MONTHLY CUM XMAS GATHERING – 19 DEC 2013 (Thur) 5 – 9.30pm

Hello All
It’s time to jolly again! Lets have fun and lots of laughter during this xmas season!!
when: 19 Dec (thursday)
Time: 5-9.30 PM
Place: Han’s Cafe, Park Mall #B1-03/04, Penang Road no.9
Cost: pay for your own food (e.g. fish & chip set $9.8, fried rice/hor fun $8.30 nett, curry puff $3+)
MRT: Dhoby Ghaut

There will be fun way of knowing each other and Ha Ha Club guru conducting laughing gig. but the gist of the program is GIFT EXCHANGE. So bring a gift of min $5 value and put a “forfeit” in it for the receiver to act, sing, tell joke etc (if you dont know what to write, i will create many for you to choose)

closing date: 12 Dec. For the first 20 persons who register, there will be a surprise gift and for all of those who are coming, there’ll be door gift

(PS: looking for gift sponsors. wonder if any of SHC corporate members want to sponsor. if not i will be the sole sponsor hee hee)

REGISTRATION LIST
1. Frisna Tan (EO)
2. Ann Lim (assistant)
3. Theresa Seow (assistant)
4. Daisy Yeo
5. Yatsing
6. Bobby Bok (ha ha gig)
7. Susan CH Tan
8. May Woo
9. Bira L
10. Thomas Loh
11. Lilian Teo
12. Marg Tian
13. Lin Chuah
14. Juliet SP Ong
15. Lily Ho
16  Geraldine Ting
17  Caroline Gee
18. Dolly Lim
19. Judy Lim
20.Ah Nee
21. Ann To
22. Robert Ong
23 Richard Wong
24 Lydia Chin
25. Catherine Yeo
26. Primrose Kok
27. Annie Pow/Tan (tentative) Jane Tan
28. Norlinda “Sweetie Pie”
29. Agnes Seow
30. Kristy Quek
31.Melissa Kheng Mega Abdullah
32. Kent Chan
33.Fida Freddy Liu
34.Dave Chong Yew Kwong
35 Steven Chan
36. Janie Leong
37. Dorine Tan
38. Lina Tan
39.Anne Chee
40. Richard Lean
41. Peggy Yap (tentative)
42. Arthur Yap (tentative)

 

 

 

 

Author: Frisna Tan (Seow Seow Channel entertainer)

enjoy sports, travel, reading,gardening and mj. currently working at Changi Airport and volunteer as table tennis trainer for BDAP (Beat Dementia n Parkinson)

56 thoughts on “MONTHLY CUM XMAS GATHERING – 19 DEC 2013 (Thur) 5 – 9.30pm”

  3. Hi Frisna

    May I know if Ha Ha Club laughing Guru already a member? He has to be a member first before he can attend the event.

    Many thanks.

    Caroline

  4. Hi Frisna,
    Thank you for organizing. Yes please register my name for this gathering. Carly, by the way you may like to know that our Ha Ha Club laughing guru can be Frisna herself when she made us laugh till we drop from our seats on our bus in Yangon if not he could be none other than Frisna second half, Peter and I understand that he is a member. Look forward to the gathering . Cheers..

  5. Hello Fris,

    Eh eh, your sexy buddy, handed me a nice sweet bottle of Pocari yesterday, said “make sure ar, you all go ok”. How not to go? Smart girl, Wah, you choose a date on the very next day of our holiday ar? We’ll come with panda eyes, you know.

    Kekeke sure la, already marked this in my mental calendar ‘reidi!

  7. Yay, my yangon buddy is the first to register. thanks daisy!
    Dear Yatsing: i think it is at least 2 years that i havent met you. looking forward to see you soon!
    Hi Bobby: thanks for clarification. have written to terence n carly for clarification too. so now you are in charge of the ha ha
    Susan: so you will be back on 18th Dec? saw your comments on “audrey” post that u r going to melbourne 18th Dec. don’t tell me there is a double too here! anyway, thanks for the support. panda eyes will be beautiful!
    Hello May, yup sweet n charming i am ha ha. whoever get your present will be very happy. you are so creative n caring!

  8. Hi Frisna,

    We are coming, pls register :
    Marg Tian, Lin Chuah, Juliet SP Ong and Lilian Teo.

    My dear, Susan Tan commented in Audrey Wong”s post is not our
    Susan CH Tan. haha another confusion.

    And I am registering for Juliet SP Ong might also cause another confusion,
    haha, because we have another pretty lady, Juliet Ong,.
    Cheers, hope there is actually no confusion after reading my comments, or more confusion…….sori lah.
    Lilian

  12. Hi EO Frisna,

    Would like to support in the Dec cum X’mas gathering to enjoy the mood of the season festival.

    Thanks for your efforts to arrange the gathering to share with us.

    Cheers

    Judy

  14. Hi Frisna
    Thank you for organising.
    In your earlier comments when I was appointed in the role of “New Members Relations” you have expressed that we should meet to know each other.
    So I have decided to make use of the ” Monthly Gathering” occasion.
    Please register Richard Wong and myself for the event
    Cheers
    Robert Ong

  16. Hello Lilian
    glad you are so chatty here and thanks for bringing friends! will make sure to put SP after Julia’s name!! c u!!

    Hi Lily: it’s ok to be late, the main program will start about 7pm

    Gorgeous G: glad you can make it. looking forward to your “naughty” forfeit/note

    Dear Carly n Dolly: you make the Courageous 4 complete show to the party!

    sweet judy: looking forward to meet you again!

    Hi Ann To: Ah Lee (right name?) makes to no.20 and get the mystery prize but you are juuuust a bit late. but wait….minus me you will be no.20 so still get the gift lah

    Hi Robert: thanks for bringing Richard. Hope you can bring some more guys as the ratio now is 24:6
    Lydia: glad you can make it. will let you know if need assistance.ok

    Hi Everyone: now that we have reached 20pax. the gathering is CONFIRMED ON! Don’t forget to bring a gift to exchange (MIN.$5) and for more fun put a “note/forfeit” inside your gift for receiver to act/do/sing whatever you wrote. thanks

  17. Robert: Oops the ratio is 27:4
    (i wonder where are my friends like Ivan Lim, Dan Huang, Charles Wee, Ronald Wie, Richard Kee, Paul Kong, Mega, Tian Soo, Sam Huat,Abel, Andrew Koh, Andrew Yeung, Boon Liang, Francis M, Hew Lee, Jimmy Tsin, KC Lau,Lawrence Lee, Pat Ooi,Ronald Lam, Thomas Goh, Yew Kwong etc…)

  18. Hi Frisna,

    Ann To is still in her holiday mood….she is registering for me instead of Ah Lee??? Hahaha….sorry for the confusion, will tell her when I am back to office. Thank you for organising this X’mas party. :)

    Ah Nee

  23. Thanks Pat.
    Thanks Lin for registering sweetie pie Nor. with her around the fun will be more!
    Bobby: thanks for registering Agnes. can you bring some guys too?

  24. Dear All
    It’s only 3 days to the closing of registeration. I hope to see more members joining this gathering.
    For those on the registration list, please note that we will have a section of Hans to ourselves (separated from public diners). We might have our own entrance too (left side of the main door)

  27. Hi Frisna,

    Please register me for the pre-Christmas event on Thursday 19 December. Han’s Café reminds me of the former Skillet Coffee House at the former Supreme House in the 70’s when we who were once long-haired groovy ex-students who dug pop, folk and rock music of British invasion icons like Deep Purple, Hollies, Beatles, Amen Corner, Marmalade, Tremeloes, Turtles, Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Cream, Herman’s Hermits, Manfred Mann of Singapore Polytechnic Diploma Courses used to hang out during weekends off our studies with hordes of hippie blue-jean sexy girls having marathon chit chatters all through the nite till Sunday mornings.

  30. Thanks Lin for finding Kristy! Can you find some more members for me especially the guys? hee hee

    Welcome Melissa, Kent, Fida, Dave. I think i have never met any of you. Really looking forward to new faces or non-active members.
    Kent: maybe you can sing or perform the oldies for us on that night?

  36. Hi Frisna

    Sorry we (myself and Dave Chong) have something to attend to on the evening of the gathering and so we are not able to attend.

    We wish all of you have a wonderdul time.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us to all !

    Cheers
    Fida

  37. Hello Steven, long time no see. welcome!
    Janie: sure it’ll be fun esp now participants are reaching 40!
    DT: tq for bringing friend. c u!
    Anne, Richard: looking forward to seeing you too
    Fida: noted. hope to meet you two on other occasion…

  43. Hi All
    remember its Hans PARK MALL!
    The Mgr informed me that the “special room” will be used for staff training until about 6PM so I’d suggest you come earliest 6PM (or else you just wait at the main cafe area ok). the entrance for us will be through the main cafe too as they are “not allowed” to open the separate door for us.
    food can be ordered from 6.15PM onward.
    See you all in 2 days time!!!

    PS: PLEASE BRING YOUR NAME TAG. (if you dont have one, we will put a sticker on any part of your body we deem fit, with your name of course…)

  44. Hi Frisna
    Sorry I have to cancel my attendance for this X’mas gathering. A long time friend just passed on today. Her funeral will be Friday hence need to attend the wake tomorrow night. Will catch up with you another time. All the best.

  45. Hi Frisna,
    Sorry also as I wont be able to attend this gathering as need to attend family errand. Happy gathering to all of you…

    Regards, Dolly

  49. Thanks Frisna for taking time n efforts to organis.this event. Once again, members came together to meet one another and celebrate Xmas. The “pick a member” n introduce him or her to everyone was well received. Members had good laughters too when some of them were being teased. Caroline who was sicked sang us a beautiful Mandarin number.

    Highlight of the nite was gift exchange. There were so many. Even numbers written on them were duplicated. So some lucky guys got 2 instead of 1. Some gifts were accompanied by special requests written on pieces of paper. All will be perfect if the followings had not happened.

    Some gifts were seen lying on the tables which were left behind by members who had left. Why does this happen? I can only assume that the receivers may have forgotten to take them. Or for a better reason one can think of.

    One of the gifts, a consumable product, printed with an expiry date that showed that it was long expired. I can only assume that the date was wrongly printed. The receiver was so disappointed.

    How can such things happened in SHC. I must ask Santa Claus. Have an enjoyable n merry Xmas everyone.

  50. Dear Frisna
    Thank you for organising the X’mas Gathering. As always, its well organised and fun. My apologies for having to leave early because of my bad cough and runny nose etc. I had to attend as I have not seen many of my friends for some time now and also to support your effort. Well done!
    Thank you YK for your kind words. Its a miracle I could still sing after all the hacking cough.
    Carly

  51. 1. Ha ha Janie, it’s fun watching you tickling the “xuai ge”, you must be enjoying it too!

    2. Carly, thank you very very much for supporting me even though you were not feeling well (same goes to Agnes Seow) and thank you for singing to us too

    3. YK: Thank you for putting up your observation & thought.
    We know who the “expired” culprit is. I was thinking of asking that person to clarify (to give “benefit of doubts”) but as you said, I think better just ask Santa and let the matter rest.
    as for the gift exchange confusion, here’s what the assistants said “actually only 2 gifts were extra n they were there after the event and that we gave both to DT (recepient of expired gift). aware there were 2 duplications of “6” which was rectified b4 distribution. if there r any duplication could be “9” read as 6 or vice versa. some members juz picked up the gifts themselves without going through us while we were bizzy sorting out gifts to tally numbers. as such complication occured. in short registration did not do a good job.our apologies”

    I told Ann & Theresa the fault was mainly on me. If I was there earlier we would have time to a) take out the extra numbers b) take out the names who couildn’t come last minute.
    You see i had prepared the bags (names & numbers) for gift exchange, introduction, lucky draw, 1 day in advance and the numbers were upto no.42.
    2 members came but didn’t intend to stay long hence no gifts. yet I had already asked Ann to add 4 extra numbers (Karen’s group) into the gift exchange bag. (Thomas gave 1 extra gift hence we marked it as No.36 & 36A) )then there are 3 persons no show but didn’t inform me. so in short:
    – there are more numbers than gifts (gift exchange)
    – several of the paper with “number” was not drawn (lucky draw) hence the lucky gifts were left on table before Juliet gave them to whoever
    – some names were drawn but the person was not there (Introduction part), those who were there the name was not drawn (including mine)

    I’m supposed to announce for those with “shadow” numbers to re draw but I didn’t hence the confusion.
    For this event, i give myself 5 out of 10 points- not enough laughter and many “oops”

    Nonetheless, I would like to thank the following sponsors (though the value of the gifts are not much but hopefully the aim of ‘everyone get something’ is achieved): ANNIE POW, INEZ LIM, MAY WOO, DORINE TAN, BIRA …

    Also I would like to thank those who put “forfeit” into their gifts.
    the best one is “put an ice cube for 5 min under your arm pit”. (forgot to ask Richard Wong how he feels. I think he should put that gift near his refrigerator and everytime he sees it he will put an ice cube as told…)

    Thumbs up go to Lina (jockey), Yatsing (in heat. should hv asked you to do more acts), Thomas (you were soooo good as an ah kuah), steven chan + Lydia Chin (uncle & auntie), Cat Yeo (10 men signature), Nor (sorry sweetie forgot what you were supposed to do), Peggy+ Lydia (charade) Richard Ong, Mega, Kristy, Ann Lim, Theresa for the jokes.

    Special thanks to Lilian + Juliet for impromptu help in wrapping gift and took care of lucky draw, Bira for the introduction section (am glad there were some perfect matches) also to BOBBY BOK for taking all the pictures (can you download some candid ones here please?). Mega for leading the xmas song and Kent Chan for singing cliff richard’s songs. (wonder why his comments was not posted in this thread. below I copy n paste some part from the email i received)

    To all of those whose names I didn’t mention, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING TO THE PARTY.

    MERRY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

  52. Author : amencorner (IP: 175.156.114.253 , 253.114.156.175.unknown.m1.com.sg)
    E-mail : kentchan@live.com
    URL :
    Whois : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/175.156.114.253
    Comment:
    Thanks Frisna too for taking time n efforts to organise.this event. Once again, members old and new came together to meet one another to celebrate Xmas. They “pick a member” n introduce himself or herself each to everyone as was well received. Members had good laughters too when some of them were being teased. Caroline who was sicked sang us a beautiful Mandarin number.

    I have my fair share of nervousness too, as I tried to break the ice by belting out thinly two familiar hits of Sir Cliff Richard, British veteran entertainer, called Bachelor Boy and Evergreen Tree. Mind you, I am definitely not as prophetic as the Peter Pan Of Pop Music, who has remained as unmarried bachelor till this day, long after being conferred knighthood in October 1995 in England. As for me, I still embrace and encompass the local motion that a wholesome family is still the basic builder and cornerstone of maximizing living and life to the full.
    …

  53. Dear Frisna
    It was my pleasure to sing for all of you. Glad I did not lose my voice completely. Know something, I was hoping my forfeit was to sing a song. Hey! this is a good start. My wish came true :)
    Carly

  54. Hi Frisna
    As usual, I don’t log in to read the SHC post regularly. It has been so many days since I attended your exciting Christmas gathering. I hope it is not too late for me to tell you how much I have enjoyed your event and I really appreciate your organising it. Also, I would like to thank you 2 assistants and those who had in one way or another contributed to the running of the show.

    It gave me an opportunity to meet a few new friends and catch up with some old ones. I was glad to meet some for the second time at the gathering.

    I must say that our SHC’ians were very sporting and ‘kwai kwai’. They did whatever ‘forfeit’ they were asked to do. When Carly sang, we sang along with her. When Kent sang, some also sang along with him. The evening was filled with fun and laughter with your witty witty forfeits and ‘entertainment’. I like the part when you asked us the alphabet of Christmas.

    For the gift exchange, I received a lovely notebook in a lilac leathery cover. I will use it as my SHC log book. I will log in the one dozen events which I have participated in since November 2011. Unfortunately, I was not able to thank the person personally. There was no name on the card. However, I appreciate the blessings written on the card. Thank you, my friend!

    For rating, I would give you 9/10 for delivering a great show! You have put in so miuch time, effort, resources and money into piecing the programme together. In any event, we have to be prepared to make last minute adjustments accordingly. So, it is perfectly normal. You have to change your own rating from 5/10 to 9/10! In my line of work, sometimes the last minute variable adjustments I have to make can be very challenging.

    Lastly, I would like to thank you for graciously allowing me to park and distribute the door gifts (including tickets) for my EC D & D event at your event venue.
    With Heartfelt Appreciation, maywoo

    1. Hi Frisna,

      Although I wasn’t present as the Xmas gathering, I read from May as well as other participants that were were a great entertainer that night. May I ask if you can sing, and doesn’t matter if you had not been a pro, but if you can sing, and with your entertainer skills, I like to discuss with you a Siow2 channel. I am thinking of organising an event for SHCians and other senior members in Singapore.

      Terence Seh

  55. Hi Frisna

    So sorry for my very late thank you. It was indeed my pleasure to attend and support you. I know it takes much effort to organise an event. The little oversight is nothing compared to the fun, laughter and bonding the members had.

    Compliments of the Seasons

    Cheers
    Agnes

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