{"id":3349,"date":"2010-10-17T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T02:38:07","slug":"you-too-can-pick-up-card-tricks-from-thomas-lau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"You too can pick up card tricks from Thomas Lau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have always been amused by card tricks.&nbsp; With a pack of aladdin cards, someone with one year&#8217;s practice and effort can easily get&nbsp;the young and the old, eyes focused and glued onto the table, hands and cards.&nbsp; You too can&nbsp;learn&nbsp;card tricks, and win the hearts of kids and adults.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I joined a small group and met Thomas Lau.&nbsp; Although he claimed to start learning card tricks a year ago, he was very much an expert, fooling all around him.&nbsp; Thomas entertains elderly seniors at daycare centres.&nbsp; He is also a&nbsp;great origami paper folder.&nbsp; Well, I&nbsp;remembered he said he could perform 150 card tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas volunteers to give a demo of a few card tricks; and he is willing to share&nbsp;with us how some of these tricks are carried out.&nbsp; Perhaps, if I can learn a few&nbsp;card tricks, I can be an entertainer&nbsp;and maybe make $1000 per month&nbsp;entertaining the young and old.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas will schedule two sessions, each group about 15 pax, on a Saturday, time between 11am and 2pm.&nbsp; Place and date will be scheduled soon.&nbsp; Thank you Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">First session:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Saturday&nbsp;23rd Oct 10<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Venue:&nbsp; Cafe inside MPH Book store at Robinson Road.&nbsp; Nearest MRT is Tanjong Pagar station.<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Card Tricks and Origami for beginners<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Participants need to bring along their own note pad and a pen.<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Programme<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">\n<li>\n<div><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">1100 hr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Introduction to simple card tricks<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">1230 hr&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Short&nbsp;break<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">1300&nbsp;hr&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Have fun with simple and easy Origami<\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n<p>Participation&nbsp;list: Session 1<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>Thomas Lau<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strike>Gabriella Chua<\/strike><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\">Jassmine Teo<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Ann To<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Francis R. Mangalam<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Daniel Ong<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Frisna Lim<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>John Howe<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Yat Sing<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Jonson Tan<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Esther Mok<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Juliana Kok<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Weng Hon<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Ann Lim<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Janie Leong<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">Closed.&nbsp;<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participation&nbsp;list: Session 1 (Date not decided by Thomas yet):<\/p>\n<ol \/>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong><font color=\"#0000cc\">If you are keen to entertain your children,&nbsp;friends or someone interested in you, sign up here.&nbsp; A lifetime learning experience.&nbsp; Oops, Thomas has stressed not for the casino.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/font><\/strong><\/li>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have always been amused by card tricks.&nbsp; With a pack of aladdin cards, someone with one year&#8217;s practice and effort can easily get&nbsp;the young and the old, eyes focused and glued onto the table, hands and cards.&nbsp; You too can&nbsp;learn&nbsp;card tricks, and win the hearts of kids and adults. Today, I joined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=3349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You too can pick up card tricks from Thomas Lau&#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":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}