I have been a member since year 2005 or 2006 I cant remember but did not find the time to join the activities or that the activities is not what I want ( I dont like outdoor activiities).
My hobbies – Reading, playing electone organ, acoustic piano, listening to gold 90.5 and symphony 92.4 My main business is in the accounting and payroll and human resources. My secondary business is what is stated in this email, this business is almost domant due to my partner half way give up on the business and I have no time to handle it.
Activities interested in – more of inhouse – training or seminars and networking, or attending musical performances .
I really hope to be able to join your activities soon.
Take care and hear from you again.
Hi Eunice,
Welcome to SHC. :) Hope you won’t be a silent member anymore.
Your hobbies are very interesting. I admire people who can play a musical instrument and you can play two!
Wishing you a fruitful time in SHC.
Best regards.
Hi Ms Wong
Welcome to SHC
I am new too.
Have fun.
Bgek
Hi
Thanks to all of you, yes I have had been silenced for years
Too busy with my business all these years even till now.
Will catch up with you guys and gals soon.
Force is normally used to silence someone, such as when irritated by a dog’s incessant barkings, I hv it muzzled.
Gu Long (???knows that the ultimate silencing is to put someone in a box, lock it, throw away the key and then bury it 6 feet underground so he will be silenced and remain silent forever.
You and Ngan introduced yourselves almost at the same time.
As at now, the score for welcome msgs reads 5-2 in his favour.
I am for the underdogs so I welcome you. Welcome you. And welcome you to even the score 5-5.
Into the future, good luck to both of you as to who will finally emerge winner of this welcome race.
Terence, cast your vote. Knwoing behavourial pattern, the rest will follow you.
Hi Tim
Thanks for your warm welcome notice, however I do not under
really understand much Chinese character :)
Its not that I choose to be silenced, just that I am too busy running my CPA and payroll company.
I worked more than 12 hrs a day including Sat and Sunday :)
No choice, as there are too many deadlines in my types of professions.
Eunice-W, pls dont thank me. It’s in my guts that I want to play it fair.
You responded to welcome messages yet you trailed the other newbie who keeps very quiet.
It’s alright if you dont understand/read Chinese. You will still find that most of our activities are organised by folks who dont speak much Chinese other than their dialects.
In fact most of us are actually more conversant in the English language. You will find that out too if you become active – best, raise yr hand to be an Event Organiser.
Being a SHCian, you cant be very young. It’s in my dictum that one shdnt spend long hours at work when one is still not so old.
While it.s not my dictate to you – who am I to – yr objective of joining SHC must be due to a desire to restructure your lifestyle……..to give yourself time to live life more fully, to walk, cycle, bowl, dance, eat. Then work.
Deadlines are dead. You’re alive. You set the deadlines yourself.
Got it?
(Me going out of the house to take on the unknow again).
Hi Eunice
Welcome to the club.It was founded by our Mr. Terence Seah about 5 years ago with his lofty objective of bringing together a group of people (above 45 years old) who have some spare time outside office hours to enjoy a slew of activities and to organise evente as a coordinator.
We hope you will find meanings in interacting with other SHCians and in some ways will contribute to the vibrancy of the club.
Cheers and regards
hihi
Great to receive so many welcome message, haha I just realised I actually joined in year 2006 the year I reach 45 years old. So you guys and gals should know how old I am now.
Tim Liu, my deadline is not set by me, but by the IRAS and all the government bodies. If I dont meet it, I will have to pay the fine (if it is due to my own lateness and not because clients gives me their documents late).
Singapore is a fine country with all the mandatory and compulsory efiling of ECI, GST, CPF,etc, etc, even the survey form send by the government bodies also have deadlines.
The life of an accountant is like that :)and whats more I am serving customers. Also I have my son is starting his University in August and it will be another 4 to 6 years of education for him. So I definitely cant retire early :)He just ORD in this Feb
Now that Robert mentioned it is for people over 45 yrs old, I remember then I joined after SEpt 2006. It was then I am eligible to join :)
I will try to join your indoor activities as I am not an outdoor person.
I wont be silenced anymore as I am infact a very “chatty person” you people will soon get tired of me because I will be very noisy.
Hi Eunice
welcome, welcome! surely there will be some indoor activities for you to join soon…ignore Tim Liu once in a while esp when you dont understand his chinese
Hi Frisna
Thanks for your warm welcome. haha you know something, my son name is also Timothy and I used to call my son Tim.
Ya, I think I just ignore Tim Liu (joking Tim Liu, I only wants to let you know more of my nature of job and my responsibility to my clients and the garment).
Hi Eunice,
Welcome home, me too is a newie, have join 3 of their actitivies.
Hope to see you soon.
All Govt regulatory bodies – ACRA and IRAS are no exceptions – publish well in advance the timeframes for submissions/returns. They dont set deadlines – they provide a window period, even a grace period when asked.
When we put too much on our plates more than we can chew, we inadvertently create deadlines. So much so that sometimes we are stressed dead inches before the finishing line.
So, try to make deadline a dateline. Yes, draw a line to some dates – delineate some dates solely for activities which will rejuvenate you.
My ex-wife is a CFO. She no more works till 9 p.m. or longer every nite. She knows it’s worth dying for any deadline.
The cost of a tertiary education may soon be beyond the affordability of a working class family.
I have told my gal not to look to her old man for that (frightening her at the same time that without THAT, she will hv to throw rocks with angry, unemployed protesting youth) but to look further, at her cousins. They studied free, and bcos of that, they came back with jobs awaiting. It’s all up to her to rise to the challenge.
Frisna is being wishful by asking you to ignore me, thinking that I will then “return” to her. Die die I also wont go and so no question of me setting a deadliune for that.
I once trained with the guerillas in the Msian jungle. It happened bcos there was this pretty gal, also go by the name Eunice, who stalked, hounded and haunted me. Ran out of places to hide – even if I hid in a male washroon, she wd still walk in – I had to go into the jungle. Guerillas are good in hiding. And training people where & how to hide.
I hope I wont get a hiding from you for saying all these, heheeee……….
Hi Eunice,
Welcome to SHC!
It’s great to know you enjoy gold90.5 (esp Tim O. and Brian Richmond) and symphony 92.4. Me too – these are my 2 fav radio channels.
Like you, I am not an avid outdoor person, just so-so. So, I look forward to welcome you to July Monthly Gathering at Riverside in the evening. Come and find out who’s upto their ears in music! Cya! :-)
Yatsing
Yatsing we both can shake hands? By the way do you play any musical instrument?
Haha Tim Liu, I cant be bother about you anymore :) wait till you know who am I.
By the way I am a single mother, so please spare a thought for me :)
Warm handshake, Eunice. :-D
I enjoy music very much, but I am not musically-inclined.
Looking forward to introduce you in person to all the SHC boys and girls at July monthly gathering. Let’s bring on gold90.5 Tim-O at Riverside. Cya!
Yatsing
“Who am I?”, you asked.
You are Jackie Chan b4 he went for a cloning and then a gender change op. I watched him fly in that movie.
I respect single parents.
These parents hv to overcome many odds and obstacles single-handedly and are usually tenacious fighters. Nevertheless, they remain doting and loving parents. I know of a few in SHC and will not hesitate to say “Well done folks !”.
“Let’s bring on gold90.5 Tim-O at Riverside”. So wished Yat Sing. There’s very little need to guess what “O” stands for – simply add “rgasm” to complete the word.
Cruel of her to bring Tim on to that level, at a Mthly gathering somemore. That puts me in 2 minds now whether or not to attend….at my age, it takes me many days to recover from an “O”.
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YatSing
I can only join if the event is after office hrs or if it is on weekends. So for this I wont be able to make it, especially its my payrun peak for all my clients.
Tim,
This name Tim does not belongs to you only but also to me, my son is Timothy too. haha by the way how old are you Tim O? (hahahaha)
You dont need to respect single parents, I just want to tell you cant compare apple with an orange, and dont jump into conclusion people are putting too much on his or her plate. There is always a reason behind, who wants to work that way. Anyway I enjoy my work and do still find time to play my organ and piano and go for business networking. So there is still life for me :) not just work alone.
Being CFO in one company does not have so much responsiblities than a small boss like me who has more than 60 over clients to handle and these days with so much competitions around, somehow we have to be realistic. Though I do have staff doing the job, but how many staff really take ownership of what they are doing? I am serving customers not serving boss in my scenario so it is very different from being an employee and an employer.
Here we are talking about customers services.
Money is not everything, but it is still needed to survive especially in Singapore. The biggest responsibilty for a parent is to give our child a complete and good educations.
haha Tim O I shall called you that, before we meet, we are already at loggerheads, what if we meet, I cant imagine :)
good week ahead of you Tim O
Of cos not. The name Tim doesnt belong to me only. It belongs to the very best – to the chosen ones.
There’re at least a dozen out there. Your son shd also bask in glory if he can continue this tradition notwithstanding some – deeply submerged by jealousy – calling it a heresy.
I respect single parents bcos it’s not easy to bring up kids alone. In a sense, I too am a single parent shuttling from east to west on weekdays in an endeavour to grow up with my child. I therefore respect tim for that as well.
My ex-wife used to work till after midnite many days a week. Complianve with SGX requirements, consolidating accounts of a expanding group with footholds on many parts of the world, wasnt a joke. She wasnt a bloke either. She left to head another, albeit smaller, group.
It’s a choice she made. A smart move. I call that the icing on her cake.
So. it boils down to “choice”. I shant go further as I dont know of another’s situation and circumstances to tell whether a choice can be better made.
I do jump a lot but I dont usually jump to conclusions.
I remain unmoved that it’s a lot easier to juggle 1 ball than 20,30 balls at the same time. My compensation for juggling 1 ball and 20 balls is very different is, of cos, another question. Probably more than a question. A dilemma.
At loggerheads with tim?
No, dont. Better for tim to put a log on his head. Or lock up his head in the office that causes you to drop yr jaw. The head will fly around at nite after everyone has left the office to chew up everythg which stresses you and yr staff.
No stress ever again. And so no loggerheads.
Start a good week and then have many many good days ahead strating from every day-break, even as you comtemplate whether to put log on tim’s head or lock his head head.
Hi Eunice,
Welcome! I am also relatively new in SHC. Hope you will find some events/activities of interest to you.
Hope to meet up with you soon.
hewlee
Welcome Hew Lee and thanks for your warm welcome.
Sure if the activities that interest me and falls on the day and timing that I could made it I will definitely come.
Outdoor activities definitely out for me :)
Hi Eunice Wong,
Welcome to SHC ! Have Fun and enjoy!!
Cheers !!!