The first prize is a 4D3N trip to Germany.

The competition and registration details can be found here:

Settlers of Catan Competition

We will be distributing free Memberships Certificates to all members who attend (Please make sure your membership has not expired).

President’s Message on EGM (click to view, no login required)

Notice of EGM (login required - use your xxx {at} mensa.org(.)sg id)
Ballot papers (login required)

Please RSVP by 10th July 2010 using the form below so that we can prepare your certificates and cater for food.

We have also organized a sumptuous buffet (valued at S$30+ and free for all members who show up) with mouthwatering dishes like:

• Stuffed Egg with Tobiko Caviar
• Hawaiian Chicken on White Smoked Salmon Roulade
• Assorted Vegetables Crudités Honey & Lime Dip
• Shrimp Bomb Ball
• Chicken Yakitori
• Chicken Chive Dumpling
• Chicken Lasagna
• Superior Shrimp Dumpling
• Steamed Spinach Dumpling
• And accompanied by a wide range of desserts

200 gaming vouchers will be given away to Mensa Singapore members on a first come first served basis, limited to a maximum of 2 vouchers per member (Valid Mensa Singapore membership card needs to be produced to redeem the voucher).

Come down and collect your vouchers at the Mensa Singapore booth! You may collect anytime between 10am to 10pm over the three days. The boardgaming carnival managed by The Mind Cafe will only start at 7pm on each day.

Additional gaming vouchers can be purchased from The Mind Cafe at $2 per voucher.

Play different board games with the vouchers and winners can win prizes in lucky dip.

Mensa members whose membership has lapsed will be able to renew their membership at the Mensa Singapore booth. Members of the public who wish to register for the Mensa Singapore Admission Test are also able to reserve their slot at the Mensa Singapore booth. Only cash transactions will be accepted. Official Mensa Singapore receipts will be issued. Please request for the receipt at the booth.

Mind Sport Festival Time Schedule
Time: 25 - 27 June 2010, 10am - 10pm
Location: The Atrium, Illuma

Boardgaming Carnival Time Schedule
Time: 25 - 27 June 2010, 7pm - 10pm

Check out the Mind Sport Festival website at http://mind-sports.net/

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Mensa Singapore Ambassadors Wanted!

We are seeking 10 Mensa Singapore Ambassadors to station at our exhibition booth (right at the entrance of the mall) over the three days, to introduce Mensa Singapore to the public, and to promote our society to interested parties. Public who are keen to register for the test may proceed to the registration counter at the other end of the Atrium managed by our committee. Members whose membership has lasped could also do so.

We need volunteers to fill 3-hour time slots over the three days, and you may contribute as little as 3 hours or as many as you wish. As an appreciation for your effort, we will award a Certificate of Achievement for your involvement together with a A4 Executive Notebook (worth S$45) and some other sovenirs at the end of the event.

The available slots are as follow:

Friday 25 June 2010 - 10am - 1pm
Friday 25 June 2010 - 1pm - 4pm
Friday 25 June 2010 - 4pm - 7pm
Friday 25 June 2010 - 7pm - 10pm

Saturday 26 June 2010 - 10am - 1pm
Saturday 26 June 2010 - 1pm - 4pm
Saturday 26 June 2010 - 4pm - 7pm
Saturday 26 June 2010 - 7pm - 10pm

Sunday 27 June 2010 - 10am - 1pm
Sunday 27 June 2010 - 1pm - 4pm
Sunday 27 June 2010 - 4pm - 7pm
Sunday 27 June 2010 - 7pm - 10pm

Interested parties, please drop a mail to membership {at} mensa.org(.)sg with your preferred time slots, name, membership number, e-mail and contact number. Please note that as the volunteers will be representing Mensa Singapore, we require that volunteers to be member of good standing (i.e. membership arrears paid for 2010). If you are keen to participate but your membership has lapsed, you may renew on the day when you volunteer.

Look forward to hearing from you soon!

This month’s Soapbox will feature Mensa member Moh Hon Meng, the founder of famous online unit trust distributor Fundsupermart, and the title of his talk is

Title : Raising Money for Your New Venture
Date : 19 June 2010 (third Saturday of the month)
Time : 3pm - 5:30pm
Venue : NUSS Suntec Guild House

Fee : Free for members and 1 accompanying guest, subsequent guests at S$5/pax. Please bring your membership card for verification.

Talk Synopsis : Raising Money for your new venture

Do you have a new business idea that you think will take the world by storm? You’ll need money to get it off the ground. Pick up tips and insights on how to do this from seasoned entrepreneur Moh Hon Meng.

He’ll share with you the experiences of how he has done this in the past, and how he is doing it again now for a new venture that he is launching. Come prepared with questions, especially if there is a new business that you are planning for right now, so that you can benefit in a more relevant way.

About the Speaker : Moh Hon Meng

Hon Meng worked for multinationals such as Procter and Gamble and DDB Worldwide before striking out on his own 10 years ago to co-found iFAST Corporation Pte Ltd with CEO Lim Chung Chun. iFAST operates the well known unit trust website Fundsupermart.com, and the largest investment platform for financial advisers in Singapore, known as iFAST Central. In its first year, iFAST succeeded in attracting many prominent professionals as investors, as well as corporate investors such as Singapore Press Holdings and DMG and Partners Securities.

Today, iFAST has 270 staffs and operates in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India. The business has won many awards, but most notable were the 9th position it attained in the Enterprise 50 awards of 2007, and the 2nd position it achieved in the same awards presentation in 2008.

Hon Meng became a non-executive director in January 2010, so that he has time to launch a new venture. He still serves in iFAST Corporation in the following capacities:

1. Non-executive member of the board
2. Chairman of the audit committee of the board (which oversees the corporate governance, risk and compliance behaviour of the company).
3. Chairman of the board for iFAST Financial India Pvt Ltd, the joint venture between iFAST Corporation and Deutsche Bank in India.

Hon Meng is also an acclaimed author and award winning playwright. He has been published by Simon and Schuster, Heinemann, The National University Press, Martin and Elliot, and Resonant Publishing (a publishing company which Hon Meng started). He has won prizes for 4 of the plays he has written including two 3rd prizes in the Hewlett Packard-Action Theatre 10 minute playwriting competition series and a commendation prize in the National Book Development Council Book Awards. He recently released a new book entitled “Why Stock Markets Always Rise … and other stories for financial success” in March 2010. This is a compilation of the investment articles that he has written at iFAST Corporation over the last 10 years.

In his new venture, Hon Meng is teaming up with an enterprising young man, a graduate from Stanford University with a Masters in Engineering, to launch a new web enterprise. He is looking for more passionate people to join his team.

Hon Meng is 42 in 2010, and is married with two boys, aged 9 and 6. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1992 and is a member of Mensa.

New Venture : Invitation to Join Moh Hon Meng in his latest venture

Have you had the desire to be part of a creative new business but never got the opportunity? Here’s your chance to join Moh Hon Meng in his latest venture. He is looking to hire software application developers. Be amongst the first few people to join this striking new business that aims to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of people! Competitive salaries and a share in the company await the successful candidates.

Software Application Developers (ASP.net)

REQUIREMENTS:
• Passion for Web Development, Web 2.0, Mobile applications & Social Media
• Asp.net 2.0 programmer using C# and VB.
• SQL 2005 or above knowledge is an advantage
• Strong compliance with HTML4 &5, CSS and Jquery
• With or without experience
• Only Singaporean or PR need to apply

Interested candidates are invited to submit a comprehensive FULL resume together with a recent photograph to honmeng.moh {at} gmail(.)com.

Date: 23rd June 2010 (Wed)
Time: 7.30pm
Add: 231 East Coast Rd. (near Esso Petrol Stn / Lorong Stangee)

Fees $20 per head

Advice: Not to take dinner on that evening

Durian Degustation, and try about 5 types of durians.
- D13
- XO
- Red Prawn
- Golden Phoenix
- Black Pearl
- Wild Cat (King of Durian)

Limited to the first 30 members and friends.

Dateline for registration: 21st June 2010, (Mon), 9am.

Register using the form below:

All members will get a Mensa account which enables them to:

1) access our new social network
2) have their own Mensa email account
3) share documents and files with other members
4) receive our monthly Mensa newsletter (which goes out at the start of every month)

All active Mensa members would have received an email with your userid and password to access your new Mensa account. You will need to login here to complete your setup and change your password immediately:

http://mail.mensa.org.sg

Mensa Email

The email account is powered by Gmail so you will be able to access your email in one of the following ways:

1) Webmail login
2) Doing an one time configuration to set email forwarding to your personal email address
3) POP setup

Social Network

After login, click on “others”, “socialwok” on the top left hand corner in order to access the social network. Alternatively, you can visit:

http://network.mensa.org.sg/

Important: Previous Email Forwarding Service

If you were previously using our forwarding service, all your emails will now be routed into our new mail servers. You will need to login to do a configuration of your account if you want to maintain your own forwarding preferences and continue receiving your forwarded emails.

Any questions regarding your account can be directed to webmaster {at} mensa.org(.)sg. Please quote your membership number and mensa email address in your email for identification purposes.

If you are tired of price wars and want to extract your USP to attract more customers and explode your revenue FOREVER, you MUST come to this workshop.

Date: Saturday, 24th April 2010
Time: 3 pm to 5.30 pm
Venue: NUSS Guildhouse at Suntec City
Cost: Free for members and 1 guest. A nominal fee of $5 for subsequent guests.

No pre-registration required. Just come and register on the day itself.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

SME Business Owners, Professionals, Sales/Marketing Directors, Managers, Self-employed & Aspiring Entrepreneurs.

JUST SOME OF THE THINGS TO EXPECT

• Differentiate your business offerings even in the most competitive environment to rise above your competitors.
• Tools that multi-billion businesses leverage on to get them to spend on them over and over again, forever.
• Leverage on your USP in more than 20 ways to become your unique winning business edge.
• Hand-on sessions to extract your business USP for your immediate application.
• And of course, interactive activities that boost networking and business opportunities.

BY WHOM:
David Kwan- marketing/business coach, profit strategist who starts his practice with NO money down with NO personal & business contact etc, and gain a 5-figure profit within 3 months, even before registering his business.
His latest feat includes helping a business multiply its leads by 300% within a month with NO money down and little effort, with just 1 tactic out of his more than 10 suggested marketing tactics.

WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT DAVID:

“…. An amazing guy! Anyone who wants to do business, and already in business, should talk to him to get profitable insights personally NOW! ….”

“…. has being a while I seen someone like David who gives me so much to think about my business and its undiscovered potential. A true expert in his field….”