This way to the ballroom!
Banquet catalog and souvenir.
Uniquely Singapura stamps.
Vet-in.. uh.. reception.
Our guests start to arrive. A big welcome to Kenji and Yaeko who've not had the opportunity to visit since 2005.
Suki & Matthew from HongKong with ID Representative Wilson Ng.
Russell from HongKong, Zamina & Horatio from Malaysia.
CFA Rosettes for the winners.
The VIP procession.
Lion Dancers escort our distinguished guests in.
Seated just minutes before the event.
Emcee for the evening, Ms Adilah K Roose.
FFSS President, Mr Felix Yeo addresses the guests.
Judge and Liason to Asia, Mr Bob Zenda gives his opening speech.
Judge and International Division Chairperson, Mr Darrell Newkirk kickstarts the night.
Cheers from HongKong!
The FFSS top 10 awards are also given out at the banquet. Here Vivien receives the award for Best Household Pet on behalf of her show stopper, Chester.
Kenji-san presents the top 10 kitten awards, here to Adnan.
FFSS Members and the Junior Showmanship kids.
More happy campers.
ID Rep Wilson Ng gives out the Breed Winner awards, here to Phebe Lo from HongKong. Breed Winners (from 1st to 3rd)are awarded to cats in Championship who have scored at least 1 point and are at the top of the Asian breed standings.
Neni from Indonesia receives Best of Breed Sphynx for her cat, Shah.
Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian cat fanciers.
The Premiership Divisional Winner (DW) awards are presented by Allbreed Judge Carla Bizzell. This is a perfect specimen of a point chasing crazy Malaysian. At least she does it in style. Zamina accepts the award for 9th best Premiership cat for her self-bred European Burmese: GP, DW Maz Esemais Velvet Paws.
Anthea from HongKong accepts 7th Best Cat in Premiership for GP, DW Salajupiter Baby Don't Forget Me, a silver tabby American Shorthair.
Need we introduce him? Russell Law, Hong Kong. The tall guy accepted awards in all 3 categories that night!
More from Singapore!
THE Malaysian Contingent.
Our Junior Showmanship kids get their own spotlight. FFSS has one of the leading Junior Showmanship programs in Asia.
Wan Ashraf tells us about Tigger.
Back to the awards, Darrell invites Previous Spotlight Award winners onstage. The Spotlight award is presented to an individual who has contributed significantly to the growth of the cat fancy within his/her region.
This year, CFA awards the honour to Chloe Chung from HongKong. Stick around to find out why.
Russell accepting Best Cat in Premiership for GP, DW Russmania Bohemian Rhapsody.
Chloe accepted awards for 2nd Best in Premiership and Best in Kitten AND Championship classes! Her British Shorthair; GC, BW, NW Castlkatz Peeves of Chloeadores is the FIRST National Winner from Asia.
Chloe gives a tearful thank you to everyone who has helped her achieve success this season.
One last surprise of the night for our Emcee!
Happy Birthday Adilah! Please put that knife down.
More group shots from the VIP table.
VIP table 2: May I point out Master Clerk Instructor, Katsuhide Sakurai who came all the way from Japan to join us!
"Phew Emcee-ing is tough. I should just go back to breeding show-stopping Abys.."
Linda from Thailand with the HongKong team.
One last smile for the camera. Good night, and see you next season!
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