Golden News
Volume 16, Number 36 - Monday 3 March 2003
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:


Our guest speaker this week is Ms. Phoebe Ng who will be speaking to us on "Healthy Eating".


Milestones:
 
Birthday greetings for 4 March to President-Elect Patricia "Iron Lady" Blair who shares her birthday with Italian violinist and baroque music composer Antonio Vivaldi.
 
 
Welcome:
 
On behalf of the Board and members of KGM, we extend a warm welcome to our newest member Mr. John Hirsch, who was inducted as a member on 26 February.

If you haven't already introduced yourself to John, please do so at your earliest opportunity and buy him a beer.
 
 
Fellowship News:
 
It's another month already and we expect an announcement soon from KGM Fellowship Director Miranda "King" Kong in respect of the regular fellowship she's planning for March.
 
However a "special" fellowship to attend the opening night of the David Mamet play "Glengarry Glenn Ross" at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Wanchai on Thursday 6 March (this week) has been organised by Program Director Carola "Cha Cha" Chard. Tickets for the event are $420 per head.
 
Members interested in attending this event should urgently contact Carola on telephone 9364 1551.

 
Email Distribution Lists:
 
Members are advised that our server has now been modified to reject messages exceeding 500k.

This size limitation has been imposed by the Web Monster due to a recent spate of emails from members containing unreasonably huge attachments, some as large as 3 megabytes, which have caused a variety of problems.
 
Firstly, most free web-based email clients such as "Yahoo!" & "Hotmail" (used by some KGM members) automatically reject such huge files. When they are rejected, they are returned to the Web Monster along with a "rejection advice", so this usually means that the Web Monster gets six or more copies of the email. When the email is 3Mb in size, this means he gets over 20Mb in rejected emails, and this does not make him a happy camper.
 
Secondly, some KGM members do not have broadband connections, so huge attachments cause very long downloading times.
 
Thirdly, KGM members who have broadband and a paid ISP still have a limitation on the size of their mailbox. More often than not, this is only 6Mb or less. Hence a 3Mb email can cause a mailbox to exceed the allocated capacity, which means other important business and private emails are rejected by the ISP due to the mailbox being "over quota".

Hence if you wish to send an email with a huge attachment, you will need to do it the hard way by adding recipients individually to your email.
 
Walkathon: 
 
Yes folks, it's that time of the year again when our healthy members (both of them), will walk briskly in the bushes to help raise money for our Community Service Fund. The rest of us will quietly have heart attacks.
 
This year's walkathon will take place at Lamma Island on Sunday 23 March. Experienced walkers will depart with PP Louis "Trailwalker" Thomas at 9:30 a.m. on a gruelling walk, while less enthusiastic walkers will depart at 11:00 a.m. on an easier walk.
 
Lazy sods like yours truly will go straight to the pub to have a few cleansing ales, while standing by with the oxygen.
 
Members taking part in the walkathon get a free lunch, while members who merely want to enjoy the fellowship must pay $150 per head for the lunch, which includes drinks and a free boat trip provided by the restaurant to and from Central.
 
More details will be announced shortly, but mark your diaries now.
 
Fund-Raising KGM Polio Plus Cookbook:
 

Have YOU purchased any copies yet?

Sales of our revised cookbook "Dining In with Great Chefs of Hong Kong" continue unabated and, 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.

For more general enquiries, contact President-Elect Patricia "Iron Lady" Blair on telephone 9312 3606 or by email.
 
Remember, 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.
 
District 3450 News:
 
1) Our old pal District Governor Gloria Chan recently announced that the former Provisional Rotary Clubs of Beijing and Shanghai are now officially part of our District, which now includes Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia and China.
 
2) The RC of Bayview Sunshine has organised a Rotary Blood Donation Day to be held on Saturday 8 March at G/F, Olympian City, Phase 1, Kowloon from 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  KGM members wishing to participate should contact President Sophia Chan by email.

3) The RC Kowloon Northwest is hosting the District Seven-A-Side Soccer Competition to be held on Sunday 23 March from 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology at Clearwater Bay. KGM members wishing to participate should contact Esmond Chan by email.
 
 
Rotary International News:
 
 
The RC of Cambria (California) was recently highlighted in the Los Angeles Times for their fund-raising efforts in respect of Rotary's Polio Plus campaign.
 
A copy of the interesting article, with the byline "Superheroes in Bad Ties", can be viewed on their website.
 
 
Who Am I?
 
 
What is the more common name of renown blues musician McKinley Morganfield ?
 
The answer appears at the bottom of this issue.
 
 
Golden Smile: 
 
A young man is preparing to visit his girlfriend's house to meet her parents for the first time.
 
However since he's also been invited to spend the weekend, he decides he may as well "Be Prepared", so he goes to Watson's to pick up some essential supplies on the day before his visit.
 
When he arrives at Watson's, he asks the pharmacist for a supply of condoms. The pharmacist asks the young man whether he would like the regular 3 pack or the jumbo 12 pack.
 
After boasting that he's expecting a marathon weekend of wild and passionate love-making, the young man opts for the 12 pack, and he even asks for the multi-coloured, multi-textured variety.
 
The following evening, after he sits down for dinner, the girlfriend is very surprised to see her boyfriend with his head bowed and saying grace for at least 10 minutes.
 
She leans over to him and whispers: "Wow, I had no idea you were so religious !".
 
To which the young man replied: "Well I had no idea your father was a pharmacist !".
 
 
Quotable Quotes:

 
"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?"
 
Robert Townsend

 
The Phantom
Who Am I answer: Muddy Waters.

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