Trip to the Southern Ridge

To: All Volunteers

From: Zhi Hao

Date: September 16, 2008

Re: Volunteer Outing
Thanks for taking the time to look through the upcoming outing on the 5th Oct, a Sunday morning.

I. OVERVIEW
Since we shall be having an outing soon, I propose that we have use this outing as an opportunity to foster a healthy lifestyle spirit among the volunteer. Thus a walk/trek at the Southern Ridges would be an ideal activity for all the volunteers..

II. LOCATION
This southern portion of the island loop (also known as the Southern ridges) spans a total distance of 9km from Mt Faber via Harbour Front and ending at West Coast Park. The whole 9km route will see you from Harbour Front MRT- Mount Faber Hill- Henderson Waves- Telok Blangah Hill- Alexandra Arch- Hortpark- Kent Ridge- Clementi Woods and finally, West Coast Park. However, we will only be covering the section from the starting point Habourfront till Hort Park, which will be our destination.

Total Distance: 5.5 km
Estimated time: 1 hr 20 mins

III. OBJECTIVES
Firstly, this activity can provide a chance for all the volunteers to relax and slow down their pace of life. It would be very helpful for most of our volunteers as many of us are engage in very stressful conditions during our daily working life.
Secondly, the walk also provides a medium for all the volunteers to communicate and interact with each other. Thus we would be able gain a better understanding of each other and increase the teamwork capabilities of the volunteers in the future.

IV. TIMING
The plan is for this outing to be held on the 5th Oct, is to allow you to prepare your schedule so that you could free on this day. It will be a morning activity as the scenery would be better viewed during that period of the day and it would give us the opportunity to take a breath of the morning fresh air.

V. COST & TRANSPOTATION
Technically, if no transport is provided, there would be zero cost. I hope that it would be possible for most the volunteers could make their way down to Habourfront mrt as a meeting area, since most of us live near Hougang NEL mrt station. The meeting point would be at Haborfront mrt, before we proceed to the starting point.
However, if it was to be held on a Sun morning, I would strongly advice the volunteers to bring their own water to hydrate themselves, there will also be water coolers on the way.

This is the Map