Monthly Meeting for March & Easter Outing: Mannering Park: 22-23 March

Per our President Fidel, please don’t forget to attend our next monthly meeting which is on Saturday (about lunch time), 22 March 2008 at WBro. Jack Sta Maria’s holiday home in Mannering Park (exact address will be emailed to all and WBro Jack's contact numbers).

As per WBro. Jack, we can stay there overnight or so and remember that Monday, 24th March is also a Public Holiday. It will be good time to extend our holidays on Saturday and Sunday inclusive.

Please also don't forget to bring your swimming as well as your fishing gears.

More details to follow.

(Via email by WBro Fidel Pamplona).


An Invitation From Our Hosts: WBro Jack & Sis Elvie Sta Maria:

"I'll take this opportunity to invite all and join us in our place in Mannering Park in March 22 to 23 (you are also welcome to come as early as Good Friday, 21 March!). This will be an overnight event so you may bring your linens or tents with some camping chairs, golf clubs, fishing rods etc.

You may also make Mannering Park your "home base" to explore tourist places like Hunter Valley, The Entrance, Lake Macquarie or even reminiscing the episodes in Myuna Bay (not all of it of course)."

Bro Jack

Informal Ladies Night: Dooleys Catholic Club, Lidcombe: 29 February

Courtesy of www.ladiesonly.se All Rights ReservedCopyright © 2008.

With the "leap day" falling this coming Friday (29 February, of course!), the brethren; with much prodding, decided to give the Ladies the TLC they much deserved.

An informal Ladies Night is slated at this date at Dooleys Catholic Club, Church St (nearest corner John & Church Sts; car park entrance at Church St, click here for directions/map), Lidcombe at about 7 PM (you can come as early or as late as you like, depending on your schedules). This is just a simple get-together of sorts to honour our Amasons.

According to Wikipedia, leap years were conceived:

"...to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of full days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year which is not a leap year is called a common year."

This is a good as any day to also "synchronise" and touch base with our FilMasons' friends and ladies. "Life is too short" not to hold any fellowship, least of all before the end of this "love" month.

As per traditions, this is the "traditional time women can propose marriage. In many of today's cultures, it is okay for a woman to propose marriage to a man. Society doesn't look down on such women. However, that hasn't always been the case. When the rules of courtship were stricter, women were only allowed to pop the question on one day every four years."

This is also good day to be with our ladies, lest someone takes fancy (as if!) and indecently propose to us! So we hope to see you there with your ladies.

'carpe diem quam minimum credula postero' - 'Seize the day, trusting little in the future'

Horace