Today was "Lawyer's" day at RCSS. We had an incredible 4 lawyers at our lunch fellowship. Thankfully they were all in different classifications within the legal business.
The good news of the day was that CP Michael Quek announced that the club has received its Charter approval and the Certificate would be presented to the club by District officials within the coming weeks. PP Linda Wong also took the opportunity to remind members who are present and attending the District Assembly to confirm up their participation to get the rooms and dinner tickets arranged.
Our speaker for the day and visiting Rotarian was PP Sim Teow Gok, who looked about 10 years younger than his actual age. His secret was not Botox, but the age old practice of Qigong. PP Sim gave a quick historical account on how he became a practitioner of Qigong, starting with him being afflicted with Polio when he was a child. His parents, when confronted with the option of amputation and letting him be, decided to let the young boy be and let fate takes its journey. To proove disbelievers that he was a Polio victim, he showed us scars on his legs from the leg braces worn when he was young.
As luck would have it, PP Sim met with a Qigong master and started practicing Qigong and in the process, strengthened his legs and his health. So devoted is he to the practice of Qigong that PP Sim even makes it a point to practice Qigong when he is travelling!
He tells us that Qigong is able to remedy minor ailments such as headaches, tummy pains as well as muscle pains. But he also goes on to inform us that there have been cases where the practice of Qigong has led to remission of cancer in some practitioners. To proove a point, he brought out a press release from Hong Kong about a terminally ill cancer patient who recovered completely from his cancer by practicing Qigong, much to the surprise of the Western trained doctors.
He futher explained that Qigong is best practiced early in the morning, and preferably in proximity of pine trees. The Qi, as he tells it, will circulate round the body, and also allow oxygen to flow through the blood into all parts of the body.
His closing statement to the members present at the fellowship was to join him and give Qigong a try as we may not know what other benefits, apart from being healthy, it will bring us.
With that, the meeting ended, and the members adjourned to meet another time.
Next week will be an Induction Dinner, where the club will induct a new batch of members. Watch out for more pictures and stories from RCSS' first Induction Dinner.
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