9 Jan 2012

Hi all Joy Gatherers,

Times flies, 2011 had ended and 2012 has approached.

Have you done your review for last year and set new goals for the new year ? A few of us had done a review for Joy Gathering and we will share our calendar with all of you soon. Last year, we lost about 6 elderlys, we still have 41 dear elderlys with us and they are are getting older each year. For the 41 dear ones, there is a no. of interesting events lined up to let them live their remaining journey as interesting and fulfilling as possible. All these events will not be able to roll out without all of us coming together as joy gatherers to serve them and befriend with them. Hence, this year, we hope to recruit as many new & committed volunteers as possible and hope to see more of you coming back whenever you are available. You got the hint ? keke....

For a start, we are going to have the Chinese New Year Celebration on this coming Saturday.

We are going to have lion dance performance, Caishen to give out Angbaos , our own Laohei , cozy Steamboat dinner as well as various performances by new volunteers and friends.

As we have to decorate the hall and prepare all the Laohei as well as steamboat ingredients, let's meet at 10am in Silra Home this coming Saturday. Please bring along ladie , shredder and netted scoop for the steamboat dinner. :-) & please wear Red , Pink or Orange bright Shirt. Please reserve your evening for us , too, as we are going to have our Volunteers' Reunion Dinner to start the Dragon Year.

The ICs for the day is as follows :

Laohei IC : Bee Kim

Kitchen IC : Malcom & Mak

Mkting IC : Liyu

Decoration IC : Zhi Yong & NUS team & Liyu

Game & Performance IC : CK & Wanyi

Lion Dance IC : Liyu

Logistic & AV IC : Stan & Jack

Programme : Jacee supported by Sock Hwee

Treasurer : Carol and Yanting

Table IC : Volunteers who turn up :-)

The Programme is as follows:

3pm : set up Steamboat dinners

3.15pm :invite elderly

3.45 pm : Lion Dance

4 pm : God of Fortune with a Volunteer , Soo Fern to distribute Ang Baos

4.10 pm onwards :

Laohei

Dinner Starts

Guitar cum Singing by Wanyi & Team

Games by CK & Wanyi

Sitar performance by Wanyi's friends

Songs by all Volunteers

6.15pm : pack up

6.30 debrief

7 pm : Volunteers' Reunion Dinner

We hope to see you ya. cheerios

(Let's do little things with GREAT LOVE to start the New Year)

Warm Regards /
Joy Gathering Volunteer Group

21 Nov 2012

HI folks, for 26th Nov, mini-carnival, we have bought the gifts, preparing the food, renting the tables, preparing the games. So have u decided whether to come and join us in the fun and help out ? Cheers


Joythering

16 Nov 2011

Dear Volunteers,

Did you have a busy week? Any plans for this weekend? :)

Why don't you join us, unwind, relax, spend sometime with our elderly at SILRA?

Though its a regular service this week, we hope to see you there.. at 230 pm.. we will have coffee tea session, befriending, Karaoke and maybe even a short walk in the park!

Everyone can be great because anyone can serve.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

You don't even have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace.

A soul generated by love... - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

See you!

JL

Regards / On behalf of
Joy Gathering Volunteer Group

12 November 2011

Dear all, how is your sat ? Today, we are glad to have Angela, Cheryl, zhiyong, Zhiyong n gangs at Silra today. A pat for their shoulder for taking time to come. Man tat and ah Heng uncles sang a no. of songs, we did musical therapy and yoga too. Understand that you are busy n hope u have a good weekend. Hope to see you all one of these days at Silra. Next week we will be playing mass game, 26 Nov we are having a mini carnival, do come if you can. Cheers !

Sock Hwee
Joygathering Volunteer

Up coming event

Hi folks, What is coming up : 22 Oct, magician show at Silra, 5 Nov, our great chef , Malcom will be cooking something nice for our residents (too bad Mak can't make it), 26 Nov, we are going to have a mini- carnival.

Usual service is ongoing on other weekends, do try to come if you could k ?

Thanks Angela, Shuyi & Carol for turning up yesterday. Pat on your shoulder. cheers.

What's up for the volunteers ? We are planning for a walk on 26 October (most probably Sengkang reservoir ) morning , please revert if you are able to make it. cheers.

Details will be sent via emails...

6th Aug 2011 Regular Service Resumes.. Come Join Us!

Hi ALL,

We had a great bonding session at Alohal Loyang last Saturday. Thank you all for attending the session.. and there must be a special mention to CK who took the effor to put the event together. ;) We appreciate your effort!
So we are back to regular service. Shall we all meet at 230 pm? We need some help in getting ready for the 13th Aug 2011 七月歌台 and 喊标 event!

See you folks then.. and  remember 13th Aug! Come join us. 

Cheers

JL

Regards / On behalf of XXXX
Joy Gathering Volunteer Group

House Keeping Session - Sat - 21st May 2011

Dear all,

TGIF! And its the arrival of the weekend.

What plans do you guys have in mind?

Why not join us with the elderly this Sat - 21st May 2011 for an afternoon of House Keeping?

We will be helping our elderly clean up their lockers. This is an important exercise to ensure that they keep the lockers clean, tidy.. just incase we have expired cans of food or forgotten leftovers stored in their lockers from earlier celebrations.. :)

Our activity will start at 230 pm. We will do our usual Coffee Tea or Milo Session, House Keeping, Elderly Yoga and some KTV, etc.

Lastly, just a quick note to say - we are gathering volunteers for our annual Dumpling Festival!! So Friends & Family, those who know how to wrap a nice rice dumpling, we WANT YOU.. Those who do not know, we LOVE TO HAVE YOU too.. :) We will have Dumpling Masters that day to coach you to wrap these tasty Dumplings. More details will be released later but mark your calendar for 4th June 2011!

See you folks on Sat!

Cheers

JL

Regards / On behalf of XXXX
Joy Gathering Volunteer Group

We are glad to keep you updated of our events @ SILRA. Just click onto our blog http://joygathering.blogspot.com/ or our event calendar http://www.keepandshare.com/calendar/show_month.php?a=y&v=y&i=1389330&appstart=y&clear=y&cat=0 to find out more.

Giant on the 26 March 2011

- Yi Xuan: At attention service for the whole group of volunteers marching up to the bus :).
-The papaya girls :), showing their pose to the camera :D.

-Jacee is doing the "No body ...Nobody but you hand sign :). Or does she wants others to see her palm lines....any one want to try to palm read ?! he.he..

- Granny aunty is saying :" Hurry up ! I can't wait to reach to our destination...even my granny old legs can run faster than this slow couch. >.<
-Si Xuan: Is looking at aunty, in her mind she said:"Wah ! Next time when I am old will I look like you or worse ?! Better put more day and night cream.
-Aunty look back:" What are you looking at !!! Never see such beautiful woman before ar ?! HUH.

-Granny aunty:" Can the camera see my six pack if not see my micky mose muscles on my arm....I look strong right ! :)

-Hardworking CK is bringing the wheel chair down from the bus to the ground. In Pink Shu Ee is playing magic...now you see my hands and now you can't see as I can putting my hands to sophia's stomarch :P.

-Line-by-line, we are air hosters and air hosteresses. We are going up to the air plane to serve our customers whom are our elderly.

- 20 dollards of vochers for our elder to spend on whatever they wise to buy.
-Granny aunty :"Wow !!! So much cash...(didn't know it's vouchure) can go buy branded wheel chair wor so can speed up like the movie <>.

-What are you looking at pal...never see old and hansome unlce before ah... here take my tea stirer. And keep it..some day I'll be famouse and you can bring the stirer back to me for claiming a free autograph.
-What a friendly look a like of old and young brothers :).

-Tack Ee:"He..he..I got extra voucher to buy black man tooth paste...so my teeth will be clean and white so girls will love them :).
-Lady in red: " Ya right ! You need to go to the gym also."

-Those were the Pau lovers... not together but because of the delious pau they are here to take a good pictures:). Way to go CK to attract girls ke.ke..

-Groups and groups of volunteers and elderly siting down to have our dia sum lunch :).

-Elderly waiting for going for lunch :).

This is our Giant Outing Event Group photo. We have lots of fun and is a good way to bond with our friendly and lovely elderlys. Come down to join us at Silra Home in Singapore :D

Kaya Loti 9 April 2011

- Look at us we are "Toats !!!"

-A New comer meeting, on what is our day's activities.

-Today we are having Kaya Loti for our elderly. Say hello to our Man in Red, a nice guy next door :).

-Busy ...busy..with the dressing up with our Toated bread :D.













-New comers and Yi Yuan is BBQing the bread ha.ha.. and half polishing the bread's with kaya.

-Ray Feng is a wonderful music master.....when he plays the Yang Sing...our ear hurts...just kidding :P

-What a lovely couple......stop posing for the camera and work ....elderlies are hungry.


-Oh look, she is giving the bread a shifty massage :D.










-Ingredians which clamp between the two cusions and where will they landed in.....in the stomarch of course !! =D

- Cut cut chop chop very hard working, wonder if there are any lovely shape being cut out of the normal bread.

-Pei Song uncle is teaching the new comer on how to bake the best bread it town, which you can smell the baking of bread from a far.













-All time singing contest will be won by this lovely lady here, as her good singing have won the claps of our elderly.

-Execrise time, up down up down, left right left right. Move your msucles grandpa and grandma. It will do good for your hands and legs.
-While the elderlys are doing their execrises, the volunteers are doing the toating of bread and sadines :)..yummy.














-Triangular shape.....will try doing different shape next time :)


-These are the kayas we use..simple but tasty :)














- shake your bottoms and shake your hips and dance.....it will be even better if viewers can hear what songs they have :)
-Friendly bunch of friends coming together to volunteer.
-Adidas forever ......how about "Money is GOD"

23 April 2011 Activities

Hi all,

How have you been ?

Last week we had a good yoga cum singing cum strolling session with the Silra residents

It was very cozy and all of us enjoyed it.

We are going to start off a wheelchair cleaning cum maintainence project for the elderlys. We hope to let them sit on a good condition wheelchair as they are sitting on them most of time.

We are going to start it this coming Saturday. If you could make it, do come at 2pm sharp ... Stan, Jack & Desmond will be leading the project... do come to support if you are available !

We will also be playing table games with the elderly if we have enough volunteers on Saturdays.



Cheers



Regards
Joy Gathering Volunteer Group