Hi everybody,
Based our registration desk, handled by Grace Wong and Janet Heng, 130 SHCians attended the June gathering at Hans Cafe last night.
There will be a few sets of photos, and they will be added here over the next few days. Hope you have enjoyed the company of fellow SHCians; and that you will have found new friends to enable you to pursue your interests. Go cycling, walking, travel, dancing, chatting, afternoon, invest, make your own jewellery, origami, gosh, name it. … Make your SilverHairs years more meaningful and fun.
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Click here for the first set.
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For second set.
Cheers. And, am hearing oldies "San Francisco", "Danny’s song" and "Puppy Love" over the radio this morning.
Terence Seah
Hi Ah Nee and all, who have asked me questions through email.
Picture that SHC has a clubhouse from Sept 12 and 13th and has functions room, swimming pool, karoake room , kitchen etc, like a real Resort even with golf, and boating.
So now we want to operate this clubhouse and we know EO (Event organisers or managers) to run the various facilites for the 3 days. Maybe if there is someone who can provide massage service you can also rent the room to offer your service.
So Ah Nee , is the picture a bit better now. So for example let say you and Lina wants to have a small tea party at the bungalow and have a cooking demo, so you book the kitchen from 10am Sat to 12 Sat . After that you can go for bicyle ride and come back for a swim etc, and maybe even join the night Karaoke and dance. Karen may use the time slot from 12 to 2 pm for her Craft making lessons, and then go bowling /tennis, can come back for swim.
So exactly it is like as though SHC has a clubhouse for the weekend for many people to enjoy various activities. For me I will play morning Par 3 golf from 7 am to 9 am, then a little badmintion then join the lunch at cafe of if anyone is cooking lunch. Followed by the night Karaoke and dance, and overnight binge with Terence etc. HOpe this open up more ideas.
Hi! Tim,
Most of us had survived three quarter of our life, rather to get more friend instead of enemy in the rest of life. I also don wish to live for too old, can live till the day to draw my CPF & let me enjoy for few year is good enough. heee..
Thank for being my friend…Take Care!
Judy.
Heee, Judy-L, so official with your reply to me that makes me also wanting to be official with you. No lah, I wont be ossified to turn officious with you when you hv won me and many others over with yr soft touch, flittingly or otherwise.
You also wrote ” (will) always try to memorize their name & look for life unless the person no longer treat me as friend…….”. I like that and yes, you’re my friend. According to official statistics, our lives can be very long hor………
Hi ! Tim #16
Sorry for late reply as never log in the website for pass wk.
Kindly be informed that your name had been mentioned in my post, is not becaused you “hand fliffingly” with me during the gathering & pls note that I always treasure the friendship among the person I know, always try to memorize their name & look for life, unless the person no longer treat me as friend, I will delete the name forever in my life.
Thank you & Best Regards,
Judy
Hi everybody,
I have attached an email from Andrew Kuan this morning, and I have his permission to reproduce it here. Let’s hope to put this subject to bed.
“Hi Terence, It has been quite an enjoyable and meaningful time for me to be in your BLOG to interact and contributed.
I have decided to move on because it has fulfilled my social needs and contributions. I am seeking deeper? fulfillment in live, work and learn and play areas wholesomely. To meet such areas, I might offend some “sensitive people” unintentionally. Perhaps, I am seeking a reasonable good number of? like-minded persons in those areas. I know these are few or even rare.
If I have offended any one or you, please accept my apologies. They are not intentional.
Once again, thank you. Warmest regards, Andrew”
So, let’s move on.
Terence Seah
Hi, all:
I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for initiating the recent confrontation between Andrew Kuan and myself on the Tennis & Potluck thread. I do, however, stand by my conviction that an open engagement with Andrew was necessary. His persistent provocative and unbecoming comments resulted in a number of unpleasant ‘flame wars’ that regulars on this forum are well aware of. This was beginning to cause fractures within the SHC family. Several, including me, were on the verge of leaving SHC as a result.
I received lots of support via private email as well as in person during the June gathering for taking the stand, for which I am thankful. However, that this should result in Andrew Kuan leaving SHC is unfortunate. He has undeniably contributed to SHC. Many of us simply wanted him to desist from his provocative and unbecoming ways. He chose to leave; that is a choice I have to respect.
Like Tim #16, I would be happy to see an unassuming Andrew Kuan returning. I have known him for many years before we both joined SHC. Perhaps, by spending time reflecting sincerely on his folly, that may just happen.
Dan:
Re your comment at #43 of ‘Tennis and Potluck Fellowship’, thank you for hearing me out and for your apology in misjudging me.
Tim:
May I suggest that, instead of simply forwarding Andrew Kuan’s message with a request to be taken off his email list (as many have done), you could remove all entries in the ‘cc’ column and reply only to him. That way, your request will be delivered only to Andrew and no one else.
Cheers,
Ron Koh
Heee, Judy-L, I only held your hand flittingly and you remember me in yr acknowledgment so next time if I danze with you, will you remember me for life?
Jokes aside, I wd like to use a bit of this space for Andrew Kuan whom I hv no doubt will log in to read us as he did in showing up at the June 4 Meeting despite telling us he has quit.
Andrew Kuan, I prefer to ask you to take me out of your email list here. A rejection sent via reply-all will certainly add on to the junk mails we have all been receiving, inadvertently making myself a nuisance as well.
You derided obnoxious behaviour in this forum many times prior to your withdrawal so you ought to know that it’s obnoxious to send and clutter my mail box with unsolicited mails which riddled us with what you called but we can never see as, “riddles”.
Friends are made not by adding names to one’s mail list.
I think you need a good rest. Remember the contented and happy married life you have told us? Isnt it time to take her on a holiday and return home happier and more contented?
Only when one is truly happy and contented will one see why one has been receiving barbs everywhere and for some years already?
Believe me, we will all be happy to see an unassuming Andrew Kuan. None of us is growing younger. We treasure our time to, first, love our loved ones and then the time for fellowship in SHC. Only when one walks out of the shackles of ambition and one-upmanship will one appreciate the objective of SHC.
You need not reply to me.
tim
Hi, all:
Had a great time on 4/6, though I was somewhat stuck in a corner most of the time. :o)
Karen (#11) & Steven (8):
Glad to know of your interest in origami. The folding session was quite coincidental, though it was to be expected. Actually, what happened was this:
I have been planning on starting a formal origami class for SHCians for some time (see post: ‘Origami, Anyone?’). One of the reasons why I have not already done so was largely due to my inability to secure suitable venue/s to date. Apart from the usual considerations (location, size, cost, etc), the venue/s should preferably be equipped with video projection facilities, or a projector has to be brought in from somewhere. This is because much of the ‘course material’ is in PowerPoint or video formats. A couple of venues – Scorbot and Tanah Merah – were considered, but found unsuitable for one reason or another.
So I thought of trying to see if we could hold the origami classes without the need for projection equipment. I decided to bring my notebook with a sample of the course material to the gathering and drew on Mary Chan and a few others to tap their combined brains during a simulation session to determine whether it would be feasible to do so, and if so, to decide on the best way to move forward.
So that was what we were doing in that corner. It did not take long for what was supposed to be the mind-tapping/simulation session to draw attention and spill over into an open, fun folding session. It was quite enlightening, and some SHCians who were quite adapt at origami (e.g. Paul Leong, etc) were ‘uncovered’).
Coming back to your questions, we can have informal origami sessions during any of our gatherings. However, this will be like teaching people to play one music piece at a time, without teaching them to read music and music theory. The student will end up being able to play specific music pieces, and may be able to play these music pieces pretty well. But they will be unlikely to progress to other music pieces from published music scores on their own. I would rather teach origami in a more formal, structured way, so that those who go through the ‘course’ will be able to progress independently thereafter to whatever level of origami at their own choosing.
Cheers,
Ron.
Terence:
The noise from one particular table was quite pronounced and disruptive. Although we want to enjoy ourselves, we must realise that we do not own Han’s, and must be sensitive to other non-SHC customers who prefer some degree of peace. Surely we do not want Han’s to stop allowing us to use their premises, do we? This may happen if we do not conduct ourselves appropriately.
Hi Judy, and everybody,
I did a survey yesterday evening at where our Merlion is. Hmm, I think it is nice. So, I shall layout the plans very soon. Keep it a secret for now, and info will be out in another thread.
Unless some one puts up his hand to run another idea.
Terence Seah
Hi ! Terence,
I would like to thanks you being organized such a great event at Han’s cafe, although I was there just for shortwhile & able for me to meet few members face to face & enjoying chit chatting with them. eg: karen, Rena, Annie, Clara, Lina, Dolly, Tim, Andrew etc. If possible, I will try to make it early session in the next gatherinhg in order for me to know more SHCian.
I also need to thanks Great Wong affort being design the nice name tag for me.
Thank you & Best Regards,
Hi Karen Thio,
….Enjoy your Vietnam trip tomorrow.Bei Sai leh!Mang mang leh! Next Friday. My compliments to you re: yr jewellery craft making and old jeans “metamorphise” into a new handbag with 2 cute pockets were given sincerely,NOT flattery.Hope to meet you for another sHC event.
Steven Chan
Thanks for your compliments. ANyway , i missed the origami as well. i did not know that Ron is doing it at the corner of the room.
I was about to boost my skill as well (haha) I love origami (the simple one).
Well, Maybe Ron will hold another session in the next gathering for Steven and myself.
Enjoy your Vietnam trip tomorrow.
karen
Hi Grace,
Thank you. But is ok dun nid to re-do for me la as I hv 1 frm the 1st ver n it still usable lor.. :)
Hi Steven
My initial thought was also the open concept as the ideal choice.But then, we still have to consider the weather.Any lead?
Thanks, JanetH
Hi all,
1) I would like to thank Grace Wong for taking her own initiative to spend much of her time and effort taking in creating the name tags for SHCians.
2) It is so NICE to see that all of you were enjoying chit chatting among yourselves and also welcoming new members.
3) Thanks to Ron Koh for having a short demonstration of origami lessons at a remote corner that I almost missed. Could you pls.let us know when your next origami class will commence ?
4) Karen Thio, you are indeed V.CREATIVE to make so many assortments of Strauss crystal ear/body accessories. It is beyond my imagination that your old jeans can be cut off and transformed to be a handbag. Such ingenuity! You could start marketing a “Karen T” Spore trademark brand that rivals fashion designers like YSL,Dunhill, Armani Agogo etc…
4) The NOISE generated by SHCians ( OMG! So much things to talk abt as though there is NO tomorrow.Ha! Ha!) was DEAFENING.Some other customers were annoyed and kept staring hard at us.
4.1) Being an enclose indoor air-cond restaurant does not make things better although we value its privacy.The place has become a NOISE TRAP. Right now,I am having a “ringing” sound in my ear due to my tinnitus problem whenever I am exposed to loud sounds or noise of a certain decibel for long hrs. and that explains why I “secretly” leave the disco/dancing hall after an hour or two.
5) Can we take Terence’s suggestion that the Kopitiam that is near the Esplanade and in the OPEN ? to be our next July SHC gathering venue ? If it is an open area, the NOISE produced will be reduced considerably.
My 5cts. thought.
Hi Tim
Thank you for your compliments, you have a very pen and write withut reservation. This time you have writen to my advantage. I like the way you disturb Terence.
Yes Karen met a new friend. Hope to see hernext Saturday at the Bedok Walk..
Hi Terence,
I am not able to send the photo to you I will go back to office on Monday using Lotus Note.
Hey Mary n Dolly,
Im trying to redo both yr tags again as you requested.Dolly after deciphering yr lingo 2nd.. 3rd time than it struck me that u have an eye problem…high astigmatism ??…sorry ..this time I will give u a very clear serene background that will be easy on yr. eyes..ok? No problem.I like u for yr straitforwardness.
Mary thanks for the help rendered b 4 the meeting.
grace
maryC, yalor, you noooooo good leh, matched me with seniors all looked younger & more yan tou than me so when the pretties came, I had no chance but luckily hor there was this sweet B(i)ra who doted on me……….
“A few of them is very interested in the Jeans I am wearing and the bag I am carrying”. Karen, consider yourself lucky that their interest remained as such otherwise even if you cd walk home without yr handbag and the money inside, you still cdnt go very far without yr jeans.
I like to call Lee King Seng by his second name………….the modest and affable him deserves every sense of the word.
Mary Chan
I was with u when u met Nancy. That feeling must be very good. I hope some day I will meet a long lost friend at SHC as well.
Terence , thanks for this great gathering last night and thanks for your encouragement again for my craft.
A few of them is very interested in the Jeans I am wearing and the bag I am carrying.
Ah Nee is going to bring her sewing machine to HAN (haha)
Picture all turned out so good.
See u soon.
King Seng
I did not know u met another “king” in the group. Now u have another new friend .
See u on Sat
karen
Terence,
It was a great SHC day yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed being a ‘mak kaypo’ although it was to my consternation that some people actually took my ‘matchmaking’ seriously! It was also a time for me to catch up with friends who I seldom get to see. I also found a long lost friend, Nancy!
I also had a wonderful time engaging in one of my favourite past times when I was younger- origami. Thank you RON KOH for your generosity in sharing your fantastic skill with us and for reigniting my interest. :-)
I must also thank GRACE WONG for the lovely name tag which I will try not to lose as I did the previous one, hehe.
I enjoyed every minute of it and am looking forward to the next one. :-)
Thank you Terence, Grace and Janet for organising the highly successful gathering last night. With an attendance of 130 members, it must be a record, maybe it is a world record for such events.
I met many old and new members and best of all I met KING Hoong whose middle name is same as my middle name. We have a good laugh.
I have taken some photo and will be sending to Terence shortly.
Regards
King Seng.
“…….am hearing oldies “San Francisco”, “Danny’s song” and “Puppy Love” over the radio this morning……” Why tell us if you hv left out yr other routine like “also used both sides of the toilet roll for my butt, flush the toilet with my gargle water, took a bath with rainwater collected in the last 2 days and for breakfast, ate that piece of roti I secretly stuffed into my pocket from Hans last nite….”?
But do tell us if you’re taking Danny’s Puppy to San Francisco to make Love……….that cnt be yr routine, yeah? Ooops, me wrong again?