Please direct all biz enquiries and inter-Bantus matters to singbantus@gmail.com (w.e.f 12 Jan 2010).
Internal mail regarding operational and school matters addressing our members will be emailed from a different email addy. If you have been a regular member, you’ll be receiving an email from us by the end of this week. Thanks for your patience.
Our email account singbantus@yahoo.com was hacked into this morning and someone used our email addy to send an email asking for money to our entire email listing. If you have receive this, it is NOT from us. Yahoo has locked down our account for the next 24 hours due to the security breach so we are unable to retrieve our email listing to warn everyone. If you’re a Bantus member and reading this, please spread the word.
If you’ve got any ideas to prevent future break-ins or post-op recovery, let me know. Thanks!
note: btw, the hacker will entertain your replies coz he went through our inbox and knows personal stuff about people on our email list so he is damn convincing. this is the latest feedback from a friend who called us from Germany to verify with us.
This is The Republic Cultural Centre. Here is the entrance. We’ll all meet at Studio 1 which is at ground level. There’ll be enough of us hanging around to ask for directions. So no worries!
If you’re driving, just park your car and walk around to the other side of the building. If you are taking a cab, the taxi drop-off point is just right across from TRCC.
Due to the APEC meeting at the Istana next week, Istana Park will not be accessible. We are looking at an alternative venue where it’ll be too far away for Obama or Clinton to stumble into our Batizado roda by mistake. So stay tuned, folks!
There won’t be any training on Mon 21st September as it is a public holiday. Enjoy your long weekend and see you on Thursday 24th September 09.
PARABENS to Claudinho who has just troco de corda. Not once but TWICE! Making it a double promotion! Whoa! When we asked him over the phone last Saturday, the ever modest Claudinho who sounded overwhelmed and slightly hoarse (because he had lost his voice), said it was so unexpected. But he was very happy. When we shared the news with Rafael from Bantus KL, who was in town over the same weekend, he was overjoyed for Claudinho, saying, “If anyone deserves that honor, it is Claudinho, man! That guy is a saint.”
Welcome back to Singapore, Professor Claudinho!
(keep an eye on this post ‘coz we’ll see if we can get hold of a vid and some pix of the grand event for u…)
Just some of the highlights in photos…
We had plenty of grub on the table (BIG Thank U’s to all the closet cooks!) and we were glad that everyone was hungry so that was good.
Due to a lack of electrical socket outlets, we couldn’t have a boom box playing reggae all nite. Instead, we had Mike Jackson songs courtesy of some kind soul’s MP3 player. In the meantime, while waiting for the meats to go from raw to well done, a bunch of us jumped into the pool, had too much fun on the slides at the kids’ pool and chilled out in the jacuzzi. Later, there was plenty of entertainment provided by Claudinho and his unsuspecting victims…it was our version of Saturday Night LIVE.
As usual, we left the cake design to our ever creative baker, Playmobil (a.k.a Debbie), (http://roomfordessert.com.sg) who once again amazed us with another brilliant idea.Then there were the usual speeches starting with our 4-year-oldie, Giraia (who had no problem giving impromptu speeches with his debating background) and our youngest capoeirista (future überbabe) present, Rapoxinha, got to blow out the candles after MUCH persuasion.
We had our cake and we ate with great relish, remembering that it’s been FOUR years since Claudinho hopped onto our shores and we’ve been humbled, awed and thankful to God that our boundaries have fallen on pleasant pastures.
Yup, we’re turning 4 on 1st July 2009. So even though the year started off badly, we want to celebrate with all the good folks who stuck with us, stood on our side and just plain gave us the moral support when we were made target practice. THANKS EVERYONE (you know who you are!) for walking through the fire with us.
So we’re chilling out by the pools (yes, there are more than 1 pool), muking around on the carpet grass slopes from 3pm. BBQ pit will fire up from 5pm (courtesy of Chef Claudinho and assistants). We will supply the meat (for the carnivores among us) and drinks but would appreciate some help with the carbos (eg. pasta, rice, noodle dishes or veggies) and desserts (if it’s gonna melt then you’ll have to bring it in a cooler box). Let us know in class or by email if you can make it or bring a dish. Bring your own liquid poison (if you’re into alcohol) and instruments (eg. guitar, shakers, etc) so we can jam, skank and reggae on!
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In the light of the H1N1 virus, we would like to suggest the following precautionary measures for everyone training with us:
1. Do wash your hands with soap after visiting toilets (according to the New Paper poll, majority of people wash their hands but not with soap and most of them who don’t use soap happen to be male) or use a hand sanitiser.
2. Do wash your hands before and after class (since we do make physical contact during our training) and if you need to rinse (the showers are located in the basement and on the 9th floor of YMCA) before coming to class to smell better, you are strongly urged to do so (out of consideration for your fellow classmates and instructor).
3. If you are feeling unwell, we strongly advise you to rest in the comfort of your home (out of consideration again for your fellow classmates and instructor). We do not want to catch any viral nasties from anyone.
4. If you have a fever, you shouldn’t be training. Stay away from class until you get well.
5. If you have the sniffles, stay away from class until you are completely well. We are not training in open-air but in an air-con room that does get steamy (very conducive for bacterial breeding).
Caution: If you have chronic cough and it becomes an issue of personal hygiene for the rest of the class, we may ask you to go home and rest because it won’t be fair for everyone else to have to second guess themselves what they may be catching from you. So since we are an adult class, let’s all be considerate.
6. Parents, we do wish to make training time comfortable for your children. If your child is feeling unwell, has a fever or the sniffles, we would strongly advise you to let your child rest at home (out of consideration for the other children and the instructor).
7. Also, we would appreciate if you could have a personal hand sanitiser ready at hand (or with your domestic helper who is attending to your child) so that your child can use it before and after class as a personal hygiene measure. We rather be safe than sorry as the children’s hands will make contact with the floor as well as with one another during class and children tend to be more susceptible to infections.
