{"id":300,"date":"2006-07-23T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/2006\/07\/300"},"modified":"2006-07-23T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T05:37:17","slug":"my-sunday-morning-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"My Sunday morning thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are&nbsp;some thoughts in my mind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; This is about how to move the SilverHairsClub&nbsp;forward.&nbsp; When the founders started this group, we were expecting a few tens of members.&nbsp; Today, the group has grown big and sometimes, our gatherings get disorganised.&nbsp; But, we would work towards improving this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>We have been successful with monthly weekday meetings, averaging 50 people.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Last month, our first weekend gathering was attended by 75 people, and this appeared too big to manage.&nbsp; Our target is still to&nbsp;find places, which is convenient by MRT or public transport.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>We have also another segment of members who prefers to meet online.&nbsp; Our first online gathering is Sat Aug 5 at 2230 hrs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-conference.com\/\">www.star-conference.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I must admit running out of ideas, which I usually pick up during the monthly gatherings from fellow SilverHairs.&nbsp; So, if you have ideas, please drop your suggestions here.<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; The other issue is management.&nbsp; I was hoping that we can easily manage ourselves with small group gatherings.&nbsp; The group has grown, and this is a positive problem.&nbsp; But, I can no longer handle it among a few of us.&nbsp; We have a admin staff from India, to help manage the database, and that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>I dont think we can continue as it is now.&nbsp; So, I was thinking we could have a team to manage the membership, especially with diversified interests.&nbsp; If this is what you like, please put your name here.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp; The club&#8217;s taboos are no discussions on politics, sex, racial issues and religion.&nbsp; The others are no direct selling and MLM promotions during the gatherings.&nbsp; We respect individual&#8217;s activities and business, so we appreciate members understand the club&#8217;s taboos.<\/p>\n<p>We hope members do not collect email addresses during the gatherings, and then send unwanted emails to these members after the gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; How to get more friends to join your interests and activities?&nbsp; Friendship is one of the few sought-after items, as we move away from our working lives and into the world of SilverHairs.&nbsp; From&nbsp; my experience, not that I have retired yet, it is very difficult to find fellow SilverHairs to join in my activities.&nbsp; We need to see&nbsp;one another face to face, we need to know one another and we need to agree and understand&nbsp;the other person.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why the monthly gatherings are important.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a place to meet.<\/p>\n<p>I personally think friendship is very important, more so when we get older.&nbsp; I like to establish a group of friends whom&nbsp;I can travel,&nbsp;cheaply, when I&nbsp;want to see the world.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ideas and suggestions on what&nbsp;SilverHairs&nbsp;can do.&nbsp;&nbsp;Personally, I think this will remain ideas and suggestions.&nbsp; I hope you will take time to meet new friends, as it will take time to kick off our ideas and suggestions.&nbsp; Please keep a regular date for the monthly SilverHairsclub gatherings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are&nbsp;some thoughts in my mind.&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; This is about how to move the SilverHairsClub&nbsp;forward.&nbsp; When the founders started this group, we were expecting a few tens of members.&nbsp; Today, the group has grown big and sometimes, our gatherings get disorganised.&nbsp; But, we would work towards improving this. We have been successful with monthly weekday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Sunday morning thoughts&#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-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}