CCMC retreat cum bowling

YEC has a fun day today in CCMC retreat, which was held in the orchard country club. As usual, we had a hard time waking up because of the rain. It was so comfortable sleeping on the bed that you have to drag yourself out of it.

There are 3 representatives in the YEC; me, chris and haresh. The Advisor joked that later we can tie Simon (CCMC chairman) to a tree during the afternoon session of paintball (some people actually call that game “pain ball”) and keep shooting him. There is also a joke that only he needs insurance and validation form for that event.

Actually Simon is pretty plumb, and shooting him won’t work because all the shots will bounce back to us so we are glad that the paint ball aka pain ball session was cancelled because of the constant rain. We switched to bowling at Yishun SAFRA instead. We worked with Yati so that we can manuplate the drawing lots and the three YEC “Musketters” remain in the same group for the bowling session. Too bad we are not good enough to win the top prize, as none of us could not clock a single session that hits 3 digits.

Overall the CCMC retreat is useful, and I am glad that our work plan for Year 2009 has been approved. I am hopeful that next year will be a good year for us.

Southern Ridge Hike

On 30th November 2008, we take a bus with the senior citizens executive committee to the southern ridge hike. The weather was very good… no heavy rain or sun, just clouds to shelter us from anything unfriendly.

We first started from the top of the hill in the mount faber part, then we proceed to the Telok Blangah Hill and reach to the henderson waves. From there we walk to the forest walk and then finally reached to the hort park. That whole journey took 2 hours

After that the group goes shopping in vivo city. and the whole event ends at 1:30pm. Nothing dramatic happen, just the desire to see SCEC bond with the YEC people, and families creating a strong bond within each other. It will be a crucial bond as we will be looking into working together with the SCEC to organise IT courses for the elderly people, to upgrade their skills in the light of the current financial crisis.