Golden
News
Volume 13 - Number 26 - 27th
December 1999
The weekly newsletter of the Rotary Club of Kowloon
Golden Mile, Hong Kong.
Web site: www.rckgm.org
Last Week's Meeting -
Xmas
Party
Well I guess we've had busier years, but last week's Xmas
party still had a reasonable turnout of members, some of whom brought their
significant others and/or children along. We were also delighted to have the
President and other members of the Rotaract Club of Kowloon
Golden Mile in attendance, who tried to sing a nice Xmas song for us,
however despite having the benefit of a microphone, they were drowned out by the
noise of six KGM members nearby who chattered extremely noisily during their
entire performance.
Shame on you.
We also has a surprise guest speaker (who's name escapes me
for the time being), who is a Spiritual Medium with the power to speak to those
who have left this world for the next. Judging by the considerable number of
questions she was asked, her talk generated a quite lot of interest among KGM
members.
Anyway folks, this is the final bulletin of this year,
century, millennium and blah, blah, blah.
Hope you guys have a terrific New Year !
Welcome
Committee:
On duty this week are VP
Alex "The Visa Man" Lau and John "I don't know my birthday" Li.
Usual drill
- extremely loud red sashes and be
at the Holiday Inn not later than 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
By the way, I forget who
gave me the roster for the Welcome Committee (Ebe ???), but I need an updated
one for January and beyond.
This Week's
Speakers: Position Vacant
Topic: To Be
Announced
This Week's Birthday
Celebrants:
29 December - Ashok "Do I remind you of Omar Sharif, or what
??" Kirpalani, who shares his birthday with actor Ted Danson, who played Sam
Malone in the long-running TV sitcom "Cheers".
30 December - Ashok "Panther" Assomull, who shares his birthday with
(surprise, surprise) Tiger Woods.
Next Fellowship Event:
????
Hey guys, I am just the Editor of the Bulletin. If you
don't tell me what's going on or planned, I have nothing to report.
Forthcoming Club and District
Events:
1) 15 January 2000 - District Mahjong Tournament, World Trade
Centre Club, Causeway Bay.
2) 21 January 2000 - District Golf Tournament, Hong Kong Golf
Club, Fanling.
3) 25-27 February 2000 - Rotary International Presidential
Conference, Regent Hotel, Tsimshatsui.
4) 27-29 February 2000 - KGM visit to our
sister club, the RC of Paranaque, Manila, to celebrate their 25th
anniversary.
More information about these events will be provided at the
next few regular club meetings.
KGM Web Site:
Hey, it's Xmas and even the Webmaster needs a break
sometimes, so he has nothing new to report.
Cool Internet Sites Of The
Week:
http://www.xe.net/ucc/ is
an excellent site where you can perform currency conversions. Moreover, if
you are interested in getting the latest exchange rates sent to you once a day
by email, they have a free subscription service. I have used it for over two
years and it has proven to be a most useful service (it's free and
their is NO advertising attached). Highly recommended.
Quote Of The Week:
"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to
"Y2K". It was this kind of thinking that caused the damn problem in the
first place."
Source unknown.
Joke Of The Week:
Yesterday, scientists for Health Canada suggested that men
should take a look at their beer consumption, in light of the results of a
recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.
The current theory is that drinking beer gradually makes
men turn into women.
To clinically test the finding, 100 men were given 6 pints of
beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked
excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive,
failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when
wrong.
No further testing is planned.
(With apologies to our female members)
The
Phantom