danzbuddies Makan Club

Sunday, October 31st

Our Sunday danzbuddies joined the FLC Makan Club participants in a most enjoyable 'Vietnamese Cooking Workshop' followed by a Luncheon. Ms Rebecca Truong from Ho Chi Ming City, assisted by Mary from Hanoi shared with us their recipes for Boiled 'Broken Rice', Veitnamese Chicken and Ham Salad.....

The Cooking Workshop was organised jointly by Moulmein Family Life Champions and San Yu Adventist School. A big thank you to Mr. Tang, Principal of San Yu Adventist School for arranging for the Vietnamese 'experts' to share with us their cooking skills........

danzbuddies Ukulele Band - First Anniversary

Friday October 29th

The Goldhill N C danzbuddies Ukulele band celebrated their First Anniversary during their regular jam session on Friday, 29th October.

Starting from scratch, the band now has 15 members who jam regularly and performs at various functions. The group will be performing next for the 'Christmas Celebration Party' for CDC patients on Saturday 13th November - danzbuddies who wish to join us in this meaningful Charity event please let us know to allow catering arrangements to be made......

danzbuddies Wednesday Class - new dances

hi danzbuddies,

details of new dances we shall be sharing for this week are as follows:

- 'Tarzan Boy' by Rep Ghazali. A 'Part A-Part B' type phrased beginner level dance. Danced to a nice song 'Tarzan Boy' by DJ Bobo. Steps are easy to learn. A 'no-stress' dance.

- 'Easily Hooked' another great dance from Rep Ghazali. 64 count, 2 wall, intermediate level dance. Note the restarts at walls 2 and 4. Song used is 'Love Me Another Day' by Leki

- 'Sleeping Child' by Maggie Gallagher. 32 count, 4 wall, beginner level dance. Song used is the popular MLTR number 'Sleeping Child' . Looks like a nicer dance than the earlier 'My Sleeping Child' dance to the same song.

'Don't Cry' by Joyce Nicholas. 32 count, 2 wall, beginner level dance. Nice song used - 'Big Girls Don't Cry' by Frankie Valli.

Birthday Celebration - Part 1

THURSDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2010

It was three more days to 'd day', but some of our danzbuddies couldn't wait to start celebrating K C 's birthday.........






The Orchard Hotel Cafe buffet dinner treat kick-started what was to be 4-night series of celebration, one after another - and resulted in a half-kilo weight increase for the birthday boy!

A BIG 'Thank You' to all who joined the dinner party - it was truly a great buffet spread.....we enjoyed it very much.....

Birthday Party - Part 2

FRIDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2010

Our Friday danzbuddies organised a birthday celebration party during our Jam session - with plenty of 'home-cooked' delicacies and lots of wine

Birthday Celebration - Part 3

SATURDAY, 23RD OCTOBER 2010

Some 90 danzbuddies and friends came together for our 'Country & Western' Theme Party and also to have a big birthday celebration with K C and Rosemary.

Everyone helped themselves to the free flow of hot beverages........

and to the free flow of white wine..........cheers and a warm welcome to our guests from Perth.....

The fringe event for the night was a 'Dementia Awareness Promotion' Campaign........

After a sumptuous 'nasi briyani' dinner, it was time for a 'Birthday Cake Cutting ' ceremony

More line dancing followed..........some prefered to do the cha cha cha and whatever.....

Some had lots of fun with the 'cowboy-red indian' theme

It was a near riot when the birthday boy came riding up on his 'horse'... !

There was plenty opportunity for bonding with friends and buddies.......

Many thanks to all danzbuddies for their best wishes -

and special thanks to our 'DJs on Duty.......

Our thanks also to Philip for all his help with logistics and also for taking the photos for this report (our resident photographer Alan was away in Malaysia.....)

See ya at our next party on November 2oth.......it's will have a 'Beach Party' theme, so go get ready your swim-suits and beach partyt gears.........