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keppel 20 15 October MCI (P) 027/03/2015 Highlights Boys and Girls of 50 2 Our beneficiaries 6 A double celebration... like none other 14 committee contents Chairman Fock Siew Wah CLUB NEWS Deputy Chairman Ng Chee Keong From the GM’s Desk 2 & staff Boys and Girls of 50 2 Management Committee Cinnamon cupcakes 5 President Lai Mun Onn Vice-President Eric Tan GOLF NEWS Secretary Ho Yap Kuan Member exclusive offer 5 Treasurer Teh Lim Chai Our Beneficiaries 6 Captain C. S. Kong Competition Results 9 Vice-Captain Jamil B. Maksoem Our 2015 Club Champions 10 Member (Billiards & Bowling) Michael Goo Wild fun: Ladies in Cosplay 12 Member (House & Bar) Khor Chee Kok Golf Clinic feat. Jen Goh, LPGA aspirant was well Member (Newsletter) Peter Teo received at Keppel 13 Member (Swimming & Entertainment) Leo Yeow Member (Tennis) Kamal Ehsan TENNIS NEWS Clinching the Chan Cup 13 Newsletter Committee Convenor Peter Teo CENTRE STORY Members Susie Seow A double celebration... like none other 14 Helen Neo Gerald Ho SWIMMING NEWS Faring well on home ground 18 Editorial Team Young, determined and ready to go 19 Editor Susan Ding Editorial Assistant Belle Chung SOCIAL NEWS Graphic Designer Chow Kok Yung Celebrating SG50 with dance 19 Staff GYM NEWS Executive Staff Gentlemen of the gym 20 Desmond Chua General Manager 6933-3968 Facilities Services EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS Loh Mun Fai Manager 6933-3964 Keppel Golf Charity 2015 8 F&B Lifestyle Health & Educational Talk: Common injuries Lionel Goh Manager 6933-3991 related to Golf 21 (Corporate Sales) 6933-3969 Ballet & Jazz: 1 day workshop 22 HR & Administration Make a date with Santa 22 Leong Chee Kheong Senior Manager 6933-3993 Massage techniques with Penny Chew 23 Finance Let’s Dance Party 23 Ted Choo Manager 6933-7030 Scuba Diving 24 Golf Operations Edmund Chun Senior Manager 6933-3966 F&B NEWS Yeo Chook Yuen Senior Executive 6933 3951 Tee Top 25 Justina Tan Senior Executive 6933-3953 Little Harry’s Pub 27 Abdul Wahab Senior Supervisor 6933-3952 E-SARN Thai Cuisine 28 Muhammad Izan Executive 6933-3951 Peony Jade 29 Corporate Communications PeraMakan 30 Susan Ding Manager 6933-3955 SeaScent 31 Membership Eunice Tan Assistant Manager 6933-3963 CALENDAR 32 Sports Ashok Kumar Assistant Manager 6933-3946 CLUB DIRECTORY 33 Keppel Links is published by: The Club welcomes contributions from members in the form of articles, Keppel Club, Bukit Chermin Road comments, pictures and drawings. Please address all materials to the Editor. The Newsletter Committee reserves the right to edit or decline any Singapore 109918 materials and photos submitted for publication. The views of contributors Tel : (65) 6375-5567 Fax : (65) 6278-1448 may not necessarily represent those of the Club. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means Designed and printed by Photoplates Pte Ltd without the written permission of the Publisher. Information concerning club events is correct at time of printing. To advertise in Keppel Links, please call info (65) 6933-3955. CoverStory / ClubNews The cover Celebrating our nation’s 50th From the GM’s desk with our own 50-year-olds Keppel Club recently celebrated a Double Boys and Girls of 50 Celebration – the nation’s SG50 and Keppel By Belle Chung Club’s 111th years in September. Our Keppel Club staff went to all lengths in dressing up to the nines capturing with each detail, the nostalgia We know of the bell bottoms. We’ve seen the big hair. of the 1960’s in their attire. Juxtaposed with the And we’ve grooved to some of its biggest hits. The 60’s backdrop from the 60’s, guests were able to mingle and 70’s to me, who was born in the late 80’s, were a and travel back in time during the event. Local fascinating time. The world was steaming ahead with delicacies were served up by people in their old endless possibilities as science and technology were fashioned outfits while live ethnic performances making headways that was once the stuff of dreams. In regaled the audience as they dined the night away. the early 60s, DNA genetic code was broken as the IBM Selectric typewriter was introduced and the Russians Let us step away from last month’s nostalgia sent the first man to space. By the 1970s, NASA Mariner and bring you into another important event for 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars and the first October – the Keppel Charity Golf. We are deeply floppy disc was created for computers. heartened by the support and contribution from members to see this well participated event Pop culture in general, too began to climb new heights. a success. Please turn to page 6 on how your The Bee Gees released their first record “My Bonnie” and contributed funds are used for meaningful causes John Lennon secretly married his sweetheart, Cynthia in assisting our beneficiaries. Many of these causes, Powell. The movie franchise that is James Bond today, I am sure are close to our hearts. was born in the 60s as were the first episodes of BBC television series Doctor Who and ABC television soap To catch up with you, we held a Meet-the-members operas, General Hospital and Days of our Lives. Coca- session on September 30. You may access the Cola expanded its flavour profile, debuting the now summary of what was shared during the meeting classic Sprite and the predecessor of diet drinks, TaB on our website by the third week of October. Cola. And then came the Beatles and the return of Elvis Keppel Links will carry this article in the November Presley. Disney too was birthed after an initially shaky issue. start and had by the 70’s achieved such wide acclaim Lastly, to wrap up this significant year of Double that it opened two theme parks within a span of a year. Celebration – SG 50 and Keppel Club’s 111 They were namely, Disney World and Magic Kingdom in years, we will be throwing a party bash themed Florida. Sadly, Walt didn’t live to see the opening of the “So-Singapore!” While our Double Celebration latter. reminisced about “the Good Old Days”, “So- Singapore” will celebrate all things that are typical Of course, things were not always a bed of roses. While to Singaporeans – things that may appear quirky Bob Dylan took folk music into the world of electronic to those unfamiliar with our culture. It will be a rock and the Beatles continued to take the world by year-end event that we will look forward to with storm with their music, the Second World War gave way you, your family and friends. So lai ah! Come join to the Cold War. The assassination of American President us as we all come together to celebrate the Keppel John F. Kennedy shocked the world while the increase spirit. May Keppel Club see many more good years of American troops to a hefty 400, 000 in Vietnam raised to come beyond 117 years! concerns over the Cold War. Where was our sunny island Singapore then in the midst of all the socio-cultural and political upheaval? We had Desmond Chua our own roller-coaster. Dark times seemed to lay ahead General Manager for us as merger plans with Malaysia fell flat, the British were moving out and the lack of resources was sending our young nation into a state of economic panic. Labour unrest was growing as unemployment grew. Yet, we came out strong. Declaring independence on Aug 9, Keppel Links 2 October 2015 ClubNews The cover 1965 we forged ahead. Pumping a generous budget of $100 million into our economy, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) set about to convince foreign Celebrating our nation’s 50th investors while pushing for the labour-intensive industries. with our own 50-year-olds By the 70's, our young nation had blossomed. Armed with an evolving manufacturing sector and increasingly recognised as a business hub, we were ready to take on Boys and Girls of 50 the world stage. So what was life like on the ground? We speak with some of our very own SG50 babies to get an insight. Keppel Links October 2015 3 ClubNews Keppel Links 4 October 2015 ClubNews / GolfNews Please email your recipe to FOOD COLUMN [email protected] Perfectly baked, these Cinnamon A classic comfort dessert go-to cupcakes are one mouthful of delicious Cinnamon cupcakes goodness after By Justina Tan (Senior Golf Executive) another. If there is a dessert that one can never get enough of, we say Method: it’d be cupcakes. Last issue, we introduced Mrs Susie Seow’s 1. Mix the flour, baking soda and cinnamon in a bowl until unique Chempedak cupcake recipe. This issue, we return to evenly distributed and set aside. more classic roots – vanilla and cinnamon. Brought to you by 2. Beat the butter and sugar together for 1 minute or until our very own Senior Golf Executive, Justina Tan, her Cinnamon creamy. Then add the eggs and vanilla extract to the butter cupcake recipe may be simple but promises to satisfy the and sugar mixture. Mix until vanilla extract and eggs are dessert addict in you. evenly distributed. 3. Once mixed, alternately add the flour mixture and milk Ingredients: to the butter mixture, and beat on low speed after each 1 cup self-rising flour 2 eggs addition until well combined. ¾ teaspoon of baking powder 1 cup of milk 4. Preheat oven at 180 degree-Celsius. Meanwhile, distribute ½ cup unsalted butter, softened ½ teaspoon of vanilla cupcake batter evenly into the cupcake liner of your choice.