celebrating with your bunch of friends, this would be a good idea too. Most rooms should have a small bar with a fridge, so you can have your beer/wine chilled. The only problem is you’ve got to keep the noise level down.
Have a family car (7-8 seater preferred!)? A 7-8 seater would have 3 rows of seats. You can both park the car somewhere and sit together at the second row having your romantic meal. Since most family cars are specious, you can enjoy romantic music (or if there’s DVD/TV, it would be better!).
Pamper your partner with a massage and facial session. The both of you can spend 2-3 hours at the massage parlour or beauty salon together. This is a good time to relax together.
You’re both gamers? Why not spend a few hours at a cyber cafe. Play a team game together which can improve your relationship. What’s better than protecting your own loved one?

Look, the possibilities of having a wonderful and romantic day with your loved ones are almost unlimited whether you’re rich or not. All you need is your own originality. Think out of the box. Do something that you wouldn’t do on normal days.

READ ON

Personally, I think you should be sweet to your loved ones everyday. Valtentine’s Day has become a very commercialised day. Prices of flowers, gifts and dinner got jacked up for this special day.

It’s Valentine’s Day everyday!

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Thank you and Goodbye, Sandy

Felix Ker — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:48:21 +0000

Thank you and goodbye, Sandy. You’ll be missed by lots of us out there. I miss the days I sent you individual emails containing multiple appointments!

I hope you’ll be back soon to serve us.

To all of you out there with bad time management, do consider using any calendar/appointments system online such as rememberthemilk or google calendar. I’ve definitely remembered more dates with them.

On Friday, December 19, 2008, Values of n (and our web services, I want Sandy and Stikkit) went offline. You can read the full announcement here.

We’d like to thank everyone who accompanied us on the journey from idea to startup to service: our families and friends, our investors, our cheerleaders, but most of all, our customers. It’s no stretch to say that we were privileged to have the best customers a company could ask for.

It has been an honor to work with you, and we wish you all the best during this holiday season and beyond.

—the Values of n Team

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Felix Ker — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:10:14 +0000

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Tatarah – Not for Malays? Are you lucky?

Felix Ker — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:04:49 +0000

I received an email from Tatarah regarding refunding processing fees for cancelled auctions when I didn’t even pay a single cent. Can’t they target just those who paid? Oh, maybe this is an email to remind you that Tatarah exists.

Just to share with you how much Tatarah earns per auction.

Nintendo WiiÂ
Retail:$659.00
#07A000C
Purchased by Member ID: 182E4860
SOLD AT $0.36
Source: Tatarah’s website

I’m unsure how much the processing fees was for this product, but I am certain the fees for an iPod was $1 with the product priced at aroundÂ $348. So for a product priced at $659, automatically if you know your maths, the processing fees should be around $2, or $1.50.

Now we’ll do alittle maths:

Processing fees (Let’s assume)Â : $1.50
Number of bidders for the Wii (above) : 634
Total processing fees collected: $951.00 (before tax; I remember reading that processing fees include tax – LOL?)
Total processing fees collected: $884.43 (after tax)
Tatarah earns: $225.43 OR MORE

I’m assuming processing fees was $1.50 and not $2.

I conclude

633 of youÂ lost $2 (better luck next time, yea?).Â Hey, isn’t this same as buying 4D? Muslims, tell me if it’s right to bet. Uhm, is this considered betting? I’m unsure. I just feel this is just like buying 4D and Toto.

Tatarah earnt $225.43 or more (okay, or less). Way to go.

Have you tried Tatarah? How was the experience? How much processing fees did you pay?

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