Golden
News
Volume
14 Number 46 30th
May 2001
The Weekly Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Kowloon Golden
Mile
www.rckgm.org
The Ball
For those of you that
went to the BALL OF THE YEAR - on behalf of the fund-raisers this year - a hearty thanks
for your participation and generosity.
For Rotarian David, the Ball Committee Chairman
and his tireless team, Ho Door Chair for a TOP evening of FUN and ENTERTAINMENT.
My table had a ball and every one I spoke to told me that it was a raver!!
Rotarianne Therese tells me that I had a good time!
Thanks especially to all those who probably
worked more during the evening than have a good time themselves so that everyone
else would enjoy the evening more.
The Band was great ... and the
Singer.
I didn't know we had so much talent in the
Club!!!
Some of the fancy dresses were out of this world
- WOW!!
Thanks Grand Hyatt for having us and for telling
the angry resident to use ear plugs and that you would continue to
hold the Rotarians' Ball until the bitter end.
To the Rotarians of KGM who didn't make it.
YOU...... MISSED........ A......... FANTASTIC
EVENING
DON'T MISS THE NEXT IF YOU CAN HELP IT!!!
Meeting On 23rd May
2001
Diary Dates
Today!!
- 30th May - Ms Paula De Lisle - Chairwoman, American Chamber of Commerce. This
lady, is the first lady president of the American Chamber of
Commerce in Hong
Kong. Please come along and bring your friends - her speech promises to be most
interesting. Yours in Rotary, Elissa, Programme Director
Week-end
8/9th June - Last Current Board Meeting &
Fellowship
*******************
It is my pleasure to invite all members
and their partners to our annual
Nincs Fellowship
Date: 16 June 2001 (I
know Pavarotti is singing that night we might not sing
but some of us have
weight problem as well)
Time: 07:00 PM
Venue: The Terrace at the Kowloon
Club, 15th Floor East Wing, New World
Center Office Building, 24 Salisbury
Road, TST
We will have a barbecue buffet style. After all I think the
barbecue was non
Indian and non Chinese invention. In Germany we
were
putting big pieces of meat on the fire at a time when we were still
living
in trees. We will have a selection of salads and vegetables for the
vegetarians as well.
So please let me know very soon
(schnell, schnell) if and with how many
persons you will attend. (We Haf
Ways...)
My new e-mail is
hepphk@aol.com
***********
July
6th - District Installation Banquet
Our Speaker Mr Klaus Heyman, Chairman of HNH Int.
Ltd.
Mr
Heyman's whose company is the mother company of NAXOS, MARCO POLO, and
BOSE, (All, I think, world famous labels for classical, and
or music in general) spoke to us on the changing business
model in the industry, his views and forecast for it's future
development.
Klaus, whose brainchild NAXOS is, holds a
strong conviction in what he calls the "Naxos" Principle, which is the
provision of a wide range of good music, well played and professionally recorded
and available at a relatively modest price to music lovers all over the
world. Naxos,
apparently, is the largest classical music label in the world with a 60%
share of the market, achieved by a price level of some one third of other
labels. The lower price then, achieves the share, but is necessary to achieve
the high sales figure which naturally fits the Naxos principle mentioned above.
Now
then; why isn't this same principle applied by some of the world's most
famous software houses to make their products more easily available to all
computer buffs, especially the not so well off. Wouldn't this combat much of the
pirating that goes on?
A
record by the famous violinist Takako Nizshizaki (hope that's right!!),
named "Butterfly Lover", which sold 3 Million copies and
hundreds of Chinese Classical music all under the Naxos banner, will be
well known to music lovers in Hong Kong.
As Mr Klaus
Heyman very rarely speaks publicly we were indeed most fortunate and
honoured that he came to our meeting to share with us his
insights into the music industry.
Since I was unable to be at the meeting, Rtn Vincent very
kindly helped me out with the above information; however all of the
above-mentioned labels have web-pages. I visited
www.naxos.com - was very impressed and
recommend that music lovers do the same as well as visiting
www.marcopolo.com and
www.bose.com !
Words from Director - Vocational Service Neerja
(Repeat)
Dear fellow Rotarians,
For those of you who HAVEN'T YET submitted your
vocational spots, Please RUSH them to me at
From
Our Own Club Internet Communications Officer
Dear KGM Members,
As your CICO (Club Internet
Communications Officer !!), and Web Monster, it is my duty to remind you to
please observe accepted Email Etiquette when replying to emails regarding KGM
business. Unless it is *absolutely essential* for your reply to be copied to ALL
recipients of the original email message, please reply to incoming emails only
by clicking on the "Reply To Sender" button, NOT the "Reply To All" button. For
example, if the Fellowship Director sends an email message to all members
concerning a forthcoming event, and you merely want to request an extra serving
of mashed potato with your fish, there really is no need to tell the whole club
!!
If you do, then everybody will want extra mashed potato, and we just
can't afford it, OK ?
:-)
Regards,
PP Vince
Pinto
CICO & Web Monster
This Weeks Humorous Look At Ourselves -
Cows and
Politics!
FEUDALISM
You have two cows. Your lord takes some
of the milk
FASCISM
You have two cows. The government takes
both, hires you to
take care of them, and sells you the
milk
COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to
take care of them, but the
government takes all the
milk
DICTATORSHIP
You have two cows. The government
takes both and shoots
you
MILITARISM
You have two cows. The government takes
both and
drafts you
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. The government fines
you for
keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an
apartment
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The government promises to give you two
cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached
for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".
The cow sues you for breach of
contract
BRITISH DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. You feed them
sheep's brains and
they go mad. The government doesn't do
anything
EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. At first the
government regulates
what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then
it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the
other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms
accounting for the missing cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a
bull
HONG KONG
CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of
them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your
brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for
keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred
via a
Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the
majority shareholder, who sells the right to all seven cows' milk back to the
listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an
option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because of bad feng
shui
TOTALITARIANISM
You have two cows. The government takes
them and denies they ever existed. Milk is
banned
INTERNETISM
You have no cows ... but you claim that
you will grow to a herd in two years. Based on this unsubstantiated
hope someone buys your ten cows to breed. Unfortunately, you hadn't
worked out that these cows don't produce any milk but luckily everybody has
also piled into the same cow market ... so you'll be able to cash-in your
share options before anyone notices the lack of milk
prospects
COUNTERCULTURE
Wow, dude, there's like...these two
cows, man! You have got to have some of this milk!
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes. The government
requires you to take
harmonica lessons
URCHIN