Rotary Club - HK Island East - Last Week's Proceedings August 23rd, 2006

Last week's Proceedings -

23^rdAugust, 2006

RI District 3450 Inner City Meeting in Honour of theVisit of RI P-E Wilfrid Wilkinson & Mrs. Joan Wilkinson

On a short notice, the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East was entrusted to host an Inner City Meeting in honour of the RI President-Elect Wilfrid Wilkinson and his lovely wife Joan Wilkinson on the 23^rdAugust 2006. This assignment was proudly accepted by our President Paul Chan without hesitation. A truly Rotary spirit.

Immediately, our President-elect Laurence Chan was given the job to organize a committee to handle the matter. Laurence himself acted as chairman and recruited the following members to work in a team :

PDG Peter Hall
President Paul Chan
DAG Eddy Wong
Secretary Andy Wong
PP John Kwok
PP George Leung
PP David Li
PP Hubert Chan
PP Stephen Liu
PP Henry Chan
PP Rudy Law
Rtn. Norman Lee
Rtn. Eric Chin and
co-opted PDG Anthony Hung as our advisor.

After several meetings, we have decided the venue and the cost of the dinner which ended up at the Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong. Due to the short stay of our VIP guests in Hong Kong (say only 24 hours) we have eliminated a number of programmes, such as marching in by piper, entertainment and lucky draw. We kept our decided schedule on time.

PP George Leung was appointed Master of Ceremonies of the evening while senior members were assigned the post of Sergeant-at-Arms, viz., PP Hubert Chan, PP David Li, PP Stephen Liu, PP Rudy Law, Rtn. John Yao, Rtn. Norman Lee and Rtn. Eric Chin. The Sergeant-at-Arms formed two columns at the entrance which added the dignity of the meeting. They were very helpful to usher the attendees to their seats.

Promptly at 7.00 p.m., the M.C. started his duty by inviting D.G. Tony Wong to sound the bell to open the meeting followed by recognition of all Rotary Dignitaries. D.G. Tony gave his welcome address while PDG Anthony Hung presented an introduction of RI President-elect Wilfrid Wilkinson.

The highlight of the meeting was the keynote speech by RI P-E Wilfrid Wilkinson. His words of wisdom lasted about 20 minutes. DGE Peter Wong was invited to deliver a vote of thanks for his fine words and encouragement.

As an usual practice, presentation of souvenirs was performed by D.G. Tony. A Golden Bauhinia replica was presented to RI P-E Wilfrid Wilkinson and a jewelry box was given to his wife, Mrs. Joan Wilkinson.

The last act of the evening was the presentation of Paul Harris Fellows recognition to the nine past Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars who have rendered assistance in selecting the new Ambassadorial Scholars for the coming years. They all came up to the stage to receive the recognition from the hands of our RI P-E Wilkinson.

After all these hard works, it was time to start our dinner at 8.00 p.m. Before the final curtain was down, the organizing committee invited all Rotary Dignitaries, incumbent presidents and president-elect, plus members to have a photo session with RI P-E Wilfrid Wilkinson and his wife for good memory.

At 9.30p.m. after having tea/coffee, the Wilkinsons retired and ready to rush to the airport to carry on their next journey. It is not an easy task to be the top man in any organization. All participants stood and bid them farewell. Fellowship still spread among ourselves at The Excelsior.

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Report on the visit of our Sister Club - Rotary Club of Penang on 24th August 2006

Our sister Club in Malaysia, Rotary Club of Penang, visited us on the 24^th August 2006.

The delegation consisted of :

President Dr. T. Aloysius Raj and his First Lady Yacintha Therese
PP Vincent Lai and his Ann Ong Lay Ngoh
PP Dato Tan Gin Soon and his Ann Datin Khor Mooi Looi
PP Dr. Ranjit Singh
PE David Gan and his Ann Agnes Wong Keun Thai
Rtn William Wee Liang Fo and his Ann Nini Chin Soo Sing
Rtn Eric Ong

PDG William Ng and his wife have cancelled their trip at the last minute due to medical reason.

The delegation went to visit their sister club in Osaka on Tuesday, 22^nd August and then came to Hong Kong on Thursday. They were greeted by PP Stephen Liu, PE Laurance Chan and PP Rudy Law at the Hong Kong International Airport upon arrival.

Our Club hosted a welcoming dinner at the World Trade Centre Club in the evening.

The following members and their Rotariannes joined the dinner and shared the fellowship with our sister Club members and their Rotarianns:

PDG Uncle Peter Hall
President Paul Chan
PP Stephen Liu and his Ann Christina
PE Laurence Chan and his Ann Jenny
PP George Leung and his Ann Cynthia
PP Rudy Law
IPP Eddy Wong
Rtn Norman Lee and his Ann Isabelle
Rtn. Eric Chin and his Ann Christine

President Paul gave the welcoming address and presented a souvenir to their President Dr. Raj. President Dr. Raj also presented a souvenir from Rotary Club of Penang to President Paul for the hospitality provided to the delegation.

The sisterhood between RC of Hong Kong Island and RC of Penang began in 1969 and is nearly 37 years from then. The long term relationship between the two clubs built on the strong link and Rotary spirit. We have periodic visits to each other and have joint matching grant projects.

All the Rotarians and Anns enjoyed the dinner and the fellowship very much. They invited us to visit Penang to a resort called Hatyai, in the Southern part of Thailand, which is only about 3 hours’ drive from Penang.

At the same time, their New Generation Director PP Dato Tan Gin Soon invited our Rotaractors to visit Penang as well to enhance the relationship with their Rotaract Clubs.

During the dinner, President Dr, Raj announced that their club had endorsed to join us in a new matching grant project to provide water wells in China. They also invited us to join them in one of their matching grant projects that upgrade the equipment in the dialysis centre.

Since they would leave Hong Kong on Saturday, they asked us to leave more free time for their shopping instead of sight-seeing or golfing.

One of their agenda was to buy moon-cakes in Hong Kong, therefore, we have presented a box of mooncake to each of our sister club member to celebrate the mid-autumn festival in advance.

The dinner ended at about 10:30 pm and everyone left the World Trade Centre Club with smiling faces.

You can submit an electronic makeup for this missed meeting by answering the following questions:

1. Our normal luncheon meeting on the 23^rd of August did not occur, Why?

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2. What replaced our normal meeting and where was it held?

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3. Who chaired the organizing committee to handle this special event?

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4. On the 24^th of August our club hosted a function to welcome one of our sister club to Hong Kong, What club was that?

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5. Where was this event held?

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6. How many visiting people were in their party?

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7. What special agenda did they have. They wanted to buy something from our city?

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Instruction:

Please copy these questions click the following URL John Kwok and paste it to the email and answer these questions and then click send

Blonde and the Trucker

A trucker came into a truck stop cafe and placed his order. He said, "I want three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a pair of running boards."

The brand new blonde waitress, not wanting to appear stupid, went to the kitchen and said to the cook, "This guy out there just ordered three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a pair of running boards. What does he think this place is .. an auto parts store?"

"No," the cook said. "Three flat tires mean three pancakes, a pair of headlights is two eggs sunny side up, and running boards are 2 slices of crisp bacon."

"Oh, OK!" said the blonde. She thought about it for a moment and then spooned up a bowl of beans and gave it to the customer.

The trucker asked, "What are the beans for Blondie?

She replied, "I thought while you were waiting for the flat tires, headlights and running boards, you might as well gas up!

FOR ONCE THE BLONDE GETS EVEN!