PROETAREY JCLAUB YOF PEPTAOLINGS JATYA AUGUST. 2020 | Issue 2 District 3300 RCPJ family day at President Victor's fish farm. The PeeJay Post is published by the Peejay Post is a monthly PUBLIC IMAGE publication featuring event COMMITTEE updates and current club EDITOR - ELYSIA news. If you wish to PUBLISHER : JOYCE LEE contribute articles, please email [email protected] CLUB INFORMATION Chartered on the Board of Directors (2020-2021) President 6th of January 1961 Victor Lee ___________________________________ [email protected] Correspondence Address: President Elect Melisa Francis Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya [email protected] Vice President No. 121, Block A, Nicholas Chan Kelana Centre Point, [email protected] SS7/19, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Imm. Past President Phone: +603-7491 1812 IPP Usha Gopalan Fax: +603-78052817 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Hon. Secretary PAG Rianne Chin ___________________________________ [email protected] Website Hon. Treasurer Barry Tan www.rotarypj.com [email protected] ___________________________________ Membership Carrien Chong [email protected] Facebook Public Image www.facebook.com/rotaryclubpj Joyce Lee [email protected] ___________________________________ Club Administration Weekly Meetings Rajiv Mathews George [email protected] Every Tuesday of the week Community Service (1st Tues (off)/ Datin Sivanes 2nd Tues 12:30pm/ [email protected] 3rd Tues 12:30pm/ 4th Tues 7pm) Rotary Foundation and Int's Service Terence Tiew Location of regular meeting: [email protected] Youth Services Dorsett Grand Subang Anushia Mariappan Jalan SS 12/1, SS 12, [email protected] 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Board Advisors PDG David Ho PAG Dato Kevin Yong PAG H. S. Dharan PRESIDENT JOTTINGS It was another exciting week of fellowship and meetings in August, starting with our weekly meeting on the 11th. Membership Director Rajiv shared with us our internal survey data on the health of our club. Overall, I am happy to report a happy and healthy club striving to further improve. A visiting Rotarian was fascinated by our findings and requested we share our key learnings with them, which we were happy to provide. Next, Vice President Nicholas took to the stage to talk about his line of work as well as how Rotary seems to run in his blood from the days of his grandfather who founded the Rotary Club of Kuching. Unexpectedly, Dorsett Hotel suffered a power outage half way into Rajiv’s presentation, which lasted until the meeting was over. Nevertheless, Rajiv finished his presentation in darkness without a flinch. Similarly, VP Nicolas was cool to go through his entire presentation calmly. I was impressed and proud by how professional they can be. On our second meeting of the week on Tuesday 18th August, we had Ms Renu Bhaskaran addressing issues generally over- looked in society, viz. financial abuse of the elderly. She showed examples of how elderly people were taken hostage by their own family and how such victims were reluctant to report such abuse when confronted by the authorities. This is an issue widely overlooked as laws and regulations cannot be applied if victims refuse to testify. Ms Bhaskaran appears as a soft- spoken lady, but we could feel her passion on the subject as soon as she spoke. Indeed, she appears to be a good candidate for Rotary membership! The following week’s evening meeting had Mr. Stephen Fernando as Guest Speaker. Like Ms Bhaskaran, he projected an image of a soft- spoken man, but when he took to the rostrum, he brought us all to tears with laughter. With just a few slides he had us laughing through a spectrum of issues from martial arts, politics, smoking to prevent dengue to space landing on the Sun ‘at night’. Stephen fitted in well with our expectation of a good evening fellowship once a month. I definitely encourage more members to attend and enjoy our fun filled evening meetings. I PRESIDENT JOTTINGS Our club major for the month was fellowship at my fish Culturally, I always had the habit of not troubling farm at Semenyih. We were joined by a bus load of people whenever possible. Within these two months I members from our buddy club RC Tampin. PP Yeng Kit have leaned on my team so much I do not know what I flew in with his helicopter and Anushia recruited a would do without them. Only then I realized I was battalion of seven 4x4s to truck us into the farm. My wrong, the relationship we build working together is friend Michael opened the petting zoo just for us on the euphoric. I shall always cherish this and will be there for day. Similarly, I created a fish ‘petting zoo’ at my farm as you all. The year has just started and I think my BOD is kids caught and cuddled Soon Hock and Keli. already starting to get sick of me thanking them. At my farm, some members feasted on durian, bananas On Whatsapp one would see all the wonderful and pomelo which I provided, plus two baskets of fellowship that is building amongst our members. From dragon fruits donated by RC Tampin President- Elect unofficial trips to Cameron highland, visit to our Tampin Tay Chie. In the meantime, I part- timed as a tour guide buddy club to meeting many of our former Rotarians of our farm before returning back to Eco Venture such as Yap Swee Fatt, Loo Kit Choong, Battchoo and Resort with some of my fish for lunch. With around 120 Y.S. Lim not to mention the various club care visits by people we wined and dined and, before the event was Club Admin director Rajiv and team. I strongly support over, we were already discussing the next fellowship and believe that this relationship is the building block outing! Thank you PAG Dato Kevin for sponsoring the for a healthy, sustainable charitable organization. We lunch and for being the strong pillar in our fellowship are patient to understand our diversity, background projects. RC Tampin, your participation means the and differences. We laugh together, work together, world to us. To my fellow Rotarians, your friendship challenge each other and argue passionately but in the means much to me and I humbly share what I have. end of the day we recognize that it is exactly what a family is like, our Rotary family. In the beginning of June, no physical meetings were allowed. In just two weeks after this guideline was I truly respect my predecessors for molding the positive relaxed, we were able to plan and execute a swan song culture we have in RCPJ today. I appreciate their and installation on our original planned date picked constructive guidance to our members while letting us before the MCO. Beginning July we hashed out SOP explore different ways to do things in this ever changing guidelines with the hotels and were back to physical environment. I enjoy working with a board that helps lunch and evening meetings. On the 2nd meeting we each other’s avenues without hesitation. I believe in welcomed the return of Major Francis Ng and inducted continuity and value my time with my next two Padmini Subramaniam. In the meantime Supermum, incoming presidents, who I look forward to support and with our new operator Beutifood, is geared for launch serve. Our aim should be that our successors do better with a fresh attractive look. Before the end of the than us; they being the community, our Interactors, our month PAG Rianne and Service Director Datin Sivanes Rotaractors and our Family. That is the fine line that will was able to mobilize around 20 Rotarians on the ground dictate our future from extinction to prosperity. As I tell to execute a joint project with PPB to give out 26,000 my former Interactors and now occasional coffee bread to Lembah Subang flats. If you are not suffering a buddies, “Believe in yourself because us Rotarians most whiplash from the passion and efficiency of our club I definitely believe in you. Go help more people become don’t know what would! more successful than we are. After that, just buy me a coffee and it will make me a very happy man”. The I am blessed with the opportunity to work with a BOD pandemic will not dampen our spirits, only bring us that is the embodiment of talent, professionalism, together and give us the opportunity to touch more experience and passion. Behind the scene there are lives and I promise you that you shall cherish this mentors and past presidents assisting, never expecting journey…never mind the occasional goofiness of the to be recognized; I know, and I am lost for words for the president during meetings to put a smile on your face. gratitude I have for you. There is clockwork of meetings, actions, discussions in the backstage that makes things look smooth for me as a ribbon cutting spokesperson in meetings. RCPJ LUNCH MEETING ON 11TH AUGUST 2020 President Victor called the meeting to order at 1.10 Rotary information - National Kidney Foundation of pm with a warm welcome of Salam Muhibbah. Malaysia by PAG Goh Seng Chuan.National Kidney Sargeant At Arms Rotarian Adrian started the Foundation of Malaysia (NKF) was founded by meeting with the singing of National Anthem Rotary Club Of Petaling Jaya (RCPJ) in 1969. Last Negaraku followed by the toast to the Sultan of year 2019 was the 50th Anniversary of the NKF. Selangor. Rotarian Adrian leaded the members for reading of The Four-Way Test, he introduced the National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia is the guests and ended with The Words Of The Day.