Past Events

After a good apéro to reduce the stage fright, the committees complete of its nine members and the President’s wife, Sabine, fanned out and started to up-sell wine, beer and our BBQ menu. Chief Butcher Ernst operated the grill with Salesman Max doing his best to advertise the succulent grilled steaks. Mario was shooting around and had his orders expedited at once, while the President pushed our wine sales to the maximum.

Sabine, Birgit, Barbara and Jörg juggled the trays full of beer and drinks towards the tables. Olivier true to his treasurer’s spirit made sure the accounts tallied up and had to “think on his feed” in between waiting his tables; Jean-Daniel served the French section of the club with bravado. He also noticed a few shortcomings in the maintenance sector for me to follow up. In short, all of us had an excellent BBQ and some good fun.

We would like to thank you, Committee, for your active involvement in this club, for once every one could see what you do. The next 364 days your job will be almost invisible to the members but trust us, we know and value your input very much.

Three cheers to this great team.

It was so intensed! No, actually it was exciting and challenging for the children who participated in the Amazing Race recently. Of course, tension did build up when the children saw with their own eyes, a Mangrove Pit-Viper quietly hidden under the branches! That was definitely an experience with our Heinz of the Jungle and seriously we believe we also have two Janes in the Club! Guess who the Janes (Tarzan's partner) are - Kelly Ferron-Feyder and Sophie Buttermann. With that scream, they should be Tarzan instead! Winners

• Champion - Cheetah
• 1st Runner-up - Power Rangers
• 2nd Runner-up - The Smart Ones

It was a fun-filled amazing afternoon of races - Gunny Sack Race, Sponge Race, Puzzle Solving Race and Tennis Ball Race. The event ended in a spirit of Pfadi with sausages and bread dough over the campfire. Some parents just had to join in the fun at the campfire - it must have reminded them of the good old school days.

Just for your information, the nocturnal Mangrove Pit-Viper snake resides in mangrove forests and feeds on lizards, frogs and other small animals; and will grow till about 105cm. It has a reputation for being quick to strike - means venomous and dangerous.

Finally, at 14:00 on Sunday, 11th May 2008, the mystery guest emerged juggling his Euro football towards the Jungle Bar. The members with their family and friends gathered at the pool to watch this amazing performance from Mr Paul Sahli, a Guinness Book of Records holder with 65 entries! He juggled anything from the football, tennis ball, ping pong ball, golf ball, big ball bearing, apple, orange, egg, jellybean and even the smallest plastic bullet (used for toygun)! The best ever perfomance he did at the Pool was to juggle this huge tennis ball while climbing up the ladder of 24 steps high and still juggling the ball on the way down to a loud applause from the audience. The first world record achieved by Mr Paul Sahli from Lostorf, Switzerland in 1983 was he kept the ball in the air for 12 hours 4 minutes 16 seconds. He is specially flown in to Singapore by the Swiss Business Association and courtesy from Clariden Leu. All photos were taken by Claude Verly (claude@art-management.com).

It was May Day on 1st May and Pergola celebrated the holiday with original specialities spread from the Buendnerland. The Brunch came alive with the band performance by the Alphorn Ensemble Engadina led by Dr Hanspeter Danuser, specially flown in from Switzerland. Members and their family and friends were impressed with the decoration of the restaurant especially with the 'cow' sitting on the grass keeping them company, enjoyed the buffet and had a great time that afternoon.

Let the hunt begins! That was what the children did on Sunday, 23rd March 2008. After a hard day's of paint and colours the day before, the children returned to the Club all charged up for an eggs-traordinary hunt searching for the hidden 500 eggs! Why not, when you will be rewarded with "Trafficlight" ice-cream after that.

The children were eggs-cited to see 500 eggs in the trays all ready to be painted. Equipped with apron and paints, the children transformed the white eggs to many colourful designs. These transformations were then put under the sun at Pavilion to dry. Look at how they enjoyed these moments.