SP Japanese Cultural Club

Notice for 1st Official Main Committee Meeting. 0930h at Sembawang MRT station, meeting to be held in Selataris Condo Meeting Room.

Agenda

1.Apologies for absence
2.Minutes of last meeting
3.Matters Arising
4.Event planning for December (Ding Zhong, Takumi, Lewis)
5.Things we need.
5.1. The amount for each member to pay a year.(Rui En, Jia Jin, Yan Jie)
6.Calender of Events for 06/07(Alvin, Eugene, Wen Qi, Terence)
7.First Club meeting details. 1st December 2006, Friday.
8.F.O. Camp
9.CoolWorld progress report.
10. AOB
11. Close

Hi all, please try to be punctual for meeting on Sunday. The time and location is as follows, 0930h at Sembawang MRT. Hope to see you all there.

To all main committee members :
From : Andrew

We have several planning and proposals to do now, as well as to source for Chado equipment. Some people are working very hard on their tasks though some of the main committee members are not. For now, I am not going to mention who.

Also, I have only gotten replies from 24 interested members. I hope that that is not all of the members we are going to get. So those who are tasked to sms the message out to the members, please do so. You know who you are. If for some reason, you are unable to do it, please give me a call by Sunday, 19th November. And if you have done it, drop me an sms by Sunday, 19th November too.

Please remember why we started this club, and what is our responsibilities to the club being in the main committee. The workload is not shared fairly now, so all those who are not as busy as the rest, please take the initiative to help your fellow committee members out.

We are going to have a meeting on Sunday, 26th November 2006, from 11am to 2pm. Location is unfinalised yet. For that meeting, I will brief all of you what has been going on, and for you all to ask me questions, if any.

For now, projected list of events are as follows.

Proposed budget for Japanese Cultural Club’s display-cum Presentation

Items that is needed for the Tea Ceremony
Chawan (Tea Bowl, need about 20, if possible 30. This is to serve the guest tea. ) $15(ebay, excluding shipping), $40-80+ (Authentic from Takashimaya)
Kaishi (serving paper) $2 per packet, need 3 packets.
Fan (To greet guests) $10-$30
Natsume (Tea Container) $60-$80
Chasen (Whisk) $15-$30
Yukata $80-$100+ (excluding obi belt)
Obi Belt (for Yukata) $30+(cheap) $50-$80 is for proper.
Kimono $220 onwards. For female version, it is more.
Chashaku (Tea scoop) $10
Chakin (Cloth to clean Chawan) $5 each (Need 2)
Fukusa (Ceremonial Cleaning Cloth) $50 From Urasenke.
Mizukashi (Water Container) $100
Hot Water Container $120+
Stove (to heat water continuously) $30
Kensui (Waste water receptacle) $60
Hishaku (Water scoop) $20-$30
Fukoki (Small stand to put Hishaku on) $20
Tray $50
Okashi Bowl/Plate $ 30
Kettle $15-$20
Otana (Stand for ceremony) Price unknown as of present
Towels (To clean up afterwards) $ 15

Perishables
Tea Powder $15per container. For guest list of 110, need 3 containers. Price is also dependant on grade of Tea, for which this is one of the cheaper variety.
Okashi (Sweets and Titbits for guest.) This is a small “refreshment” served to guest to eat before drinking the tea. Depending on Okashi used, price per piece range from $0.35 (cheapest, but the result was not good, too sticky) to over $8(Authentic Japanese okashi)

Setting
Tatami mats. Smallest is usually a 4 ½ tatami mat size. Tatami mats are 180cm in length, 90cm in breadth, and 5cm in height. USD125 per mat.
http://www.chopa.com/ShopSite/rice_straw_tatami.html

Total
$3218 (taking the SGD to be 1.60 to the USD. Prices for most things is low to mid end.)
$2500(not buying everything or not all that is requested)

I handed in the form to David Lee on Friday 3rd November.

The number of interested parties in total amount to 117.

Thank you all. We hit our target and even better what I had expected. Now, we can all just pray that SAA opens up the club, ne?

otsukaresama deshita