Hello Everyone,

Yesterday, the 1st May, 2009 marks the appointment of our new club Manager, Ms. Dolly Lim.  My Congratulations to Dolly on her appointment.

 I had the privilege to work with her (first-hand)  yesterday at the St. Joseph’s Home where our SHC group (led by EO Geok Suan) were there to entertain the nuns, staff and residents of the Home.

  It was an eventful mission and we had a wonderful time working as a team.  It was also the  first  project/duty of our new club manger, Dolly.  I can tell you -  she has leadership quality, dynamic, a ‘live-wire’ ( as Geok Suan said) and most importantly, fantastic PR.

I look forward to working with her in future.

Cheers.

Pat Chan

Hi

I would like to meet members who wish to teach skills which may interest adults and/or children and perhaps make a little income. I am thinking of using my flat and activities need to be quiet ones and for small groups. The duration may be 1 day - several sessions. I live in Bartley/Paya Lebar/Serangoon Central area.

If interested, I will met you on 17 May at Hans Cafe. Terence is arranging a meeting there at 1 pm. I’ll be there for his meeting and will stay on to meet you all at 4 pm.

Regards
Joan

Starting a class on Basic Photography (actually intermediate also included) on 9th May Saturday 1-6pm and subsequently on 16th, 23rd, 30th May 4th and 11th July 2009 for a char kway tiow fee of $130.
It will be conducted at Eunosville beside the Eunos MRT, 2hrs theory and 4 hrs practical altogether 6 sessions 36 hrs total.
those interested can email me at cecil@1digital.com.sg
Topics covered: Equipments, Exposures, Techniques, Night photography, Flash,Photo Editing.

Sometime last year with my sister and her friend I drove in to Scudai JB to visit her apartment. Later in the afternoon she wants to go scouting for some furniture. I drove them to a row of shops nearby. After dropping them at the shop I went to look for a parking space. Not able to found one I decided to drive over next door where a petrol station is.

Having parked my car I decided to get out from the car for a breather. Soon, I was approached by a man holding a plastic bag. He showed me a camera in the bag. I told him that I was not interested but he insists that I should at least have a peek at the camera. From that look I was tempted, it looks like a new digital camera and I asked him how much? 600 ringits was quoted, I told him not interested again. He then asked me how much I will consider. I said 50 ringits, and he counter 200 ringits. From the glimpse it seems a good buy and I foolishly offer 100 ringits.

I said let me at least inspect the camera, he answered no, dun do it outside as people will see. He suggested, how about look at it in my car? My feelers were out, better not wait he drive my car away, how? I paid him the money and he asks me again for transport money and I gave him another 20 ringits, wat the nerve!

The scenario was I was alone; therefore he got the gut to approach me. It may not happen if I am in a group. I thought I have a deal, he probably couldn’t believe that a sucker was born every day. This may seem a small incident as I was not robbed or hurt. We have heard of numerous stories of innocent victims falling prey to the crimes wave over here!

I learned my lesson, dun be tempted easily. After I took over the camera, I found that it was not a digital camera and it also not working at all! I wanted to ask someone to kick me in the butt! How silly can I be to fall for such a scam!

Do you have a more interesting or ‘better not remember’ story to tell? Come on, let’s liven this post a bit more!

Dan

Yesterday, I woke up at 5 am. After about 45 mins tossing in bed trying to get back to sleep I gave up. On an impulse I drove to MacRitchie Reservoir and began to walk on one of the boardwalks in the park. As it turned out it was an exhilarating experience walking in the semi darkness part of the way and with the cool and damp mists all around. We( my wife and I) had the entire boardwalk to ourselves except for another gentleman who was even earlier than us.

We intend to repeat the experience this Sunday May 3rd and welcome anybody who may wish to join us. For those interested we shall meet at the entrance to the boardwalk on the St Teresa’s Home side ( ie the boardwalk on the Thomson Rd side, not the boardwalk on the Lornie Rd side at 6 am. We will begin our walk punctually at 6.10 am walking slowly at first ( dont want anybody to fall into the water!) and then speeding up as the sky gets brighter. We aim to complete the walk by 7.20 am. Distance is 2.25 km one way so that should give us sufficient time for a brisk ( but not fast) morning exercise of 4.5 km in total.

After the walk, for those inclined, we can adjourn for breakfast at  Shunfu hawker centre(short walk or drive away) and disperse from there. We should be done by 830 am

For those coming, although not really necessary,you may find a small torchlight useful. Drinking water also, of course. If late you can catch up with us or meet on the way back(boardwalk is one way in ,same way out). For those driving, you may park on the road leading to St Theresa Home.

Dear All

There is an outbreak of Swine Flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States.

Do read up on the latest updates and keep our fingers crossed.  Brings back memories of SARS. 

Take care,

Today, I am in Hyderabad, staying at the Taj Benjara Hotel and having an afternoon tea alone. Gosh, alone again, but my mind is pretty active with SilverHairsClub. Surprising in India, where the population is 1 billion, the hotel has a 2 girls Filippino band playing and singing and entertaining the high tea crowd.

From time to time, we see some amateur singers from within SilverHairsClub, popping up once in a while. I don’t mean the professionals who sing with bands or in clubs. I mean those who can go on stage, hold a mic, sing without scripts, without a karaoke system, but with accompanied music. And, able to entertain the audience.

One person who can sing, but can be entertaining if he wants to, is Timothy Liu. I saw him sing in Batam. Two ladies whom I have observed as very entertaining with Cantonese and Hokkien songs are Janet Chan and Peng Peng. Caroline Gee has the courage and the guts, and she sings confidently English songs. There is another gentleman, whom I recently met, and who sings and plays the organ and the guitar is Hou Chong. I met him in Perth. No doubt, we have a Rod Stewart in the body of Boon Liang. He is great. We also have Shirleen Kao with her Japanese numbers. Heard her sing at Kukup.

I am not a singer, but I believe we have many talent spotters who have seen other SHCians sing and entertain. If you know of someone within SilverHairsClub and who can sing and entertain, accompanied by music, as an amateur, not a pro, plse share with us who these SHCians are. He/she can sing in any language or dialect, but must be entertaining too.

Why am I asking? This is for an activity which I plan to organise next year. I have not spoken with our Club Manager, as she comes online only on 1st May. No, this is not for Stars-in-Concert.

So, you can see my mind works, even on a Sunday, and while doing nothing over High Tea and listening to a sweet 2 ladies band in Hyderabad, India.

Geok Suan, Dhevi, Dolly and many more talked about this too. All to find reasons for us to get together, and know more friends, our age.

Terence Seah

Dear Members,
I will be the EO to organize the “Bollywood Nite”.  A suitable venue to host this event has been found. It is a dance studios called Mambo Dance Zone which is situated at the 4^th floor of Golden Mile Shopping Center. It’s a good venue for 100 person with ample car park at the basement.
Spoken to the Manager Mr Frankie Tan and the details of rental only are as follows:
Weekdays: 2.30 to 6.30pm - $ 1000 & 7.30 to 12am - $1200
Weekends: 2.30 to 6.30pm - $ 1200 & 7.30 to 12am - $1400

Alternatively, we can book the studio for a minimum of 50 pax @ $20 per head. Of which $ 5 per head will go towards a buffet and the balance will go towards the rental of the studio. We can bring your own liquor/wine, but need to pay for corkage individually at $30/20.
Besides the dancing, the place can also be used to conduct a dance training for the night. The event can be held sometime in July or August 09. Date can be fixed once we can have the minimum of 50 members for the event.