WengsWorld - Connecting and Sharing

After the first competition, my (kind of, short working project-type) colleague Christine who took part, suggested to me that I should have a theme for future events. For my second competition, I chose the theme "Connecting the World" for 2 main reasons, namely:
(a) I had signed myself up to be Singapore's representative on the World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation, and
(b) Around that period, I was still half toying with the idea of taking part in some international 24-hour jigsaw puzzle competition in Belgium! <crazy right?>


In line with the theme, I chose as the competition puzzle a map of the world, as people explore and discover the world and connect with other people by using maps.


For the next event on 17 Dec, being near the end of year and the Christmas period, I have chosen the theme "Connecting and Sharing". In Singapore, with the gap between the haves and have nots growing more and more (our gini coefficient appears to be increasing all the time), those of us who are slightly better off should really share what we have with other Singaporeans or those around us. I think that as a society as a whole, we really seem to have focused on certain aspects of life (eg, namely economic progress, wanting a better life for ourselves and our families, etc) in recent times, to the neglect of other aspects of life.


So, for the next event, I'm asking all participating teams to bring their used puzzle(s) to the event, and to donate the puzzles to the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH) centre at Tiong Bahru. I blogged a bit about SAMH on 22 Nov. I will consolidate what can be collected, and bring them down to SAMH. SAMH can either use the puzzles for their own in-house activities, or give them to their clients. Let's see how many puzzles we can gather and share.


To everyone participating on 17 Dec, I do hope you will consider supporting this effort. Everything starts somewhere, so let's start something on 17 Dec together. If you don't have anything you wish to give away, that's perfectly fine! Please be comfortable with whatever you are doing  :)