Golden News
Volume 14 -
Number 7- 16th August 2000
The weekly newsletter of the Rotary
Club of Kowloon Golden Mile, Hong Kong.
Web site: www.rckgm.org
August is Membership Development and
Extension Month
Words From Our District Governor on This
Month's Theme
I wish to share with you part
of DG’s letter this week on membership.
“I believe sharing enriches life
and the person who shares as well as the ones with whom one shares. One
doesn’t lose anything by sharing. All too often, one gains.
There would
have been no Rotary if Paul Harris had not chosen to share his hopes, fears and
expectations with three other men, and if he did not share his loneliness with
friends. Rotary in Hong Kong would have been one club, for example, if
Rotary Club of Hong Kong did not share its club territory with other
clubs.
Sharing
indeed is a funny thing. If one shares one’s joys with a friend, both become
equally happy, but if one shares one’s sorrow with a friend, the sorrow goes
away twice as fast; and if everyone shares hope with a friend, the world will be
darn side more hopeful than ever.
On this
hopeful note, I urge you to share Rotary with a friend, beginning with this
month of August, Rotary’s Membership and Extension Month. Bring friends to your
club meetings as a start. Follow President Frank Devlyn’s advice to carry the
“What’s Rotary?” cards. Don’t leave home without
them! This evening, I gave a pack of 50 to each of the eight club
presidents I met at the official visit. I am sure they would make good use of
them. Come to me for the cards if you are desperate and run out, but you can get
them for US$1.30 for a pack of 50 from our most helpful service centre in the
Philippines.
Last
Meeting
Was a joint one with
Kowloon North complete with their PDG Joseph Lee. When I arrived, late, for
which I was duly punished at the appropriate time I felt quite lost.
Instead of the usual one room we had two and quite a few things were not in
there usual places. For instance there was difficulty in finding the peanuts and
for once this had nothing to do with Rtn.Elissa. My two guests fortunately
survived unharmed, such is the impeccable welcome meted out by our jolly bunch
of Rotarians, both KGM and KN, to visitors. For those that didn’t make it you
missed a superb Chinese meal. The spicy chicken was excellent. A birthday song
was sung in several keys to the birthday boys and girls and great fellowship was
had by all.
The speech, by Doctor Ching Chi Kong was in line with President
Cassidy’s theme of health, tackled the bricks and mortar (sorry bit of a mixed
metaphor!) of ulcers. Apparently they used to be caused by bad eating habits and
an excess of acid, but now it seems the doctors have detected the presence of
bacteria. This startling fact came to light after the remains of an operation to
remove an ulcer stayed around in the waste bin over a weekend and developed,
grew or showed some ulcerior motives. Which only goes to show what you are
likely to find when you start digging at the roots of things. After due warning
the slides slid by with oohs and aarhs which seemed to indicate that many of the
participants were wondering whether what they were seeing were pictures of the
next dish of dim sum. One wag was heard to talk of the pornographic nature of
some of them. Thanksgiving was later delivered. I must apologise for the brevity
of this report. I first of all had difficulty in stomaching much of the content
and secondly Dr Ching was not able, no doubt due to pressure of work, to
let me have a synopsis.
Vocational Spot – Rtn. SK Lam
After finishing my matriculation study,
I applied for the post of junior
clerk with Cooper Brothers & Co. which
subsequently changed to Coopers & Lybrand and recently merged with Price
Waterhouse to become PriceWaterhouseCoopers. At the interview, the audit partner
asked me if I was interested to become an audit clerk. As I had not studied
accountancy before I had no idea of what an audit was. I accepted the
offer as it made no difference to me whether the post was junior clerk or
audit clerk. Since joining the firm, I started to learn accounting and auditing
during the nights and took the ACCA examinations which I finally passed in
1990.
I left
Coopers in 1980 and worked for a garment manufactory in Taiwan for one year. I
joined Central Development Limited as Chief Accountant in 1981 and worked with
the company since then.
My employer
is a medium sized property company. It owns Central Building and Central Tower
in Central and other commercial and residential properties in other parts of
Hong Kong. At the moment, it has a residential development in Stubbs Road Hong
Kong.
I am
responsible for the financial management of the Group and the co-ordination of
planning applications for undeveloped sites in the New Territories. My hobbies
include hiking and music. I joined Rotary because I wish to meet
more people.
This Week's
Speaker
Ms
Beatrice Remy & Mr Frederic Lichtenstein
Topic: The Argentinean Tango - Explanation &
Demonstration!
Next Week's Speaker
Ms Regina Yip - HKSAR Secretary for
Security
Topic - To be
Announced
Speaker for 30th August
PDG Moses Cheng
Topic Membership
Development
This Week's Birthday
Celebrants
Well, would you believe it no-one has been born recently,
as far as we know ... But because John Li hasn't told us yet when his big day is
and it might be around now we will appoint John the could be birthday boy
for this week and for the time being until he lets us know he could share his
birthday with anyone he likes!!!
Quote Of The Week
n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to
an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Do not let worry ruin your life. Let the Church help.
Tonight is Pot Luck Supper, Prayer and medication to
follow.
For those of you who have children and do not know it we have a
nursery downstairs.
Tuesday at 4 pm there will be a meeting in the south and north
ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.
This being Easter Sunday we will ask Mrs Lewis to come forward
and lay an egg on the altar.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 pm. Please use the large double
doors on the side entrance.
The Associate Minister unveiled the Church's new tithing
campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up yours!"