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Table of Contents

Programme / Diary of Events 3 Birthdays & Wedding Anniversaries 4 Editorial / President’s Message 5 Club Proceedings / Announcements 6 Speaker’s CV 7,9

Speaker’s Text 8,10-12

Picture Gallery — Meeting on 24th August 2015 13-17

Interact News 18 Announcements 19

List of Filled and Unfilled Classifications 20-22 District News 23-24 Rotary International News 25-28 Thots for the Week 29-30

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Date : 7th September 2015 Issue No : 08 Berita Pudu

PROGRAMME FOR TODAY PROGRAMME FOR NEXT WEEK

Speaker: Mr C H Chng Speaker: Mr Ng Koon Kow

Subject: PERKOBP—Giving Strength Subject: Coaching Is A Conversation

Duty Table: Rtn Ong Shiou Ting Duty Table: Rtn Iswaran

Fellowship: Rtn Lawrence Kwan Fellowship: Rtn Daryl Kok

Finemaster: Rtn Robert Tan Finemaster: Rtn Elaine Tan

Introducing: PP Mohan Raj Introducing: PE Sandy Soh

Thanking: PP Ng Sim Bee Thanking: PP Choo Jee Sam

CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS—SEPTEMBER 2015

Tue, 1st Sept 6.30 pm Club Service Committee Meeting Royal Lake Club, KL Public Relations Committee Meeting

Wed, 2nd Sept 6.30 pm Board of Directors Meeting Royal Lake Club, KL

Sun, 6th Sept 10.00 am Visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home Jenjarom DATE TIME PROGRAMME VENUE Mon, 7th Sept 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL

Tue, 8th Sept 6.30 pm Vocational Service Committee Meeting Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara

Mon, 14th Sept 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL

Tue, 15th Sept 6.30 pm Community Service Committee Meeting Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara

Sun, 20th Sept 9.00 am The Rotary Foundation Seminar—2nd series New Club, Taiping

Mon, 21st Sept 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL

Tue, 22nd Sept 6.30 pm 100 Percenter Dinner Jaya One Duck King

Wed, 23rd Sept 6.30 pm International Service Committee Meeting Royal Lake Club Rotary Family Day Committee Meeting

Mon, 28th Sept 12.45 pm Weekly Meeting Shangri-La Hotel, KL

Fri, 25th Sept 2.00 pm Interact Coordinating Council Meeting SMK Methodist, KL

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BIRTHDAYS & WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Rotarians’ Birthdays (September)

10th—PP K H Low

17th—Rtn Loo Ming Chee

Spouses’ Birthdays (September)

2nd—Ann Ranee(PP Kumar Tharmalingam) 26th—Ann Carol (PP Phang Poke Shum 26th—Ann Huey Mei (PP Ray Choo

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EDITORIAL PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

he common theme of Mother Teresa words am back; and pleased to be back. It was a much reflect her work with the lonely, the sick, the deserved holiday – cruising on the high seas off dying and the destitute. Her unending love came Japan in fine weather for 10 days. Last Monday TT IIst through in her work and in her words. 31 August, however, was a holiday for everybody – Merdeka Day; hence no meeting. So I had some more She was forever compassionate towards the loneliness extra time to relax. felt by people, who on the surface had it all. She was Last Wednesday 2 September we had our 3rd Board also very concerned about the breakdown of families. meeting. I was especially pleased to have the new Membership card idea passed by the Board having had Here is a collection of her quotations which say it all: it rejected at the last Board meeting. This turn of events came about because our PDG Dr Paul Lee checked with Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of RI and was informed that way back in 2013, RI already love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. decided not to produce anymore RI designed cards. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, Clubs were thus at liberty to design and produce their there can be no more hurt, only more love. own since the card is only a means of introduction ―4.060. Membership Cards If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be Rotary clubs should issue membership cards to sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep their active members. Any Rotarian visiting a putting oil in it. club who is not personally known in such club should present his or her Rotary membership Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be card as a means of introduction. (October 2013 extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting Mtg., Bd. Dec. 31) tired. According to the policy, clubs are recommended, but not mandatory, to issue Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, membership cards to their members. The anxious for greater developments and greater riches and membership card is not an official document to so on, so that children have very little time for their validate one’s membership. It merely serves as parents, parents have very little time for each other, and an introduction to the visiting club. It certainly in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. does not overwrite any board decision on Rotarian’s membership of its own club.‖

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. We are now into our third month of RY 2015-16. My mission of uplifting the Club to higher status and of Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile World Class standard is moving rather slowly. is the beginning of love. Members in leadership positions still appear to be stuck in the old mode and reluctant to perform in their Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... elevated roles. We have eight directorships; therefore but how much love we put in that action. there should be eight major committees each with at least a Chairman, Secretary and a Board rep. Likewise Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come a proper filing system should be maintained and these to you without leaving happier. be handed over to their relevant successors in the coming years. Only in this way will we have proper The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, continuity in the management of this Club. The Club but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Handbook is also another important item for the Club. It’s overdue for revision and I’ve decided to undertake The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling that as we go along making the necessary amendments/ of being unloved. changes to our Club administration and procedures. Hopefully, when I hand over the mantle of leadership to There is more hunger in the world for love and the next President, all that’s necessary would have been appreciation in this world than for bread. We think completed. The Club should also be where it should be sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and – a 5 star World Class Club. homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and In conclusion I’ll leave you with this quote from Tan Sri uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our Shamsul, former President and CEO of Petronas for you own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. to ponder:

Mother Teresa's message of love and hope lives on. May we as Rotarians be inspired by Mother Teresa and continue her legacy of ministering to the unwanted, unloved and uncared. Best Regards.

Warmest Regards. President Dato’ Muslim Ayob PP Mike Tung RY 2015-2016

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PUDU NEWS

Record of Meeting on: 24th August 2015 Statistics

Speaker: PDG Dr Paul Lee Guests 32 Visiting Rotarians 4 Subject: What Is Rotary? Club Members 19 Total Present 55 Speaker: PP Dato’ Dr Siva Ananthan Collections Subject: Giving Is Better Than Receiving 36

Visiting Rotarians Club Birthdays RM 73.00 Anniversaries Fines AG K S Teoh R C Bukit Bintang President Sunny Leong R C Bangsar Paying Diners RM 100.00 PDG Dr Joe Rajundran R C Bangsar PP Dato’ Dr Siva Ananthan R C Greater Kuala Lumpur Raffles & Others RM —

Guest Host Total (RM) RM 173.00

2 Guests IPP Daisy Chiu SECRETARY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS 1 Guest PP Gary Lim 1 Guest Rtn Iswaran 3 Guests Rtn Laura Lee 1) There will be no meeting on Monday, 31st August 2 Guests Rtn Lawrence Kwan 2015 which will be a public holiday 2 Guests PP K H Low 2 Guests Rtn Angela Cheong 2) The Board of Directors Meeting will be held on 1 Guest Rtn Tenny Lee Wednesday, 2nd September 2015 at the Royal Lake 5 Guests Rtn Sandy Soh Club at 6.30 pm 5 Guests PP Alex Chang 5 Guests PP Mike Tung 1 Guests PP Leong Choy Ying INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS Rtc Chestal Chin Club Rtc Allyson Soo Club PP Mike Tung and PP K H Low introduced PDG Dr

Paul Lee and PP Dato’ Dr Siva Ananthan respectively CLUB PROCEEDINGS THANKING THE SPEAKERS Acting Sgt-At-Arms Richard Liew called the meeting to order at 7.30 pm on behalf of Acting President Jeff Yap. He welcomed all visiting Rotarians and guests. He then led in PP Gary Lim thanked the 2 speakers for a very the singing of the National Anthem and the Loyal Toast. enlightening and educational presentation. PDG Dr Paul Lee and PP Dato’ Dr Siva Ananthan were each The fine master was PP Gary Lim presented with a fruits basket. PP Richhard Liew Acting President Jeff was finedClub RM 2. Club PE Sandy was fined RM 2 as the MDC

PP Mike Tung, PE Sandy Soh and PP Alex Chang were each fined RM 2 for inviting 5 guests.

Organising Committee members were fined RM 2.

Members who returned from overseas were fined RM 5.

Members without jackets were fined RM 1.

Members without name tags were fined RM 1.

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SPEAKER’S CV

PDG DR PAUL C K LEE

Married to Ann Lilian and they both have a son Jason, and a daughter Jaclyn. Paul graduated with Bachelor of Dental Surgery from University of Singapore in 1974 and served with the Ministry of Health for a year, then joined the Dental Faculty, University of Malaya as a lecturer for 1 ½ years. Left for private practice since 1976 and retired in 2015.

IN ROTARY: 1. Joined Rotary Club of Pudu Rotary in 1976 and served as President in 1984/85 and had not missed a single meeting since joining 33 years ago. 2. Served as District Governor for RI District 3300 in 1998/99 3. Convener and Chairman of RI Director Nominating Committee 2007-08 for Zone 6. 4. Represented Rotary International Presidents at the District 3140 Conference in Mumbai, India, District 3480 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC and D9570 Rockhampton, Brisbane. 5. Appointed International Training Leader to train District Governors Elect at the RI International Assembly at San Diego in 2010

IN DENTAL ASSOCIATION: 1. President of the Malaysian Dental Association for 3 terms from 1985 to 1988 2. President of the Malaysian Dental Private Practitioners' Association in 1980/81. 3. Elected member of the Malaysian Dental Council for 6 years 4. Served 2 terms as Editors of the Asian Pacific Dental Federation. 5. Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International, International College of Dentist, Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Continuing Dental Education.

HONOURS: 1. Recipient of Rotary International’s highest recognition of ―Service Above Self‖ 2. Recipient of "The Rotary Foundation Meritorious Service Award". 3. Recipient of "The Rotary Foundation Distinguished Service Award". 4. Elected to "Honorary Membership" of the Malaysian Dental Association in 1994 5. Elected the ―Outstanding Dental Practitioner‖ by the Malaysian Private Dental Practitioners’ Society in 1999. 6. Elected to "List of Honours" of the Asian Pacific Regional Organisation in 2005.

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SPEAKER’S TEXT

Rotary is an international service organization whose stated human rights purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a secular organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. There are 34,282 member clubs worldwide. 1.2 million individuals called Rotarians have joined these clubs.

Rotarians usually gather weekly for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to fulfill their first guiding principle to develop friendships as an opportunity for service. "It is the duty of all Rotarians," states their Manual of Procedure, "outside their clubs, to be active as individuals in as many legally constituted groups and organizations as possible to promote, not only in words but through exemplary dedication, awareness of the dignity of all people and the respect of the consequent human rights of the individual." The Rotarian's primary motto is "Service Above Self";

The object of Rotary is to encourage & foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:[4]

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service 2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. This objective is set against the "Rotary 4-way Test", used to see if a planned action is compatible with the Rotarian spirit. The test was developed by Rotarian and entrepreneur Herbert J. Taylor during the Great Depression as a set of guidelines for restoring faltering businesses and was adopted as the standard of ethics by Rotary in 1942. It is still seen as a standard for ethics in business management:

The 4-Way Test considers the following questions in respect to thinking, saying or doing:

 Is it the truth?  Is it fair to all concerned?  Will it build goodwill and better friendships?  Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

The first Rotary Club was formed when attorney Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown Chicago, at Harris's friend Gustave E. Loehr's office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905. In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason) Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other's offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place.

According to its constitutions, Rotary defines itself as a non-partisan, non-sectarian organization. It is open to business and professional leaders aged 18 and upwards, with no regard to economic status.

One can contact a Rotary club to inquire about membership but can join a Rotary club only if invited; there is no provision to join without an invitation as each prospective Rotarian requires a sponsor who is an existing Rotarian. Some clubs, though not all, have exclusivist membership criteria: reputation and business or professional leadership may be a specific evaluation criterion for issuing invitations to join, and representation from a specific profession or business may be limited to a percentage of a specific club's membership.

Active membership is by invitation from a current Rotarian, to professionals or businesspersons working in diverse areas of endeavour. Each club may limit up to ten per cent of its membership representing each business or profession in the area it serves. The goal of the clubs is to promote service to the community they work in, as well as to the wider world. Many projects are organised for the local community by a single club, but some are organised globally.

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SPEAKER’S CV

PP DATO’ DR SIVA ANANTHAN

Dato' Dr Siva Ananthan is currently the CEO of LTT Global Consultants, a corporate advisory firm. Prior to becoming a consultant, he was a respected and renowned educational entrepreneur, having set up and built one of Asia’s largest private law colleges – Kemayan ATC, which he sold to a public listed company in 1995. He is one of the pioneers of the Malaysian private education industry and as the President of the National Association for Private Educational Institutions was responsible for reshaping and redefining the role of private colleges as responsible corporate citizens during its infant stages of development. During this period he implemented a voluntary Code of Ethical Advertising and Conduct for private colleges in Malaysia and was actively involved in the development and implementation of the Higher Education Act 1996.

POSITIONS HELD

President of the National Association of Private Educational Institutions (NAPEI) (1995 – 2000) Director of the Pan Pacific Association of Private Education (PAPE) (1995 -2000) Governing Council Member of the ASEAN Law Association (ALA) (1994 – 2000) Executive Council Member of the Malaysian Ceylonese Congress (2000-2004) Vice President of the Malaysian Ceylonese Congress (2002-2004) President of the Selangor Judo Association (2000-2004) Awarded the Darjah Paduka Mahkota Perak by His Royal Highness Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, Malaysia in 1996. Awarded the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang by his Royal Highness Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysia in 2013. Paul Harris Fellow and Major Donor (Level 3) of The Rotary Foundation

ROTARY

An active Rotarian since 1990, Dato' is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Damansara and is presently a member of the Rotary Club of Greater Kuala Lumpur. He has served Rotary in many capacities including Assistant Governor, District Membership Chair, District Awards Chair, District Literacy Task Force Chair and District Deputy Trainer. He is currently the District Trainer. He has spoken at many Rotary Conferences and Assemblies internationally and strongly believes that Rotary represents a better future for all of us.

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