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Table of Contents
Programme / Diary of Events 3 Editorial / President’s Message 4 Club Proceedings / President’s 5 Announcements / Thanking the Speaker Speaker’s CV 6 Speaker’s Text 7-9 Picture Gallery—Meeting on 11th May 2015 10-13 Announcements 14
Light Up Rotary Awards & TRF Night 15
District News 16-21
Rotary International News 22-23
Thots for the week 24-25
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Date : 18th May 2015 Issue No : 39 Berita Pudu
PROGRAMME FOR TODAY PROGRAMME FOR NEXT WEEK
Speaker: Ms Odile Murphy Speaker: Dr Brian Manalastas
Subject: Clay Sculpting and Modelling Subject: Have You Got The Right Curves?
Duty Table: Rtn Elaine Tan Duty Table: Rtn Chinniah Fellowship: Rtn Angela Cheong Fellowship: Rtn Daryl Kok Finemaster: Rtn Loo Ming Chee Finemaster: PP Mohan Raj Introducing: Rtn Veronique Pearcey Introducing: PP Leong Choy Ying Thanking: PP Ray Choo Thanking: PP Datuk Dr Lee Hoo Teong
Spouses’ Birthdays ( May ) Rotarians’ Birthdays ( May ) 09th—Ann Ivy ( PP Tai Chin Peow ) 06th—Rtn Laura Lee 20th—Ann Fanny ( Rtn Steven Ho ) 14th—Rtn Steven Chiew 17th—PP Dato’ Rosemarie Wee
Wedding Anniversaries ( May )
06th—PP K H Low and Ann Evelyn 19th—PP Dato’ N K Jasani and Ann Datin Bharati 25th—PP Datuk Dr Lee Hoo Teong and Ann Datin Esther
CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS —MAY 2015
Mon, 4th May PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Tue, 5th May 6.30 pm Club Service CommitteeWedding Meeting Anniversaries (October)Residence of Rtn Jeff 27th— IPP Alex Chang and Ann Elaine Wed, 6th May 6.30 pm Community Service Committee Meeting Bukit Kiara Club
Mon, 11th May 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL
Tue, 12th May 6.30 pm Installation Committee Meeting Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara
Tue, 12th May 6.30 pm Youth Service Committee Meeting Bukit Kiara Club CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS – OCTOBER 2014 Wed, 13th May 6.30 pm Vocational Service Committee Meeting Bukit Kiara Club Date Time Programme Venue Mon, 18th May 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL
Tue, 19th May 6.30 pm International Service Committee Meeting Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara
Mon, 25th May 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Hotel Sentral Pudu
Wed, 27th May 6.30 pm Board of Directors Meeting Bukit Kiara Club
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EDITORIAL PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
successful business man was growing old and ess than two months to 1st July. the new Board is knew it was time to choose a successor to take busy planning for the AA over the business. Instead of choosing one of LL installation dinner and their his directors or his children, he decided to do projects for the year. The club needs something different. He called all the young executives your support as this is the first time the in his company together. He said, "It is time for me to club is having a ‘recycled’ President. step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to Thanks to PP Dato’ Muslim for taking choose one of you." The young executives were the lead. shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special Please take care of your health. We SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come just received some unfortunate news back here one year from today with what you have that one of our past Rotarian, PP Chow Tain had a grown from the seed I have given you. I will then massive stroke and is now recuperating in a nursing judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose home. For those of you who know PP Chow Tain, will be the next CEO." kindly pay him a visit to cheer him up. We hope for his One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like speedy recovery. the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a Stay positive in your thinking. After every storm, there pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every will be sunshine. Keep believing good things will come day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. your way. Have a blessed day. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were Daisy Chiu beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but President RY 2014-2015 nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure. A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick at his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!" All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the financial director to bring him to the front. When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his Seed - Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive! His name is Jim!" Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But, I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it.
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PUDU NEWS
Record of Meeting on: 11th May 2015 Statistics
Guest Speaker: Rtn Angela Cheong Guests 5 Visiting Rotarians Subject: Global Logistics Supply Chain Solutions Club Members 22 Total Present 27
Collections 36 Visiting Rotarians Clubs Birthdays RM 40.00
Anniversaries
Fines
Paying Diners RM 170.00 Guests Hosts Raffles & Others
Mr Soo Chin Teck PP Leong Choy Ying Total (RM) RM 210.00 Ms Kim Lee PP Dato’ Muslim Ms Yvonne Lee PP Mike Tung Ms Chua Kua Hoe Rtn Steven Ho PRESIDENT’ S ANNOUNCEMENTS Ms Kong Thai Rtn Steven Ho
1) The Installation Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, 12th May 2015 at the Royal Selangor Club, Bukit Kiara at 6.30 pm.
2) The Youth and Vocational Services Committee Meeting will be held on Wednesday, 13th May 2015 at CLUB PROCEEDINGS the Bukit Kiara Club at 6.30 pm.
INTRODUCING THE SPEAKER
Sgt-At Arms Rtn Robert Tan called the meeting to order at
1.15 pm. He welcomed all visiting Rotarians and guests.
He then led in the singing of the National Anthem and the PP Mike Tung introduced the guest speaker Rtn Angela
Loyal Toast. Cheong
There fine master was PP Datuk Y K Chew.
THANKING THE SPEAKER
Every member was fined a happy ringgit.
IPP Alex Chang thanked Rtn Angela Cheong for a very
enlightening and educational presentation. Rtn Angela
Rtn Laura was fined RM 5 for her birthday
has shared with us the import and export trade statistics celebration.
of Malaysia, warehousing, freight services, oilfield
support services and some case studies. IPP Alex then
PP Tai was fined RM 5 for Ann Ivy’s birthday. presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a memento to Rtn Angela.
Rtn Jeff was fined RM 5 because there was no
birthday cake.
Dato’ Muslim and PP Choy Ying were fined RM 2
each for inviting a guest.
President Daisy and Rtn Veronique were fined RM 2
for not learning the words of the National Anthem.
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SPEAKER’S CV
Personal Particulars
Name: Ms Angela Cheong
Nationality: Malaysian
Race: Chinese
Marital Status: Single
Language Proficiency: English, Chinese, Malay
Education And Work Experience Summary
University of Northumbria, UK
Degree : BSc in Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Major : Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Graduation Year : Feb 2009
Years Worked : 10 years
Work Experiences :
•Logistics / Shipping / Supply Chain
•Manpower (Husbandry Services)
•Warehouse Management (Direct Materials)
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SPEAKER’S TEXT
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SPEAKER’S TEXT
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CLUB MEETING ON 11TH MAY 2015
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CLUB MEETING ON 11TH MAY 2015
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CLUB MEETING ON 11TH MAY 2015 INDUCTION OF ROTARIAN ANGELA CHEONG
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CLUB MEETING ON 11TH MAY 2015
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Event: PRC SPOUSES NIGHT Date: Saturday, 23rd May 2015 Time: 7.30 pm Venue: Porto Romano, 30 Persiaran Zaaba, TTDI, KL OC: PDG Dr Paul Lee
Event: 5TH CLUB ASSEMBLY 1ST CLUB ASSEMBLY RY 2015-2016 Date: Monday, 22nd June 2015 Time: 6.30 pm Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, KL OC: Rtn Roy Sreenivasan
Event: LIGHT UP ROTARY AWARDS & TRF NIGHT Date: Friday, 26th June 2015 Time: 4.30 pm Venue: Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Resort OC: Rotary Club of Subang
Event: 49TH PRC INSTALLATION Date: Saturday, 4th July 2015 Time: 7.30 pm Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur OC: Rtn Sandy Soh
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DISTRICT NEWS
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DISTRICT NEWS
Dear Rotarians
At the Grant Management Seminar held during the recent District Training Assembly only 50 clubs listed below were represented.
We have therefore decided to hold another Grant Management Seminar:
Date: Sunday, 24 May 2015 from 10.30 am
Venue: C-2-28, Block C, 8 Avenue Business Center
Jalan Sg Jernih 8/1, Section 8, PJ, Selangor
(opp. PJ Hilton Hotel)
This is DGE Siti’s Office and she is sponsoring this Seminar.
So far the following Clubs have confirmed attending:
Gombak
Kampong Baharu
Ampang
Taiping
This will be the last Grant Management Seminar for 2015-16.
If you wish to participate in the District or Global Grants in 2015-16, please ensure that at least one member of your club attends this seminar.
Sincerely
PDG Dr Rajindar Singh
DRFC
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DISTRICT NEWS
Alor Star Melawati
Ampang Metro Ipoh
Bahau Metro K.L
Bandar Sungei Petani Pantai Valley
Bandar Sunway Penang
Bangsar Petaling Jaya
Bukit Bintang Port Dickson
Bukit Kiara Sunrise Port Klang
Butterworth Puchong Centennial
Cheras Pudu
Damansara Senawang
Damansara West Sentul
Greater K.L Seremban
Greentown Seri Changkat Jong
Ipoh Sitiawan
Ipoh South ( KRIS ) Sri Petaling
K.L Di Raja Subang
Kajang Tampin
Kelana Jaya Tanjung Bungah
Kerian Teluk Intan
Kinta Temerloh
Klang Central Tropicana Damansara
Kota Bharu USJ
Kuala Kangsar West Pahang
Kulim
Lake Gardens
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DISTRICT NEWS
Dear Fellow Rotarians,
Thank you for the response to the Honorary Member listing. Conferring honorary membership is guided as per RI Manual of Procedures as follows:
Honorary Membership The procedure for electing honorary members is detailed in article 7, section 6, of the Standard Rotary Club Constitution. Honorary membership is the highest distinction that a club can bestow and should be conferred only in exceptional cases. Clubs should grant honorary membership only as a distinction for meritorious service that embodies Rotary ideals or for permanent support of Rotary’s cause. (RCP 5.010.)
Honorary members are exempt from paying admission fees and dues, may not vote, and may not hold any office in the club. Such members do not hold classifications but are entitled to attend all meetings, wear the RI emblem, badge, or other RI insignia, and enjoy all the other privileges of the club. No honorary member of a club is entitled to any rights or privileges in any other club, except for the right to visit other clubs without being the guest of a Rotarian. Individuals may hold honorary membership in more than one club. (RIB 4.050.2.; SRCC 7, 6)
Section 7 — Honorary Membership. (a) Eligibility for Honorary Membership. Persons who have distinguished themselves by meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals and those persons considered friends of Rotary for their permanent support of Rotary’s cause may be elected to honorary membership in this club. The term of such membership shall be as determined by the board. Persons may hold honorary membership in more than one club.
(b) Rights and Privileges. Honorary members shall be exempt from the payment of admission fees and dues, shall have no vote, and shall not be eligible to hold any office in this club. Such members shall not hold classifications, but shall be entitled to attend all meetings and enjoy all the other privileges of this club. No honorary member of this club is entitled to any rights and privileges in any other club, except for the right to visit other clubs without being the guest of a Rotarian
Please be guided by the MOP and further, all Honorary Members are to be reported in Rotary Club Central via MyRotary. Club President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership and TRF Chairs may update your Club Central.
The Honorary Member listing in the district directory will be based on the listing in your Club Central. Please do update your Club Central with current information and give the position the honour it deserve in Rotary. In giving the honour you recognise the individuals contribution to the community and to Rotary. Let's do the right thing.
Thank you
Yours in Rotary Regards Siti
“Be Rotary Proud”
Siti Subaidah Rotary Club of Central Damansara Incoming Governor, District 3300, Malaysia
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DISTRICT NEWS
RI District 3300 Disaster Relief Fund for Nepal Earthquake As at 15th May 2015 Date Rotary/Rotaract/Interact Clubs Funds in Funds in Date RM RM Received Pledged to Received by D3300 D3300 by D3300 29.4.2015 AG Shamrat Sen Gupta of RC Bangsar 5000 5000 30.4.2015 29.4.2015 PDG Dr. Ken Khoo Boo Khean of RC Ampang 5000 5000 29.4.2015 29.4.2015 RC West Pahang 1000 1000 29.4.2015 29.4.2015 RC Tampin 1000 1000 29.4.2015 29.4.2015 RC Senawang 1000 1000 5.5.2015 30.4.2015 President Paneer selvam of RC Senawang 1000 1000 5.5.2015 30.4.2015 SMK St. Paul (Interact Club) 500 500 5.5.2015 4.5.2015 Friends of Rotary (RC Senawang) 5000 5000 4.5.2015 1.5.2015 Rotaract District 3300 5000 5000 1.5.2015 30.4.2015 AG Suki of RC Pantai Valley 1000 1000 30.4.2015 30.4.2015 RC Titiwangsa 1700 1700 30.4.2015 1.5.2015 RC Metro Ipoh 2450 2450 1.5.2015 1.5.2015 RC Puchong Centennial 10700 10700 1.5.2015 5.5.2015 RC Damansara 22200 22200 8.5.2015
Rtn Tankaraju Muthusamy RM5000 (RC Damansara) PE Benny Poh Liong Ban RM1,000 (RC Damansara) Rtn Pradeep Kumar RM1,000 (RC Damansara) Rtn Justhinderpal Kaur RM500 (RC Damansara) PP Richard Jacob RM500 (RC Damansara) President Premjeet Gill RM500 (RC Damansara) PP Jyandralal F. Kothari RM500 (RC Damansara) Rtn Dato’ P.Loganathan RM300 (RC Damansara) PP David Dass RM700
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DISTRICT NEWS
(RC Damansara) Asian Famous Tours &Travel Group Staff RM2,200
5.5.2015 RC Subang 1000 1000 5.5.2015 5.5.2015 RC Kota Bharu 5000 5000 5.5.2015 6.5.2015 RC Pantai Valley 4200 6.5.2015 RC Kajang 3000 7.5.2015 RC Kuala Kangsar 1000 1000 30.4.2015 7.5.2015 RC Cheras 2000 2000 9.5.2015 7.5.2015 RC Sri Petaling 5000 5000 7.5.2015 8.5.2015 RC Gombak 6000 14.5.2015 RC Indera Mahkota 5500 5500 14.5.2015 RC Kelana Jaya 1000 1000 9.5.2015 Mr.Christie Low 500 500 10.5.2015 Dr.Chow Tak Kuan 1000 1000 9.5.2015 RC Kuala Lumpur West 2000 President Thayananthen 1000 1000 12.5.2015 11.5.2015 RC Alor Setar 10000 11.5.2015 RC Kuantan 4500 4500 12.5.2015 11.5.2015 RC Seremban 2200 2200 11.5.2015 11.5.2015 PDG Dato’Dr.Raveendra Kumar Saravanan 1000 1000 11.5.2015 of RC Seremban 12.5.2015 RC Kamunting 500 13.5.2015 RC Bangsar 1750 1750 13.5.2015 13.5.2015 RC Penang 8900 8900 13.5.2015 14.5.2015 RC Kerian 4400 14.5.2015 PP Dr. N. Vijayan of RC Kerian 1000 1000 14.5.2015 Total 135,000 104,900 Note: RC Bukit Bintang has collected RM 50,000.00 and their sister Club RC Tongkah Thailand has raised
RM10,000. Total collections of RM60,000 will be donated directly to their sister Club RC Thamel in Kathmandu , Nepal. RC Melawati has remitted RM10,000 to RI District 3292 Disaster Relief Fund Nepal. Another RM21,540 pledged by RC Melawati.
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS
GLOBAL GRANT PARTNERSHIP TURNS GOOD IDEA INTO BIGGER, SUSTAINABLE PROJECT
In the Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador, Rotary members have teamed up with a microfinance organization to provide small loans to poor women, teaching them to sew and bake so they can start or expand businesses. The Rotary Club of Marin Evening, in California, USA, reached out to 64 Rotary clubs in seven districts including Ecuador's, to raise money, find support from partners, and mobilize local community members for a global grant project. Keith Axtell, a member of the Marin Evening club, says the effort began in 2005-06, when his wife, Holly, was district governor and was looking for an international project the district could lead and that clubs could join without doing a lot of paperwork themselves. The Axtells took a team of district leaders to explore projects in Ecuador, including one conducted by the Rotary Club of Guayaquil. The club was working with a microcredit organization to turn funds it had raised into seed money for small loans. "We took a group of people from different clubs in our district to see [this project] and they loved it," Axtell says. "We started out with an initial Matching Grant, and the response was overwhelming. People kept saying they wanted to contribute to the next one, so we just kept going."
Eventually, the Guayaquil microfinance operation had enough capital to sustain itself, so the Axtells' club sought a new partner. It found the Rotary Club of Quito Occidente, which wanted to get involved in microcredit, and the clubs collaborated on a global grant application.Through a Web search, Axtell found the microfinance organization
FUDECE, which was using a lending model developed by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh that has had considerable success.
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS
"We wanted an organization that was really focused on the very poorest people and that used group lending, where people cross-guarantee each other's loans," he says. "They were the only ones in the area offering that, so we chose to work with them." FUDECE's director suggested that the Rotary clubs focus on the province of Esmeraldas instead of Quito, Ecuador's capital, because the people there were even poorer, and there were no banks where villagers could pool even their meager funds to grow their businesses. When the project committee met with community members to conduct a needs assessment for the global grant application, members discovered the villagers wanted to learn sewing and baking. Project leaders in California attended district conferences and visited clubs as far away as Montana to line up support and raise $107,000 in cash and district funds, using Rotary's online application to apply for the grant. "We're not shy, we will ask for help anywhere," Axtell says. "This project was bigger, so we had to really pull out all the stops." Most of the global grant, which includes $75,000 from The Rotary Foundation, is providing seed money for microloans. But it's also buying sewing and baking equipment for a training center that FUDECE and the Quito club established to teach loan recipients vocational skills and basic business management. Members of the Quito club have served as trainers, along with educators hired from a government agency and private contractors. FUDECE organizes the loan groups and provides training and oversight for the co-op that manages the loans and savings and that qualifies additional loan recipients. "Frankly, I think microcredit is the best way Rotary can help people," says Axtell. "You are helping people improve their economic situation, but you are also helping them help themselves. You are not just giving them something; you are making a loan and you expect them to pay it back." Axtell tells the story of a woman he met on one visit who had started a business with an old hand-operated sewing machine. With her first loan, she bought an electric sewing machine that enabled her to make items faster and better. With a second loan, she bought a second machine and hired a partner. Eventually, she was able to branch out and buy specialty tailoring equipment and a machine that works with leather. "She has quite a successful little business there now," Axtell says. "The thing that impressed me was how proud the women were of what they had built. They really learned through this that instead of being victims [of poverty], they can become problem-solvers. We've seen cases where, once they get into that mode, they start working on problems in their own communities."
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THOTS FOR THE WEEK
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THOTS FOR THE WEEK
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