Paul's Fulfilling Life

The planned gathering was planned last week on the birthday of the birthday gal. The place for the gathering was at Swensens at Bishan Junction 8, which the birthday gal & Wendy selected. Anyway it is always good to enjoy Swensens, especially the ice-cream. Happy birthday to Kerlyn, once again.

I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to Wai Ling, my long time blogger  & Sze Wah for the birth of their second child, a baby gal on 21 Aug 2011. As I was busy with my work and was not able to visit her during her stay at the hospital. So I decided to send a hamper from Noel to her & her family two days ago. Hope the above hamper is useful for her & her gal. =) Congrats to the couple once again. =)

My zone’s National Day Children’s Art Competition was a huge success, with 120 tickets printed & sold that day. It was a good experience for me as this was my 1st time hosting such a program for children. Below are some photos taken from the RC photo album on Facebook.   Do enjoy them!!!

This was my 1st National Day Dinner as a RC member on 6 Aug 2011. I know this is a belated post. I had wanted to post this up earlier but was busy with the National Day Block Party earlier & my work, therefore had no time to post this. These were the official photos from the official photographer, Mr Mork Heng. I am not going to put up the photos that I took as they seemed a little blur. My family also attended the dinner with me, after my dad asked me what was the cost of the ticket for the dinner. I am seated at a different table from them as my RC has sponsored a table for us in recognition for our efforts in grassroots events for the past year. I was quite surprised that my area’s MP, Dr Intan remembers me after seeing me only twice before this. Overall it has been a good experience attending the dinner. =)

I was asked by the photographer of my area’s bi-monthly magazine to do a short write up about the National Day Block Party which I did. This is what I wrote as a draft which will be sent for editing for publication in the September issue of Jalan Kayu Tracks. My name is Paul, from Jalan Kayu Zone 4 RC. I had joined the RC in January 2011, at my friend’s encouragement. This friend of mine, whom I got to know through a yearly volunteer event a few years ago is one of the executive members in the YEC at Yio Chu Kang. I was asked to help to organize the National Day Block Party during the RC meeting in July. Although I had the experience of organizing KTV events for adults through Facebook regularly, it was definitely my 1 st time organizing such a big-scale event for children. It did not help the fact that my committee members were quite new to this as well. Fortunately, the senior RC members were very helpful in guiding us how to do it. Due to the limited budget that we were given, I...

The day that I had been waiting for nervously had arrived. The meeting on National Day Eve had ended at about 11.15pm. After chilling for a while, I hit the sack at 12.35am. I was up and awake by 7.50am on National Day as I had to be at the RC Centre by 8.30am to do the setting up and preparation. I was glad when Nelson told me that David, the RC Zone 4 Vice Chairman will be assisting me with the hosting duties. =) I have spent 4 nights to hunt for the questions and a day to do up the hosting script. Although the script was not used, it did give me a feel of  how the program should be run. I would like to thank my committee members, Mr Ngiam, Veronica & Joanna for assisting me and making the event a huge success. Not forgetting to thank fellow RC members, Nelson, Mr Ong & Merilyn for assisting us as well. I also would like to thank my mum, my brother and my friends, Wendy and Catherine for being there to support my 1st event. Also thanks to Evelyn, Weng Kiat, Alex Lee, M...

I just managed to work out the draft hosting script for the National Day Event I am hosting. I am thankful for all the comments that I have received from my fellow RC members and friends. Just feel that sometimes, no matter whatever you do, some people, no matter for what reasons, will not be happy with the arrangements. I just wish to say that I am already trying my best to try to get this event going, considering the fact, that this is the 1st time I am organising an RC event. I have also tried my best, despite the fact that I would like to have a free hand to organise the event, just like what I usually do for the KTV events I have on Facebook, I accommodated to the requests that I should somehow follow the past years’ format to do the event. I know that I am not very familiar with how things are run at the RC, therefore in the end, my organising committee only made some changes to the event as we had a limited budget to work on. I even volunteered myself to do the hosting for the ...

At the RC meeting on Tuesday, it was confirmed that I would be hosting the RC National Day Event, the National Day Block Party. At the previous meeting, discussing the nitty gritty details for the Children Art Competition, a external host was too expensive, and a host from among ourselves. Since I felt that I have not been contributing much so far to the event, I thought it would be good exposure for me to learn more about hosting. I am thankful to the RC for giving me the opportunity to try out this hosting gig. Thanks Mr Ong Kee Tiong & Wai Ling for the confidence & faith in me. They feel that I can pull it off. =) I am asked to think of 40 questions about Singapore for the children & adults. It took me about 4 nights to come up with the questions.Here are the questions. Hope that you guys can give me some feedback and comments. Questions for the Quiz Segment for National Day Floor Party 1. What are the official languages in Singapore? English, Mandarin, Malay Tamil 2...

This birthday celebration was initiated by Gonnie, who added me, Lance, KH to a group chat session in Whatsapp about a month ago. Jcca was also invited for this gathering. Dinner was at Mushroom Pot at Orchard Point, where we had the mushroom steamboat. It has been a few years already since I last had Mushroom Pot.   I felt that the standard of the food had dropped and only some of the food items are nice, like the mushroom fried rice, the bun, fried noodle. After dinner, we went to catch the movie, Captain America. I felt that it was a great movie. I would give it 4 out of 5 for this movie. Do stay back for the ending part, as there is a part of the movie after the credits!! After the movie, we had to find a place to settle down to cut the birthday cake as we were too full from the dinner. In the end, we settled at Old Town White Coffee at Cineleisure. The thorns: Myself, Lance, Gonnie & KH The roses: Jcca & Chloe The birthday gal making her b...