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Golden
News
Volume
16, Number 27 - Monday 30 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:
 Once again folks, since New Year's day falls on Wednesday
this week, there will be no regular KGM
meeting until 8 January 2003. Hopefully you'll all be
sobered up by then!In the meantime, The Phantom and
Mrs. Phantom take this opportunity to wish all members and friends of KGM
a Happy New Year.
Milestones:
Speaking of the New Year, we extend our birthday greetings
for:
1 January to Kishu "Choo Choo" Chotrani, who shares his birthday with former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and "King of the Rumba", bandleader Xavier Cugat. Hmmm. I wonder if J. Edgar wore one of his nice dresses when he danced the rumba? Happy Anniversary: In 2003, the following members will celebrate 10 or more years of membership of KGM: Charter Members: PDG Dipo Sani, PP Robin Ching, PP C.K. Tsang, Don Sakhrani, Kenneth So & Notan Tolani. 1987: PP Louis Thomas & Rajiv Makhija. 1988: Thomas Mo
1989: PP Raju Daswani, PP
Joseph Kwan, PP Vince Pinto & PP M.V. Ramadasan.
1990: Ashok
Assomull & Chris Carroll.
1991:
President Nanu Lachman, Elissa Cohen & Liam Drake
1992: PP
Cassidy Lam, PP Bryan Van Dale, June Liau, Lal Daryanani, Carola Chard
& Brian Hodgson.
1993: IPP Ebe Tung & Kishu Chotrani. For a full list of actual joining dates, visit the KGM website. Congratulations to all of our Senior Members above on this special
milestone.
Semi-Annual Dues: Yes folks, it's time once again to pay your
dues of $1,500 for the period 1 January to 30
June 2003, and this year you have three 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.
3) By credit card through
"PayPal".
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. Clues for Rajiv: "Madam Lash's House Of Pain Limited" is Susie Misini, "The Peanut Queen Limited" is Elissa Cohen and "Shagadelic Yeah Baby Limited" is Brian Hodgson. 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 (US$25) 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 President-Elect
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 Sunday 19 January
2003.
Apparently some members who have already confirmed their attendance will depart Hong Kong on Saturday afternoon in order to enjoy some fellowship in Macau the evening before the event. Other members will be departing on Sunday 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, who will be examined for 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:
1) District 3450 is currently ranked 3rd in the Rotary International rankings of Highest Per Capita Contributors to the Rotary Foundation for the 2001-2002 year. Quite an achievement! 2) 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: 1) January is "Rotary Awareness Month": And the best way to make your friends aware of Rotary is to invite them to one of our regular lunch meetings! 2) 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 American silver-screen legend Charles Carter?. The
answer appears at the bottom of this issue.
Geek Speak:
OK folks, since it's
still silly season, here's an
Insanity
Test to check whether or not your mental faculties survived
2002. If you can click on the link and not laugh for 2 minutes, you made
it through 2002 relatively normal.
And turn the volume of your speakers up! Golden
Smile:
Medical
Humour: The following are reputedly true cases reported by
various Doctors:
1) I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, "So, how's your breakfast this morning?". "It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled "KY Jelly." 2) A man runs into the ER and yells,
"My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!". I grabbed my stuff, rushed
out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her
underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs, and I was in
the wrong one.
3) At the beginning of my shift I
placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's
anterior chest wall. "Big breaths" I instructed. She replied: "Yes, they
used to be".
4) One day I had to be the bearer of
bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive
myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her
reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive
internal fart".
5) While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "Madam, how long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion she replied: "Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive." Quotable Quotes:
"Sex without love
is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the
best".
Woody Allen
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