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Golden
News
Volume
16, Number 26 - Monday 23 December 2002
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 other "friends of KGM". Winner "Best English Language Bulletin" in District 3450, 2001/2002 This Week's Meeting:
 As Christmas Day and New Year's day both fall on Wednesdays, there will be no regular KGM meeting until 8 January 2003. Details of our speaker will be provided in the next issue of Golden News. In the meantime, The Phantom and
Mrs. Phantom take this opportunity to wish all members and friends of KGM
every happiness for the festive season and for the year to come.
Milestones:
Two weeks of no birthdays and now we have four members who
want birthday gifts and Xmas gifts in the same week:
23 December - IPP Ebe Tung "Chee Wow", who shares her birthday with Spanish dancer Jose Greco. 26 December - President Nanu "Nanu" Lachman, who shares his birthday with Chairman Mao Tse Tung. 29 December - Ashok "Captain Kirk"
Kirpalani, who shares his birthday with American actor Ted
Danson.
30 December - Ashok "Ah-So" Assomull, who
shares his birthday with golfer Tiger
Woods.
Bah-humbug! Directors for 2003/2004 Rotary year: The election of the incoming Board was conducted at last week's annual general meeting. The members whose names appear below were elected, fully in accordance with KGM By-Laws, for the positions stated: President:
Patricia
Blair
Vice-President: Elissa Cohen Secretary:
Clarissa Bellstedt
Treasurer: Rajiv Makhija President-Elect: Sylva Yeung Directors:
President Nanu Lachman (as IPP), Carola Chard, David Harilela, Brian
Hodgson, Miranda Kong, PP Cassidy Lam, Vincent Lam, PP Vince Pinto, Sonya
Wu and Diana Yeung.
The abovenamed members will assume the positions stated on 1 July 2003. Congratulations to one and all. Fellowship
News:
Our old mate KGM Fellowship Director Miranda
"King" Kong announces that our next event will be the
highly popular Chinese Night,
once again to be graciously hosted by our wonderful Chinese
members.
The event will take place
from 7:30 p.m. on Friday 17 January
2003 at the Star Seafood Floating Restaurant, 55 Gai Chung
Kui Road, Shatin, and members are asked to wear Chinese costumes. Judging
by the turnout over the past few years, Shanghai Tang should be a sponsor
of the evening!
There's also a rumour that mahjong will be available before the dinner, however some Chinese members want to keep this hush-hush as they are apparently still grumbling about losing money for the last two years to one of our NINC members, who shall not be identified (Go Phantom!) Anyway, in the absence of
Miranda (who's busy studying her "Mahjong For Dummies" book), members
planning to attend this event should contact Elissa "Peanuts" Cohen by email or on telephone 9481 8378.
Fund-Raising KGM Polio Plus
Cookbook: Sales of our revised cookbook
entitled "Dining In with Great Chefs of Hong
Kong" are zooming along at an incredible pace. At only
HK$188 per copy, the cookbook is
excellent value. An image of the cover has been uploaded
to the KGM website.
Recipes, contributed by Hong Kong's leading chefs, include world renown exotic dishes such as "Fromage Sur Le Toast", "Filet Mignon Vache Fâchée", "Le Poisson et Pomme de Terre Anglais" and "Le Haagen-Daz Avec Le Sauce Chocolat". Of course I'm amazed that apparently none of you realised that the English translations of the French dishes above are "Cheese on Toast", "Filet Mignon Mad Cow", "Fish and Chips" and "Ice Cream with Chocolate Sauce". Or perhaps you've just lost your sense of humour. Whatever. Anyway, for more information
about the cookbook, contact Lady Patricia of
Happy Valley on telephone 9312 3606 or by email.
By the way, KGM can now accept online payments by major
credit card through PayPal. Please tell your friends in Hong
Kong and overseas about this new facility, in order to assist sales of the
cook book in support of our Polio
Plus fund-raising activities.
Community Service
News:
KGM Community Service Director Diana Chou
announces that, in collaboration with the RC
Hou Koung, she has organised a Medical Check for the Elderly in Macau, from 10:30 a.m. on Saturday 19 January 2003.
Apparently some members who have already confirmed their attendance will depart Hong Kong on Friday afternoon in order to enjoy some fellowship in Macau the evening before the event. Other members will be departing on Saturday morning. In both cases, free ferry tickets are being arranged for all participants. The purpose of the visit is to conduct health checks for over 500 elderly patients will be examined. The tests will include blood pressure, fat content, diabetes, lung and liver functions, bone density and blood vessel pressure. Members willing to lend their
support should contact Diana
Chou by email.
Note that clicking on the email link will also send a copy of the message
to Elissa Cohen.
District
3450 News:
The District Sports Day will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday 12 January 2003 at the Stanley Ho Sports Centre, Sha Wan Drive, Sandy Bay, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. Ted Ho of the RC Kingspark Hong Kong is the Big Kahuna, and he can be contacted by telephone on 9092 0533 or by email. Rotary International
News:
New Rotary country: The number of Rotary countries rose to 164 with the chartering on 11 September 2002 of the Rotary Club of Dili in the newly independent nation of Timor-Leste (East Timor). The Rotary Club of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, District 9550, sponsored the new club, which is also in District 9550. XXXXXXXX KGM Club Secretary David "Party Dude" Harilela
has been appointed "On To Brisbane Chairman" in respect of the
next RI Convention to be held in Brisbane,
Australia from 1-4 June
2003. Visit
the RI website or the
event website for more information, or
contact David on 9168 8333 or by email.
Who Am I?: What is the more common name of deceased British rock (and occasional operatic) singer Farookh Bulsara?. The
answer appears at the bottom of this issue.
Geek Speak:
OK folks, it's
still silly season, so you can
expect your email inbox to continue to be flooded with various forms of
season's greetings. I've received over 2 dozen Xmas-related viruses in the
past week.
I therefore remind you never open an attachment, regardless of who sends it to you, unless you first scan it for viruses, worms, head lice, bird flu, rabies and other similar nasties. It won't be a very happy Christmas or New Year if your computer goes kaput, now will it? You've been warned. Again. Golden
Smile:
A few days before Christmas, a man
enters a pet store looking for a unique gift for his wife. The store
manager tells him he has just what he's looking for - a beautiful parrot
named Chet who sings Christmas carols.
He brings the man over to a
colourful but quiet bird. The man agrees that Chet certainly is pretty,
but he doesn't seem to be doing much singing. The manager reaches into his
pocket and pulls out a cigarette lighter. He then clicks the lighter
and holds it under Chet's left foot. Immediately Chet starts singing:
"Silent Night".
The man is very impressed with
Chet's singing abilities and watches as the manager moves the lighter
underneath Chet's right foot. Chet now starts to sing "Jingle Bells"
.
The man agrees Chet would make a
perfect gift, and agrees to take him. He rushes home to his wife and
insists upon giving her this wonderful gift immediately. He presents Chet
and starts to explain the parrot's special talent.
Demonstrating, he holds a lighter
under Chet's left foot and the bird sings "Silent Night." He then moves the lighter under the bird's right foot, and
Chet starts singing "Jingle Bells."
The wife is suitably impressed but,
with a mischievous grin and a twinkle in her eye, she asks her husband
what would happen if he held the lighter between Chet's legs?
Not knowing the answer, the husband
moves the lighter between the bird's legs, and he immediately begins to
sing: "Chet's nuts roasting on an open fire ...........".
Quotable Quotes:
"A successful man
is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is
one who can find such a man".
Lana Turner
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