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Hi

I would like to keep up with my golf game when I’m in S’pore. Is anyone interested in playing golf in Johore or at the executive public courses in S’pore? It’s nice if there is a ladies or mixed group formed. Is there any SHcian who can arrange golf+transport to places where fees are reasonably cheap and where we can play?

Cheers

Joan

The SilverHairsClub.com website is very well visited by thousands of Singaporeans and the internet community.  It is SHC’s home.  It serves as a platform and a venue for SilverHairs to meet new and more friends.  SHCians can organise events at any venue, and use SilverHairsClub.com as the communications medium.  SHCians can share their thoughts, organise their special interests groups, discuss private business ideas, plan games, talk retirememnt plans, travel, etc.  There is almost no restriction, except for the club taboos.

A number of SHCians as well as external organisations have asked to place their events or information about their activities on our website.   Some organisations have also asked members to help place promotional and marketing informaton here.  A couple of members get pretty angry and nasty when their requests are rejected.  And, some even challenge the decision, as the use of this forum is free.   Some members do view that promotion of external organisations or services is for information of members, and it is their right to dessiminate the marketing or promotion informaton.  We do not have companies as members; only individual memberships.

As a guide, we draw a line between clear advertising vs venues/activities organised by members.  Very often, the line cannot be easily distinguished.  We are always supportive of Event Organisers EOs, who organise activities for members, and as such, there may be a cross-over the line.  As such, decisions to publish any promotional or advertising materials are final.  This website is free for members to use; and I would ask all members to note that advertising on the website is not allowed.

Terence Seah

Hi All

If free with nothing to do on Sun 15 Nov, drop by at my condo flat to participate in or just watch artists at work. It’s a very informal gathering and perhaps a chance to meet SHCians who I haven’t met or to meet up again.

Two art classes are organised: Starting at 1 pm – 3 pm is a Batik Painting course which is of 2 parts, with the 2nd part from 3.30 – 6.30 pm. From 3 – 6 pm is Painting on small brush or mirror. Both classes are taught by art teachers who are friends of mine.

If you are interested to learn other things or perhaps to get a designer to do flyers, wedding cards or a collage of your photos for your travels etc, you may be able to meet people who can assist you.

Just let me know so that I’m aware of the number coming. You can email me at joanwong2002@hotmail.com  ( after 4 Nov as I’m back in S’pore then).

Cheers

Joan (Perth)

Dear all,

I have wirtten a post yesterday morning but discovered now that it’s content is empty pending review. There is a bug in the system.

So here goes again…

1. Instead of organising our own meeting this month, I am inviting our kakis and those who are interested in investing to join a talk on 24 Oct 09 at Phillip Investor Center at Shan Rd/Balestier RD from 9.30am to 12.30pm. It is free, and light refreshment will be served. I will conduct training on POEMS for those who are keen and willing to stay back for 30mins after the meeting. Plse reply to this post, thanks.

2. I have started Twitter braodcast and you are invited to "follow me" for stock market news, stock alerts, US indexes and STI directions, stock chart analyses, US econmic data, etc. You can join Twitter at www.twitter.com and "Search" for benfoo88 and "Follow Me" and read all my braodcasts or tweets. This is faster and I will try to keep it short and relevant to help you in the decisions to invest. I have made some recommendation before opening yesterday morning after the STI trashing on Monday and DOW trashing last Friday.

Cheers, Ben

Hi Silver Hair Buddies

If you have spare time, wish to do something meaningful from home, likes to talk on the phone and yet have the flexibility of choosing your work hours, this is the job for you.  Minimum 20 hours per month.  

Industry : Beauty n Spa

The job description of the marketing assistant is as follows :

1. Email and fax product brochures to potential clients.
2. Follow up with phone call to make appt on behalf of field sales person.

Attributes of an ideal candidate :

1. Possess good communication skills.  Members who have performed Sales, Marketing or Customer Service roles are ideal.
2. Able to handle rejection
3. Ability to follow through on an assigned task with the end in mind
4. Bilingual in both English and Mandarin preferred
5. Has basic computer skills on usage of email, web browser and Microsoft Office applications
6. Prefers someone who owns a fixed line phone and computer

If interested, please email to me at "hjwong29@gmail.com" and leave me your contact.  I will call you back as soon as possible.

Hi All

This is prompted by Jassmine’s post on Barter …… and the suggestions that she raised. I believe that some had shown interest in my earlier post of opening my place for learning activities but then changed my mind. The reason was chiefly I spend very little time in Singapore and therefore unable to manage any activities held there. I hope to be able to manage this better with some help and my longer presence back.

Those who wish to visit my place to see if they like to conduct things there can let me know.

To kick off this is the first activity:

Course: 4 hr Batik Painting for beginners

Dates: Nov 8 & 15 ( 9 – 11 am) or Nov 22 (  8am – 12nn)

Fee: $40

Regards

Joan

Venue: my condo flat

Afternoon classes can be arranged instead.

Currently, we have two active roles taken up by Yew Kwong and Dolly Lim.  The roles are Website administration and Club manager.  Both roles will run until end of 2010.

There are two other active roles, and they are  the Pictures Manager and the Calendar Manager.  The Pictures manager role is held by Oi Cheng, and this role will end its term in Dec 2009.  The other role of Calendar Manager is held by Dolly Lim; and this role also expires in Dec 2009.  Both Dolly and Oi Cheng have fulfilled the functions very well; no complaints.

Meantime, we will be looking for SHC members who are willing to manage one of these two positions in Jan 2010.  Likely to be someone with time at hand, loves fiddling with internet work, known to other members and pretty active getting to know people and joining the different activities.

Terence Seah

Hi

I’m interested in learning beadwork and am trying to arrange for lessons in Nov/Dec. If you like to join in the class, email me at joanwong2002@hotmail.com

Joan

For some time, I have been looking for an icon to represent a SHCian.  At first, I wanted to select a picture from our large collection of photos taken during events.  I thought over it, and decided otherwise.  It would be a tough job.  Then, I might offend someone. 

Maybe a caricature would be good, but then, I am not sure who among us can do the drawing job.  Last night, I came across a website www.mywebface.com which allows any creative person to generate a cartoon from a set of simple tools. 

My hope is to have one male and one female icon to represent SHC members on the website as well as other promotional materials.  If you are creative and like to take the challenge, and like to raise your hand to produce a pair of SHC icons, I would really appreciate it.

Terence Seah

by Serene Low / Joyce Tan in SHC main bulletin, Walking
Date: 12 September 2009 (Saturday)
Meeting Place: Kembangan MRT control station
Start Time: 4.30pm
EOs for this walk: Serene Low and Joyce Tan
 
The walk from the MRT would be along the canal of Frankel Estate and St. Patrick Secondary School towards the overhead bridge that connects Marine Parade Estate to the East Coast Park Beach. 
 
Along the beach, you will see lots of picnickers, cyclists, joggers and roller skaters; you will feel the sea breeze, the ships lining up at the horizon and the richness of green matured trees giving us shades. Further down the walk, you will reach the activities section like the Cable Ski Park, the Skateboard Park, the anglers at the jetty.  Looking towards inland, you will see the skyline of East Coast with the many condominiums, HDB flats and the city front. 

We can walk a little further down to see the Bougainvillea garden with many colors of the flowers.  You may take notes on how you can grow the plant by transplant on sandy soil and cocoa pits; or if you want a multi color flowering specie, try marcotting the various species on the stems of an anchor plant which could produce the multi-color effects of the Bougainvillea plant. 
 
Walking back towards the ‘East Coast Lagoon Food Village’ try the famous rojak, cuttlefish kangkong, satay beehoon, sambal stingray and many others.  It can be very crowded though.
 
There is a feeder bus 401 that can take you to Bedok Interchange.  It travels thru part of Marine Parade Road, Siglap Road, New Upper Changi Road and ends at Bedok Interchange. 

Do bring along your drinking water, an umbrella (for rain or sun), repellent, sun block, camera, cap and wear comfortable walking shoes. 

See you at the walk!

Other Walk Team members: Christina CL Chan, Andrew Thio, Charles Wee, Charles Chua, Veronica Wong, Jeffrey Lim, Mary Tan

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Thus far 2 small groups have been to yunnan this year. Below is a simple write up by Victor Wee, his thoughts on the trip for those who need to know abit about Yunnan and wish to join future trips. There should be another one in October 2009. If you wish to go, please email me so that we can keep you informed which is better than referring to the posting.

There are some inquiries regarding doing volunteer work, teaching life skills, english or even doing simple, non competitive and non-stressful golden age business so as to have something to indulge in traveling. Again please email me at ethniceast@gmail.com if i do not yet have your email address.  

Another thought floating around is the idea of short term stay and retreat living in "eternal spring Yunnan" where everyday is spring. There should be a link below where you can sight some of the photos, till we hear from you……

About Our Trip………….

Yunnan is situated on a plateau and surrounded by mountains mainly. The temperature during summer is about 24 Deg C and 5 Deg C in winter. It does not snow in the region, nevertheless the mountains would be snow capped. The climate is comfortable enough in summer seldom above 27 Deg C. The region is at an altitude of 1200 to 3000+ m above sea level from Kunming to Zhongdian (Shangri-La).

Return airfare from Singapore to Kunming ranges from $600 to $900 depending on whether high or low seasons and Airline companies. The very low fare of $382 is more a bonus. Taxi fare within the city starts at 8Yuan.  On average to places we frequent it ranges from   15 – 20Yuan. Public buses are very affordable at 1Yuan (we had not tried).

Inter-cities coaches cost about $25 and are very comfortable. The toilets at the pit stop needs getting use to. Interstate train travel on first class sleeper is about $35 and comfortable. The toilet on board is good enough but will need a bit of balancing act and squatting skills. The road and rail network are impressive considering this being a less developed area.

Meat and vegetables are readily available. Fish and prawns are the freshwater types with limited variety. This is not the place for seafood lovers. Vegetables are always fresh and plentiful. Wild mushrooms are wonderful, great for steam boat, but need to wait till raining seasons. Eating out and socializing is a must even for work and business.

The food prepared here are from what’s available in the markets.  You can have your meal from the roadside stall at about 3 Yuan or 20 Yuan at restaurants. Food is generally stir fried and is swimming in oil.  The oil used is rapeseed oil (not the best but I supposed it suites them well). Beer is at 3.50 Yuan per bottle. Rice noodle is a more common staple than grain rice. Beef is plentiful and appears to be the predominant meat next to pork. In the old part of Dali and Lijiang, dinning by the waterway is most interesting by day and night.

Serviced apartments in Kunming cost $50 per night .The comfort level is like 4 star.

Living in court yard inns in the old city of Dali and Lijiang cost $25 per night and was indeed a memorable experience.

There are plentiful shopping areas. In Kunming, the shopping facilities are like Home.

In Dali and Lijiang old town, the shopping is a world of its own where merchandise are sold in preserved ancient shop houses. Window shopping is also satisfying if you have no more money left. Leather (Ox or Yak leather) goods are indeed worth buying (ask the ladies on the trip). Bright spectrum of colors of the merchandise reflects the many ethnic groups of the region. Lijiang is very crowded on all days.  The crowd is like that of our Chinatown, and during holiday period, like Disneyland theme park. Dali is like Lijiang but a smaller scale and less crowded

Not much to say here except that TCM facilities and pharmacies are readily available.

Farming is all around and your waste would be put to good use.

Trekking will leave you no time for anything else.

Photography will run you out of memory space.

Language will keep your tongue twisted with the countless dialects. There are 25 ethnic nationalities here in Yunnan. Even yunnanese is a dialect in China.

Foodies will be well lubricated at toilet breaks sometimes overly. Need getting used to it and according to the season of the year. Every other taste here needs to be acquired.

In Lijiang visit the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Region and enjoy the fresh mountain air.

Watch the ever popular cultural show at the foothills and explore the region on horseback.

In Dali try the chairlift up the Cangshan mountains ridge.

In Kunming visit the Minority Village and be prepared to spend half a day. The Stone Forest region and Jiu Xiang (Stone Cave) will take a full day.

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Date: 1 August 2009 (Saturday)

Meeting Place: Bishan MRT nearby control station

Start Time: 4.30pm             
Duration:  about 1 1/2 hours  

EOs for this walk:  Jeffrey Lim and Charles Wee

Bishan to Peirce Reservoir Boardwalk

The walk will be in 2 parts. The first which many of you would be familiar with – Bishan Park, a very easy ‘civilised’ route on paved footpaths but nevertheless pleasant, amongst lots of greenery.

The second part will be across Thomson Road to Peirce Reservoir where we will walk along the water’s edge. The path though will be easy along the board walk with water on one side and forest on the other. The final stage will be through the forest but still along the board walk ending at Old Thomson Road.

Bring drinking water, an umbrella (for rain or sun), mosquito
repellent, camera, cap and wear comfortable walking shoes.  Note that
while mosquito repellent may be a good general precaution, liberal
doses may drive away insects that you wish to observe!

Walk ends at Old Thomson Road and for those who wish to, can adjourn for dinner at the Casuarina Road, the famous roti prata or the adjacent zhi char.

See you at the walk!

Jeffrey Lim, Charles Wee and other Walk Team members:  ChristinaCL Chan, Veronica Wong, Mary Tan, Charles Chua, Joyce Tan & Serene Low

Registration starts here :

1. Maureen Lee
2. Juliana Kok
3. Lee Seok Cheng
4. Christina Chan WH
5. Jeffrey Lim
6. Charles Wee
7. Veronique Lee
8. Grace Wong
9. Daniel Ong
10. Mary Chan
11. Ann Bok
12. Alan Bok
13. GabriellaChua
14. ChristinaPan
15. Lena Ho
16. Joyce Tan
17. Patsy
18. Shu Moo Yong
19. Lee King Seng
20. Christina CL Chan
21. Pauline Chew
22. Paul Kong
23. Peggy
24. Pearl Goh

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