BNOW Newsletter - Bangkok's Networking Community

Our holiday is coming to an end in France. It’s been great to see the family and attend grandpa’s 70th birthday celebration! I think I ate enough cheese and drank enough wine for a month!

During our vacation, my brother KP, has been hard at work on our websites, changing over our logos and revising multiple pages.

The reason for the change, as you know, is that we have many men attending BNOW events. It’s been happening since the dawn of the organization. Some people have told me that they found it confusing. We keep our acronym BNOW. The name now stands for Bangkok Now.

Thank you all for continuing to be part of the group, recommending friends to join us and attending our events. We look forward to your continual support and am keen to see you guys again next week at our next event!

Our next event is "Your Pain is Speaking. Are you listening?" with Shalini Yamdagni, Advanced EFT Practitioner on Tuesday August 23rd at Olive Restaurant, 7pm to 9pm. It's a free event sponsored by Olive. See details in our newsletter below.

Our next BBC set for 8/Sept/11. It is perfect for business owners, freelancers, sales and marketing professionals. The BBC is different in that it is a one to group networking style, maximizing connections. Join us and tell your friends.

Want a discount? Register and prepay. Early bird offer expired 5th of September. Contact Nichada@bnow.org to register today!

Have an awesome week! Thanks & Best, Nui

Check out the special offers for BNOW members from Exotissimo Travel, Indian Host, The Pilatestudio, and NuSkin.. To take advantage of the offer, opt-in at the bottom of the special offer page by filling your contact info and the company will send you a voucher. For more details, click here.

Pacharee (Nui) Pantoomano-Pfirsch
E: pacharee@bnow.org
T: 02 662 5622
www.bnow.org
E: bnow@bnow.org

BNOW (Bangkok Network of Women) provides a supportive network to women living and working in Bangkok. We have a weekly e-newsletter which takes contribution from the members. Members also enjoy privileges and benefits from selected businesses. The group has 2 events per month, for upcoming schedule click here. Many of our events are open to non-members and males. The get together is to have everyone meet and interact, enabling them to put faces to names and to make new friends and business connections in Bangkok. For more information about our group, please visit www.bnow.org.

All services provided by BNOW are done in good faith. We cannot be held responsible for the quality of service or content provided by individuals or companies listings in the e-newsletter.

NOTE TO MEMBERS: Postings for the e-newsletter is taken from Mon-Wed, deadline Wed 5pm. If you would like to repeat your posting, please resubmit on a weekly basis. Submission is limited to 200 words and 1 graphic. If your announcement is longer, please include a link to your website so e-newsletter readers can click and continue to read. Tag your e-mail to get a send receipt. As a weekly e-Newsletter, we avoid standing advertisement and aim to keep the content fresh. Please alter your announcements accordingly. If you have questions or comments about how to post, please e-mail bnow@bnow.org. Thank you.

Your Pain is Speaking. Are you listening?
3 Simple Steps to Managing Pain Naturally & Instantly!

by Shalini Yamdagni, Advanced EFT Practitioner
23/Aug/11 at Olive Restaurant, 7pm to 9pm

No one enjoys experiencing pain whether it is physical or emotional, but we all experience pain once in a while. Whether it is chronic pain or a stiff neck, stomach ache or tension on the shoulders, headaches or sore back. Pain has been named the universal disorder!

Imagine what your life would be like if you had instant pain relief at your fingertips. Tapping, also known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), is a highly effective, quick-working technique. It is based on an ancient Chinese Acupuncture technique. It has been utilized for thousands of years to reduce and eliminate physical and emotional pains and discomforts. Unlike, acupuncture, EFT involves lightly tapping on key acupressure points with fingertips while you tune into the pain that bothers you.

Shalini will share with you, how, from being bed ridden with pain, she went to being pain free using EFT and creating the life she always desired!

In this talk, you will learn:
1. Why your pain is just a messenger
2. What emotion has to do with physical pain
3. Key questions to decode the message in the pain
4. A simple 1-minute technique to help manage pain instantly

Once you understand these key concepts, you will walk away with a powerful pain-relieving tool and never look at pain the same way again!

The meeting is open to the public and sponsored by Olive Restaurant, Sukhumvit Soi 33/1 (next to Villa supermarket and Subway, BTS: Phromphong). Olive will be providing complimentary appetizers and a welcome drink to attendees. E-mail us now to book your seat at bnow@bnow.org.

Bangkok Business Connections
The Best Networking Luncheon in Bangkok!
Thursday 8/September/11

Join us for the best networking luncheon in Bangkok on 8/September/11 at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand, www.fccthai.com, Maneeya Building, BTS Chidlom. The BBC is different because it is a proactive way to network with other businesses. Instead of the usual one to one networking style in a social setting or speed-networking, the format is one to group. BBC is appropriate for business owners, sales and marketing professionals. The meeting is 2 hours and conducted during lunch time and includes a meal. The meeting is open to the public.

The fee is 500 baht for BNOW members and 700 baht for non-members including lunch (3 choices). Early bird offer, book and prepay for your seat and get a 10% discount on event fee. Non-member special, book and prepay for two seats pay membership price. E-mail us now to find out how to take advantage of the offer, bnow@bnow.org.

Part-Time Maid Available Sukhumvit Area (Ekamai/Thonglor)

Our part-time maid, Khun On, is looking for another part-time job as a maid. She would like a house or apartment around the Sukhumvit area. She is available Mon, Wed and Sat in the afternoon. She's able to speak a little English, can cook, clean, iron and can help mind a toddler. If you or someone you know is looking for a maid, have them ring her at 089 058 3494. If you'd like to speak with me about her work, please call me 081 332 2524.

12 Best Excuses Ever

by Nury Vittachi

Late with an assignment? No problem. Try one of these lines.

ZAP! A mysterious lightning bolt struck many members of a North Korean sports team, leaving no visible marks but wiping out their skills. That’s how coach Kim Kwang Min explained his team’s failure in a women’s soccer tournament recently.

Mr Kim wins a place in our World’s Wackiest Excuses list.

He comes from a country famed for creative factoids.

Premier Kim Jong-Il picked up a golf club for the first time in 1994, his biography says. He shot a 38-under-par round including 11 holes-in-one. Then he gave up golf!

Why can’t I do things like that? The only time I tried golf, I couldn’t hit the ball, let alone send it in any particular direction.

Remember the football World Cup last year? North Korean coach Kim Jong Hun said he was getting tips from Kim Jong-Il through “an invisible cell phone” invented by the Dear Leader himself. (In 2004, the Dear Leader invented the burger.)

Click here for more.

Super Granny

An elderly lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her car. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at them at the top of her voice, "I have a gun and I know how to use it!

Get out of the car you dirty rotten scoundrels!"

The four men didn't wait for a second invitation but got out and ran like mad, whereupon the lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat.

She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried and then it dawned on her why. A few minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into her car and drove to the police station.

The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in two with laughter and pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale white males were reporting a car jacking by a mad elderly woman described as white, less than 5' tall, glasses, and curly white hair carrying a large handgun.

No charges were filed.
(True story!)

To commemorate her 70th birthday , actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattann bsp's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was 'My Favourite Things' from the legendary movie 'Sound Of Music'. Here are the lyrics she used: (Sing It!) - If you sin

g it, its especially hysterical!!!

Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting, Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings, Bundles of magazines tied up in string, These are a few of my favourite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses, Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings, These are a few of my favourite things.

When the pipes leak, When the bones creak, When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favourite things, And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions, No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions, Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring, These are a few of my favourite things...

Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin', Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin', And we won't mention our short shrunken frames, When we remember our favourite things.

When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted over four minutes and repeated encores. Please share Ms. Andrews' clever wit and humour with others who would appreciate it)

Hillary in Heaven

Hillary Clinton died and went to heaven. As she stood in front of Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates, she saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. She asked, "What are all those clocks?"

Saint Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock.
Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move.

"Oh," said Hillary, "whose clock is that?"

"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved indicating that she never told a lie."

"Whose clock is that?"

"That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have only moved twice telling us that Abe only told 2 lies in his entire life."

"Where's Bill's clock?" Hillary asked.

"Bill's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

Breast Cancer Support Group
Survivor Session

Bangkok Breast Cancer Support Group, a part of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital offers monthly group meetings for breast cancer survivors. The meetings provide the opportunity for all to share with others their own experiences in treatment and recovery in a kind, caring and confidential environment.

The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month from 10.00 AM. -12.00 PM at the Olive Restaurant, next to Villa Supermarket between Sukhumvit 33 & 35. Parking is available.

Please contact Koong for further information on 085 908 8002
or email at “bkkbreastcancer@gmail.com”.

Reservations are not required but it is helpful to know how many will be attending. Walk-ins are also very welcome.

We thank the Olive Restaurant who support our group for providing the space for this meeting. We look forward to welcome new members. We hope that this new time will accommodate everyone’s schedule.

OPT TO ADOPT TODAY

Amongst the splendour of Bangkok, the streets are filled with stray cats and dogs, which go largely unnoticed and ignored. Many of them live a hard and miserable life in this concrete jungle; many more die from disease, injuries or at the hands of people. We at SCAD are committed to ensuring that some of these homeless cats and dogs have a chance at a better life. The ones at SCAD are the lucky ones that have been saved from a life on the streets through our “catch and release” program.

Please choose to OPT TO ADOPT TODAY and give one of these cats or dogs a chance at finding their forever home.
For more information contact Lindsay at SCAD today
Email: adoptions@scadbangkok.org Phone: 084 535 1452

CALLING POTENTIAL FOSTER CARERS!
Can you open your hearts and homes to a puppy or kitten that needs a temporary place to live? At the moment we urgently need foster carers for young cats and dogs! We need people who are willing to provide temporary homes for a number of puppies and kittens until they are ready to come into our adoption program. If this sounds like you, and you are able to take care of a kitten or puppy for a few weeks or months, please email adoptions@scadbangkok.org for more details. Woof!

Interested to do your own home business? Please join our spa demonstration and we'll share with you a business opportunity you wouldn't want to miss. We meet every Wed 10-12 pm. Fees: 150 Bht for spa serum. Please call Khun Earng 081-912-2755 or e-mail lomakid@yahoo.com to RSVP.