1.    Cost of hiring coaches are subject to changes
2.    Super peak period at this time of the Convention –

Deadline to book with us by: 30 Oct 08

The Package cost: S$380 (twin-sharing) and S$538 (single) includes:-
1.    Return trip via air-conditioned coach.  Transfer to Malaysian
      Coach at Tuas Link to Melaka     
2.    Accomodation (twin sharing) at Hotel Equatorial Melaka inclusive of Breakfast
3.    Convention dinner at the Melaka Ballroom, Hotel Melaka on Friday, 5 Dec 2008
4.    Convention Seminar with Tea and Lunch
5.    Half-day city tour
1.    Convention dinner at Pool Side, Hotel Equatorial on Saturday, 6 Dec. 2008
2.    Farwell Lunch on Sunday, 7 Dec 2008.

Programme/ Details: Click below

157 Neil Road, is perhaps one of the last surviving Peranakan-style house in its original state in Singapore. It is cited and celebrated today as being a significantly outstanding feature of Singapore’s rich architectural heritage. Due to open in September 2008, the Baba House will play an important role in conserving the distinctive Peranakan heritage, as well as preserving the memory of a Tun Tan Cheng Lock, a highly respected Peranakan community leader.

Visitors will be able to appreciate the restoration and conservation efforts made on this authentic Peranakan structure and will at the same time be exposed to the customs and material culture of the Peranakan community in a living context.

Exhibitions and events held in this house will showcase fascinating aspects of Peranakan heritage which will be captured in an eclectic mix of antiques, decorative ornaments, Peranakan cuisine, social customs and lifestyle.

26 Nov 2007 |  Baba House: A peek into Straits Chinese culture

150 members of the clan are meeting to mark 210th birth anniversary of philanthropist By Serene Luo

SOMEWHERE in London, you might encounter a strapping police sergeant with ginger hair and clear blue eyes - nothing unusual, till you ask for his name. Mr Lawrence Tan Xu Wen, 39, never fails to raise eyebrows when he says it. He would have you know that his ancestor was philanthropist Tan Tock Seng, 'a famous founder of Singapore, my dad told me'.

Mr Tan, a sixth-generation descendant, is among 150 members of the Tan clan who have gathered in Singapore to mark the 210th year of Tan Tock Seng's birth.

Yesterday, 30 of them presented a copy of the Tan family tree to the Peranakan Museum in Armenian Street. The document - with 1,368 names running in a scroll almost 19m long - is the result of research into the family's genealogy done mainly by Mr Lawrence Tan and Mr Roney Tan, a Singaporean.

More precisely, P is for Peranakan and Puteh, the character in a new series of children's books written by a mother of three By Benita Aw Yeong

It was the threat of forgetting that inspired author Adeline Foo to begin remembering. The 37-year-old civil servant by day and author on weekends began writing her new children's series, The Story Of Puteh, when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease late last year.

The series is about the adventures of a girl named Puteh (which means white in Malay). Puteh was the nickname of Foo's grandmother, who loved to put rice powder on her face which gave her a creamy white complexion.

Two books in the four-part series, The Beaded Slippers and The Kitchen God, are already in the bookshops.

The series began when Foo, the daughter of a Peranakan father and a Chinese mother, browsed through back copies of the Peranakan Association's newsletters at the library.