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Golden News
Volume 18, Number 6 - Monday 9 August
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 Visit our award winning website Also see our Cellular WAP Sites: http://tagtag.com/rckgm & http://tagtag.com/d3450 This Week's Meeting:
Our guest speaker this week is Mr. Robert Allender who will be speaking to
us about "Energy: A Resource Worth
Managing".
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Courtesy
reminder: KGM Program Director Brian "SHUT UP" Hodgson gracefully reminds
members to either suspend or maintain their private conversations at a low
volume while the President and/or the Guest Speaker is at the podium.
This is not only common courtesy and good manners towards the speaker, but failure to keep quiet usually means that other members are disturbed. ++++++
From
Under The Kitchen Sink: Our spy in the Holiday Inn
kitchen, Vincent "You Want Fries With That?"
Lam, informs us that this week's fare is Western food,
namely pumpkin soup with cinnamon crab cake, daikon (?), baby spinach
& lemon caper sauce OR creamy mixed mushrooms in a filo pocket with
turned vegetables, followed by German cheese cake, coffee or
tea.
Milestones: Birthday
greetings for: 12 August to Carola "Cha Cha" Chard, who shares her birthday with tennis champion Pete Sampras. 15 August to "Lady"
Diana Yeung, who shares her birthday with Napoleon
Bonaparte (some French guy?).
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KGM Induction Anniversary greetings to:
Ashok "Ah So"
Assomull who this week celebrates the 14th anniversary of his induction into KGM
on 15 August
1990.
BOD
Meeting - Next week:
KGM BOD Members are reminded that the next BOD meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday 16 August 2004, at the 2/F, Holiday Inn Golden Mile hotel. If you can't attend,
call President Silva "Dollar" Yeung on
9408 1198 or Secretary Mazhar
"Bizarre" Sultana on 9303 8881 or send them both an email.
Fellowship News:
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. District 3450 News & Events:
According to our spy in the Legco locker room, CP Herbert "Deep Throat" Lau, the following persons from District 3450 are uncontested candidates in the forthcoming elections: (1) PP Jeffery
Lam, SBS, JP (RC Hong Kong North) - Functional
Constituency: Commerce (1)
(2) PP Andrew Leung, SBS, JP (RC Tsuen Wan) - Functional Constituency: Industry (1) (3) Mr. Daniel Lam, BBS, JP (Hon. Member RC Channel Islands) - Functional Constituency: Heung Yee Kuk ++++++
KGM's most famous son, PDG Dipo "The 5th Marx Brother" Sani, as Chairman Of The Committee Which Is Too Secret To Even Be Listed In The District Pocket Planner, has announced a new "Lady Get Lady" membership development drive - details. ++++++
Upcoming District
events:
Rotary
International News:
New: The RI Centennial Convention will be held from
Saturday 18 June 2005
in Chicago - information.
New: An appeal for funds to help purchase
RI Founder Paul Harris' home
in Chicago - information.
Repeat: Read about the new RI President's "Four Emphases" during
his presidency - here.
Repeat: Download your personal copy of
"Rotary World" - here. Repeat: Order the Rotary Centennial book online - here Rotary Information: The RI Website: Since the late 1990s, Rotary International has been using the Internet to communicate with its members and to showcase Rotary’s many programs and activities. The official RI Web site at www.rotary.org also allows members to conduct Rotary business online, from ordering publications, to making contributions to The Rotary Foundation, to registering for the RI Convention and other meetings. Club officers can enter the
site’s Business Portal and make changes to their club’s membership
information. Using the Where Clubs Meet function, members can easily
identify places to do make ups. The site’s Download Center offers an array
of publications and forms, making it more convenient and less expensive
for Rotarians to access Rotary materials. Language communities provide
essential Rotary information in eight languages and link to official
language sites maintained by Rotarians around the world.
The RI Web site offers a
vast amount of information -- including the latest Rotary
news.
From
The Web (and WAP) Monster:
Just a quick note to let members know that the address
of the new KGM WAP site has changed
to:
http://tagtag.com/rckgm
If you'd like a new "Bookmark" sent to you, just send
an SMS Text to the WAP Monster on +852
9011 0088 (or email
him with your cellular phone number), and he will happily
send it to you by return SMS text, to save you having to type it
out.
Golden Smile: An old man walked into a jewelry shop one Friday, with
a beautiful, vivacious & very young lady at his side. "I'm
looking for a special ring for my girlfriend," he said.
The jeweller looks through his stock, and takes out an
outstanding ring priced at $5,000.
"I don't think you understand. I want something really
special," said the old man.
At that, the jeweler fetched his special
stock from the safe. "Here's a stunning ring at $40,000." The girls'
eyes sparkled, and the old man said that he would take it.
"And how are you paying, Sir?"
"I'll pay by cheque. Of course I realise you'll want to
ensure that everything is in order, and you'll need to contact
your bank to make sure that my cheque clears, so I'll fetch the
ring on Monday."
Come Monday morning, an extremely annoyed jeweller
phones the man. "According to the bank, that account was closed over a
year ago."
"I know", said the old man, "but can you imagine what a
fantastic weekend I had?"
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One evening, 10 year old Johnny is watching television
in his bedroom, when he goes downstairs and asks, "Dad, what's Love
Juice?"
His father is horrified and, after looking at the boy's
mother who is equally shocked, proceeds to give his son the whole works,
warts and all, about watching the wrong types of TV shows, and so
on.
Johnny now sits on the sofa with his mouth open in
amazement, wondering what he did wrong.
His father then asks, "So, tell me son, honestly, what
exactly have you been watching?"
Little Johnny replies, "Wimbledon."
Quotable Quotes:
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only
one day at a time".
Abraham Lincoln 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
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