Pattaya Music Contest kicks off Feb. 13

Organizers and some contestants announce
the upcoming Pattaya Music Contest 2011.

Pratchaya Kerdthong

Pattaya will spend 250,000 baht to encourage its youth to pursue music instead of drugs.

The Pattaya Music Contest 2011 kicks off Feb. 13 at Tesco-Lotus in North Pattaya with the final round winners to be chosen Feb. 27 at the same location. The winner will receive 10,000 baht with thousands more in other prizes up for grabs.

The contest is open to children no old than 18 years.

Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn said at a Feb. 3 press conference that the contest is part of the city’s efforts to provide activities to keep kids away from drugs. He said encouraging youngsters to take up music also can make them better citizens when they mature.

For more information, contact the Pattaya Social Welfare Department at Pattaya City Hall, tel. 038 253 257-8 or call Thanawat Panthong, community development officer, tel. 087 057 8016.

PCEC members learn about Vibration and Energy Healing

PCEC board member and communications master, Darrel Vaught gives an update on progress with the PCEC web site and search.

Master of Ceremonies Richard Silverberg welcomed everyone to the regular Sunday meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club on January 30, 2011 at Amari Resort’s Tavern by the Sea. After the usual opening announcements, he called on Bruce Gordon to introduce the guest speaker. Bruce, who previously spoke to the Club on the Laws of Attraction, then introduced Karen Jones, whose topic was Vibration and Energy Healing - The Art of Minding Your Health and Happiness.

Karen Jones, a former International School Principal who has worked in education for over 25 years in the UK, Africa, Middle East and South Asia, has become involved in meditation and has now branched out into vibration and energy healing.

Karen is a former International School Principal and has worked in education for over 25 years in the UK, Africa, Middle East and South Asia. She has become involved in meditation and has now branched out into vibration and energy healing.

Karen started by asking the audience to think about certain questions. One being does your life happen by chance? Another being, do you choose to be sick? A third being is your health something you can do something about? Karen said that you should believe in yourself and be all that you are. You need to know that you have something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. She said she lives in today and loves who she is.

Karen became very involved in vibration healing several years ago. She had been diagnosed with a cancerous breast tumor. She said she was apprehensive about the pending surgery and about 4 days before it was scheduled, with the aid of some friends, she began to concentrate on the illness willing it to be gone. On the day of the scheduled surgery, the doctor was baffled and amazed because the radiography showed the tumor had disappeared. Karen said she was thankful and felt she had been given a great gift.

‘Sig’, aka Harry Sigworth, aka Dr Quack, keeps us all abreast of the latest medical knowledge.

She said that she wanted to introduce everyone to the acronym THWAK for Thanks, Honesty, Worry, Anger, and Kindness. One should be thankful for the things in life and be honest with oneself and others. They should let go of worry and anger and be kind, not only to others, but to themselves. Doing this will bring more well being and good feelings into your life and obstruct those thoughts and feelings that are harmful to the body.

She said that THWAK comes from the five Reiki precepts, which are: (1) we should wake up and think about the good things in our life and be thankful for them; (2) in being honest, we bring happiness into our lives; (3) we need to let go of worry as negative emotion is a pouring out of precious energy for something not happening at the moment; (4) we should do away with anger as it is another negative emotion that is the root cause of most diseases in our body; and (5) we should be kind to ourselves as well as others; do something you enjoy at least once a week.

Karen then explained some of the aspects of Reiki for healing. The body and mind must work in harmony because the body is just a reflection of our minds. To heal the body, one needs to heal the brain. People can choose how they feel and think. Let go of worry, fear, guilt, anger, and self criticism. You should free your mind of all negative thought patterns.

Karen then asked the audience to participate in a little word association game. She found that most of the Club’s audience was thinking positive based on their responses.

Karen then showed a picture of herself that she said was taken with a special camera so that it showed the aura surrounding her. The picture was from an earlier time and she described how the colors reflected her vibrations with many not being good. She presented a later picture that showed a much better aura surrounding her, which happened because she was following the Reiki precepts.

She then concluded her presentation by describing the 7 chakra energy points in the body that give off vibrations. Further that these vibrations are magnetic energy fields that surround the body. She said that these chakras can become blocked and illness arises. She then described each and how they affect the body.

After Karen answered many questions from the audience, Richard Silverberg updated everyone on upcoming events and called on “Hawaii” Bob Sutterfield to conduct the always informative and sometimes humorous Open Forum, where questions about living in Thailand and Pattaya in particular are asked and answered.

School No. 1 given clean drinking water

Pattaya Sports Club Charity Update

The adults were just as happy to see the children get clean water. (l-r) Prasert Pimonsakul Director of Pattaya School No. 1, William Macey Charity Chairman of the PSC, Nittaya Patimasongkroh, Chairwoman, YWCA Bangkok Pattaya Centre, Jintana Maensurin, Pattaya City Director of the Centre for Religious and Cultural studies, Philip Wall Morris, Community Service Director, Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya, Suree Boonraksa, Deputy Director, Pattaya School No. 1 and Richard Haughton, President of the Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya.

Pattaya Sports Club and the Bunker Bar came together recently to provide clean drinking water to School No. 1 in Pattaya.

Nittaya Patimasongkroh of the YWCA passed the original enquiry to the PSC and, using the excellent water filtration system of the Rotary Club of Jomtien Pattaya, the children now have drinking water whenever it is needed. We sometimes forget how important water is to good health and Pattaya Sports Club is always happy to help whenever we can in achieving this.

The handover was made on Tuesday, February 1st and, in addition to representatives from the above, Dr. Thawatchai Rattanyu, director of Education of Pattaya City and her deputy, Mrs Jintana Maensurin were present.

The Bunker Bar has now, for the past 5 years, held a charity golf event in November to raise funds to help the underprivileged and handicapped children of Pattaya. Well done Mick Ramshaw.

There is no greater reward for helping children less fortunate than ourselves than to see the smile on the children’s faces as only Thai children can smile.

The children say thanks.

The filter system is ready to use.

Children drink from the stainless steel trough where the water is obtained.