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17-May-2023 saw the heavy rain outside not deterring twenty six RCKGM faithful from a great Regular Meeting within the cosy walls of B2 place… the place KGMERS call home... Andrew Wells from the Commonwealth Chamber of Hong Kong was on hand to give a colorful and great insight as to the fairly new but extremely well connected Commerce Chamber in Hong Kong. Andrew is a classic / a true Hong Kong patron of public service and really informs super well, with humor and wit and so it was super fun having him as our Guest of Honor. Chinese dishes were on our plates, wine was yum & we had Fun Result! As president it was my last meeting in our cosy home. Now on to the Club Installation June 14th in the Big Ballroom. Look forward to seeing all then. P Simon

4-May-23 was RCKGM 1st Cultural Night, held at the KCC. 44 members and Guests with us, President Simon was in the Aussie BoardShorts and Flip Flops singing Waltzing Matilda etc. Games, family and friends enjoying the night, we even had PP Gautam hosting a Bollywood dance move class. Fun baby!

28-Jun-2023, RCKGM is smiling today, because as a club we have received four District Awards, at last night's Joint Presidents Meeting. They are 1) Highest award in Presidency 2) Champion club of Membership Count, 3) 4th place in Female Membership Growth and 4) 6th place in Membership Growth. Some nice photos enclosed. P Simon

Twenty Six Rotarians and Guests were in the warm cosy Loong Yuen Restaurant for our regular RCKGM lunch meeting. But no meeting at RCKGM should be titled “REGULAR”. This lunch was indeed a “Heat Pump” of activity. We were honoured to have DG Norman Lee back smiling at RCKGM, and on hand to pin our latest Major Donor in PP Babu, and 3 new PHF fellows in PP Babu lovely wife Clara and his two handsome boys in Tazmil and Latiful…. Well done Family PP Babu. You are now club legends! We also had Rtn Kevin back at SOA. But the real heat came with the guest speaker in Dennis Tung in educating us on Heat Pumps. Take away is “If the setting is right they can ROI very quickly and save a lot in energy Costs“. Thanks Dennis, You certainly had our attention. See you all back in B2 next week. Don’t change that dial!

RCKGM Regular and Xmas Party fired up nicely yesterday. Super thanks to DG Norman and PDG Erik for putting on their party hats and joining us. Great to have CP Chandru with us as well. Special thanks to our Rtn Gary who had arranged 27 from the Ethnic Minorities Groups to join us and make the party so much fun. We had Santa Claus doing what he does so well in gifting all the kids, this time from his cold base of North Point (not North Pole). Enjoy the photos. Merry Xmas and Happy Seasons Greetings to you all!

Chinese hosted fellowship event at the Shanghai Fraternity Club restaurant.

On June 20, 2023 - a memorial dinner was held at RHYC in honour of the Late PDG Dipo. It was great event with super food & drinks enjoyed by all and KGM received a handsome donation from the Late PDG Dipo’s PP’s Memorial Fund.

Twenty one of us were in the Home of RCKGM yesterday (Feb 15, 2023). Cosy!! To have Ashok and Dipjay as guests. With a lot of regular members away enjoying travel once again. Super pleased to have Ark Eden Founder, Jenny Quinton joined to tell us more about her great outdoor work with her awesome camp, the eco center, the 37,000 trees she has planted, & great outdoor education to children she provides on her home base of Lantau. Thanks Jenny for all you do for our young ones. As a club we were happy to have you on hand to also pick up your check for the next lucky group of kids we are sending your way. Thanks to SOA for educating us on some Historical game changing Ladies of notable history, your “Please Explain”, and filling our “Blue Box”. All is good! Hoping we can get back the bigger RCKGM numbers next time we rumble...which is March 8th! P Simon

Thanks to PP Babu, the principals of both schools Dr. Sylvia Chan and Mimi CHEUNG, Peter Lee, Rotaractor Leeny, PE Vinod & all the others for a well organised event. All the children thoroughly enjoyed the event as much as we adults did and there was good fun and laughter. Well done all!! 👍👍🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻

RCKGM Regular Lunch of 9.11.2022 was a blast! 35 in the KGM house, kindly joined by DG Norman Lee, DS Dominic Wai and DDS Helen Chan enjoying the KGM styling. Nice to have PP JF, and PDG David back with us to hear a great Guest Speaker, Dr Saraansh Dave from CLP talked to us on the E Mobility. (It was a great presentation and we are now all rushing out to buy E Cars!) Plus it was great to have DG Normal Lee pinned Rtn Deven with his PHF recognition, plus we added "True Blue" to our Aussie repertoire. Cheers P Simon

4-Jun-23 RCKGM Charity Bazaar Bonanza was a smoking cracker yesterday. 25 pallets of fully donated merchandise all on sale at great prices were loaded into Wan Chai Playground. Heat wave conditions, a few showers, made for action a plenty and very successful event, and fitting end to this current Fundraising year. Thanks to all the KGMERS and their families, our Rotaractors, two Junioractors and Interactors for being on hand for us doing the hard yards. Done. Dusted. Exhausted, but still KGM Smiling!!!

👆Great Bowling Night at SCAA with the Rotaractors, RAC Edelweiss on 14th Oct. followed by dinner at Innside Out. 👍💪

30-Sep-2023 Our Rotaract club Edelweiss beach clean up was a smashing day at Shek O beach with some much collected on the hottest swelter of a day …. Well done RCE .. your a happy bunch of legends .. … super stuff team .. & congratulations and big thanks to P Richard and PE Vinod for pitching in for making RCKGM proud as well …. Boom …. Helping the Environment again … 👍👏🏻🎉☀️

RCKGM Meeting of this week was very special. Why? As four new members were inducted by PDG Eric Chin. Welcome Rtn Miranda, Polly, Dinesh and Anmol. A major donor recognition Level 3 to our PP Raja Dawani, plus we were swamped by like 12 very welcome guests. But to top that we learned from CP Roy Tang how to make money through "not drinking our better wines" with his very interesting "Investing in Wine" presentation. Thanks CP Roy. We now all regret drinking our 1982 Lafite! P Simon & the fun working club of RCKGM.

A group of our Rotarians join leader PP Silva in this extraordinary community service event.

RCKGM and the Yau Ma Tei Kai Fong Association School proudly opened Junioract Club. What a warm and great afternoon that was. Please DG Norman and PP Wing Leung were on hand to witness something which was really fun/ super organized. It was perfect. Congratulations to this amazing multi-cultural School for the formation of this new Club. Special thanks go to principal Mimi Cheung for her support, and PTA Secretary Brenda Wong and our own PP in PP Babu for such a great Induction. Everyone was smiling.

8.3.23, saw a full house of 40 in the RCKGM Home for our Regular Lunch Meeting. We were super pleased to see PDG Eric Chin with many other visiting rotarians, plus not less than 6 other guests joining the RCKGM action. The highlights for the day was an outstanding guest Speaker in Ms Scarlet Chen on " The State of HealthTech'' plus having PDG Eric Chin help us induct our latest new member in Ms Phoebe Yeung , Welcome Phoebe to the warmth of RCKGM. Lots happening at RCKGM..... Plus all do not forget the Junioract induction this Friday, plus the signature RCKGM Vocational Night next Wednesday 15th. Cheers P Simon

Whow! What started out as a regular meeting yesterday ended up "a little ripper", as we had Mr Edwin Keh from HKRITA (https://www.hkrita.com) educating / inspiring and totally surprising all of us with what this amazing Hong Kong organisation is achieving in the textile industry and beyond, so super impressive over so many years. Do yourself a favor and check this organisation out! It will make you very proud of Hong Kong (once again 🙃). We also launched of very own Junioract Program in collaboration with Ying Wa Primary School (for program info https://www.facebook.com/JunioractRotary3450). Plus we had some fun as always. Cheers Simon

Super Saturday at RCKGM last week, August 27th 2022 Members were busy serving food for the elderly in Kwai Chung (with new members Polly and Miranda pitching in with other member faithfuls. We had Board members at the district membership seminar over in North Point giving away our membership secrets (as we are by far our district's largest Club). Plus some other members were giving RCKGM Blood at the District Red Cross Blood Drive. Beautiful!

Amazing Rotary lunch on October 11, 2023 - electric & buzz in the room. 2 great guest speakers, Aviv Palti & Josienne Robb arranged by IPP Simon. Sumptuous Indian lunch & super unsung heros, the cardboard collectors in HK.

7th Rotary KGM lunch meeting was presided by Prez. Richard Albuquerque on 27th September 2023 at Loong Yuen Restaurant, HIGM. Guest speaker was Prof. Kwan Hoi Shan who spoke on unraveling the secrets of gut microbiome for good health. Attendance crossed 30 today - great quiz by SOA Kevin & photos by Deven.

RCKGM Community Service 22/23 Year kicked off on July 30 with our first Feeding Elderly Project. A Good afternoon. 120 fed and happy!! Thanks PP Silvia for arranging.

English Speaking Service Club at Ying Wa Primary School. Thanks to all whom attended with DG Norman, PP Wing Leung District JuniorAct Chairman , P Dion Chan, Principal & Rtn Dr. Sylvia Chan, Dr. Pet and Mr. Dick Tong ... from Ying Wa Primary School, plus PP CK Tsang and a great gathering of our RCKGM members as well. A super afternoon, & power hour that had everyone smiling and grateful! Go Boys! We are proud of you!!

He loved it and is sad to leave

20.9.23 had the KGM fun fellowship love boat smiling at the KGM …. Fun stuff… good to see Daniel back in the KGM with AG Roy and 2 guests joining the room where it happens. Thanks Rtn Dinesh …

RCKGM Regular Meeting 2022/10/12 Delighted to have 28 in the home of the RCKGM Wednesday 2022/10/12. Was busy!!! As we had a special guest in AG Dr Michelle Yeung to tell how good we are doing at District Level and so that brought a smile. Dr Michelle also presented to us her lovely work as a vet with the ACFD Dept in HKG. As Covid sensitive country / plus having bird flu / SARS etc, it is interesting to hear stories of the management systems within the ACFD. We also had Deven pick up the SOA sash and do a fine job in polishing up on our knowledge of the planet we live on! Remember...do not feed the pigeons! P Simon

RCKGM members in PP Mazhar / RTN Vinod and myself were on the scene to enjoy our Daugther Rotaract Club of Edelweiss 3rd Installation. Simply great smile and energy filled the Urban House. Congratulations to President Hillary and her great young enthusiast team. Sure was a nice way to start today. We are connecting and building nicely! P Simon

11-Mar-23 RCKGM was delighted to be present at the District Blood Donation Day. Here we have President Simon collecting the certificate on behalf of our great club. Well done to PP German Hui and his good committee in arranging this meaningful day.

Super pleased to see RCKGM well supported yesterday at District 3450 Installation. We have 10 from RCKGM in total with PDG David, PP Raju, PP Mazhar, PP Silva, PP Gautam, PP Babu, PE Richard, VP Kumar, Rtn Deven and Rtn Vinod with us, to help support the changeover. A pleasant afternoon. Thanks again for all their support.

Rotary Club of Kowloon Golden Mile 2022 / 2023 was held on July 13th 2022 in the Crystal Ballroom. We were lucky to have with us DG Normal Lee and IPDG Keith Chow, with over 20 guests and 45 of our members. We are delighted to share some pictures with you here.

Our first " Imagine Rotary" Regular Meeting was held July 20th in Loong Yuen Restaurant. We had twenty four members and guests with us whom warmed to the great socially awareness programs and Skills of our Guest Speaker Mr Francis Ngai of SVHK , whom inspired us all to think differently , embrace change and create ways within our own working lives to make all the needed baby steps we can all do to make a positive Impact to the Preserve Planet Earth Focus point of Rotary. We thank Francis for such simple clean messaging which are easy to implement.

District 3450 conference held over last weekend was well attended by members of RCKGM with PE Richard and to be PE Vinod, Rtn Yolane, Ipp Vishal and of course our PDG David in the thick of the action. Thanks all, while President Simon was proving that he does put his family first with his son's graduation in Singapore. RCKGM shone bright on the DC red carpet picking up many awards. These pictures enclosed tell some of the great stories. Proud Proud Proud!

Our amazing daughter club held their Charter Night Party with a lot of glitz and glamour.

KGM Collected Rotary Banners

Dear Member, Wednesday October 19th was huge! 33 in the house, to welcome two new level Paul Harris Fellows in PE Richard Albuquerque and Treasurer Vinod Sehgal, plus induct 2 new members in Dr Sylvia Chan and Mr Gary Ferreira. Welcome! We are lucky to be in this RCKGM club together. So Good. So good that even an old club friend from Italy in PP Stefano Clemnetino dropped in and joined our A7 dinner as well. Plus Rtn Terrance educated us & updated us on Polio, being End Polio Month. We also welcomed Jenny Bovard on her heartfelt presentation on spinal care and foundation. Thanks Jenny. Keep happening at RCKGM. We are now onto the End Polio walk this Saturday with the Big V leading our team. Cheers, P Simon

A joint meeting with the Rotary Club Dragon Hong Kong, our daughter club.

Good representation and presence from RCKGM at last nights RC Dragons Hong Kong club installation which is our Daughter Club. Congratulations to their new President Shirley So and every good wish for your year ahead. Seems like in the second photo young Shirley is our real Daughter for PDG David and I. Nice to have PP Mazhar and Rtn Anil with us as well.

The home of RCKGM was packed out today. Every seat taken. We were super happy to have DGE Andy Li of RC Kwai Chung and PDG Ada Cheng of RC Wan Chai with us. There was a buzz in the room. Everyone happy to back and ready to rumble! PDG Ada presented her district role of educating DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) with such aplomb. PDG Ada is a champion speaker and we thank her for coming over to her second Rotary Home. Plus we were lucky to learn of a great notebook and laptop hand in scheme from Mr Gary Ferreira. Thanks Gary. We introduced 2 new community services projects and 3 International ones today. All is cool at RCKGM.

12-Mar-2023 Good to have a small RCKGM team out & about on Sunday, over in Sharp Island and the Salt Pans of Yim Tin Tsai Island, plus a fresh Lunch including the local specialty of Kiln Chicken... Yum!!!!! We swung around and saw the artists clay interpretations of the islands. A good day out. The president's dogs also enjoyed the treat. Thanks to PP Carola for arranging our "tour de salt" and nice to be hanging with my Family and RCKGM faithful… plus we had Chmap PP Bonnie Wong with us to keep us in line ... love your work!

Nice to be back in our beloved B2 room for a small Regular Lunch Meeting. 23 of us in the RCKGM House. Good update on current club affairs, a launch of the March 4th 2023 Ball, a team built for the 50Km Virtual Marathon come December 31st, plus PP Dave Andrews back as Sergeant of Arms driving the blue box forward with a great Currency and cons super quiz. Guest Speaker Neal Beatty then took the helm to give us the 5 key no go zones for 2023 with Risk Map 2023. Thanks Neal Above was all enjoyed with a Thanksgiving Lunch of Turkey and Cranberry & Pecan pie! Delish!

RCKGM Ball was a Ball...Saturday March 4th saw the dance floor ballroom at Island Shangri-La full with smiles in every corner .... .. a big Ball .. a fun ball. Just ask any one of the guests. The dance floor full, as the band and vibe was smoking hot! So great to have the RCKGM Black Tie back on. Thanks to our PE Richard and his committee and PP Dave for putting on the great ball. Sure was good! Will be remembered!

Whow! What started out as a regular meeting yesterday ended up "a little ripper", as we had Mr Edwin Keh from HKRITA (https://www.hkrita.com) educating / inspiring and totally surprising all of us with what this amazing Hong Kong organisation is achieving in the textile industry and beyond, so super impressive over so many years. Do yourself a favor and check this organisation out! It will make you very proud of Hong Kong (once again 🙃). We also launched of very own Junioract Program in collaboration with Ying Wa Primary School (for program info https://www.facebook.com/JunioractRotary3450). Plus we had some fun as always. Cheers Simon

RCKGM together with the Chan Hing Community Service Center held its annual Free Medical Check yesterday on 2022/11/06, for up to 260 seniors. Kindly note the great photos. Super pleased to have DG Norman and his wonderful wife Isa joined us for the ceremony, plus our AG Michelle, plus of course all the wonderful doctors & nurses who helped throughout the day, whom included several PDG's and PP's. Super proud of RCKGM 34 members for their help, plus 5 from our Rotaract Club Edelweiss, plus 5 from our Interactors Club of Ying Wa College. Awesome team work all. P Simon

RCKGM was walking the runway last Monday night, with our Annual Pre-Loved Fashion Handbags Auction. Boom! PP Gautam discovered a super talent as his auctioneering skills were "the goods"… He can deadset sell ice to the Esimkos & sand to the Arabs… and so the $$ flowed in as wine & dine flowed out! Great night. Big $ earned. Monday Madness. All funds earned go to our local and International projects. Many thanks to PP Ebe / PP Elissa whom donated so many bags to this great annual event. Plus all the great organisers and for all the guests for taking part. We smoked it.

18.1.20233 had 30 for our RCKGM Pre-CNY Regular Lunch Meeting, including 4 guests and RC Wan Chai Bonnie Wong with us. Our Special guest speaker in Michele Wisla of Our Conscious Kitchen inspiring and educating us on all the upsides of a plant based diet. Super hot topic, great 3 factors presentation and great takeaway points for us all. So many thanks Michele. I think you broke the club record in the post Q & A section!!!

14-Jun-2023 Largest Club Installation in District 3450 went off like a firecracker. Numbers at one stage had over 100 in the A ballroom to witness the Kowloon Golden Smiles/ and bear witness to the changing of the KGM Guard / President. We were blessed to have so many guests and Visiting Rotarians with us, including DG Noman Lee, IDG Andy Li and DGN Nigel with us and a bunch of PDGS" and loads of Presidents and fellow Rotarians. P Simon reported on his active year and we were honoured to also induct 16 New Paul Harris Fellows to round off a great Imagine Rotary Year, before bringing in King Richard. Over to P Richard now to take the big fun reins that is RCKGM From me P Simon the pleasure was always mine to lead RCKGM. I will remember this year forever.

Members of RCKGM were with our Feed HK on Dec 10, Saturday delivering a Xmas pack of daily essentials/ clothes/ foods & Wellcome $100 voucher to the underprivileged..., in the small so called "caged homes". Super week for Feed HK dedicating over HKD 75,000 to this great pre-Xmas campaign throughout this week, giving away over 500 packs. Well done Feed HK (you guys are awesome!) and well done RCKGM members for being there all week to help!

District introduction to MyRotary and ClubRunner

20-Apr-23 Saw RCKGM once again in Kwai Chung feeding the Elderly. Really nice to see at least 3 members’ Children Join also. .. Great Photos. What was really good this time around was we were able to serve the dinners in a seated arrangement and have fun with the Seniors. Well done RCKGM. Mission completed for this year with 6 great Feeding projects.

13-Sep-2323 RCKGM we’re back in the Big Room to welcome DG Andy Li to the club where it happens!!! Other distinguished officers also were with us / as our board presented our year ahead. A fun and informative extended lunch meeting …. And pleased to see 5 new guests join us to learn first hand the vibe that is RCKGM PI Guy … Simon 13.9.23

RCKGM is super proud of our Rotaractors in Club Edelweiss for their December 10th Xmas Toy Run to the Christian Action. Seven budding Santas turned up early at President Simon's office to do the needing wrapping and then they were off & on their way down a needy Hong Kong Chimey. Enjoy the nice photos. We are loving it!

10-May-2023 Today's Regular Lunch Meeting had 25 in the Home OF RCKGM. A Lunch of mixed emotions. On one hand we had a wonderful Speaker in Sidhant Gupta from Clearbot whom is young, energetic and making waves with his wonderful A1 boats that cleans seas and rivers !!!! Sidhant was up lifting, and as PP Dave correctly put it "we needed uplifting"... as today was the day we mourned the passing of our Own PDG Dipo Sani whom suddenly passed away this week. PDG Dipo was our Club Legend, District Governor from 1999-2000 / our mentor, our friend. He will be dearly missed in District 3450 and especially at his Rotary home in us @ RCKGM.

Warm and Fun lunch meeting today with a lovely collection of guests plus our loyal faithful members giving us a total of 32 in our KGM House today. Great Quiz by PP Gautam and an inspirational speech from our guest speaker Mr Angus Forsyth who is the godfather of everything Asian Jade. Whow Angus really knows his jade!!! Thanks for sharing with RCKGM. It was so nice to have so many guests and visiting Rotarians with us. Keep the love coming RCKGM.

Thirty three in the RCKGM house this Wednesday to get a "tad frisky with whisky". Great to have Rob & Tob from Cask Master on hand to educate us re Whisky Investing, process and manufacture. Super interesting and yes we had a "wee tasting"!! Super fun! We had SOA Deven with his "Please Explain" and a fun sporting Quiz... and pleased to see so many members back from their worlds of travel. Super pleased to have 3 visiting rotarians from RCHK and RCGBA with us, plus several guests enjoying the RCKGMway... Our club's 36th Birthday this month. Lucky us! YIR Simon