{"id":119,"date":"2005-12-01T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T06:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/2005\/12\/119"},"modified":"2023-03-06T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:04:28","slug":"shc-nov-2005-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"SHC Nov 2005 gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 people attended the SilverHairsClub Nov 30 gathering at ONE Fullerton.&nbsp; Starting at&nbsp;6pm, the event saw&nbsp;SilverHairs&nbsp;writing their names on sticky labels, actively introducing&nbsp;themselves to one another, and enjoying the view of the setting sun&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Singapore&nbsp;river mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Event organiser was Richard Kwok and Venue host was Gibson Tan.&nbsp; Also present were Patrick&nbsp;Yeo (Team leader for 2006 Olympics) and&nbsp;Elsie Ho (Team Leader for 2006 Talentime).&nbsp; For pictures, please click on <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/SHC\/SHC051130\">silverhairsclub.com\/SHC\/SHC051130<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The evening topic &#8220;What do you plan to do when you reach 55?&#8221; started at 7pm.&nbsp; Although we had a few observers, many SilverHairs shared their meaning of retirement.&nbsp; Some ideas&nbsp;include travelling, fellowships, nature walks, cooking, potluck, computer classes, making money and&nbsp;collecting CPF.&nbsp; There were also concerns of no CPF to collect, little money left,&nbsp;no where to go and no friends to talk with.<\/p>\n<p>And, on the whole,&nbsp;we had fun and friendship.&nbsp; Small groups start to form.&nbsp; We look forward to the next gathering, likely to be much bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 people attended the SilverHairsClub Nov 30 gathering at ONE Fullerton.&nbsp; Starting at&nbsp;6pm, the event saw&nbsp;SilverHairs&nbsp;writing their names on sticky labels, actively introducing&nbsp;themselves to one another, and enjoying the view of the setting sun&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Singapore&nbsp;river mouth. Event organiser was Richard Kwok and Venue host was Gibson Tan.&nbsp; Also present were Patrick&nbsp;Yeo (Team leader for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SHC Nov 2005 gathering&#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":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49902,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/49902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}