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Twin Meetings

Part I – The “Not so Real” Meeting By Rtn. Mac McLean

• Guest Randy Perez (President Makati Metro Rotary) was our guest for a 2nd successive week. Maybe next week he will join OUR Rotary Club!!!

• Guys! Don’t forget to get your Visa for those going to Taiwan Golfing trip.

• Chris Bellinger mentioned that there was a good turn out at the “Le Cabaret” show last weekend at the Mandarin Hotel. The show was so good that we may set up something similar also to be headed by Chris for our anniversary benefit function. He is now setting up a steering committee to address this.

• President Klink stated that RCMN will be co-hosting next years “Governors” golfing cup on January28, 2009. The venue will be Ayala Greenfields. A suggestion was made to ensure that we use the “Shot gun” approach and not by set times to speed up the event.

• At next weeks meeting we shall be asked to vote for “ President Nominee” and on the form we shall also be asked to vote for our preferred venue Manila Pen versus Dusit. Food pricing was similar between the two.

• Guest Randy Perez explained the up and coming Bingo competition with prizes up to P1M and ten games at P3,000 per ticket, 4 cards per game, however, our friend Sal Lacson said: “Over my dead body” would he go again as every man and his dog turned up for this “gambling” event not just Rotarians and suggested we do not participate.

PART 2- The Real Meeting after the Meeting! – By Treas. Robert Syjuco

• After the meeting was adjourned by Pres. Klink, around 20 guys stayed behind on the news that the guest speaker, Miss Earth Phil 2007, Jeanne Harn was almost there. This was unprecedented, 20 members waiting past 220pm for a guest speaker!

• Members were heard canceling meeting for the afternoon….

• Jeanne Harn finally arrives, the pictures will just describe how happy some of the members were. She had a prepared spiel, on the advocacies of the Miss Earth Pageant started in 2000, currently 4th in ranking after Miss Universe, World and International. The Miss Earth beauty contest has an environmental theme.

• Not that the members were too interested in what she had to say, they paid full attention just the same.

• She sold off reusable Miss Earth shopping bags to do away with earth unfriendly plastic bags at P200 each. I think she sold off everything.

• I found out later she and I have 8 common friends, mostly models and beauty queens. A couple of other guys know her uncles and aunts or cousins.

• She said she was going to invite the current crop of Miss Earth beauties to speak at RCMN. Pres. Klink had a very wide smile at that point in time.

• She also gave out Ayala Land leaflet with her contact number. She sells Ayala Land condos too. Everyone got a leaflet……

• While she was not a stunning looker, she spoke well and with confidence, and that, kept the guys very happy…so there you have THAT was the week that was after the actual meeting……