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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 ***
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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 ***
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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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
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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)
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 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
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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.
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
ROTARY CLUB OF PASIG
Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
PANGKAT MEMBERS FOR RY 2015 – 2016
President Ner Laiño 641-1740 0917-8015535 rosalaino@yahoo.com.ph
PANGKAT NO. 1 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD
1. Rtn. Ben Baniel – (L) 837-9845 0917-7936705 ben.baniel@gmail.com 2. Rtn. Noel Go – (Co-L) 641-1977 0917-8063409 emmanuel.go@agc.com
3. PP Topax Colayco 637-3741 0917-8194410 fjcolayco@me.com
4. PP Rel Gomez 687-4983 0917-5988506 aurelio.gomez@nff.com.ph
5. PP Arjan Ramnani 633-2127 0917-5180308
6. Rtn. Henry Diaz 532-3061 0917-8482235 henry@megacomputer.com
7. Rtn. Chito Bernardo 502-6700 0917-8863692 luisitobernardo@yahoo.com
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 jbeapindustries@gmail.com
2. Rtn. Wowie Benitez – (Co-L) 355-6014 0998-5113117 wowiebenitez@yahoo.com 3. PP Lito Ayson 671-5580 0917-8001881 aysonlito@yahoo.com
4. Rtn. Michael Canilao
5. Rtn. John Garcia 532-3061 0917-4549306 johngarcia85@yahoo.com
6. PP Tito Henson 631-0225 0917-8350264 7. Rtn. Bebert Lacuna 642-3530 0917-2471012 wilbert.lacuna@gmail.com
8. Rtn. Roman Romulo 631-1954 0917-8272659 rep.rtr_ofc@yahoo.com
9. PP Celso Ylagan 635-2234 0917-8983282 ylagan.law@gmail.com
10. Rtn. Philip Yoon 447-7654 0916-3330002 philipyoon101@gmail.com
PANGKAT NO. 3 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD
1. Rtn. Emil Misa – (L) 0918-9386801 egmisa@hotmail.com 2. Rtn. Kel Pascual – (Co-L) 532-2951 0920-9606981 meknal@yahoo.com
3. PP Bert Albano 671-4994 0918-9246276 amadevinc@gmail.com
4. PP Totoy Bartolome 631-0309 0920-4054767 achillesbartolome@yahoo.com
5. Rtn. Manoj Budhrani 470-7416 0917-5375851 manoj@powertrip.com.ph 6. Rtn. Asisclo Castañeda
7. Rtn. Chony Gimenez 628-0000 0917-5314369 secretariat_ibg@yahoo.com
8. Rtn. Sammy Lazo 911-6698 0917-5232498 sammylazo@yahoo.com
9. PP Hermie Orbe 671-6171 0918-9052158 hermieorbe@yahoo.com 10. Rtn. Bart Ronquillo 374-3636 0920-9430920 bartronquillo@yahoo.com
PANGKAT NO. 4 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. PP Vic Aquino – (L) 872-9143 0917-5350986 vicandlee1980@yahoo.com
2. Rtn. Ogie Lim – (Co-L) 646-4224 0917-8586229 rsplimconst@yahoo.com
3. Rtn. Nesty Carolina 911-6227 0918-9275623 nesty_carolina@yahoo.com
4. PP Jing Jose 645-8930 0920-9529516 isjawcp@yahoo.com.ph 5. Rtn. Ike Ona 924-0135 0918-9092405 ikeona39@yahoo.com
6. PP Bobby Paterno 584-1624 0918-9466299 robertompaterno@gmail.com
7. Joseph Piñon 8. Rtn. Ed Sambeli 747-0812 0927-7010586 ecs_enterprises@yahoo.com
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Continuation 1.
PANGKAT NO. 5 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Garrick Ang – (L) 0917-5349815 garrick@m3dot0.com
2. Rtn. Dennis Albano – (Co-L) 687-7480 0917-5067752 dennis.albano@yahoo.com
3. Jess Acantilado 748-3501 0917-5377161 jbaped@yahoo.com
4. Rtn. Joji Avedillo 532-3061 0917-5536072 joji@megacomputer.com 5. PP Conrad Cuesta 747-8592 0920-9281325 conradcuesta@yahoo.com
6. Rtn. Butz de Castro 451-8888 0917-8559805 butz.decastro@myproperty.ph
7. PP Rhett Ermita 631-6649 0917-8063406 rrermita@gmail.com
8. Rtn. Manfred Guangko 723-9381 0917-5411782 man_fredg@yahoo.om.ph 9. Carlo Angelo Laiño 641-1740 0917-8093813 carlolaino@yahoo.com
10. PP Sonny Samson 929-6714 0917-8967777 sonny.samson@gmail.com
PANGKAT NO. 6 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD
1. Rtn. RJ Ermita – (L) 353-5744 0920-9213879 ren1031@gmail.com
2. PP Vic Lim – (Co-L) 818-6620 0918-9422239 vylim118@yahoo.com
3. PP Benny de Guzman 571-5114 0916-5151029 vaniedeguzman@yahoo.com 4. Rtn. Arnel Estaniel 0928-5058304
5. Rtn. Edison Go 242-0888 0918-9126136 edisondygo@yahoo.com
6. Rtn. Alex Lacson 840-0338 0917-8087967 alexlacson12@gmail.com
7. Rtn. Cesar Lacuna 642-3530 0917-8461852 8. PP Ducky Paredes 920-8057 0917-5282522 duckyparedes@gmail.com
9. PP Jun Zafra 687-4112 0917-5984559 jun.zafra@ntpi.info
PANGKAT NO. 7 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Nick Guzman – (L) 532-3061 0920-9126687 nick@garguz.com
2. PP Peter Javier – (Co-L) 671-3213 0918-9158525 pmjavier67@gmail.com
3. Jose Paolo Armas 403-3385 0908-8911128 paolo.armas@gmail.com 4. PP Rene Bocaya 746-6895 0917-8397361 renebocaya@yahoo.com
5. Rtn. Flor de Pano 913-5902 0917-8862584 fdepano@macare-medicals.com
6. Rtn. Joy Dasal 532-3061 0917-5459298 joy_dasal@megagroup.net
7. PDG Raffy Garcia III 532-3061 0918-8818888 raffygarciaiii@yahoo.com
8. PP Peping Mabanta 631-4927 0918-9107927 josefmabanta@yahoo.com
9. Rtn. Bob Peterson 0929-6876182 rpeterson441@hotmail.com
PANGKAT NO. 8 TEL. NO. CELL NO. EMAIL ADD 1. Rtn. Peter John Javier (L) 687-4371 0908-8628631 johnjavier@ktjlaw.ph
2. Rtn. Pol Garcia – (Co-L) 292-3495 0922-8031749 polzon.enterprises@hotmail.com
3. Rtn. Agerico Abejo 628-3437 0917-8044958 abejoagericojr@yahoo.com.ph 4. Rtn. Ray Armas 401-9394 0906-5692188 rc.armas55@gmail.com
5. PP Toti Buhain 531-1339 0917-8901190 mario.buhain@gmail.com
6. Rajesh Michael Cordova 0915-8193894 radge_cordova@yahoo.com
7. IPP Ramy Garcia IV 532-3061 0917-5922454 rafael_garcia4@yahoo.com 8. PP Esto Lichauco 671-9842 0917-8997573 eelichauco@richem.com.ph
9. Rtn. Louie Orosa 634-1944 0917-9208057 dentist@yahoopacific.net.ph
10. PP Ferd Rivera 631-0329 0927-6539237 fjriveramd@yahoo.com
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Tinig Newsletter April 14, 2016
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.
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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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TINIG STAFF FEATURE WRITERS
RY 2015-2016
PP CELSO YLAGAN NERIO P. LAIñO PETER JOHN JAVIER
Editor in Chief From the President From the Secretary’s Desk
DIR. Bebert Lacuna BENJAMIN P. JUN C. ZAFRA, JR.
Club Bulletin Admin. DE GUZMAN Walking the Avenues
Rotary Notes
BEBERT LACUNA PETER M. JAVIER
Invocation Tinig Tidbits
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Continuation 1.
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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Continuation 2.
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!
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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
Ateneo de Manila University
School of Law
2001 to 2004 Ateneo Charity Outreach Program, Volunteer
Ateneo de Manila University
Rockwell Center, Makati City
1999 to present Philippine Institute of Certified Public
Accountant (PICPA), Member
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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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