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ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG

Tinig Newsletter April 21, 2016

Valle Verde Country Club

April 21, 2016 – 12:00 Noon

Pangkat No. 1 Leader: Rtn. Ben Baniel

Call to Order Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Invocation Rtn. Chito Bernardo

National Anthem Rtn. Emmanuel Canilao

FOUR-WAY TEST PP Arjan Ramnani

Introduction of

Visiting Rotarians & Guests PP Topax Colayco

Community Singing Rtn. Henry Diaz

Wise or Otherwise

Fining Moments PP Rel Gomez

President’s Time Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Introduction of

Guest Speaker Rtn. Noel Go

MS. MARIFE B. ZAMORA

Chair, Convergys Philippines Services Corp.

GUEST SPEAKER

Open Forum

Adjournment Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Rtn. Ben Baniel

Emcee

*** APRIL IS MAGAZINE MONTH ***



Valle Verde Country Club

April 14, 2016 – 12:00 Noon

Pangkat No. 8 Leader: Sec. Peter John Javier

Call to Order Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Invocation Rtn. Raj Cordova

National Anthem Rtn. Louie Orosa

FOUR-WAY TEST PP Toti Buhain

Introduction of

Visiting Rotarians & Guests IPP Ramy Garcia IV

Community Singing Rtn. Pol Garcia

Wise or Otherwise

Fining Moments Dir. Ray Armas

President’s Time Pres. Ner Laiño

Introduction of

Guest Speaker PP Ferd Rivera

RICKY EUSEBIO

ATTY. CHRISTIAN “Ian” SIA

MONTSERRA “Mons” TECSON ROMULO

Congressional Candidates of Pasig

GUEST SPEAKER

Open Forum

Adjournment Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Sec. Peter John Javier

Emcee

*** APRIL IS MAGAZINE MONTH ***



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Dear Lord,

O Holy God, we bow before You today

because we believe in the reality of Your

presence. We believe You are our God, the

source of all our happiness, our bounty and

resources.

Enkindle our hearts with Your love so that we

may not forget to share our bounty, our time,

and resources with our fellowmen, especially

those who are in need of our help.

O God, bless the present leadership of our club

so that it will achieve it goals towards the next

millennium.

Amen



ng mga bagay na ating iniisip, sinasabi o ginagawa:

1. Iyon ba ang KATOTOHANAN?

2. Iyon ba ay MAKATARUNGAN para sa lahat ng

kinauukulan?

3. Iyon ba ay lilikha ng MABUTING KALOOBAN at

LALONG MATAPAT NA PAKIKIPAGKAIBIGAN?

4. Iyon ba ay magiging KAPAKI-PAKINABANG para sa

lahat ng kinauukulan?

Ang layunin ng Rotaryo ay “PASIGLAHIN AT IPUNLA

ANG SIMULAIN NG PAGLILINGKOD BILANG BATAYAN NG

ISANG GAWAIN KARAPAT-DAPAT at lalo’t higit pasiglahin at

ipunla:

1. Ang pagpapaunlad ng pagsasama bilang pagkakataon sa

paglilingkod.

2. Ang mataas na uri ng tuntunin sa pangangalakal at sa

hanapbuhay, ang pagkilala sa kahalagahan ng gawain

kapakipakinabang at ang pagbibigay dangal ng bawa’t

Rotaryo sa kanyang hanapbuhay bilang pagkakataon upang

makapaglingkod sa lipunan.

3. Ang pagsasakatuparan sa simulain ng paglilingkod sa bawa’t

Rotaryo sa kanyang pansarili, pangkabuhayan at

panglipunang pamumuhay.

4. Ang pag-unlad ng pagkakaunawaan, mabubuting kalooban at

kapayapaan ng mga bansa sa pamamagitan ng isang pang-

daigdig na kapatiran ng mga propesyonal na nabubuklod sa

simulain ng paglilingkod



IT’S THE 4-WAY TEST (Tune: It’s The Real Thing)

We’d like to help Pilipinos live

In perfect harmony

We’d like to help Pilipinos grow

As honest as can be.

The 4-Way Test is what we offer

To guide their way through life

It teaches them to tell the truth

And not to tell a lie.

Refrain:

It’s the 4-Way Test

It’s Rotary’s way

We’re all proud to say

It’s the 4-Way Test

We’d like to help Philippines grow

In the most beneficial ways

And bring Pilipinos all together

In harmony and peace.

The 4-Way Test is what we offer

To bind them all as one.

They’ll cherish truth as their ideal

Put lying out of mind

(Repeat Refrain)

(Adaptation from It’s The Real Thing for Rotary by PP Peter)



Pres. Ner P. Laiño

Fellow Pasig Rotarians:

For today’s meeting, we have scheduled a candidates’ forum and

we have invited our 3 Pasig City Congressional candidates to

speak before us and to present the agenda they propose to

implement once elected.

We have also invited qualified voters of Pasig City to listen and be

in a better position to disseminate valuable information to other

voters on who to vote for since the 3 candidates are all qualified

for the position.

Let all listen to them, decide wisely and fairly - should it be

Councilor Ricky Eusebio, Councilor Ian Sia or the sister of our

fellow Rotarian Roman Romulo, Ms. Mons Romulo.

Let us pray for a peaceful May 9 elections.

It is always service above self and let us all be gifts to the world.

NERIO P. LAIñO

World Class President

Rotary Year 2015-2016



PP Benny P. De Guzman

Last week, a club assembly, which was not properly announced as

per our rules, went the usual grind till some major club matters yet

bugging us got almost out of bounds that WCP Ner was placed in

a defensive stance.

As IP Ogie was discussing what his team intended to do, and, even

gave a questionnaire to be answered by next week,

“professionalizing” of sorts what his team would do, the present

problems erupted and the “solutions” came in handy with well

meaning comments.

PDG Raffy always had many solutions for fellowship and related

matters. Not surprising anymore, because of the expanse of his

interests, he was making generous offers of his facilities even for

overnight fellowships even in Batangas or Bataan. If there would

have been another “B” even if right now he has no business there,

only the letter “F” if missing in the two offered provinces, isama

mo na din Gov. Raffy ang Batanes?

To ease the situation, an English versioned joke from PP Peter

given years back was made into a tagalog version that PDG Raffy

rattled with very good response that took the interest of PP Peping

to deliver his usual wise cracks. Three weeks ago I asked him

where is his cap? He touched his head and said, “If you did not ask

me, I thought I had it on”.

Two Pasig Rotarians, not seen in many meetings of ours, had a

meeting Tuesday last week for the project of Rtn. Alex Lacson for

a Christian vote for well deserving candidate. Our Cong. Roman

Romulo was endorsed. In the well read column of Gen. Farolan in

Inquirer, again a major endorsement of our Roman. Roman was



PP Benny P. De Guzman

Continuation 1.

again in the headlines when he commented on the dangers of the

airport brown-out of several hours. Why that Abaya is being kept

in his post, is baffling.

The idea of having all the three candidates for the lone

Congressional district of Pasig started when Charter Member of

Pasig South, Ben Bernardino suggested to have Councilor

Christian Sia to be our speaker on a regular meeting. Because of

the time and our scheduled speakers are on deck, we agreed to

have all three join in one friendly meet. Ms Mons Romulo readily

agreed and then Councilor Ricky Eusebio. If the handler of

Councilor Sia fails to bring him today, we will have only two and

time management would be easier.

The announced Rotary Club of Pasig Foundation meeting became

a caucus as Foundation President Rhett was absent. Topax, who

was ready to preside, was told he would be President July pa. It

was a relief for PDG Raffy as the regular meeting ended almost

2:30.

Sec. John Peter is short of sponsors, our high school scholars and

his regular plea for more support has yet to get more interests.

Pres. Ner is pushing for pledges for a college scholarship. Baka

the many good and relevant projects being handled by PN Doc

Aga may have less participants? Doc Aga did not have time to

recover from his jet lag having spent two weeks in U.S.A. sabak

agad sa pet community projects niya. Ticklish pa site for our

water lilly project. With so many lawyers in our club, wala tayong

magagawa, basta walang titulo, wala talaga.



PP Jun C. Zafra

A WAVE OF COMPASSION

What Kerstin Jeska-Thorwart remembers is the silence. No birds

chirping, no dogs barking, no car engines revving. Nothing. “I’ve

never heard such a silence before, and never since,” she says. “I knew

something must have happened.”

It was 9:35 the morning after Christmas 2004, and in Sri Lanka, it

was a Poya Day, a Buddhist public holiday held every full moon.

Jeska-Thorwart, a lawyer from Germany, was on vacation in

Hikkaduwa, on the island’s southwestern coast. Any other morning of

her holiday she and her husband would have been on the beach, but

today they stayed back at their vacation home, up a small hill about a

half-mile from the water’s edge, to clean and prepare for guests.

After a few minutes, sound returned, as though it had been switched

on. Now she heard people running, crying. She went down the main

road to see what had happened. She saw people in swimming suits,

shoeless, covered in blood.

They told her there was a big wave.

The tsunami, as she later learned, was caused when an earthquake

with the estimated force of 23,000 atomic bombs rattled the floor of

the Indian Ocean. The seabed rose 10 feet, displacing 7 cubic miles of

water. A wall of water, in some places up to 100 feet high, slammed

into countries throughout Southeast Asia and as far away as Africa.

All told, more than 230,000 people died in 14 countries, and 1.7

million were left homeless. More than half of the dead were in

Indonesia, followed by Sri Lanka, where 35,000 people were killed.

Sri Lanka was hit by several waves that day. They knocked out

cellphone service, land lines, electricity, television, radio. Jeska-

Thorwart, then governor of District 1950 (Germany), opened up the



PP Jun C. Zafra

Continuation 1.

house as a makeshift first aid clinic. Four days later, when the

situation had stabilized, she and her husband, the late Carl-Otto

Thorwart – himself a member of the Rotary Club of Nürnberg-Sigena

– together with some Sri Lankan friends, drove down the coast

looking for clues to the extent of the damage. “We had no

information about what had happened,” she says. “Was it only

Hikkaduwa that was hit, or other towns too?”

The first city they came to was Galle, about 12 miles south.

Conquered by the Portuguese in the 16th century and fortified by the

Dutch in the 17th, the city had long served as the main port between

Europe and the East. The tsunami killed 4,000 people in the city and

damaged 12,000 houses. “Every minute that went by,” Jeska-

Thorwart says of her Sri Lankan companions, “they were more and

more silent. They were completely shocked. They realized their

country was destroyed.”

On the edge of the city, directly across the road from the beach, the

group arrived at a hospital. It was Mahamodara Teaching Hospital,

the primary maternity hospital in the province of 2.5 million people.

“It was totally empty,” Jeska-Thorwart recalls. One of the women in

the car had delivered four children there, and when she saw the

devastation, she cried out: “Where are the babies?”

When the first wave of the tsunami slammed into the hospital,

deliveries had been underway. Although the 10-foot wall around the

hospital could not stop the wave, it buffered its force, so the water

was only 4 feet high by the time it reached the prenatal ward that

faced the sea. The power failed, the backup generator failed, the

water supply and sewer systems failed. Patients’ mattresses were

soaked with foul-smelling water. The 349 patients were evacuated,

first to a nearby temple, then to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, a

couple of miles inland. By the time the subsequent waves hit



PP Jun C. Zafra

Continuation 2.

Mahamodara, no patients or staff remained on site. One baby had

died.

Upon learning that the patients and staff had been moved, Jeska-

Thorwart and her companions went to check on them. Only the most

urgent cases had been transferred – others were sent home – and the

maternity hospital had been squeezed into 70 beds in the male

neurology wing and portions of two other wards at Karapitiya. Jeska-

Thorwart saw pregnant women sitting outside in the rain. They lay in

beds to deliver and moved to the floor to recover. There were not

enough toilets; there was nowhere to eat or drink. “It was a horrible

situation,” she says. She asked to speak to a doctor.

Her first words to him were: “Don’t worry. We will help you.”

“Excuse me, may I know your name?” asked Malik Goonewardene,

the head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at the

University of Ruhuna in Galle and a consultant at Mahamodara

Teaching Hospital. He eyed Jeska-Thorwart, who was dressed in a T-

shirt and shorts, like a tourist.

“I’m from Rotary. I want to help you.”

Goonewardene invited her into a meeting where the Mahamodara

doctors were gathered. Jeska-Thorwart explained who she was and

asked the doctors to compile a list of everything they needed. (She

still has it.)

A few days later, she drove to Colombo, which – because of its

location on the island’s western coast – had not been damaged as

severely. She asked local Rotarians to email the list to her office in

Germany. By the time she returned home on 6 January, her office was

jammed with medical equipment, and by 10 January, German

Rotarians had shipped the doctors 2 tons of supplies, including



PP Jun C. Zafra

Continuation 3.

scalpels, drapes, arm slings, gloves, three ultrasound scanners, and

1,360 diapers. Less than a month later, they shipped another 7 tons.

And that was only the beginning.

A decade later, Mahamodara Teaching Hospital’s only ward that has

not been replaced or refurbished after the tsunami stands empty.

Inside, pieces of plaster are falling off the walls. A couple of old bed

frames are stacked in a corner, and wires hang from the ceilings. The

building dates to the 1800s, when the hospital was built to quarantine

South Indian immigrants arriving to work on Sri Lanka’s plantations

and vaccinate them against smallpox.

In contrast are the bright and airy new buildings designed by

Lakshman Alwis, an architect and a member of the Rotary Club of

Colombo. Inside one, lofted ceilings with vents allow the tropical

heat to rise, so the building stays comfortable without air

conditioning. Large windows illuminate a room filled with beds

where women rest, waiting to deliver. Since patients come from all

over the province, many arrive before their due date so they don’t

have to travel while in labor. The hospital serves the entire

socioeconomic spectrum; the wife of its deputy director delivered her

baby here.

Within a few weeks of the tsunami, more than 6,000 German

Rotarians had donated €1.3 million, and in 2008, The Rotary

Foundation supported the project. Other partners included German-

headquartered global corporations such as Siemens, Trumpf, and

Ejot, as well as a foundation set up by former German Chancellor

Helmut Kohl, who had been vacationing at a coastal resort southeast

of Galle when the tsunami hit.



PP Jun C. Zafra

Continuation 4.

In the past 11 years, this funding has helped renovate or build 10

departments and wards, and provided equipment worth more than €1

million. The Rotary Club of Colombo, which partnered with District

1950 on the Foundation grant, managed much of the construction.

Since work started, 160,000 babies have been born and more than 2.5

million women have received gynecological care. In 2014, a year the

hospital saw more than 12,000 births, not one mother died – a

statistic many Western hospitals would covet. “That speaks volumes

about what we have been able to achieve here,” says RI President

K.R. Ravindran, a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo.

“When this hospital got damaged and we had to evacuate, it was an

absolute calamity. We didn’t know what to do,” says Goonewardene.

“Without our donors, including Rotary, who came to our aid from the

start, I don’t know how we would have managed.”

The project has included many steps over the years: first, operating

rooms and intensive care units for mothers and babies; then the

prenatal wards; and, finally, training. Jeska-Thorwart, whom Rotary

honored as a Global Woman of Action at the United Nations in

November, says they plan to celebrate the completion of the project

in January 2017.

Since 2010, a team of doctors, midwives, and nurses has traveled

once a year from Sri Lanka to Germany, and another from Germany

to Sri Lanka, for training. At the biggest hospital in Nuremberg,

where Jeska-Thorwart lives, only a couple of babies are born each

day. In contrast, the Mahamodara Teaching Hospital delivers 70

babies daily. Because of the number of births in Sri Lanka, the

German doctors get more experience in the neonatal intensive care

unit dealing with birth complications. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan doctors

get experience on state-of-the-art equipment in Germany.



PP Jun C. Zafra

Continuation 5.

The neonatal intensive care unit, one of the few air-conditioned

buildings at the hospital, is a world of beeps and scrubs and needles.

A 19-day-old infant lies in an incubator, connected to a neonatal

CPAP machine to support her breathing, donated by Rotary, which

equipped the entire unit. The newborn, who arrived two months

premature, was transferred here because the hospital has some of the

most advanced equipment in the country. “When I started here, I was

amazed,” says Selvi Rupasinghe, the chief neonatologist. “Rotary’s

contributions have made a tremendous change to neonatal care.”

Outside the unit, a woman holds a sleepy toddler in her arms. The

child’s eyes are closed and her head droops as her mother, a dance

teacher, smiles and hugs her daughter tight. The child, now 21

months old, was born premature, weighing only 2 pounds. She spent

a month in the neonatal intensive care unit and today loves to dance,

like many girls her age. “Without all of this equipment, she would not

have been able to survive,” says Sumith Manathunga, the hospital’s

deputy director.

English isn’t the mother’s first language, but she does know four

words: “Thank you very much.”

Our video crew visited the Mahamodara hospital. Watch this video to

learn how German and Sri Lankan Rotarians are collaborating and

learning from one another.

https://vimeo.com/156337173



PANGKAT MEMBERS FOR RY 2015 – 2016

President Ner Laiño 641-1740 0917-8015535 [email protected]

PANGKAT NO. 1 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD

1. Rtn. Ben Baniel – (L) 837-9845 0917-7936705 [email protected] 2. Rtn. Noel Go – (Co-L) 641-1977 0917-8063409 [email protected]

3. PP Topax Colayco 637-3741 0917-8194410 [email protected]

4. PP Rel Gomez 687-4983 0917-5988506 [email protected]

5. PP Arjan Ramnani 633-2127 0917-5180308

6. Rtn. Henry Diaz 532-3061 0917-8482235 [email protected]

7. Rtn. Chito Bernardo 502-6700 0917-8863692 [email protected]

8. Rtn. Emmanuel Canilao 846-1757 0917-8129028

PANGKAT NO. 2 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Albert Mendiola – (L) 631-2070 0918-902-2533 [email protected]

2. Rtn. Wowie Benitez – (Co-L) 355-6014 0998-5113117 [email protected] 3. PP Lito Ayson 671-5580 0917-8001881 [email protected]

4. Rtn. Michael Canilao

5. Rtn. John Garcia 532-3061 0917-4549306 [email protected]

6. PP Tito Henson 631-0225 0917-8350264 7. Rtn. Bebert Lacuna 642-3530 0917-2471012 [email protected]

8. Rtn. Roman Romulo 631-1954 0917-8272659 [email protected]

9. PP Celso Ylagan 635-2234 0917-8983282 [email protected]

10. Rtn. Philip Yoon 447-7654 0916-3330002 [email protected]


1. Rtn. Emil Misa – (L) 0918-9386801 [email protected] 2. Rtn. Kel Pascual – (Co-L) 532-2951 0920-9606981 [email protected]

3. PP Bert Albano 671-4994 0918-9246276 [email protected]

4. PP Totoy Bartolome 631-0309 0920-4054767 [email protected]

5. Rtn. Manoj Budhrani 470-7416 0917-5375851 [email protected] 6. Rtn. Asisclo Castañeda

7. Rtn. Chony Gimenez 628-0000 0917-5314369 [email protected]

8. Rtn. Sammy Lazo 911-6698 0917-5232498 [email protected]

9. PP Hermie Orbe 671-6171 0918-9052158 [email protected] 10. Rtn. Bart Ronquillo 374-3636 0920-9430920 [email protected]

PANGKAT NO. 4 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. PP Vic Aquino – (L) 872-9143 0917-5350986 [email protected]

2. Rtn. Ogie Lim – (Co-L) 646-4224 0917-8586229 [email protected]

3. Rtn. Nesty Carolina 911-6227 0918-9275623 [email protected]

4. PP Jing Jose 645-8930 0920-9529516 [email protected] 5. Rtn. Ike Ona 924-0135 0918-9092405 [email protected]

6. PP Bobby Paterno 584-1624 0918-9466299 [email protected]

7. Joseph Piñon 8. Rtn. Ed Sambeli 747-0812 0927-7010586 [email protected]



Continuation 1.

PANGKAT NO. 5 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Garrick Ang – (L) 0917-5349815 [email protected]

2. Rtn. Dennis Albano – (Co-L) 687-7480 0917-5067752 [email protected]

3. Jess Acantilado 748-3501 0917-5377161 [email protected]

4. Rtn. Joji Avedillo 532-3061 0917-5536072 [email protected] 5. PP Conrad Cuesta 747-8592 0920-9281325 [email protected]

6. Rtn. Butz de Castro 451-8888 0917-8559805 [email protected]

7. PP Rhett Ermita 631-6649 0917-8063406 [email protected]

8. Rtn. Manfred Guangko 723-9381 0917-5411782 [email protected] 9. Carlo Angelo Laiño 641-1740 0917-8093813 [email protected]

10. PP Sonny Samson 929-6714 0917-8967777 [email protected]


1. Rtn. RJ Ermita – (L) 353-5744 0920-9213879 [email protected]

2. PP Vic Lim – (Co-L) 818-6620 0918-9422239 [email protected]

3. PP Benny de Guzman 571-5114 0916-5151029 [email protected] 4. Rtn. Arnel Estaniel 0928-5058304

5. Rtn. Edison Go 242-0888 0918-9126136 [email protected]

6. Rtn. Alex Lacson 840-0338 0917-8087967 [email protected]

7. Rtn. Cesar Lacuna 642-3530 0917-8461852 8. PP Ducky Paredes 920-8057 0917-5282522 [email protected]

9. PP Jun Zafra 687-4112 0917-5984559 [email protected]

PANGKAT NO. 7 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Nick Guzman – (L) 532-3061 0920-9126687 [email protected]

2. PP Peter Javier – (Co-L) 671-3213 0918-9158525 [email protected]

3. Jose Paolo Armas 403-3385 0908-8911128 [email protected] 4. PP Rene Bocaya 746-6895 0917-8397361 [email protected]

5. Rtn. Flor de Pano 913-5902 0917-8862584 [email protected]

6. Rtn. Joy Dasal 532-3061 0917-5459298 [email protected]

7. PDG Raffy Garcia III 532-3061 0918-8818888 [email protected]

8. PP Peping Mabanta 631-4927 0918-9107927 [email protected]

9. Rtn. Bob Peterson 0929-6876182 [email protected]

PANGKAT NO. 8 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Peter John Javier (L) 687-4371 0908-8628631 [email protected]

2. Rtn. Pol Garcia – (Co-L) 292-3495 0922-8031749 [email protected]

3. Rtn. Agerico Abejo 628-3437 0917-8044958 [email protected] 4. Rtn. Ray Armas 401-9394 0906-5692188 [email protected]

5. PP Toti Buhain 531-1339 0917-8901190 [email protected]

6. Rajesh Michael Cordova 0915-8193894 [email protected]

7. IPP Ramy Garcia IV 532-3061 0917-5922454 [email protected] 8. PP Esto Lichauco 671-9842 0917-8997573 [email protected]

9. Rtn. Louie Orosa 634-1944 0917-9208057 [email protected]

10. PP Ferd Rivera 631-0329 0927-6539237 [email protected]



DECLARATION OF ROTARIANS

IN

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS

As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I am

expected to:

1. Consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve;

2. Be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes

of my vocation, to the laws of my country, and to the moral

standards of my community;

3. Do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote

the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation;

4. Be fair to my employer, employees, associates,

competitors, customers, the public and all those with whom

I have a business or professional relationship;

5. Recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations

which are useful to society;

6. Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for

young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of

others, and to improve the quality of life in my community;

7. Adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all

representations to the public concerning my business or

professions;

8. Neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege

or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or

professional relationship.



Sec. Peter John U. Javier

Attendance Members Present ………………………...20

% of Attendance (04/07/15)…...…............27%

Birthday Celebrants for the Month of April 2016 1. Sp. Flordeliza Sambeli 06

2. Sp. DJ Garcia 08

3. Rtn. Paolo Armas 08

4. Sp. Jeng Gomez 10

5. Rtn. Emil Misa 19

6. Rtn. John Garcia 20

7. PDG. Raffy Garcia III 22

8. Sp. Lorna Orbe 26

10. Sp. Nanna Guzman 27

Wedding Anniversaries for the Month of April 2016 1. PP Vic & Lee Aquino 26

2. Rtn. John & Leslie Garcia 29

Fining 1. PDG Raffy Garcia III 80.00

2. PP Topax Colayco 80.00

3. PP Conrad Cuesta 80.00

4. PP Ducky Paredes 80.00

5. PP Totoy Bartolome 80.00

6. PP Peping Mabanta 80.00

7. PP Celso Ylagan 80.00

8. Rtn. Philip Yoon 80.00

9. Rtn. Noel Go 100.00

10. Rtn. Ben Baniel 100.00

11. Rtn. Chito Bernardo 80.00

12. Treas. Dennis Albano 100.00

13. Dir. Ray Armas 80.00



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(RY 2015-16)

President Nerio “Ner” P. Laiño

Vice-President PE Rogelio “Ogie” S.P. Lim

Secretary Rtn. Peter John “John” U. Javier

Treasurer Rtn. Dennis “Dennis” T. Albano

Auditor Rtn. . Emmanuel “Wowie” L. Benitez

Sergeant-at-Arms Rtn. Alberto “Albert” S. Mendiola

Protocol/PRO PP Victor “Vic” A. Aquino

Ways and Means Rtn. Emilio “Emil” G. Misa

Dir. Service Project Rtn. Jesus “Jess” B. Acantilado

Dir. The Rotary Foundation Rtn. Nick “Nick” C. Guzman

Dir. Public Image PP Horacio “Ducky” V. Paredes

Dir. Membership PE Rogelio “Ogie” S.P. Lim

Dir. Club Administration Rtn. Wilbert “Bebert” Lacuna

Ex- Officio IPP Rafael “Ramy” A. Garcia IV

Adviser PDG Rafael “Raffy” M. Garcia III



1. Pres. Elect Ogie Lim

2. Pres. Nominee Jess Acantilado

3. PND Peter John Javier

4. Dir. Ray Armas

5. Rtn. Ben Baniel

6. Rtn. Wowie Benitez

7. Rtn. Raj Cordova

8. Rtn. RJ Ermita

9. Rtn. Arnel Estaniel

10. Dir. Bebert Lacuna

11. Dir. Emil Misa



As of April 14, 2016

RY 2015 – 2016

High School Scholars

1. Anonymous 10 – Paid 18. Rtn. Ray Armas 1

2. Anonymous 8 – Paid 19. Rtn. Kel Pascual 1

3. Pres. Ner Laiño 3 – Paid 20. PP Ferd Rivera 1-Paid

4. PP Vic Aquino 1 – Paid 21. PP Vic Lim 1- Paid

5. Rtn. Edison Go 2 – Paid 22. PE Ogie Lim 4 -Paid

6. Rtn. Ben Baniel 2 – Paid 23. PP Celso Ylagan 2- Paid

7. PP Rel Gomez 1 – Paid 24. Rtn. Bart Ronquillo 1

8. PP Peping Mabanta 2 – Paid

9. PP Conrad Cuesta 3 – Paid

10. Sec. John Javier 1 – Paid + 1

11. Treas. Dennis Albano 2 – Paid

12. PP Jun Zafra 2 – Paid

13. PP Totoy Bartolome 1 – Paid

14. PP Topax Colayco 1

15. PP Jing Jose 1 – Paid

16. PP Arjan Ramnani 3 – Paid

17. Dir. Nick Guzman 2

College Scholars

1. Pres. Ner Laiño 35K – Paid

2. Anonymous 35K – Paid

3. PE Ogie Lim 16K – Paid

4. PP Jing Jose 35K – Paid

5. PP Conrad Cuesta 10K – Paid

6. Dir. Jess Acantilado

7. Dir. Bebert Lacuna

8. Rtn. Raj Cordova

9. Sec. John Javier



1. Abejo, Agerico 33. Lazo, Sammy

2. Acantilado, Jess 34. Lichauco, Esto

3. Albano, Bert 35. Lim, Ogie

4. Albano, Dennis 36. Lim, Vic

5. Ang, Garrick 37. Mabanta, Peping

6. Aquino, Vic 38. Mendiola, Albert

7. Ayson, Lito 39. Ona, Ike

8. Baniel, Ben 40. Orosa, Louie

9. Bartolome, Totoy 41. Paredes, Ducky

10. Benitez, Wowie 42. Piñon, Joseph

11. Bernardo, Chito 43. Ramnani, Arjan

12. Canilao, Emmanuel 44. Romulo, Roman

13. Canilao, Michael 45. Ronquillo, Bart

14. Castañeda, Asisclo 46. Samson, Sonny

15. Colayco, Topax 47. Ylagan, Celso

16. Cordova, Raj 48. Zafra, Jun

17. Cuesta, Contad

18. De Guzman, Benny

19. De Pano, Flor

20. Ermita, Rhett

21. Ermita, RJ

22. Estaniel, Arnel

23. Gimenez, Chony

24. Go, Edison

25. Go, Noel

26. Gomez, Rel

27. Javier, John

28. Javier, Peter

29. Jose, Jing

30. Lacuna, Bebert

31. Laiño. Ner

32. Laiño, Carlo



By: PP Peter M. Javier

I NEVER KNEW THAT

Q: Why do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s

clothes have buttons on the left?

A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn

primary by the rich. Since most people are high-handed, it is

easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left.

Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put

the buttons on the maid’s right! And that’s where women’s

buttons have remained since.

Q: Why do ships and aircraft use ‘mayday’ as their call for help?

A: this comes from the French word m’aidez – meaning ‘help me’ –

and is pronounced, approximately, ‘mayday.’

Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called love?

A: In France, where tennis became popular, round zero on the

scoreboard looked like an egg and was called ‘I’oeuf,’ which is

French for ‘egg.’ When tennis was introduced in the US,

Americans (mis) pronounced it ‘love.’

Q: Why do X’s at the end of a letter signify kisses?

A: In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or

write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X

represented an oath to fulfil obligations specified in the

document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called ‘passing the

buck?

A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a

buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal.

If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he

would ‘pass the buck’ to the next player.




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Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?

A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by

offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink

was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount

of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it

simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only

touch or clink the host’s glass with his own.

Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be ‘in the limelight’?

A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theatres

by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In

the theatre, a performer ‘in the limelight’ was the centre of

attention.

Q: Why is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’?

A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they

attain, with nine being the highest cloud, If someone is said to be

on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

Q: In golf, where did the term ‘Caddie’ come from?

A: when Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis,

King of France, learned that she loved the Scots game ‘golf.’ So

he had the first course outside of Scotland built for her

enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and

guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military

school to accompany her. Mary like this a lot and when returned

to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the

practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced ‘ca-

day’ and the Scots changed it into ‘caddie.

Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?

A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense

orange clay called ‘pygg’. When people saved coins in jars made




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of this clay, the jars became known as ‘pygg banks.’ When an

English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that

resembled a pig. And it caught on.

Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have

notches (milling), while pennies and nickels do not?

A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins

containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off

small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half

dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies

and nickels aren’t notched because the metals they contain are not

valuable enough to shave.

So there! Now you know!



ATTY. CHRISTIAN DE GUZMAN SIA

424 Lope K. Santos Ave.

San Joaquin, Pasig City

(02) 9649256 (0917)8920424 cdg.sia(a gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

2010 to present PASIG CITY GOVERNMENT,

City Councilor

2008 to present MOSVELDTT Law, Partner

2007 to 2008 Salva & Sia Law Firm, Partner

2000 to present Jaynith's Supermarket and Group of

Companies, Business Consultant

2005 – 2007 Vlllaraza & Angangco Law Offices

Junior Associate

1999 2000 SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co., Junior Auditor

Other Work Experience

Apprentice Villaraza & Angangco Law Offices

Summer 2002

EDUCATION

2000 – 2004 Ateneo De Manila University

Juris Doctor Degree

Graduated Second Honors



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1995 – 1999 De La Salle University

Bachelor of Science, Major Accounting

2ND Placer, DLSU Review center CPA Pre-Board Exams

1991 – 1995 Pasig Catholic College

Graduated Member of the Honors Class

SCHOLARSHIP, INVOLVEMENT & ACTIVITIES

2012 Impeachment of Chief Justice Renate C. Corona

Private Prosecutor

2011 to present Philippine Bar Association, Member

2010 to present Liberal Party of the Philippines, Pasig

Chairman (2010-2013)

2010 to present National Movement for Young Legislators

Senior Legal Officer

2005 to present Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Member

2003 to 2004 Chairman, Students Appeal Committee

Ateneo de Manila University

School of Law

2002 to 2004 Understudy, Students Appeal Committee


School of Law

2001 to 2004 Ateneo Charity Outreach Program, Volunteer


Rockwell Center, Makati City

1999 to present Philippine Institute of Certified Public

Accountant (PICPA), Member



MONTSERRAT TECSON ROMULO 61 Sampaguita Street, Valle Verde 2, Pasig City

COLUMNIST Wordsworth – Lifestyle section Philippine Star

1990 – Present

BOOK EDITOR Baro, Philippine Fabric and Fashion 2003

BOOK EDITOR Salu Salo: A Celebration of Philippine Culinary

Treasures 2014

POSITIONS IN CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

CHAIRPERSON ABILYMPICS FOUNDATION

Encourages and supports men and women with disabilities.

CHAIRPERSON RESPONSABLENG PASIGUEÑO

FOUNDER WOMENSERYE PASIG

Talks in schools/churches which hopes to inspire women

become better persons in their homes and workplace.

FOUNDING MEMBER PINK FOR LIFE FOUNDATION

Helps provide free chemotherapy for women and men with Stage

1 and 2 breast cancer.

MEMBER CHILD PROTECTION NETWORK INC.

Protects abused children and provides counselling for

children/parents and free legal advice.



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VICE CHAIR CONGRESSIONAL SPOUSES INC.

AWARDS RECEIVED

2006 Advocacy in Children’s Rights by Rustan's Essences

2009 Ulirang Ina Award by Gintong Ina Foundation

2010 Excellence in Service by Congressional Spouses Inc.,

2011 Pink Ribbon of Hope Award by Woman Today,

EDUCATION

College: University of the Philippines - B.A. Mass

Communications, 1986

High School: Assumption Convent, San Lorenzo Village,

Makati

Grade School: Maryknoll College, Quezon City

Pre School: Pinecrest Elementary School, Miami, Florida,

USA

Infant Jesus Pre School, Quezon City

PERSONAL

Birthplace: Quezon City

Birth date: April 24, 1965

Parents: Former Senator Alberto G. Romulo and Rosie Lovely

Tecson Romulo

Children:

Simon Gerard Romulo Tantoco, 24 years old

Ma Rosario Francheska Romulo Tantoco, 22 years old

Ma Cassandra Romulo Tantoco, 20 years old

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