{"id":10772,"date":"2013-11-18T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T09:53:24","slug":"silverhairsclub-adopting-the-true-kampong-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"SilverHairsClub adopting the true kampong spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/balik-kampong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10809\" alt=\"balik kampong\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/balik-kampong-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was reading the ST today, and came across the phrase &#8220;the true kampong spirit&#8221;. \u00a0I thought that this tagline is interesting for SilverHairsClub members. \u00a0Very often, we engage in activities of the social nature, and we don&#8217;t target &#8220;self help and caring activities&#8221; for ourselves. \u00a0We have plenty on makan, dancing, karaoke, cycling, walking, chitchats and travel.<\/p>\n<p>As a Club, we have not done much to harness ourselves for the benefit of SHCians as a whole. \u00a0Maybe the &#8220;true kampong spirit&#8221; can rekindle and strengthen ourselves as a big family. \u00a0I remembered Kenneth Tan suggested buying in bulk eg his monthly ovaltine supply, Jassmine Teo&#8217;s Teo selling of what&#8217;s in our store room, our offering of paid eldersitter services by some of our members, our discussion on retirement living, plus a few others. \u00a0But many of us have not responded to work together in this true kampong spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, we can help and think of new ideas. \u00a0We should support more activities and programs so that we can help ourselves as we age. \u00a0Afterall, many of us are reported as &#8220;Asset-poor and cash-rich&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>How and what can we group together and care for ourselves? \u00a0Please respect the views of others when making comments. \u00a0Not all of us are rich, and not all of us are poor. \u00a0Not all of us can travel, makan and enjoy ourselves frequently, many of us have still to work.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the ST today, and came across the phrase &#8220;the true kampong spirit&#8221;. \u00a0I thought that this tagline is interesting for SilverHairsClub members. \u00a0Very often, we engage in activities of the social nature, and we don&#8217;t target &#8220;self help and caring activities&#8221; for ourselves. \u00a0We have plenty on makan, dancing, karaoke, cycling, walking, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=10772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SilverHairsClub adopting the true kampong spirit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}