14 November 2010

Text: Kash

Photographs: Kash, Francis, Ramlee and Bryan

Welcome to Kampung Temasek! On 14 No-vember 2010, a mostly sunny Sunday, some adventurous Singaporeans took a walk on the wild side and came to explore our hang-out. There are only three rules in this place: do, learn and mostly importantly, laugh!

If you were there with us, welcome back to good memories! If you missed that boat, here’s what awaits you.

The muddy road to Kampung Temasek spells balik ‘kampung’ for adults, but it marks a journey to new learning for the young. The green roof of Kampung Temasek’s assembly hall is seen in a distance.

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learning will get down and dirty!The first thing most volunteer do: change to boots,

You can be the booties superheroes, like this family.

But these are our real superheroes - the orang asli who helped build Kampung Temasek.

The asli built the bamboo structure supporting the assembly hall.They did not use swanky gadgets, but depended on skill gainedacross the years.

Learning is everywhere at Kampung Temasek. We can learn management and harmony, even from a single leaf that sustains life, says Jack Sim, one of the co-founders of the Kampung.

Folks watch intently as Jack turns nature into his comedy ground.

Innovator Jeff Nadison(right) and permaculturist Chris Tobias exchange tips on how to grow banana trees. The banana tree saplings were just transplanted and visitors are invited to pee on them to help them grow.

Organic tapioca growing on the turf. The tapi-oca grows quickly with mushroom compost, an ex-periment by Singaporean Bala who owns a mushroom farm next to Kampung Temasek.

Lee with his changkul, doing some gardening along the pond.

The funky grandfather, Tay Kheng Soon, tells us about theportulaca flower that was planted around the pond helpsto remove the harmful compound that leaks away by plastic materials which causes serious effect on female reproductive system.

Folks learning permaculture from Chris Tobias. Permaculture studies how human design can learn from relationships in nature.

With all his ammunition: mushrooms and tapiocas, Bala demonstrated integrated farming and his way of cooking: Simply, Organic and Nice. Bala is a mushroom grower in Singapore and Malaysia.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Leaving our hand-prints on concrete slabs to commemorate our support for this Kampung right from the start.

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Kampung Temasek and its friends invite you to balik kampung soon.

We believe in creating a fun and happy learning environmentwith the nature for family and friends.

It is about care for people and care for nature.

It is impossible for us to sit back and hope this can happen by itself, we need to have the dare to take actions!

Help to make this dream school happen!

Ways to contribute:

- Help us financially to continue our phase two of the build.- Give some of your time as a volunteer in any areas of interest- Build some programs and start trying running camps at KT- Find us anyone who can help us in any of the above!

For more queries, contact Ju Hu at juhus@kampungtemasek.orgor +65 97242915.

Your children or grandchildren will be there to see the legacy some of us left behind on the KT Hall.

Thank you!

www.kampungtemasek.org

By Nikki and Ashlie