In everlasting memory of our departed founder, TERENCE SEAH

Dear Members

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our esteemed founder, Mr Terence Seah.  He dedicated 18 years of selfless and tireless effort to maintaining Silverhairsclub.com.

Mr Seah departed us at 12:30am on Saturday, 25 November 2023.  We salute you, Terence, and you will be greatly missed.

Details of Wake and Cremation as follows:

Late Mr Terence Seah Kim Seng

Wake Date:         25 – 28 November 2023
Venue:                 MPH Block 76, Redhill Road, Singapore 150076
From:                   5.00pm onwards

Wake Service at 8.00pm on Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Cremation on Wednesday, 29 November 2023

  • 10:25 am – Encoffining
  • 10:40 am – Cortege leaves Block 76, Redhill Road
  • 11:40 am – Cremation at Mandai Crematorium, Hall# 3

SHC Donation Drive – Year 2023

This Oct is our 18th anniversary. We are now doing a donation drive. If you enjoyed what SHC is doing, you can donate to The SilverHairsClub. All contributions will be published in the Club forum. You can also choose anonymous.

Donations are used to build up our Club fund, club expenses, cover event losses and pay for venue deposits.

Plse PayNow to our Treasurer Dolly Lim’s mobile at 9815 9363.

Donation Fund received as follows.  Thank you for your generous contribution and much appreciated.

No Name Amt ($) Date Recd Remarks
1 Kristy Ng 100.00 8-Oct
2 Shawn Loke 20.00 9-Oct
3 Priscilla Wee 30.00 9-Oct Paylah
4 Valarie Quek 88.00 9-Oct
5 Norlinda 50.00 9-Oct
6 Dorothy Loh 88.00 10-Oct
7 Annie Chua 20.00 10-Oct
8 James Tan JH 50.00 11-Oct
9 Anonymous 100.00 12-Oct
10 Karen Thio 88.00 12-Oct
11 Mr Lee CM, Victor 100.00 13-Oct
12 Joy Tang 50.00 15-Oct
13 Margaret Wong 20.00 15-Oct
14 Lim Mui Hoon 50.00 19-Oct
15 KC Loh 100.00 19-Oct
16 John Chua 100.00 19-Oct
17 June Peh 100.00 19-Oct
18 Andrew Chee 1000.00 19-Oct
19 Anonymous 100.00 19-Oct
20 Ng Chor Ling 20.00 19-Oct
21 Veronica Kok 99.00 19-Oct
22 Chiam Poh Choo 30.00 19-Oct
23 Sarena Teo 30.00 19-Oct
24 Tian Lay Hoon 50.00 19-Oct
25 Peter Yue SK 30.00 20-Oct
26 Evelyn Moh 20.00 20-Oct
27 Aminah Bee 50.00 20-Oct
28 Dolly Lim 200.00 20-Oct
29 Helen Cheong 100.00 22-Oct
30 Gina Tan 100.00 22-Oct
31 Pony Teng 100.00 23-Oct
32 Terry Chun 30.00 27-Oct
33 Kwie Siew Wah 20.00 27-Oct
34 Sandra Chuah 50.00 28-Oct
35 Emily Wong 100.00 31-Oct
36 John Loke 50.00 31-Oct
37 Rina Tay 50.00 31-Oct
38 Sivagamy P. 100.00 31-Oct
39 Thomas Loh 100.00 31-Oct
40 Sekaran 100.00 31-Oct
41 Jane Tan 50.00 31-Oct
42 Louis & Joanna Siah 100.00 31-Oct
43 Pauline Tung 50.00 31-Oct
44 Lim Yoon Chin 117.00 1-Nov
45 Goh Teng Yin 50 11-Nov
Total Amt Collected 4050.00

 

Thank you
Dolly Lim/Treasurer

General Meet-Up @ Hillion Mall – CLOSED

Dear Members,
Glad that to observe members are slowly into adapting this platform to post their events for members’ interests and participation.  However, I also noticed that from the broadcasting emails sending to our all members, majority are not sure how SHC Website’s protocol and sequences of getting used to the SHC Website portal more effectively, hence, i will be making myself available on

Date : 30 May 2023
Venue : Bukit Panjang Hillion Mall Kopitiam Food Court
Address : 17 Petir Road Singapore 678278
Time : 3pm to 6pm
Nearest MRT : Bukit Panjang (Downtown Line)

I will be there waiting for available for meet-up members for follow-up on issues pertaining to the above.  Of course, not forgetting the friendly networking to know each other during this meet

Hope to see you soon

Cheers… Dolly Lim/SHC Admin

Keen to join me, put in the comment and I shall add your names to the list below

1) Dolly Lim
2) Veronica Chua
3) Florence Tay
4) Aminah Bee
5) Howard Yong
6) Sue ChanWN
7) Doreen Ong
8) Chan KN
9) WK Cheng
10) Richard Leen
11) KC Lau
12) Agnes Low
13) Gingko Tay
14) May Lam
15) Pattiya
16) Sally Foo
17) Anthony Chan and wife

 

Free-away preloved MR routers – CLOSED –

Dear Members,
We are able to salvage some MyRepublic working routers to be given away that you might for spare.  All collections will be done either Bukit Panjang or Changi areas (No MRT pick-up please) before I give them away for karung guni man.

Anyone keen, please contact me directly or leave your comments here so I can get back to you for pick up arrangement

Bangkok Trip 26 – 29 March 2023

Updates!!!
Hotel chosen : Ibis Bangkok Siam
Flight Details
26/03 SIN – BKK Scoot608 Depart 0700 Arriving 0830
29/03 BKK – SIN Scoot605 Depart 1455 Arriving 1820

Cost (Flight & Hotel) : $372.15/pax 
a) Based on twin sharing @ Ibis Hotel.  For 1 single, the cost is estimated at $496/pax.
b) Handcarry bag (7kg) only
c) 15kg Baggage, extra charge of $54 for both ways
d) Departing on the next morning timing, will be incurring another $17 extra/pax
e) You will need to get travel insurance individually which we can map out later

Both Pattiya and I are planning a F&E Bangkok Trip from March 26 – 29 2023. This trip will be done solely on own timing/agenda as well as going thru obstacles with public transport – BTS and MRT, buses and others.

Maximum to go : 16 fully paid members (inclusive of Pattiya and myself), we still go ahead even we dont have 16 members.

POIs intended to adventure are as follows:

  1. Iconsiam- White Orchard River Cruise – Dinner Cruise
  2. Leng Saap Restaurant – Strongly recommended by Pattiya for their speciality – Pork Ribs
  3. Maeklong Railway Market (hope tht I got this place right) – interesting place whereby both train and market peddlars are using the same location giving way to each other whenever needed.  A POI that definitely a go.
  4. As for night market, as there are too many locations these days so we will choose 1 once we confirmed the hotel that we intended to stay
  5. Not forgetting spa and massages to look out for too.
  6. For those interested for shopping – maybe can try if 1 can get Korean Hanbo for the coming SHC D&D – Good suggestions right…
  7. For those keen of cafe hunting for coffees and cakes, there will be no short of these too.
  8. Last but not least, night spots to enjoy before we headed home

For 4D/3N, the above POIs will keep us very busy, I am sure.

I will be checking on the airfare/hotel packages thru travel agent first as the last check for online booking for both airfare/hotels will be around $330/pax based on the twin sharing.  My personal preference will be if Travel Agent’s quote is only less more that $50+, we will go for travel agent’s arrangement.  Of course, I am not stopping those to go direct to book online but on 1 clause, try to get the same hotel to save time

I would also like to advise for those going for this trip that have not taken 4th jab, to go for flu jab for protection.

Members going:
1) Pattiya
2) Dolly Lim
3) Alan Ang
4) Cheng WK
5) Terry Chun
6) Lim HP
7) Lawrence
CLOSED…

Hear the calling, All Newbies…. (Closed)

This is posted on behalf of Alice Tan – EO for Newbies Meet-up

Hear the calling, Yes, yes, you did not heard wrongly.

Calling all newbies, let’s gather at Shaw Centre on 16/01/2023, Monday from 6 pm to 9pm to have dinner and chat. Let’s enjoy and have a wonderful evening together.

EO : Alice Tan

ONE NIGHT IN TOKYO – SHC Annual Dinner & Dance

Saturday, 20 August 2022

SRC FoodMenu / Beverage List 1 / Beverage List 2

SRC Seating Arrangement (rev)

Good morning, countdown to SHC DND @ Singapore Recreation Club.

We are publishing the food menu and alcoholic drinks’ price list for your info.

Kindly note that there will be a corkage charge of $30++ per bottle imposed for every bottle that will be brought in on August 20 2022.  However, AhNee has graciously agreed that all drinks ordered will be chargeable and payable to SRC to individual account but at member’s price, ie, the 10% service charge waiver.

https://silverhairsclub.com/?p=46229

DollyL

SHC Cycling – Finally Rolled Out

The long waited SHC cycling event finally went on smoothly on:
Date : 17July 2021
Meeting Point : “Go Cycling” Bike Rental Kiosk
Time : 1630hrs for those that need to rent the bicycle
(Supposed to start at 1700hrs but was slightly delayed as some arrived abit late)
Destination : ECP ===> MBS

A total of 10 members were there to kick start this event:
1) DouglasC – EO
2) Ronald Lam – CoEO
3) AndrewK
4) JasmineW
5) JohnH
6) BobbyB
7) DollyL
8) SereneL
9) LinaN

Sadly that YK was only to meet later on the our return to rental kiosk after cycling.

Despite of slight delay, weather was hot and humid but all members shown great enthusiasm with SereneL started to cycle first with the rest of us followed up later.  Many pics attached can attest.

Bonding can be seen amongst members from the starting point to Tanjong Rhu (1st rest point) finally to MBS.  As much as everyone wanted to mingle around but was constantly kept reminding by DouglasC and RonaldL for safe distancing measures.  Kudos to DouglasC and RonaldL.

While 3 of us continued to cycle further and stopped to watch NDay rehearsal but the rest need to get back to rental kiosk due to time constraint and proceed to have dinner at EC food centre.  As for us, we had a dinner at St Marc while cycling to ECP.

Hope that SHC monthly cycling event will continue henceforth from now… Cheers..

DollyL

SHC MEMBERS’ SURVEY FORM – FEEDBACK REQUIRED

With the current operation of SilverHairsClub, do you think changes need to be done?  If so, what are the changes that you would like to see gradually in the next 5 to 10 years’ time?

SHC need your Feedback. Kindly click this online survey form to give us your honest feedback. We need to be updated in order to bring SHC forward to the next level.

Do rest assured that all inputs are strictly confidential and we abide by the PDPA guideline. No personal information will be compromised.

We do believe some of our members have received this online survey form and submit it. Thank you for the response.  Kindly ignore this message if you have already submitted as we only need one-time submission.

Let’s work together for SilverHairsClub…. Thank you!

DollyL

Zonal Meeting – Boleh Boleh! In The Clementi Mall

The 7th Zonal meet-up managed to make its way on Friday, 16 April 2021 to Boleh Boleh! located at 3155 Commonwealth Ave West #04-20/22, Singapore 129588.  The session starts from 11am and end slightly after 3.30pm with the 2 EOs at their helms to make sure no one was left out.

We had 11 members signed up and all turned up for this makan and friendship bonding.   We had to split into 2 tables to observe safe distancing measures.  They are:-

  • VincentH – EO
  • ChanKH – Co-EO
  • AnneC
  • ChengWK
  • DollyL
  • FongWC
  • JessieO
  • StellaS
  • MargaretS
  • SherryW
  • EveC

Many interesting discussions on wellness & health, tours & holidays and current activities besides Zonal meet-up, were shared and discussed among members.  I must say that mission accomplished for each and every one especially for me, longing for this catch-up with ex-colleague cum friend of 25years, MargaretS was to no avail till now.

Some of us need to leave by 2pm but both 2 EOs together with Cheng were still chatting while waiting for the remaining members to turn up.

Lastly, kudos to VincentH and ChanKN for their efforts towards this meet-up as well as Cheng for his company, we can see from photos of many smiling or laughing faces.  BTW, do make a guess, where and when will the next Zonal meet-up be?  Or why not give us an option or suggestion and liaise with ChanKN and he will create a future meet-up link…  the continuation will be ongoing and happening again…

Cheers… DollyL

Zonal Meet-up Buddy Hoagies Steak & Grill Restaurant (East Point)

The 6th Zonal meet-up finally landed on Friday, 19 March 2021 at 3 Simei Street 6, #02-06 East Point, Singapore 528833.  The session is from 1:30pm – 3:30pm which stretched beyond till 4:15pm.

We had 14 members signed up and turned up for lunch and friendship bonding.  They are:-

  • Chan KN – EO for Table 1
  • Vincent Hee
  • Bobby Bok
  • Doreen Ong
  • Ann Giri
  • John Howe
  • Eve
  • Anne Choi – EO for Table 2
  • Janet Loo
  • Agnes Seow
  • Sandra Chuah
  • George
  • Sherry Wong
  • DollyL

Many interesting discussions on shares, wellness & health, tours & holidays when borders open were shared and discussed among members.  Of cos, not forgetting the affordable set meals at Buddy.  Everyone was too engrossed in the bonding moment where time to leave was no longer important.  hahaha….

But, sad to say, all happy moment still needs to end at 4:15pm.  However, nothing seems to hold back couple of members to accept the invite from AnneC to adjourn to DBR – Home Dining whereby we had a jolly good time served with special brewed healthy blue pea tea and pomelo fruit.

Thank you, AnneC and ChanKN for making this meet-up possible as we can see from photos of many smiling/laughing faces.  Don’t believe, see for yourself lor…

Cheers… DollyL

A Fruitful Outing to Kampung Kampus – Home of GUI

Saturday, 23rd January 2021

A group of 6 members consist of ChanKN, MelissaK, FredaL, JasmineW, VincentH and DollyL visited to GUI (Ground-Up Initiative) Singapore 21st Century “School of Life’ in a nature-inspired campus this morning guided as promised by DennisH which ended with fantastic lunch there too.

Each and every one was extremely excited along with way while DennisH patiently guiding and showing us his very own vermicomposting project.  Vermicomposting is a decomposition process by which various species of worms are used to convert organic materials (usually wastes) into humus-like material known as vermin-compost which can possibly use on farms.

Followed by to a quick look at a self-made kitchen where one can enroll in baking.  Today, they were baking pineapple tarts and pizza using traditional Tabun oven – a clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom from which to stoke the fire…  Fascinating is the word that I wanted to use to describe this.

Then, a walk to vegetable garden plot whereby vegetables and spices are being grown there.  As usual, shopping seems to be always an interest to us, so some bought organic veggies, gingers and chikus at a reasonable price.

Next, we saw a group of volunteers washing lots of plastic bottles and containers for recycling.  Currently, they are only able to use #2 – HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) plastic most commonly used and is considered one of the safest forms of plastic.  Was told that they are in the midst of asking for funding to procure a machine to be able to recycle other different types of plastics.  Good Luck.. Type #2 plastic after washed can be re-make into coaster for cups and kettle holders.

GUI also make sure that kids are not being left out too, we strolled along another plot of land whereby playground were built into look-alike construction site (kids’ version) so that these kids were given hands-on working experience together with adults.  Along the way, we noticed Woodcraft classes being conducted.

I am sure that we had covered almost everything we wanted to know or maybe I can hear my stomach calling out for lunch.  WaHaHa… LUNCH TIME!!!

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to DennisH whom had given us much of his informative details and the patience he had shown as we were busy taking many photos.

DollyL

Zonal Meeting @ NEX – 28 December 2020

Our 4th Hangout at Food Junction – NEX with EO Melissa Khng assisted by ChanKN [from 11:30am to 03:00pm].

Our darling, EO Melissa, was there at 10:45am, putting bag, water bottles to chop 3 section of 6-pax seating arrangement to ensure that all members can be seated comfortably upon their arrival.  But, regret to say that at times, situation just not in our favour, so, very unreluctantly, we finally decided to say bye bye to 1 section as the lunch crowds kept increasing and every eyes were staring at our sides liao… paiseh lah!

At strike of 12.15pm, members were seen coming towards us with Melissa busy allocating seats for them since there was only 9 seats reserved instead of the original 15.  Then came a member with shiny armour (Bobby Bok) had graciously offered to buy each and every member a drink.  Sue Chan and Lina Ng were also sharp enough to spot on another table near to us to make the group complete in 1 corner.  It was indeed a show of cooperation among these members to ensure a safe distancing.

What happened next – Aiyo!!!  Of cos, chatting, networking and taking of photos lah.. and not forgetting our lunches too.  It was indeed an afternoon well spent.  Till we meet again…

Cheers!
Dolly Lim

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

Where were we on Christmas Eve?

We (Chan Keng Ngee, Katherine, Laura Wee, Jasmine Wong, Sandra Chuah, Lydia Chin, Annie Seah and me la) spent our morning touring Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore.  Officially opened on 18 April 2015.

The Museum currently has more than 560,000 catalogued lots in its collection and over a million specimens from throughout the region and about 2000 of these are exhibited in the museum’s galleries.

Everyone had a wonderful time walking thru these history memory lanes and also busy taking photographs to showcase too…

We initially scheduled to leave around 12 noon for our lunch but was delayed till 2pm as there were more to cover but time was not at our side as we can heard our stomach crying for food liao.

Eateries around NUS were either not opened to public or too much R&R to follow so we finally landed in Alexandra Village for our lunch.

Many thanks to ChanKN for making this trip possible as he got discounted lobang for entrance tickets.  Till the next outing…

Cheers!
Dolly Lim

Monthly Gathering : 27 December 2020 (2.00pm to 5.00pm)

Monthly Gathering amidst the Zoom Holiday – Keen? Well, I am and if you also as keen as I do.  Let’s keep 27 December 2020 from 2.00pm to 5.00pm for this…. See you soon ya…

Do join us on the last Sunday Gathering of Year 2020. Bring along your own kakis to chit-chat or celebrate this year end inside Main Room or a Private Room either to reminisce year 2020 on what is your greatest achievement or happy moments in sharing with your SHC Buddies : You name and you have it lor..

So this happened to be on 3rd day of Christmas… be it a partridge, 2 turtle doves and 3 French hen… tell us what your loved ones sent to you or have done for u…

But of course, if you have any other suggestions, share with me lor… otherwise, this is a free-for-all meeting. Looking forward to C U all this Sunday.

EO – Dolly Lim

Talk3 Talk4 on Minimalism (Zoom Chat – August 14 2020)

Hi All members,
I would be glad that you are able to attend this 14 August 2020 Zoom Chat from 1-2pm to touch on this topic.

This is an interesting topic to discuss on

  1. Why someone’s trash can be somebody’s treasures.
  2. Go Green
  3. Excessive buying? – Do you really need them
  4. Other topics which can be discussed.

In conclusion, whether or not, you become any form of minimalist is entirely up to each individual. But I would definitely love to hear from you..

Cheers… See you this Friday… Dolly

What I had learnt from e-Commerce lately

Dear Members,
Due to Covid-19 pandemic and its uncertainty routes of recovery, many are plagued with lots of issues : lesser job opportunities, reduced workday/salaries and/or retrenchment as employers are facing the same fate as we do.

Thus, so much uncertainties and lots of times on hand, I had been scouting around for other sources of incomes and e-Commerce is 1 platform that I had been actively looking into but regret to say that it had not been very fruitful to me. Let’s share my personal insights with regards of the e-Commerce platform.

There are numerous ways to go around e-Commerce which I tried

1) Attending free and/or paid webinar talks by those experienced pioneer players whom had been successful in their days and now just get income thru seminars/courses to earn their dues.

2) Tap on those current well establishment sites (Lazada, Q00, Taobao, and many times) but each individual sites have their own R&R to follow. Except for Taobao that I am more keen to join but to a standstill right now as I was unable to reach some general consensus with the suppliers, eg, prices, deliveries, stock management inventories and last but most important, payment. As travel is currently out of reach, I will need to kiv this project till time permits me to do so again.

3) In my opinion, these days, some e-Commerce sites also practised almost similar business strategies like MLM but those so-called up-lines these days do not enjoyed as much earnings as those MLM in earlier days which make it more challenging for us to partake. I had also in mind 1 or 2 products/ sites which I am still considering. But most important is that, we must learnt not to be so gullible as to believe that this will be a easy route to success – As this platform still need a small capital to start up with. Also, should I decided to join these, must be prepare to work very hard so as to achieve my goal.

After a breakfast meeting with a close girlfriend this morning which she was layoff recently and driving grab right now. She shared her experiences on e-Commerce. All she said is that I must be prepared for time/monies wasted should these e-Commerce turned out to be fruitless. Hence, in conclusion, I had decided to hold on till I am ready to do so.

That’s all l want to share. Kindly note that these are my own personal views only.

Thank you… Dolly

Sharing/Giving @ Zoom

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LMMhQRkzOLvPAEDQT3j5KwFutP50kcA2?usp=sharing

Since there is no taker here, I will be giving them away thru FB now.  I will be deleting this post by April 23 2020 by 5pm.  Thank you

Dear Members,
I have numerous ‘white elephants’ which is my trash now but someone’s treasures to be shared here. But I would like to share these giveaways during the Zoom session. Pictures will be added in later

However, I would prefer these to be given away to those members that I can see them via Zoom even though I might not have meet you in person before. If any members see anything you like here, you may want to consider to meet me in Zoom. I have yet to plan a date for this. But my preferred timing will be after 7pm weekdays. I will definitely choose a day whereby most members can meet me lor.. These giveaways will be mailed out once you are selected, however, you will need to pay for postage and other expenses incurred. Rest assured there will be no overcharged as I gave away very often thru my FB page. But for this time, I decided to give a try at SHC instead

Till then… Cheers… Dolly

A Visit to Sembawang Hot Spring Park

Date : March 5 2020
Time : From 12noon till 4.00pm – You can leave anytime you like..

Planning to go for Sembawang Hot Spring Park since it last re-opened for public but always no time to do so. But for now, it seems to be a fairly good idea to pay a visit to enjoy natural hot spring.

Those members with the same mindset as I, are welcome to join me to have a dip in the hot spring water for 10 – 20mins, boil eggs? and etc…

What to bring?
Towels, swimsuit, extra clothings, footwear and umbrella and not to forget drinking water. You may also need to bring plastic carriers to keep those wet towels, swimsuit and clothings.

Then after soak/dip followed shower, we can proceed to have tea with cakes.

See you when I see you there.. Cheers… Dolly

Login to SHC Website, Password Issues

Dear Members,

We are aware that some new members are facing some related issues of Login to SHC Website, Password Issues as well as Own Profile’s info need to be changed but somehow, cant seem to be able to do so.

I was aware that some members did tried called to me previously but regret to say that I was unable to attend all calls as I was either working or running some errands of which I don’t access to either my mobile or laptop. Also coupled the fact that I am lousy at multi-tasking too. As such, I am going to make myself available on February 21 2020 (which is also the February monthly gathering) from 6pm onwards to walk thru the steps with you should any assistances needed. My senior, YoonChin, also will be present to guide me too.

Hope, by doing so, every members will be able to login at SHC website from time to time to participate and organise any events which you may interest in.

Cheers.. Dolly/Club Admin

SHC Monthly gathering 21 Feb 2020

For the attention for members attending this gathering : Kindly look into the list of food/fruits that some members already committed to bring as we will prefer not to have too much of the same kind. There is no restriction of how much you wanted to bring but you can based on your own judgement on the list of foods below. Thank you

Date : Friday 21 Feb 2020
Time : 6.00pm to 10.00pm
Venue : Maplewoods Condo, Function Room, 985 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 589627
MRT : King Albert Park MRT
Buses : To Be Updated Later
For those driving, you can park at condo’s car park

We will make this gathering to be a pot luck event, thus, each member will need bring 1 dish for 5paxs. However, we do not encourage repetition of same kind. Hence, kind understanding much appreciated.

As Condo’s management has a rule to maintain the maximum pax’s allowable at the function room is 50 only. So, we would appreciate that your keen participation to be registered early so as to secure a seat for this gathering. Coupled the request from Condo Management, we will also need to maintain the cleanliness of the Function Room after use. See you soon..

PS: Those wanted to swim before the gathering, you are welcome to do so too. And for those keen to have a game of squash and/or tennis, please indicate here too so that Stella can help to book these facilities.

And those music lovers, regret to say that there will be no karaoke facilities inside Function Room, however, feel free to bring your mini equipments with either CDs/VCDs or USB so that you still can enjoy music and dancing too.

Keen members, please start your registrations here now…

Cheers… Dolly Lim

Dear Members,
Happy Lunar New Year 2020 and to start with this prosperous Lunar year and with the kind offer/help from Stella, whom will be booking the condo’s function room to make this event possible, we shall have our February monthly gathering. Details stated below:

  1. Dolly Lim – Curry chicken
  2. Stella Sheng
  3. Caroline Gee –  home stewed pork fried bihun
  4. Karen Thio & maid – Mini cupcakes
  5. Nellie Teo
  6. Catherine Chng
  7. Michelle Sim
  8. Graham
  9. Doris Graham – Fried Rice
  10. Richard Wong – Roast Duck
  11. Yoon Chin
  12. Oliver Chiang
  13. Anne Marie Low
  14. Lina Ng – Fried mee siam
  15. Bobby Bok
  16. Gerry Ong – Roasted chicken
  17. Elaine Kong – Some home-cooked food to be advised later
  18. Nelly Soh – Kueh binka 7″
  19. Lim Kim Eng – Fruits
  20. Doris Tan Bee Yen – Pizza
  21. Rosalyn Khoo
  22. Helen Chiew
  23. Juliet Say – Thai Mango Salad
  24. Diana Ng
  25. Christina Pan – Need to change the item for pot luck
  26. Doreen Chan
  27. Harry Lim
  28. Pauline Khoo
  29. More to come?

Happy Lunar New Year…

Lunar New Year have always been celebrated by Chinese community for many centuries and is an important occasion to have close bonding with children, grand-children, parents and grand-parents together for grand reunion.  Not forgetting to visit friends and relatives too for long lasting friendship/fellowships. – I have numerous new friends added on my list this year thru SHC and likewise, I am sure that most of you feel the same.

On behalf of SilverHairsClub, we like to take this opportunity to wish all members and families a healthy and happy Rat Lunar New Year.  It would be nice to see how interesting we can be as we enjoy our SilverHairs years along the way.  Share with us here if you can. We are waiting to hear from each and every one of you too. 

And for those members whom have been inactive for some time due to other commitments previously, do take this occasion to wish fellow members seasons’ greetings.  We want to hear from you.

A Happy prosperous New Year to everybody.  Here we share our thoughts and exchange our greetings too… Starts the ball rolling…

Club Admin – Dolly Lim

Job vacancies for F&B Industry

Vacancies in F&B catering industry. Do you have anyone who is interested to join?

Catering co in Payar Lebar/Aljunied hiring urgently, available to start immediately. 6 days/wk. Meals provided.

1) Driver
2) Sous chef
3) Commis Chef
4) Dishwasher

Those interested members, please contact Liv directly at 81119209 for more details as this lobang was passed to me from another SHC member.

Cheers… Dolly

Certificate in Tours & Travel Services For Tour Leader

Terence, this is not advertisement but a SkillsFuture Credits for those retired or semi-retired or like me, thinking of retiring and don’t want to be idling around and hope to try our hands on new venture.  After all, most members are into travelling so this could be an interesting subject to learn too…

Dear Members,
Rosalind Lee had actually shared this in SHC FB Page and felt that it would be also good to share this info here.

The above is 2 days and best still, Eligible for SkillsFuture Credits.  From the poster given, this seems to be an interesting course for some of us to attend.  Understood that there will be session on 27-28 Sept and subsequently 7-8 Oct and 14-15 Oct respectively.

I wish to attend this too but not on weekends as I have other family commitments to attend.  Any others to join too?  All current dates given above, I am unable to attend.

All details are listed in the posted attached.

Thank you and cheers… Dolly

AIC (Agency For Integrated Care)

Hi everyone, it had been very long time since I last written post here.  So now, I am writing and hope this article will be of some help to others too as these had helped me.

When my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer during Oct ‘2013 and we were totally clueless as to what were the grants that we can apply to ease our burden.  Eventhough during that period of time, many emphasizes were on Pioneer generation but unfortunately, was time was not on my dad’s favor.  Well, that was history now.. so we will  skip this part.

My dad passed on Oct 2014 and shortly after that my mum’s health deteriorated and from then till now, she had been through 1 stroke and 3 seizures attacks which lead to totally bedridden now.  But this time, we were much well informed thru news, community centres and hospital on the AIC grants.

Through all these info given, we are told that we can apply for the following grants

  1. PioneerDAS : For Pioneer born before Year 1950 -$100/mth till as long as alive
  2. Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW) grant – Cash assistance of $120/mth for family who hires a FDW to care for patient
  3. FDW levy concessions for persons with disabilities (PWD) – Lower monthly concessionary FDW levy of $60 instead of $250
  4. Interim disability assistance programme for the Elderly (IDAPE) – Cash assistance of $250 or $150/mth for up to 72mths for disabled elderly

More information can be found at www.pioneers.sg, www.silverpages.sg and www.mov.sg  related to all these grants.  FYI, we applied and we got approved for these grants.

AIG also provide

  1. Care at home : Eldersitter Service, Home care and Senior home car – As we did not used these services, I am not sure and cant provide much info too.
  2. Centre-based care : Day rehabilitation, day care and dementia day care : We tried a few times but my mum was not so cooperative with the social worker and she prefered to stay at home hence, we also dropped out 2mths later.
  3. Caregiver Training Grant allows we to tap on an annual $200 subsidy to attend approved training course for better : This was very good as we send our domestic help to attend on managing an elderly’s day-to-day and preventing falls and home safety.  Both my sister and our helper had benefited from this training to be able to attend to my mum’s daily needs.
  4. There are some basic necessities, such as wheelchairs, air mattress, commode, walking sticks – All can be purchased at 10-50% discounts depending on feedback from the medical social worker assigned to access the patient’s condition – For my mum’s condition, we only paid 10% of the total cost.  Diapers also can be purchased at their designated stores.
  5. Even patient with permanent catheter, they even assigned qualified nurse from SNF to attend at patient’s home every 2 to 3mth interval at subsidised rate.  Cant remembered how much we paid but I am sure it was less than $30.
  6. Given my mum’s condition, we also applied for home medical care which mean that we can request the Doctor to attend my mum at our home once her medication is below 2 weeks’ usage at $25/trip except for CT and MRI  as these need to be performed at site.

I am sure that there are other services that AIC provided – but just that, we only took these options so I can only share these info.  Our encounters (my family members and me) with AIC had been a very fruitful as we had some financial help and other services/training given to 3 of us, i.e. my sister, me and our helper.

Hope some will find this useful when needed.

Regards… Dolly

 

A Christmas Hope…… For someone….

Dear Members,

http://www.wcvb.com/news/girl-who-lost-family-in-fire-has-1-wish-christmas-cards/36855098

Both Karen and me had shared this in our Facebook but I think that we still wanted to share her request here in Silverhairs website to garner more hope for this little girl during this Christmas session.  I believed many might already had seen this request if you are a facebook user but is still worth a try here, right… Thank you.

Not sure if this request is even permitted to post here but will give a try – Admin, if you think that this is not appropriate, feel free to delete..

Cheers… Karen & Dolly

Raymond Final Farewell

Raymond Tang Chew Weng passed away peacefully on Friday October 24th, 2014 at home. He was born February 4th, 1948.

Raymond Tang

The wake will be held at Blk 729 Woodlands Circle until Tuesday October 28th, 2014 at 10.45am. He will then be cremated at Mandai Crematorium

Raymong Tang was known to us as one of a few SHC members who dedicated his own time and finance in teaching other willing members on golf. He used to spent many weekday evenings at Marine, Sebawaing and Mandai in sharing his golfs’ skills and knowledge with a group of SHC members. We hereby wish him farewell to a journey well travelled

Best regards,
Dolly

Used Authentic Coach Handbag TBB

Hi All,
Please refer attached and kindly note that this handbag is still in useable condition except that the inner lining is abit dirty due to long use… just need a good wash/dry clean and it will be as good as new…. I choose who to bless for this item…Pick up at Bukit Panjang and dont propose any other options for me please…   Comment here if keen… Cheers.. Dolly

Used coach hbag