1

Catch up!October

16

Dear Members,

The rains are back in Bangalore but that has not dampened the sprits of our members as footfalls at the Club continue to grow in the month of September. Member participation in events for Seniors, Ladies, Children, iBrowse, iKids and Sports has also increased, showing that there is always demand for good programmes. The trendsetter for the month was the Blue & White Ball which drew a crowd of almost 2000 followed by the Ladies Co�ee Morning, Onam Sadhya and Elders Picnic which were all sell-outs. The Ladies 5 Km Run for Women’s Health was another well attended event which saw more than 100 women take part, proceeds of this event went to the CCOT towards the health of the girl child. Even as I write this, the iBrowse event for the month of October which is a song & dance theatre event based on Shoba Narayan’s ‘Cows of Bangalore’, a ticketed event which includes dinner, is already sold out. This kind of member response is what encourages the Managing Committee to come out with more and more interesting events. The participation of the members has also encouraged MIC’s to go that extra mile to enhance member experience and make events bigger and better, this in turn has created interest among sponsors to come forward to support some of these events. Thanks to the MIC’s for their e�orts and to the sponsors for their support.

Catholic Club Orphans’ Trust held a healthcamp for more than 100 girls at the St. Joseph’s Girls Home. This was the �rst time CCOT was holding a medical camp at this Orphanage. The overall health of the children aged 5yrs. to15yrs was checked and various health parameters recorded for evaluation.

President’s Report

2

The camp itself was wonderfully organised and smoothly conducted by CCOT Chairperson Gilroy D’Silva and his team of doctors and volunteers. Here too member participation was the highlight as for the �rst time ever all the doctors who conducted the camp were Club members. Thank you doctors for your support, we need many more like you. Thanks to all the volunteers who attended the medical camp and for helping out

This year’s ‘Festival of Lights’ is going to be totally di�erent to what we have been used to for the past few years. The theme is ‘PARTY 4 A CAUSE’ as we join hands to �ght the menace of cancer by bringing more awareness about this dreaded disease. The Event will see some of the city’s biggest fashion designers showcase their styles in a choreographed Fashion Show ‘CATWALK 4 THE CURE’ with celebrity models walking the ramp. This will be followed by DJ Hussain spinning some foot-tapping Bollywood music to get the party rolling. We hope that this event will get the deserved response from all members and also achieve the objective of bringing awareness and help in the early detection of Cancer.

Let me once again remind you all that the newsletter is sent only to those who have signed up for the hard copy; for all others it is posted on the Club website and the CC App. For those of you who have not downloaded the CC App please do so as it keeps you posted of all the happenings and gives you details of all the Club programmes.

With lots of holidays and long weekends coming up in October, we look forward to seeing more of you at the Club.

Raphael JohnsonPresident

Catch up!

3

A 26 Rocked the Blue and White Ball on the 1st of September, even though we had a huge crowd we managed the whole party well.

MembersDependent Sr Dependent

ParentGuestGuest Child 5 & AboveTableAbove rates are inclusive of tax.

300

300

499

499

499

150

150 150

300150 300

100010002000

Catergory Advance Gate

designers who will be showcasing their designs and dressing up celebrity models who will walk the ramp, this will be followed by DJ Hussain with Bollywood Beats. October being Cancer awareness month we wanted to show our solidarity for the cause and our Diwali theme this year is PARTY 4 A CAUSE. Book your tickets for your family and friends and come and show your solidarity for the cause and let’s boogie the night away with DJ Hussain.Tickets sale will commence from 8th October.

October the season of holidays and parties kicks o� and we have a good line up of events starting with the Fernandes Trio on the 6th of October followed by Llewlyn Carr on 13th October and Shyam & Steve on the 20th of October.This Diwali we at Catholic Club are going to party for A cause “CATWALK 4 THE CURE” on Saturday 27th of October 8PM onwards. We have Bangalores leading

Kindly look up the CC app for all the programmes and you could also book your tickets online.

Naveen MendonzaMIC

The Catholic Club Bar now has all the leading brands of Scotches, Single Malts, Vodkas, Gins and wines with amazing prices. Kindly ask the Barman / Sta� for new brands. You can also buy full bottles at the Club at amazing prices.

Naveen MendonzaMIC

Bar

Entertainment

All those who attended this year’s Onam Sadhya on 16th September did surely enjoyed the delicious lunch and left with their belly’s full.

4

CC presents

Celebrate with Bangalore’s leading designers, celebrity models walking the rampand DJ Hussain’s Bollywood beats

Saturday Oct 27th

Party for a cause this Diwali

MemberDependent Sr Dependent Parent GuestGuest Child 5 & AboveTable

49930030049920001000150

300150150 300 1000499 150

Category Advance Gate

Ticket prices are inclusive of tax. Club rules apply.

Ticket sales commence from October 8th

Fashion show forCancer awareness

5

Contributed by - Elaine D'souza"Memory- is a diary that we all carry about with us”- Oscar Wilde.A personal Diary is for you and by you. It is where you keep personal musings about your life.  And this is exactly what we taught our very impressionable young ikidz.  The Art of writing a personal Diary and making a Scrapbook was held on the 9th of Septem-ber 2018.

The kids were given pretty little bound books of handmade paper, to use as their diary and the smaller kids as a scrapbook.  The kids got creative, when asked to deco-rate their cover page. Embellishments and stickers were strategically placed and a works of art were created.  The most import-ant thing of all, the kids were made to write their �rst memory in their diary.  Some wrote, some used pictures and some did both, and the �rst entry was done and dusted.  A promise was made, that they would write in their journal once a week if not daily.  

As usual we had snacks and amazing cup-cakes by Reshma D’souza.  And most of us snagged an extra cupcake including me, a few of them hid their stash! We ended on a musical note, singing “These are a few of my Favourite things!”

Librarypicture.  There is something for everyone, so do not forget to put on your thinking caps and come for the next event – WORDS AND NUMBERS CHALLENGE! On 21st October 2018. At 4 pm

Tickets for the event are priced at Rs 275 for Passport Holders and Rs 300 for the ones without. Do you not think it’s a reason you get your iKidz Young Readers Passport today? You can register with Prem in the library and online through the CC app as well.

iKidz Young Readers

And for the next month, we plan to put you all under the spell of words and numbers.  Crosswords, pictorial ones for the early readers and words to identify for the little ones as well. Sudoku – play with numbers, follow the number path and complete the

Books and more

In September we purchased 20 new books in an assorted genre, we have reserved to buy the latest of your favourite books Wilbur Smith - Courtney's war, Lee Child - Past Tense, Je�rey Archer - Heads you win, Fred-erick Forsyth- The Fox, John Grisham - The Reckoning, James Patterson - The 17th Sus-pect & Ambush , Clive Cussler - Shadow Tyrants, so watch out for these and a few more, as we should receive them when they are launched in October and November. We had some great books donated by our mem-bers Ristellis - 5 �ction and 49 reference books, Pragya - 15 books and 3 games, Christine - 31 books and an unknown bene-factor - 70 books thank you for your generos-ity and sharing your passion for reading with our members.

The Media Centre in the library is buzzing with activity every evening, with many regular members and guests from the cham-bers, reading magazines and newspapers checking their mails and completing their printing requirements. This might almost seem like their o�ce away from the o�ce.

We have introduced a limited quantity of water proof Tote bags for you to carry your books to and from the library, these are available with Prem the librarian for rupees one hundred each.

Jude Lobo MIC

6

7

iBrowse sponsor healthy snacks for the evening. Their millet dosas, idlis, chutneys & podis were consumed with relish. The evening ended with Dominic autographing his books for our book loverswith his special 'bicycle' autograph and all our iBrowsers catching up with each other over healthy millet goodies!

iBrowse book for November - 'The Boy Who Loved Trains ' by Deepak Sapra"At any point of time, a number equivalent to the population of Australia is travelling on Indian trains"Deepak Sapra's fascination for trains began as a little boy of 5, when he wanted to be an engine driver. At 10, he knew the whole of the Indian Railways time table, every train, every station, every arrival departure time. When life o�ered him a chance to run trains in India, it opened up a new world to him. This book, largely autobiographical, tells the story of a young o�cer - Jeet Arora - posted in India’s Eastern Railway & responsible for running trains on one of the densest train routes in the country. In doing so, he encounters pretty girls and thugs, shares space with bu�aloes and goats and �nds himself in the midst of oil spills and �res and stumbles across several unexpected adventures.iBrowse event 17th November, Saturday.  5pm, CC Ballroom. 

Coming up IBrowse event: Ballroom October 5th. At 6 pm - "Cows of Bangalore," Dinner Theatre special.We are thrilled that we've SOLD OUT tickets for our upcoming dinner theatre! event. A dance & musical presentation of Shoba Narayan's book, 'Cows of Bangalore' , it promises to be a lovely, classy and entertaining evening, that we are all looking forward to sharing with you! 

Jude Lobo - MIC 

Contributed by Aiona Misquita GoesSeptember event: 'Nautanki Diaries' by Dominic FranksAll roads led to the CC Ballroom on the 7th of September as we waited to hear the story about all the roads leading to Delhi! The video of the single 'Endless Road' by Aussie band, The Panics, which contained footage from the bicycle journey played on the screen to set the stage & mood for the evening. Dominic Franks, alumni of St Josephs & Bangalore Medical College and currently a �lmmaker & freelance sportswriter, in conversation with Ryan Lobo shared insightful and interesting details about his epic 2220 km bicycle ride from Bangalore to Delhi. Showing us various video clippings from the documentary made on his ride, we were treated to a �rst-hand glimpse of his journey and experienced his delight and also sometimes his frustration as he encountered the people along the length land breadth of our diverse country. Mr. Shivaprakash, fondly called Shikari, who was Dominic's inspiration for this feat, having blazed the trail that Dominic followed, was also present as our Chief GuestHaving Dominic's bicycle, Nautanki, be the centre of attention in the Catholic Club foyer in the days before the event,generated a palpable buzz and drew a crowd into the Ballroom on DDay!We were thrilled to have 'Millet Amma' 

8

iBrowse has a WhatsApp group which shares teasers, spoilers and promotes a discussion on the book of the month. If you'd like to be added, call or message Christine Rastogi on

9886610460.

Based on the book, “The Cows of Bangalore”by Shoba Narayan

A MUSIC AND DANCE PERFORMANCE

Dinner at Rs.350 formembers Rs. 500 for guests

Stanley Pinto, Impresario

Natrya Stem Dance Kampi, DancersShreya Narayanan, Sutradhar

Smt. Raji Murthy, Singer

Venue: Catholic ClubFriday, October 5th at 6 PM

Catholic Club iBrowse Browse Book ClubPresents

members. Rs.499 for guests

9

Soul Sisters, here’s your chance to emulate the actress of your choice. There will be lots of drama and dance, let’s make movies come alive and put some lovely memories in the archive.Audrey Hepburn or Dream Girl Hema Malini, Pretty Woman Julia Roberts or Desi Kudi Quanti-co star Priyanka Chopra, choice is yours. Take on any avatar. Let’s walk the ramp and take the titles back home.

This Diwali be the "BOMB /PATAKA" you are, make some noise let the world know you play many roles. You deserve to sparkle bright in your own right.

We are thankful to our part sponsor, our very own Soul Sister Marie Padival for sponsoring our October event.

Ticket rates (all inclusive):Advance: Member Rs 200/- Guest Rs 300/-Gate: Member Rs 300/- Guest Rs 400/- Ticket sale will commence on Monday, 8th October 2018

Samantha PashaMIC

Soul SistersItsy bitsy teeny weeny ...... colourful dots so many ... that's what the ladies were "spotted" in today. 

Keeping up with the "polka dot" theme, all the 50 odd regulars came donned with dots in various sizes and colours. The day began with a very informative and interesting presentation by team Trafalgar, a 72-year-old global travel and tour company. Mr Sanjay Temkar, Director of Sales, specially �ew in from Singapore to be with us and share his expertise. A few catch phrases from them. “stop dreaming and start living" "invest your time and money and see it appreci-ate". Isn't that an incentive to travel with Comfort Leisure? 

Andrea our Soul Sister highly recommended them by sharing her superlative travel experi-ence with Trafalgar. 

Our very own Rani was the queen of the day. Her work at CC was appreciated and rewarded. 

The 3 games brought out the competitive best amongst the ladies. The icing on the cake was the sumptuous snacks laid out amongst the colourful polka dots. And the chocolate pop...yum.

Everyone was fascinated with the bright and vibrant coloured polka dot photo prop and hanging decor. DJ Shenella added to the festive ambience. It was polka dots all the way includ-ing the gifts and carry bags, not to forget the balloons. 

Sabrina Price, a single mom and singer shared her solo travel experience with us. Encouraging the ladies to do the same and not be tied down by inhibitions.

Don't miss the Soul Sisters mornings ladies, we have lots more in store. The world's a stage...so bring out the actress in you. Next month it is "Hollywood Bollywood". See you on Sunday, 21st October at the Hollywood Bollywood theme party! 

10

Kids, don’t miss this one for anything in the world! We are going to bring you up close and personal with farm animals in our special petting zoo brought all the way from the Ossie Martin Farms. Ossie is bringing these little ones only to meet all of you, so that you can get to become friends for life.

Next, we have a team of gymnasts of the same age as you, coming to perform a couple of routines for you.

We also have one of Bangalore’s best Juggling team "Chaos" tell you a lovely story thru juggling.

Need I tell you that there’s lots more you can do with a hoop! Well I’m going to leave that to Vrishti’s hoop dance.

Meesh will also be there to paint some Master strokes for you all.Last but not the least our very own JQjr  (keep guessing) will show o� his talent with his poi. To add to this, we have clowns and whole lot of Carnival games for you.

We’d like to thank our main sponsor for the event - Puravankara Limited, one of India’s leading listed real estate company headquar-tered in Bengaluru and our part sponsors Mr Sebastian Anthony, Henry Prabhu Nathan of Karcher from Germany and Anthony Peter, our very own club members, for coming forward to sponsor our kids’ event. 

Ticket rates (all inclusive):Advance: Member Rs 300/- Guest Rs 400/-Gate       : Member Rs 400/- Guest Rs 500/- Ticket sale will commence from Monday, 8th October 2018

So see you all our Spunky Superbrats at 4pm on Sunday, 28th October in your T's and Denims for a fun �lled evening with an array of special highlights lined up, just for you. 

Samantha PashaMIC

80 Sassy Seniors set out in 2 busses on the road to EDEN for a picnic. They braved the long journey with games, snacks, songs and jokes with laughter �lling the bus.

Adams were there and so were the Eves, but the only forbidden fruit was in the Sangria. An array of dishes was served for lunch and exciting games were organized with prizes galore. Music and laughter all around and wonderful camara-derie. Nothing like bonding in the outdoors.

Each of them was handed a mug of memories and the journey back for one bus was unplugged live entertainment by our very own Philip. The other bus decided that it was going to be a journey of sweet slumber while the rain lashed the windows.

All this brought to us by our Sponsor Mantri Primus and our part sponsors Perry Goes and Mallik Arun. A big shout out to all of them for coming together for our Catholic Club commu-nity.

Last but not the least, like the Pied Piper of Hamlin our team from CC were there to make sure we were all taken care of. Santhosh and our boys, you get a big round of applause from the Sub Committee.

11

Children Sassy Seniors

Samantha PashaMIC

12

The Catholic Club ‘A’ team consisting of Anand Paul, Michael Rebello, Sundeep Nayak and Wilson Fernandes defeated the Catholic Club ‘B’ team consisting of Eugin Victor, Karl Alphonso, Kishan Thomas and Tushar Fernandes in the �nals of the recently conducted Indian Gymkhana Inter-Club Snooker Tournament. Congratulations to both teams.The 28th Louis Mathias Memorial Doubles Handicap Snooker Tournament will be held at our club commencing on 7th October and concluding with the �nals on 18th October. Interested members may register their names before the 4th with the billiard room markers.

BilliardsSporticoIn the month of September, we had invited ECA Badminton team to play against CC team. CC team won 6-4. It was a good experience for both the teams to play a friendly tie-up.The First CC cricket 5 a side league scheduled on 28th of Sep. Has been postphoned to November due to inclement weather.

Coaching classes for October:-Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy: Mon – Wed – Fri: 4-5 pm and 5-6 pm and Sat – Sun: 10-11 am and 11-12 noon-Squash Coaching: Mon – Wed – Fri: 4-5 pm and 5-6 pm, Tues – Thurs – Sat: 4-5 pm and 5-6 pm & Sat – Sun: 10 – 11 am.Please register for these classes at Club reception.

13

Kenuite MartisMIC

Tushar Fernandes MIC

14

Robert Nelson PhilipMIC

CCOT has a number of activities for the children of various Homes and one such Annual activity is the medical camp conducted at the Homes or at our Club. This year the �rst of its medical camp was held at St. Josephs RTC Girls Home, on Sunday 23.09.2018 from 10 AM till noon, for the 100 girls. The medical team lead by Dr.Bobby Joseph and Dr. Pretesh Kumar and with other six doctors, all Club members – Dr Anthony Robert and Mary Ann (Nurse), Dr Maya Mascarenhas, Dr Trisha Da Silva, Dr Carl Britto, Dr Di�na Dcouto and Dr Praveen Rodrigues. Besides we also had two post graduate, students from St.John’s Community Health Centre. Kudos to all the Doctors may their tribe multiply…… Thank you and God Bless you doctors all and your families. Our e�ervescent committee member Mrs Samantha Pasha with her team of club members also witnessed and volunteered in the medical camp. Thank you, Samantha.The Camp commenced with the CCOT committee members and the volunteers recording the weight, height and checking their eyesight in the notebook carried by each child, after which they were ushered to a medical examination by one of the doctors. Thereafter a summary of their diagnosis was recorded of each one for any further treatment and record. Further we assist the Home in availing treatment and medication for Dental, Ophthalmic, ENT etc., treatment. Each notebook is a permanent record for the child and the Home with their medical history. The camp ended with a Lunch of Biryani for the children by CCOT. Sr Theresa the Caretaker and other nuns of the convent were thankful and grateful

to the Club for this gesture.The Leadership training programme conducted by Talent Ease for the ten Homes is in progress with three of them completing their programme, and will be now going into Level Two as and when each Home completes Level One.Further camps at other Homes will be held kindly help us with your participation look out for SMS alerts.

15

Gilroy D SilvaChairperson - CCOT

FaithOn Friday 31st August 2018 we had a Recollection by Fr Adolf Washington - Asst. Priest, Tabor Trust, on the topic ‘God in the Wilderness - An encounter with God’. Fr Adolf based his talk on the Book of Haggai from the Old Testament. The Book of Haggai is a short book consisting of only two chapters.Fr Adolf started his recollection by asking everyone present to describe in one

16

PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTHDate Day Programme Timing

5-Oct-18 6:00 pm

8:30 pm

8:30 pm

8:30 pm

11:00 am4:00 pm

5:00 pm

8:00 pm

10:30 am4:00 pm

6-Oct-18

13-Oct-18

20-Oct-18

21-Oct-18

26-Oct-18

27-Oct-18

28-Oct-18

Friday

Friday

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

Sunday

Sunday

iBrowse book "Cows of Bangalore," dinner theatre special. By author Shobha Narayan

Musical Evening with Fernandes Trio

Musical evening with LLEWLYN CARR

Musical evening with Shyam & Steve

Soul SistersiKidz Young Readers

Tin & Bottle Badminton Tournament

Diwali - Catwalk 4 the cure

5-A-Side Football TournamentSpunky Superbrats (Kids Carnival)

Whist Drive

Duplicate Bridge

Scrabble Club

Rummy Knockout Tournament

Sunday Housie

All Mondays

All Tuesdays

All Wednesdays

All Sundays

All Sundays

6:00 pm

6:00 pm

4:00 pm

3:15 pm

7:15 pm

ObituariesMrs. Yvonne Cunnigham - 06.07.2018

(Mem No. 178)

Mr. Louis Braganza - 16.08.2018(Mem No. 101)

Mrs. Evelynn Monteiro - 31.05.18(Mem No. 1959)

Mr. Walter Mendonza - 23.09.2018(Mem No. 694).

sentence starting with the words ‘I believe….’. He then went on by describing the importance of the Book of Haggai who told the Jews who had just returned from exile that nothing was more important than to believe in the Lord and show that the Lord was at the center of their thoughts and actions.Haggai asked the Jews not to focus on the external threats they faced from their enemies but remain focused on the internal opposition they faced, namely from their own sin. Fr Adolf ended by asking each of us to ask the question whether we were building a life that re�ects our status as a temple of the Holy Spirit, leaving a legacy that will stand the test of time.

Lukose AbhrahamVice President

CATHOLIC CLUB 22, Museum Road, Bangalore - 560 025. Tel: 080-49023333, Email: info@catholiclub.com www. catholiclub.comEdited by: Raphael Johnson

Published by: Catholic Club, 22, Museum Road, Bangalore - 25, Printed at: National Printing Press, Bangalore - 95