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Golden News
Volume 18, Number 1 - Monday 5 July
2004
The official bulletin of the Rotary
Club of Kowloon Golden Mile is published
most Mondays and is distributed to all club members, District officials and to "friends of KGM". Winner "Best English Language Bulletin" in District 3450, 2001/2002 This Week's Meeting:
 Our guest speaker this week is our new Fearless
Leader, President Silva Yeung
(the handsome gentleman pictured at
left), who will be speaking to us about the new Rotary theme and his plans
and objectives for the new Rotary year.
We also take this opportunity to thank our beloved
"Iron Lady", IPP Patricia
Blair, who truly did an outstanding job as KGM President
during the 2003/2004 Rotary year and made us all proud.
Milestones: Birthday
greetings for: 6 July to KGM Charter Member Kenneth "Ahhhhh" So, who shares his birthday
with actor Sylvester Stallone.
9 July to KGM Charter Member Notan "Wanna Buy A Watch? Tolani, who shares
his birthday with actor Tom Hanks.
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KGM Induction Anniversary greetings to:
Anthony
"Inspector Plod" Wong who was
inducted into KGM 1 year
ago on 4 July 2003.
PP Nanu "Nanu" Lachman who was inducted into KGM 13 years ago on 3
July 1991.
Semi-Annual Dues - 4th Reminder:
Yes folks, it's time once again to pay your dues of $1,500 for the period 1 July to 31 December 2004, and you have two payment options: 1) By cash handed directly to KGM Treasurer Rajiv "Show Me The Money" Makhija; 2) By cheque payable to "Rotary Club of Kowloon Golden
Mile" mailed to P.O.
Box 98129, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.
If you elect to pay by cheque, remember to clearly write your name on the back of the cheque,
because our overworked and unpaid Treasurer doesn't always know which
company name belongs to which
member. Community Service News:
At the last KGM BOD meeting, the Board authorised that an amount of $58,000 be contributed to the KGM School in China for additional desks and chairs, library & physical education equipment and improvements to the sports field. A follow up visit to the school, which has +250
children of primary school age,.will be organised by PP "Hopalong" Cassidy within the next few
months.
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In honour of the memory of former First Lady Sheila Parmanand, your BOD has
authorised a donation of $5000 towards cancer research.
District Tailor:
How many of you know that our very own PP Raju "Inside Leg" Daswani is the Official
Tailor for District 3450? How many of you know that PP Raju charges the
very reasonable price of only $1,500 to make a jacket in the RI
President's "official" colour? How many of you know that PP Raju donates 100% of the proceeds to the Rotary
Foundation?
Assuming he makes about 60 jackets this year, this
translates into a generous contribution of $90,000 to the Rotary
Foundation.
Well done, PP Raju. Your buddies at KGM are extremely
proud of you.
District 3450 News & Events:
 The rather dashing figure pictured at left is our new
District Governor Alexander ("The Great" ??)
Mak, who will be leading District 3450 (Hong Kong, Macau
& Mongolia) into Rotary's Centennial Year of
2005.
We don't yet have a date for the official visit to KGM
by DG Alex and his Merry Band of Men In Tights, but we will advise in
due course.
By the way, District 3450 has a new member club in
Mongolia, namely the RC of Baynzurkh
100, which was officially admitted as a member club of RI
on 1 July 2004. The leader of the new 35 member club is President Brigitte Cummings. The new club was sponsored by the RC Tolo
Harbour.
Rotary
International News:
 The stately figure at left is new
RI President Glenn E. Estess
Sr., who has identified literacy, family of Rotary, health
and water as his emphases for 2004-05. To that end, he has appointed
special task forces to work with clubs and districts on these
issues.
For more information about our the new RI
President, please visit his web
page at the Rotary International website.
New: See the new Rotary International theme for our Centennial
Year - details.
New: July
is Rotary International's Literacy Month - information.
Repeat:
Order the Rotary Centennial
book online - here
In other RI news: 1. Learn about the various Rotary International Programs on the RI
website - details.
2. Read all about the ongoing plans for the
RI Centennial in 2005 -
details.
Rotary Information: Campaigning for office prohibited: One of the interesting by-laws of Rotary International provides that “no Rotarian shall campaign, canvass, or electioneer for elective position in Rotary International.” This provision includes the office of district governor, Rotary International director, RI president, and various elected committees. The Rotary policy prohibits the circulation of brochures, literature, or letters by a candidate or by anyone on behalf of such a candidate. After a Rotarian has
indicated an intention to be a candidate for one of the elective Rotary
offices, he or she must refrain from speaking engagements, appearances, or
publicity that could reasonably be construed as furthering his or her
candidacy. The only information that may be sent to clubs relating to
candidates for an elective position is that which is officially
distributed by the general secretary of RI.
A Rotarian who becomes a
candidate for an elective position, such as district governor or RI
director, must avoid any action that would be interpreted as giving him or
her an unfair advantage over other candidates. Failure to comply with
these provisions prohibiting campaigning could result in the
disqualification of the candidate.
In Rotary, it is believed
that a Rotarian's record of service and qualifications for office stand on
their own and do not require publicity or special
promotion.
From
The Mailbox:
Given the
incredible amount of challenging questions received each week by The
Phantom, many of which he is not qualified to answer, a number of experts
in their field have been recruited to assist, and this week is the first
installment of what we hope to be a regular "From The Mailbox" feature of
the Golden News. Note that similar questions have been grouped together,
if a common reply is valid.
Question: Since my husband and I (had a baby
/ hired a maid / asked my mother to live with us), we find it increasingly
difficult to enjoy a bit of rumpy-bumpy now and then, because we've
discovered that, er, sounds can be heard from outside our bedroom, and
this is embarrassing. What should we do?
Answer (supplied by Dame
Edna Everidge): Hello Possums, well I know exactly what
you mean. Before he passed away from complications arising due to
blockages in his plumbing, my beloved husband Norm and I used to have the
odd bout of tantric tummy thumping, even when it wasn't his (or the
Queen's) birthday. However it became increasingly difficult to do so after
my personal assistant and bridesmaid Madge moved in with us after she was
dumped by Spiro Hopontopovus from the Athens Fish & Chip Shop and
Haberdashery.
Anyway, Possum, the best advice I can give is to do what Norm and I used to do. Either lace your listener's bedtime Hot Chocolate with a good dose of laxatives, so that they can keep themselves occupied for the night, or get a room at the Holiday Inn (which, frankly, proved to be expensive for the 3 minutes poor old Norm needed, but they did have HBO). Golden Smile: Billy Bob and Bubba, from Mississippi, went to Alabama to visit a relative. As they were walking down the street, they saw a sign that read, "Suits $5 each, shirts $2 each, pants $3 per pair." Billy Bob says, "Hey, we could buy a whole bunch of
these, take 'em back to Mississippi, sell them and make a fortune."
Bubba says, "Great idea but, when we go into this place
let me do all the talking. I'll talk in a slow Alabama drawl so they won't
know we're tourists and try to rip us off." Billy Bob agreed.
They went inside and Bubba says, really slowly, "I'll
take 50 suits at $5 each, 100 shirts at $2 each and 50 pair of pants at $3
each. Now if y'all get them ready, I'll just back my truck up so we can
load them and ........"
The owner of the place interrupted and said, " You guys
are from Mississippi ain't ya?"
Bubba said, "Well yeah, but how did you know that?"
The owner said, "This is a
Dry-Cleaners."
Quotable Quotes:
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've
never been hurt, and dance like nobody's watching
!".
Leroy "Satchel" Paige Bumper Sticker Of The Week:  If you want to save the bumper sticker for use in email or on a website, put your mouse pointer over the top, right-click, and select "Save Picture As". The
Phantom
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