Our Fellowship Chairman today was PP George and our Sergeant-at-Arms was Rtn Danny. Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $860 between the raffle and fines.

President Tobias announced that our District will have a Tennis Tournament on 27th Nov and 11th Dec, which are opened to all Rotarians. The Inter-city meeting organized by Area 3 will be held on 5th Dec at Ritz Carlton Hotel. The Club of Quarry Bay will ride the pedal kart on 26-27th Nov to raise fund for Hong Chi Association and welcome our members to join. The Club of Hong Kong Harbour has organized "Dining to help" at Regal Hong Kong Hotel on 29th Nov to raise fund for South Asia earthquake victims. The ceremony for sealing the time capsule will be held in the Marco Hotel on 25th November.

In addition, we will have St. Stephen Fete on 3rd Dec at St. Stephens College at Stanley and will need help from members. While our Christmas Party will be held on 15th Dec at Aberdeen Boat Club, the sign up sheet is ready for members to sign. Meanwhile, the raffle prize of today is an Annual Pass of Hong Kong Museum.

The speaker of today was Ms. Nicole Schoeni and her topic was "Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Since the 1990s". The history of oil painting in China is not very long. It began at the early decades of this century, but during the "cultural revolution" there was an ultimate reduction of art and it was used as the political weapon. Afterwards, it was the time of "Open Door" policy, Chinese art entered a period of gradual opening and activity. From 1985, it was the expansion of modernism and meditation when China opened and faced the world. For the 90s, the trend of the Chinese oil painting has been neo-realism, which is a combination of classicism, symbolism, rationalism, surrealism, and classic Chinese features. Nicole showed us some artwork of the great artists of the 90s, for example Wang Yi Dong, Wang Hua Xiang, Liu Xiao Dong, Yu Hong and etc. Also, she brought us books to introduce Chinese Oil Painting.