The
idea of making my own business card started when we took a Japanese
language class conducted by Guest Relation Manager (GRM) Sunny Matsui.
Everybody was given a black and white xerox copy of our business card
mostly written in Japanese and written downwards. The biggest character
in the middle is my name Ro baa-to Haa-nan-de-zu. Instead of ber, its
longer pronunciation of baa-- and Her as Haa--.
The Katakana
character at the right side is Parao Roiyaru Rezooto (Palau Royal
Resort) and the 2nd from right characters are Resutoran (restaurant)
(Uwei--vusu) Waves Pianisuto (Pianist). At the left are the Fax number
and Tel. numbers.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
The
notion to put the Breeze Bar logo earlier didn't materialize as it
consumes a lot of space. It's better to put the Palau Royal Resort Nikko
Hotels International instead.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Putting
"Waves" at the bottom right part is also not a good idea as the
Japanese characters mentioned already the Waves (Restaurant) and
Pianist. The photo is from the Awarding Ceremony of 2003 Senior and
Junior Open Chess Tournament in Dec. 14, 2003.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Roberto
added a black and white xerox photo from his work permit ID at the top
left of the card. The black and white logo of Palau Royal Resort Nikko
Hotels International.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Seven
years ago, I have given this card to a Japanese boy. The front side of
this card is the horizontal one (above), and black and white xerox copy.
The photo is also black and white taken from my work permit. The boy is
amazed with it even it's black and white. His grandpa noticed that he
sits on a lucky wooden chair and listening seriously while looking at
the card many times.
When I played "Subaru", him and his grandpa
sung with me. The grandma likes the scenario, took a photo and gave me
$10.00 tip. The boy looked at the card more than a dozen times.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
This
is also the same card that I have given to Paul 'Bear' Kenny of the
Royal Australian Navy when I'm applying for Australian Visa in April
2009 to participate in the 2009 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship. The
other side of the card is the card below and black and white likewise.
Paul instructed me to apply/send my documents through DHL to Pohnpei as
there is no Australian Embassy in Palau. I paid $75.00 to DHL and
another $75.00 (money order) for visa.
Roberto
used a sharp scissor, and cut the Japanese Katakana characters
meticulously to arrange those in vertical formation. The Palau Royal
Resort's telephone number is still horizontal. A black and white photo
from Chess Mate logo of 2004 was added at the left side.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
This time, the tel. number, Reservation Hot Line and P. O Box 10108 was added at the right side.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Colored photo this time.
Before
going to Australia for the 2009 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship, my
ordered business cards from Taiwan is on the way (shipping). Pamela, the
Purchasing Department Supervisor, just printed the layout of my
business card on a blue papers and cut it like the size of regular
business card. The back side is black and white with Japanese
characters. I have given those cards to Gary Bekker, IA and Chief
Arbiter of OZCC Charles Zworestine, Graeme Gardiner, Joselito Marcos,
Fernando Aguilar, Jamie Kenmure, Ignatius Leong, Raymond Lapitan, Ric
Ambatali, Arianne Caoili, Brian Jones, Hilton Bennett, Paul Spiller and
many
more.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
The
business cards arrived after my trip to Australia but the email address
had a dot instead of underscore. The email address then is
robert_flor311@yahoo.com but it was hacked a few weeks later from
Australian trip. I changed it to robert_flor31154@yahoo.com and informed
all my friends about it. The hacker/s already sent a lot of
solicitation letters even to my daughter Karen.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Aside
from dot error, there is another error by the printer staff --adding
.tw (taiwan) after com. There's no .tw in the draft order. They assumed
that it will be used in Taiwan. Instead of writing an underscore on the
dot symbol, I printed many robert_flor31154@yahoo.com and pasted it at
the wrong printout.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
The
beginning of long and detailed information for chess and music. The
Japanese Katakana characters were put at the bottom but the same size.
Two email addresses were added as well as the Chairman of Knights &
Rooks Chess Club (Palau), Secretary/Treasurer, Palau Chess Federation,
Chess Columnist, Tia Belau Newspaper and President, Pentecostal
Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch) Palau Locale. I used this back
side of authentic business card in representing Palau to the 2010 World
Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. There's no more time to put
my Russian name to the card on this side because we are in Manila
already when we get our Russian visa and we are to fly to Dubai the next
day.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
THIS IS WHERE I GET MY RUSSIAN NAME -- FROM MY RUSSIAN VISA!
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
After
coming back from Russia, I xerox my Russian name from the Russian visa
and added it at the top of my name. There's no logo yet at the left or
right side.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Added
the Palau Royal Resort logo with Katakana Japanese characters. Removed
the Palau Royal Resort Katakana characters at the bottom.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
This time, better but smaller colored photo. Without the Katakana characters and PRR Logo.
Now with colored logo of both Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ in the 4th Watch (Palau Locale)
and
Palau Royal Resort. The Russian name is now under the American name and
the Japanese characters "Roba--to Ha--nandezu Resutoran (Uwei-vusu)
Pianisto becomes smaller to accommodate the 2 logos. The dark blue
background on the photo was changed to sky blue.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Here,
the cell phone number 778-5392 was added in ordering 3 boxes of
business cards from Taiwan. I printed smaller photos for the front
pictures (original front of business card which is very strong and can't
be torn with less force).
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
The
cell phone number in Philippines is included 09473835098 but the
Japanese characters have covered some parts of the 4th Watch (Palau
Locale) 2008-2010 because of lack of space. There are only about 40
pieces of this that circulate only in
Philippines.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
A lot has been added here: 1. Logo and address of Palau Chess Federation
Member of FIDE 2005
P. O. Box 1662
Koror, Republic of Palau
96940
2. Chess was added in the Private Tutor, Piano, Keyboard, Guitar
3. PCF website http://palau-chess.blogspot.com was added
4. Music was added also at Chess and Music Columnist because Roberto
writes about music also on Thursday starting in March 2012.
5. The white background of the photo becomes dark blue.
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CAN YOU FIND THE 13 PALAU WORDS IN THIS CARD?
Roberto
A. Hernandez is giving $1.00 each to the first 5 persons that can
identify the 13 times that the word Palau is mentioned in his business
card. You can use a magnifying glass to look for the smallest "Palau"
word. Please send you answers to robert_flor31154@yahoo.com palau.chess@gmail.com or text to 778-5392. GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY 'PALAU' HUNTING!
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
PALAU IN MENTIONED 13X IN
HERNANDEZ' CARD
Maybe it’s the only one of its
kind in this world. Where can you find a
business card where the country where the owner is living is mentioned 13
times? ONLY IN PALAU!
Roberto A.
Hernandez is provided with free 3 boxes of business cards in his every request
at Palau Royal Resort. It’s only one-sided but Hernandez’ innovative idea, that
started in 2008 during his Japanese language class, where the teacher, Ms.
Sanny Matsui has given each student a
card bearing their names written in Japanese Katakana alphabet.
It is written
downward as: ROBERTO HERNANDEZ
Restaurant (Waves) Pianist
Palau Royal Resort
Tel. 680-488-2000 Fax: 680-488-6688
This is where
the artistic creativity of Hernandez has started. He pasted on the right bottom
vacant space the logo of Palau Royal Resort and his I.D. picture on the upper
left part of the initial ‘business card’.
Not satisfied
with it, he added another black and white on the back part of card (vertical
this time) additional entries such as:
Logo palau royal resort
nikko hotels international
ROBERT HERNANDEZ
Musician,
Palau Royal Resort
Chairman,
Knights and Rooks Chess Club (Palau)
Secretary/Treasurer,
Palau Chess Federation
Chess Columnist,
Tia Belau Newspaper
Hernandez has
given it once to a Taiwanese lady, where she said, “I can’t read Japanese. How
will I know what are written here?” He showed her the back part and she said,
“Oh, nice!”
The 2nd
evolution of Hernandez’ card needs more patience. He used a sharp scissor to
cut one by one every Japanese letter and arranged it vertically and added a
black and white picture (photo copy) from an old Tia Belau Chess Mate column’s
picture in 2004.
The middle is
colored logo of PRR and some more information written horizontally on the right
side as: Tel. +680-488-2000 Fax: +680-488-6688
Reservation Hot Line +680-488-8877
P. O. Box 1018 Koror, Palau 96940
That is the card
that was given to Paul (Bear) Kenny of the Royal Australian Navy when he’s
applying for Australian visa in 2009. And before going to Australia to
represent Palau in the 2009 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship, Hernandez ordered
a real business card of his own from then General Manager Isao Takahashi but it
didn’t arrive in time for OZCC so Pamela Albania photocopied about 20 pages of
this card in blue ordinary paper and now it’s arrange as this: Logo
palau royal resort nikko hotels
international
Roberto A. Hernandez, Musician Tel. +680-488-2000 Fax: +680-488-6688
Reservation Hot Line: +680-488-8877 P. O. BOX 10108 Koror, Palau 96940
At the back of
the blue card, Hernandez pasted the 2nd evolution card (in English).
Those are the cards that he’d given away to new friends and chess players he
met in Australia together with the brochures of PRR.
The 3rd
evolution has started with the arrival of 200 cards. At the back of it,
Hernandez combined the Japanese and English version with colored photo at the
left upper part and the PRR logo at the right bottom part.
He made many copies of it and
pasted those on top of the old email address.
After
coming back from Russia to represent Palau in the 2010 World Chess Olympiad,
more additions occurs such as Russian name of Roberto, logo of PRR in Japanese,
logo of Palau Chess Federation and logo of Pentecostal Missionary Church of
Christ 4th Watch on the top part of the card.
Also
added after Musician are Private Tutor, Piano, Keyboard, Guitar, Chess and
President, Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ 4th Watch (Palau
Locale) 2008-2010.
The
Japanese characters were reduced in size to accommodate additional information
and finally, the website of PCF http://palau-chess.blogspot.com and email palau.chess@gmail.com were put under
the Secretary/Treasurer, Palau Chess Federation part. Plus, the Chess and Music
Columnist, Tia Belau Newspaper was added as Hernandez started writing about
music since March 15, 2012.
So Palau is mentioned 10 times at
the back part of the card and 3 times at the front and it has now 2 colored
photos of Roberto in both sides.
Before
the start of his games in Istanbul, Roberto will give his opponent this card,
brochure of PRR and dugong key chain with Palau written on it. Other team
members (Bernard, Menandro, Jamie and Elizabeth might do the same if they can
get those items in time before going to Istanbul, Turkey 2012 World Chess
Olympiad.
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 12-13
Volume 21
Issue 47
July 16, 2012
Roberto
printed more than a hundred of this photo and pasted it on the colored
prints of this back part of the business card. This is also the cards
that he brought to 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey where
one of those he has given these are former world chess champion Ruslan
Ponomariov, all the women's team members of Philippines team, wife of GM
Eugene Torre (Marylin), IM Oliver Dimakiling, GM Mark Paragua, GM
Oliver Barbosa, etc... (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
This
is the business cards (single side) that I have given to my 10
opponents in the 2014 World Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. Also to
the Arbiters assigned at our table including the Palau pins and souvenir
items from Palau. I have printed those in Philippines. I'm expecting
that it can be printed two sides. With less time available, I settled
for one side and do the both sides manually. That limited number I
reserved for VIPs like Gary Kasparov when I asked him to sign his book.
While looking at it, I mentioned to him that we talked on the phone of
Congressman Pichay before coming to Norway. He remembered it.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
In
January 2014, I ordered 3 packs of business cards ( 100 pieces in each
box) for my one year usage. The management said that they issue cards
now for managers only. Ella, the Secretary of General Manager, told me
to make my own.
Instead
of 2 logos of Palau Royal Resort (one in regular and one in Japanese
characters), I decided that since I am spending my own money for this
card, I take out the one written in Japanese characters and make the
logo of Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch) Palau Locale
almost twice the size in the 'free' cards. The management spent about
$5.00 for a box of 100 business cards. Giving away about 300 cards a
year is a very cheap way to promote PRR even in Australia, Russia,
Turkey, Philippines and Norway.
Now,
the logo of PRR is very small. The PMCC logo is 10 times bigger now. I
added my time schedule to it: playing music 4 hours from 7-11pm (Sat. -
Thu.). No more fax number and Reservation Hot Line.
I retained the Katakana characters and put those under my photo.
The other side is this:
I
added here the General Secretary instead of Secretary/Treasurer because
we have elected Palau Chess Federation Treasurer in Dennis Gonzales.
FIDE Instructor was also added even though I haven't have yet the ID
because I topped the FIDE Trainers' Seminar conducted by FIDE C.E.O
Geoffrey Borg in April 2014.
The
P. O. Box 1662 was changed to P. O. Box 295 because the former is the
P. O. Box of Eugenio Pastrana and the P. O. Box 295 is Eric Ksau Whipps
post office box number.
We
paid 100 euros for that card while the 6 National Instructors (NI) paid
50 euros each aside from the same amount to 7 other Developmental
Instructors (DI). We got our IDs at the 2014 World Chess Olympiad in
Tromso, Norway (Aug. 01-14, 2014).
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
The
Palau flag was moved to the left and the final Palau Chess Federation
logo to the right. The Inc. after PCF was agreed to be removed in one of
the last meeting of PCF Board so that it all conforms to the
requirements of Attorney General's office before paying the arrears of
PCF as a non-profit organization.
This
is almost the complete list of info for the card. The gmail email
address was removed as it is not being used often. Some additional info
will be added like: President 2008-2010
Vice President 2015
The http://www.palau-royal-resort.com will be deleted and will be replaced by the Chinese character of Palau Royal Resort.
Source: Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
The Beginning of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
2008-2015
To be published as a book in the future
