What: weareone: our fifth chapter celebrations

When: 15-16 November 2013

Where: HomeTeamNS Pasir Ris Holiday Chalets

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Bengyan, Priority Member:

How time flies and now we are celebrating our fifth chapter.

I still remember vividly my first RBKD anniversary celebration was weareone: our second chapter.

Every anniversary celebration just brings back fond memories.

This year’s 放天灯 should be the highlight I suppose. Carefully opening up the lantern, writing wishes, tying string, lighting it up and sending it up to the sky with all our wishes and hoping it will all come true. Though it is not done in the usual traditional way, it’s definitely a unique RBKD experience.

The individual and definition video would be the other best part of this celebration. I’m sure majority of us felt so awkward seeing and listening to ourselves on screen. But no doubt it’s a great platform for us to understand why RBKD is so special and unique to each and everyone of us. Lastly, thanks everyone for making this celebration an awesome and beautiful one.

Let’s all stay united and sail through the rest of the journey together.

Once again, Happy Birthday!!!

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Squeen, Priority Member (Malaysian Member)

星期四期待星期五的到来，结果，偶又失眠了，因为万分期待。虽然精神累，但是心还是热的，我记得那天是大包小包的到chalet,哈哈…一到案发现场，我们就开始整理，布置了，还在背景及漂亮的照片。

到了傍晚，Rangels陆陆续续到来了，接着En也到了。说真的，我没有发现她的存在，哈哈，可以看见她很爱这个fanclub，我们的存在是因为她的存在，万事都互相效应，也很感谢她让我能在这里认识一些人，事，物；我爱你们大家。

这次也是我第一次放孔明灯，之前都因为有个顾虑，怕撞到飞机，也谢谢这次可以让我很安心的抛开顾虑的随意而飞。我记得我写，身体健康，美梦成真， 美若天仙，吃饱饱，睡好好（Jean教唆）的。虽然我一向都拒绝”班当”，但是，偶尔大家可以让自己开心的事是好的，这也许是个简单又美丽的期望，但是 不是都可以实践。

接着，还有自己写的拔罐风铃给RBKD的祝福语。

接下来，就说今年的蛋糕特别漂亮，但是，好甜哦！隔天，我们到了Irodori吃晚 餐，谢谢各位的抽空时间陪我们。过后，我记得我有和大家握手当作回礼，不要忘记我哦!

在此，要谢谢你们大家的用心，策划，一切一切都不容易。谢谢你们的付出，才有这次美好的时光，除了谢谢也很感恩自己也在其中。

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Shuwen, Priority Member

Even though I left the celebrations early, there were are the few things that left an impression on me:

The video which Lionel and Phyllis recorded, it was indeed a huge effort for them to record that video describing what RBKD is about. I personally was amazed by their effort in spending a whole day just to record the video.

Members were each given a wind chime to have their well wishes for the club written on it. I like this idea because everyone got to write down their thoughts on it. We got to bring it home, which makes it feel like you brought a part of RBKD back with you.

The cake cutting session where all the members would gather together with Rui En, where everyone would shout for the toasting session.

It does feel good to have this chalet where you get to see other members whom you don’t see very often.

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Weijen, Priority Member (Malaysian Member)

I.had.been.waiting.for.this.

I simply couldn’t wait for this celebration after experiencing the 3rd weareone celebration 2 years earlier. It definitely felt like time had gone back to 2 years ago when we were celebrating it at the very same chalet unit as we used back then. It is like the ‘annual dinner’ of RBKD, a time for all Rangels to come together to mark our anniversary, to have new birthday wishes for the coming years and of course, to gather and catch up with each other.

It felt like such a joyous occasion that couldn’t have gotten better when Rui En made the special and surprising appearance to join us that night. We watched the videos edited by our dedicated committee that made us recall some crazy things we had done over the past 5 years or so, and I really like these moments because we share it together. :D

Then it was the yamseng and photo-taking session. We Yam~~~~ as long as we could (a must-do at every celebration) and then had our photo-taking session, which I feel was the most important because group photos are the best way to demonstrate RBKD’s family spirit.

The highlight of the night was undoubtedly the sky lanterns. It is a traditional yet unique way of wishing RBKD the very best.

That night, we released so many of them that towards the end we simply couldn’t think of anything more to write! (Wishes like Rangels are all 美若天仙 even cropped up :P)

I tried to stay up overnight and wanted to watch the sunrise at 630am, so a bunch of us were refusing to sleep at 4am but……it was too tiring and once one fell asleep, others followed because it was contagious hahaha :D

I feel really honoured to be part of RBKD and the celebrations, many thanks to the committee for organising this. Joanne once again received me after I touched down and showed me around. Maintaining a club is never easy; it is a new beginning for us after reaching our 5th birthday and I hope that this weareone annual celebration will keep going on until the 10th and beyond! :D

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