Born in Singapore, Amy LAM was educated and has worked in Ireland and Norway teaching music for 20 years; coordinated events and travels in USA for 15 years, worked at an advertising agency and coordinated events in Singapore for 10 years. She hiked a thru’ hike on the Appalachian Trail/USA 2,175m/3,500km from May-Sep in 2005 after both her daughters Linn & May were working and independent with their own lives.
In 2008, published 1st SIN AT Thru-Hiker/First Singaporean Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker – a collection of data, pictures, quotes & thoughts during a 127 days hike. She has been and still is sharing the experience through PowerPoint presentations with Q&A about the hike to various associations, groups and societies around the world.
If interested for her to give a presentation or to purchase the 108 pages book, please write to her. If she is in your area, she will be delighted to share. After globe-trotting around the world for 8 months in 2008 to gather branches, twigs & leafs hoping to draft her family tree – The LAM Heritage.
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Thanks you Daniel Yiek for sharing this chronological graph.
2009′s visit to the ancestral village in S China, where the ancestral hall and house still stand was an eye-opener trip. The trip has created more interesting work to be researched into. Future travels to S China and Borneo/E Malaysia will be necessary before embarking on a rough draft of the heritage trail – the never-ending trail starting from 1905 when grand-uncle LAM Jie Chiew and grandfather LAM Song Kee started the family business as a mortgage company originally which resulted to banks.
With two beautiful daughters, two wonderful son-in-laws Jeff & Bjørn, six adorable grandchildren Katy, Ellie, JohnW, Sophie, James (5 blonds & blue eyes) and Olai (finally one with darker hair and eyes!), life is blessed! These are all her full-blood daughters and grand children, reasons to do more research into the family history to trace where the recessive genes originated from…
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hi mom! nice blog
Hi Aunty Amy, it is really great to see you doing so many things, hope to see more updates here
wow… really nice blog.. thanks for opening my eyes to Norway. When are you going back to Norway… I WILL FOLLOW YOU….. (to the tune of Whoopi Goldberg)
I love that picture in the mountain =)
One of my favourite AT pictures
i love that mountain picture too. what camera you are using, how come you can shoot a wide angle of pic,?
Hello,
I was searching and found your blog. I’m not a thruhiker (yet), but am interested in the subject.
What led you to go for a long mountain walk?
Are you familiar with http://www.trailjournals.com?
I wish you well in your travels.
James
Amy, you are always on the move, really admire your energy!!!
Love your blog!
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Thanks for sharing your nice web site.
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Thank you to both Joanne & Adeline for kind comments (23 Feb 2013) which I have not attached here as the amount of words in your comments would probably be what I use for a whole year’s postings! Your words are appreciated and your website might be of interest to others:
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Thanks for stopping by and yes I do say thank you again and again to my parents and children for everything I have and am today! I am blessed.