Dear Society Members,

The early bird tickets for the Oxbridge Get Together are now sold out, but there are still standard member and non-member tickets available. Do please join us in the courtyard of the Singapore Art Museum this Friday for what promises to be a lovely evening!

Oxbridge Get Together – Wine and Tapas at Via Mar

Singapore may be hot all year round, but summer is still worth celebrating. And what better way to do so by kicking off the weekend with fine company, scintillating conversation and, dare we say, more than a smidgen of alcohol. (Don’t worry – teetotalers are welcome!)

Free flow of house red or white/ beer/ soft drinks
Free flow of selected tapas items.

22nd June 2012, Friday, 8 to 10.30pm
Via Mar, Singapore Art Museum

$35 for members
$45 for non-members

RSVP at this site: http://oxb-viamar.eventbrite.com

Sign up for Ordinary ($30 per calendar year) or Lifetime membership ($300 for life) on the spot and get $15 off your usual membership fee, and enjoy the preferential member rate for this event!

For more information, please contact us at: events@oxbridge.org.sg

Dear Fellow Oxbridge Members, Alumni & Friends,

The Boat Race Dinner this year will be held on 7th April 2012 at the Raffles Hotel – The Ballroom, Level 3. Dinner will commence at 8.00pm.

Tentative timing as follows:

7.00pm Pre-dinner drinks and registration
8.00pm Dinner
9.15pm Live screening of the Boat Race (2.15pm BST)
9.45pm Speeches by representatives of both universities
– For Oxford: Arjuna Mahendran, Managing Director, HSBC Private Bank
– For Cambridge: Thio Shen Yi SC, Head, Litigation, TSMP Law Corporation

We need your support!

Regular tickets are $150 per head
Sponsor Tables (10 seats) are available at $3000 per table
House wine and beer will be provided.
(If you wish to bring your own alcohol, corkage for two bottles of wine per table will be waived.)

Please use the response slip here to sign up. Do email our secretariat at events@oxbridge.org.sg so that we can look out for your cheque. Please also take this opportunity to renew your membership (if you are not already a Life Member), or to update your particulars.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Dear Oxbridge Members, Alumni and Friends,

Join us for an afternoon of informal mingling as we send this year’s freshers off on their journey up to Cambridge!  Whether you are a first year, a current student or a Cantab alumni, this is an excellent opportunity for you to catch up with old friends and make new ones.

This year we’ve invited Mr Vikram Nair, the newly-minted MP for Sembawang GRC, who read Law at Trinity to offer a few words of advice to the incoming freshers.  Vikram is also a lawyer at Norton Rose, specialising in international arbitration

Please sign up by going to this site.

Date: 17 Sept 2011 (Sat)
Time: 2.30pm-5pm
Venue: University Lounge, Level 6, SMU Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065
Contact: cambridgesocietysg@gmail.com

The event is free for freshmen entering Cambridge as well as members of the Oxbridge Society.  Non-members will be able to attend for a nominal fee of $5 to offset costs while alumni who wish to become members on the spot can pay $15 to join the Society (usual annual fees are $30). Please pay by cash at the door.

Wine, soft drinks and light finger snacks will be provided.

We are very grateful for the generous support of Prof Arnoud de Meyer, President of SMU and previously Director of the Judge Business School in Cambridge as well as Dr Stanley Lai, President of the Oxford and Cambridge Society.

Dear Oxbridge Members, Alumni and Friends,

Dr Melanie Chew and her husband Tony are graciously opening their beautiful home for a charity fund-raising musical soiree to which you are warmly invited; featuring boy soprano Matthew Supramaniam, violinist Ang Shao-Wen and Classical guitarist Dr Robert Liew.

Evening programme:
5.00PM Champagne and Strawberries
6.00PM Musical Soiree

Musical highlights to include much-loved soprano solos: Ave Maria (Bach Gounod), Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck), Irish ballad Danny Boy; Venezuelan Folk Songs (Antonio Lauro) and Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Francesco Tarrega)for Maestro guitar, some ensemble arrangements and surprise violin virtuoso solos.

This will be followed by a light buffet dinner.

Date:
Sunday, 28 August 2011

Venue:
6B Cluny Park
Singapore 259615 (off Cluny Park Road, near the French Embassy)

Charitable objectives/donations: Mr Tony Chew and Dr Melanie Chew are generously sponsoring the food and beverage and as such there will be no charge. Guests are however invited to give generously to support EQUATE which is a sheltered workshop located in the National Equestrian Park, which gives vocational and on-the-job training for 30 adults diagnosed with low IQ (50-70).  This follows the great success of EQUAL (Equine-assisted Learning for At Risk Kids) which provides horse therapy for youngsters 14 – 16 who have dropped out of school or are in danger of doing so, which has 160 kids enrolled.

Only limited seats are available. To book your place, please email Dr Melanie Chew (email: mchew@pacific.net.sg) or Paul Supramaniam (email: paul@lawasia.com).