Last week's Proceedings -
28th October, 2009
Last week's Proceedings -
28th October, 2009
President Norman kicked off the meeting with a warm welcome back to Rtn. Charles Bien and Director Nancy and formally introduced his better half, Rotarianne Isa to the meeting; they all received a big round of applause from our 18 members in attendance.
We then celebrated our two birthday boys, Rtn. Charles Bien and Rtn. Jonathan Lamport and they have chosen IPP Andy and Hon. Secretary Eric respectively as their song leaders. A special birthday cake was arranged by Rtn. Teresa to celebrate their birthday too.
President Norman then announced the followings:
1. On 18th November 2009 we have invited Executive Councilor Mr. Leung Chun-ying as our guest speaker. All members were asked to mark their diary and were encouraged to bring along more guests to attend the luncheon meeting
2. On 14th November 2009 the District's Rotary Leader Institute training program will be held which is intended to provide an educational opportunity for Rotarians identified as having the potential for future club leadership including but not limiting to club president. Through attending the course, the participants will be able to improve their Rotary knowledge and leadership skills.
3. On 31st October 2009 the District's Mock Court event will be held
4. After the luncheon meeting of today Pres. Norman together with PE Heman, IPP Andy, Hon. Sec. Eric, Dir. Anthony and Rtn. Teresa will take a site visit to the Changing Young Life Foundation's new center in Pak Tin Estate, Kowloon to see the venue of one of our sponsored community service projects in offering free tutorial service to 40 children from underprivileged families in Hong Kong.
PP Rudy, our Sergeant-at-arm, then reported a handsome collection of HKD 1,300 for the Red Box.
Then came the highlight of the meeting with Hon Secretary Eric being asked to formally introduce the speaker, Mr. William Leung, to us for his talk about dermatoglyphics.
Mr. William Leung processes a practitioner license of Psychological Consultant in mainland China. He was the first one from Hong Kong to acquire the qualification of dermatoglyphics counselor from Master Lien in Taiwan. Mr. Leung was awarded the 2007 Chinese Innovated Entrepreneur in Beijing. He is now practicing as a Senior Dermatoglyphics Counselor in Asia Dermatoglyphics Development Centre. He has been interviewed by some major media such as ATV, RTHK, Metro Radio, HLCTV.net, HK Economic Times, Apple Daily and Sing Tao Daily News since the last few years.
The talk on Dermatoglyphics began with a Chinese folk fingerprint formula. "One whorl indicates poverty, two whorls indicate riches……" The speaker, William Leung said that Chinese has noticed for hundreds of years that finger prints are somehow connected with their strength, weakness, character traits, career and destiny.
However, there was no scientific or statistical study, until Purkinje, a Czech physiologist, writes the first paper on finger prints. Later in the first few decades of 20th century, some researchers have put their effort on studying relationship between human brain and finger prints. Among them is Cummins, who published a study on Human acephalic monster in 1923 and Down syndrome in 1936.
The speaker then introduced finger prints can be simply classified to five types: whorl, loop, radial loop, double loop and arch. Whorl indicates goal-oriented, loop indicates empathy, radial loop indicates deviant, double loop indicates multitasking, while arch indicates practical and safety. He then showed members to identify the finger prints of both thumbs. Before he finished his part of speech and passed to his colleague, who actually is his wife, William mentioned that Dermatoglyphics is a very fast, accurate and convenient method to understand a person's strength, weakness, learning style and personality.
Another speaker, Ms Eunice Chan, continued with the speech with demonstration of understanding character traits of several members, just by studying their finger prints. For example, the speaker confided that one of the volunteers, Dr. Eric Chin would enjoy lifelong learning the most, and explained why he would become a doctorate. All volunteers, including IPP Andy, PP Tim, Dir. Nancy, PE Heman and PDG Uncle Peter, were surprised with the accuracy and instant of the assessment just in a minute. All of them claimed the accuracy was 80% or above.
Lastly, Eunice concluded that dermatoglyphics could be applied in commercial sector like management, human resource and interview, in which interviewer could understand the interviewee's true character traits and strength.
Our speakers, Mr. William Leung and Ms Eunice Chan are both senior counselors of Asia Dermatoglyphics Development Centre and more information can be obtained via their website at www.asiaddc.com.
Rotarian Tony was then asked to formally thank the speaker. All members were welcomed to stay behind after the meeting in case they have more questions and Mr. William Leung and his colleagues Ms Eunice Chan and Ms Monnie Wah, were very kind to promise to stay behind to answer questions.
President Norman announced an ad hoc news that Uncle John has just become grandfather the second time and we all give a big round of applause to Uncle John in sharing his joy. President Norman then reminded us that next meeting our Rotaractor's board members would come to our luncheon meeting next week to present their projects and year plan to us and urged all members to come and support them.
President Norman adjourned the meeting at 2.03 p.m. with a toast to RI coupled with the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East.
Rotary PotpourriPast RI Director Ryoichi Takeyama Dies
As reported by Rotary International news, Ryoichi Takeyama who served in the RI Board of Directors in 1997- 99 died on 10th October 2009.
Takeyama, of Sapporo, Japan, joined the Rotary Club of Sapporo-South, Hokkaido in 1956. In addition to serving the RI Board, he was district governor of District 2510 and a World member of the World Fellowship Activities Task Force and the Japan-Korea Goodwill Conference Committee, among others.
Takeyama was president of Takeyama Shokuhin Company Limited, a food manufacturing firm. He served as executive director of the Japan Food Hygiene Association and the National Seasoning Process Cooperative. He was also vice president of the Hokkaido Food Hygiene Association.
The Emperor of Japan awarded Takeyama the Ranju-Hosho (Blue Ribbon Medal) for his service to Japan food industry. He was a recipient of the Rotary Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service.
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Electronic Make-up Questions
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Joke
WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT?
(Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)
Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people's.
A grandfather is a man, & a grandmother is a lady!
Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them. They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.
When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on 'cracks.'
They don't say, 'Hurry up.'
Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.
They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.
Grandparents don't have to be smart.
They have to answer questions like 'Why isn't God married?' and 'How come dogs chase cats?'
When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.
Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grown-ups who like to spend time with us.
They know we should have snack time before bed time, and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we've acted bad.
A 6-YEAR-OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED?
''OH,'' HE SAID, ''SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT, AND WHEN WE WANT HER, WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT.''
GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS, BUT I DON'T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!
It's funny when they bend over; you hear gas leaks, and they blame their dog.
Photographs of our meeting
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28th October, 2009
