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Continuity of Service through Effective Leadership

Rotary Club of Pudu 2015-16

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Programme / Diary of Events 3

Birthdays & Wedding Anniversaries 4

Editorial / President‘s Message 5

Club Proceedings / Announcements 6

Speaker‘s CV 7

Speaker‘s Text 8-10

Picture Gallery — Meeting on 7th September 2015 11-13

Visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home 14-16

Announcements 17

District News 18-19

Rotary International News 20-21

Thots for the Week 22

Table of Contents



Date : 14th September 2015 Issue No : 09

PROGRAMME FOR TODAY

PROGRAMME FOR NEXT WEEK

Speaker: Mr Ng Koon Kow Subject: Coaching Is A Conversation Duty Table: Rtn Iswaran Fellowship: Rtn Daryl Kok Finemaster: Rtn Elaine Tan Introducing: PE Sandy Soh Thanking: PP Choo Jee Sam

Speaker: Madam Lin Chua Subject: AUTORR Foundation Duty Table: Rtn Bobby Teoh Fellowship: Rtn Angela Cheong Finemaster: Rtn Robert Tan Introducing: VP Jeff Yap Thanking: IPP Daisy Chiu

DATE TIME PROGRAMME VENUE

Berita Pudu

Tue, 1st Sept Wed, 2nd Sept Sun, 6th Sept Mon, 7th Sept Tue, 8th Sept Mon, 14th Sept Tue, 15th Sept Tue, 15th Sept Sun, 20th Sept Mon, 21st Sept Tue, 22nd Sept Fri, 25th Sept Mon, 28th Sept Tue, 29th Sept

6.30 pm 6.30 pm 10.00 am 12.45 pm 6.30 pm 12.45 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm 9.00 am 12.45 pm 6.30 pm 2.00 pm 12.45 pm 6.30 pm

Club Service Committee Meeting Public Relations Committee Meeting Board of Directors Meeting Visit to Jenjarom Old Folks Home Weekly Meeting Vocational Service Committee Meeting Weekly Meeting International Service Committee Meeting Rotary Family Day Committee Meeting 2nd District The Rotary Foundation Seminar Weekly Meeting 100 Percenter Dinner Interact Coordinating Council Meeting Weekly Meeting Community Service Committee Meeting

Royal Lake Club, KL Royal Lake Club, KL Jenjarom Shangri-La Hotel, KL Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara Shangri-La Hotel, KL Royal Lake Club, KL Royal Lake Club, KL New Club, Taiping Shangri-La Hotel, KL Duck King Restaurant, PJ SMK Methodist, KL Ibis Hotel, Metro Pudu Selangor Club, Bkt Kiara

CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS—SEPTEMBER 2015



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



PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

II have just returned from a 10-day Japanese cruise on the Diamond Princess, one of the biggest cruise ships of the Princess Cruises organisation. This is

my first cruise. I am certainly glad I tried it having done 4x4 most of the past years. Obviously, there is a vast difference between the two. One is roughing it up but the other is utter luxury. Both, however, require quite a lot of organising on the part of the organisers. I am awe-inspired just to think about what is involved in organising a cruise. It‘s like running a hotel, but this one moving about on the high seas and subjected to the vagaries of the weather. The Diamond Princess caters for some 3,000 passengers and carries some 1,000 crew/staff. Everything must work – the electricity, the sewage, the plumbing, the kitchens, the bedrooms, the restaurants, the shops, the theatres, the casinos, the electronics, the engines, the air-conditioning, the navigation, the hospital – phew, the mind boggles. Obviously, good discipline is essential with everybody, including the passengers regardless of their status, having to play their part when it comes to following the rules as prescribed. Compare that with running a Rotary club. Personally, I think it is easier to run the ship. Why so? Because: The ship crew/staff have hierarchies, ranks and are paid accordingly. Everybody wants to get promoted, more pay and privileges. Furthermore there is the discipline factor. Not so with a Rotary club. Everybody is a leader in their own right. Some find it easy to be followers but some just couldn‘t adapt. The ship crew/staff are all trained – and retrained – before taking up any appointment. Rotary provides training too; at the assemblies and seminars organised by the District. But many don‘t even bother to attend. Why? Because it‘s voluntary and they have to pay to attend. So office bearers tend to muddle along and become very dependent on advisers, who themselves may not have much updates in their knowledge. The ship crew/staff all know their mission – to successfully reach the various destinations and return to port in relative safety; and to continue with the next mission. That means making money and building/maintaining a good reputation. Rotary have a mission too; and that is ―Service.‖ Very nebulous; no bottom line. That ends the comparison. But Rotarians can pride themselves with that mission of ―service‖ – and ―Above Self‖ to boot. And because of this mission, Rotary has done well. One sterling example is having almost achieved the eradication of polio. Our reputation is good in this sense. But what next after polio. What is the next ―destination?‖ Indeed, what is the destination of this Club? Best Regards. President Dato‘ Muslim Ayob RY 2015-2016

II t‘s easy to be grateful for the big moments in your life, but in the day-to-day craziness, sometimes we forget to be grateful for all of the people and the

little things in life that make us happy. Plus expressing your gratitude can help you feel less stress and more happiness. It‘s always great to remember all the good things in your life, so here are 4 tips for finding more gratitude: 1. Be thankful for what DIDN’T happen. No matter how bad things are, they could almost always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what could have happened but didn‘t. You may not be thankful for everything in your life, but you can always be thankful for something. 2. Don’t hold on to your anger or hurt. Though you may not realize it, you are always choosing between two ways of perceiving: Looking to the world for reasons to be upset, or looking in your heart for reasons to be happy. You can‘t be upset and grateful at the same time, and life is too short to look for reasons to be upset. Try to remember that patience and tolerance bring you happiness, while anger and hatred bring you suffering. 3. Savour life’s little moments. Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese once said, ―We do not remember days; we remember moments.‖ At today‘s hectic pace, however, we often forget to live in the moment, to just be. And by just being, by just soaking up a beautiful moment, we can find some of life‘s greatest pleasures. 4. Express your gratitude by living it. Expressing gratitude brings even more things to be grateful for. No matter what‘s going on around you, look for things to appreciate, and then express your appreciation. You don‘t spread gratitude by preaching or scolding—you spread it by living it. Every moment. Every hour. Every day. John F. Kennedy said it best, ―As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.‖

Warmest Regards. PP Mike Tung

EDITORIAL



PUDU NEWS

Rtn Khokon Ahmed Mr Stefan Mr Danny Loong Ms Tasha Lim Mr Ricardo Ms Lee Su Ling Ms Amelia Yee Ms May Chia Ms Wong Shu Yi Ms Vone Kwan Ms Jane Chan Ms Jessica Yong Mr Chng Ms Liew

R C Gaznor, Bangladesh

PP K H Low PP Alex Chang PP Alex Chang PP Alex Chang PP Alex Chang PP Mike Tung PP Mike Tung Rtn Sandy Soh Rtn Sandy Soh Rtn Tenny Lee Rtn Tenny Lee Club Club

Visiting Rotarians Club

Record of Meeting on: 7th September 2015 Speaker: Mr C H Chng

Subject: PERKOBP—Giving Strength

Statistics

Guests Visiting Rotarians Club Members Total Present

13 1 27 41

Collections 36

Birthdays Anniversaries Fines

RM 85.00

Paying Diners

RM 325.00

Raffles & Others

RM —

Total (RM)

RM 410.00

Guest Host

Sgt-At-Arms PP Ray Choo called the meeting to order at 1.15 pm on behalf of President Dato‘ Muslim. He welcomed all visiting Rotarians and guests. He then led in the singing of the National Anthem and the Loyal Toast. The fine master was PP Gary Lim

Members not seating at the front table were fined RM 1.

Members who just returned from overseas were fined RM 5 namely PP Mike Yeow, Rtn Iswaran, PE Sandy and Rtn Sarkunan.

PP Choy Ying was fined RM 1 as she will be leaving for Melbourne soon.

PP Alex and PE Sandy were fined for inviting guests.

PP K H Low was fined RM 10 for his birthday celebration.

PP Phang was fined RM 5 for Ann Carol‘s birthday celebration.

SECRETARY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

THANKING THE SPEAKERS

1) The Vocational Service Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, 8th September 2015 at the Royal Selangor Club, Bukit Kiara, KL at 6.30 pm 2) The Youth Service Committee Meeting has been postponed.

PP Ng Sim Bee thanked Mr C H Chng for a very enlightening and educational presentation. Mr Chng has shared with us his mission and his vision for PERKOBP. President Dato‘ Muslim then presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a memento to Mr Chng along with an anonymous donation to PERKOBP

CLUB PROCEEDINGS

PP Mohan Raj introduced the guest speaker Mr C H Chng.



SPEAKER’S CV

CHNG CHENG HUI

Career wise, I was involved in the shipping industry for most part of my working career. In the early 70‘s, I was

attached to The East Asiatic Company, a Danish conglomerate. After two years, I requested for a transfer to its

shipping department. Through two mergers and subsequent restructuring, I held the position of Customer Service

Manager of P & O Nedlloyd in the late 90‘s.

I am the father of two children – daughter, Chng Su Yue and a special son Chng Kuan Hua who has Autism Spectrum

Disorder. I opted for early retirement at the end of 1999 in order to become more active in the activities of PERKOBP.

I believe persons with learning difficulties could be engaged in selected work and become useful citizens. Suitable

programs could be developed to assist them to live independently as well.

I was the Hon. Secretary of PERKOBP from 1993 until 2006. I had to step down because I was employed by the

Society as their Project Manager. It is my passion to change the way NGOs provide service for the disabled group that

I mooted the idea of ―Partners in Enterprise‖ in 2000. I believe NGOs should work towards becoming self-reliant

financially. With this idea, I hoped to bring NGOs and companies together to create jobs and employment

opportunities for persons with learning difficulties.



SPEAKER’S TEXT



CLUB MEETING ON 7TH SEPTEMBER 2015



VISIT TO THE JENJAROM OLD FOLKS HOME ON SUNDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER 2015



ANNOUNCEMENTS

Event: 2ND DISTRICT TRF SEMINAR Date: Sunday, 20th September 2015 Time: 9.00 am Venue: The New Club, Taiping OC: Rotary Club of Taiping Event: 100 PERCENTER DINNER Date: Tuesday, 22nd September 2015 Time: 6.30 pm Venue: Duck King Restaurant, Jaya One, PJ OC: IPP Daisy Chiu Event: ROTARY JAMBOREE LANGKAWI Date: 2nd to 4th October 2015 Time: Venue: Pulau Langkawi OC: District Fellowship, Membership and Public Image Committee together with the Rotary Club of Langkawi Event: 2ND CLUB ASSEMBLY Date: Monday, 12th October 2015 Time: 7.30 pm Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, KL OC: Rtn Laura Lee Event: CHARITY PREMIERE MOVIE ‘SPECTRE’ Date: Saturday, 7th November 2015 Time: 11.00 am Venue: GSC Pavilion, KL OC: VP Jeff Yap Event: ROTARY FAMILY DAY Date: Saturday, 5th December 2015 Time: 9.00 am Venue: Autorr Foundation, Ampang OC: PP Mike Tung



DISTRICT NEWS



DISTRICT NEWS

TRF Seminar Date: 20 Sept 2015 (Sunday) Venue: The New Club, Taiping Host Club: RC Taiping Registration fee: RM50 per pax

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS

No Room for Complacency - Vaccine-Derived Viruses Can Lead to Polio’s Return

As the world inches closer toward polio eradication, researchers caution against complacency. Vaccine-derived polio viruses excreted by people with low immunity could lead to polio re-emergence in the post-eradication era, especially as there is currently no effective strategy to treat these patients, they report. The $16.5 billion, ambitious global polio eradication programme is nearing its goal. Of the three polio types, wild 2 and 3 types appear to have been eradicated, and type 1 is mostly confined to a region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There has been no polio case caused by circulating wild type 2 poliovirus since 1999, no case caused by wild type 3 since November 2012 and the last case of type 1 in Africa was in August 2014, leaving some areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan as the main remaining reservoirs. This means that any type 2 or 3 case would be vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV). All type 2 polio cases since 1999, except an isolated incident of 10 cases linked to a wild laboratory reference strain in India, are due to vaccine-related poliovirus strains in either recipients, their immediate contacts or after the vaccine virus regained the ability to transmit and circulate freely, a report in the journal PLOS Pathogens says. ―Vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) strains can be generated and transmitted from person to person in populations with low immunity and have been associated with a number of polio outbreaks around the world,‖ it continues. The circulating VDPVs (cVDPV) ―behave very similarly to wild polioviruses and should therefore be eliminated by the same immunisation methods.‖ A quiet threat A team of researchers led by Javier Martin, from the division of virology at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, UK, followed up a particularly interesting case of a person with low humoral immunity, who has been excreting the type 2 polio virus in his stools for some 28 years. He is apparently the longest excreter of the VDPV – of 73 such cases of persons with low immunity excreting VDPVs on Martin‘s list. The researchers referred to VDPVs from low-immunity individuals as iVDPV to distinguish them from vaccine derived viruses from normal, healthy vaccinated persons, and tested them in both the laboratory and mice for their genetic characteristics and ability to cause infection. This is because the ―risks posed by iVDPV strains and the prevalence of such cases globally are unknown‖, and it is difficult to assess their possible future impact on global polio eradication drive, the researchers reported.

http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1005114

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS

The UK team studied 186 stool samples of the person, obtained between 1995 and 2015. They found 10,000 infectious virus particles per gram, which was comparable to virus levels in samples from healthy vaccinated persons and paralysis cases caused by the wild polio virus or the vaccine, Martin explained to The Wire. The latest virus isolate, from a stool sample collected in March 2015, showed a 17.7% accumulation of genetic changes in the virus‘s genetic material. ―These changes result in loss of the attenuation properties of the vaccine virus,‖ Martin said. Also, the antiviral treatment did not work and the virus growth was not affected. Overall, the results show that the viruses are excreted in high numbers, are extremely virulent and have acquired genetic changes. This ―raises questions about how the population may best be protected from them, particularly in the light of possible changes in vaccine production which are being encouraged to increase capability and reduce costs,‖ the report inPLOS Pathogens reads. Such ‗chronic excretions‘ could jeopardise the polio eradication programme. These viruses also ―could potentially cause poliomyelitis in susceptible people, so it is very important to maintain high levels of vaccine coverage and surveillance activities,‖ Martin said. Sharp surveillance Two types of polio vaccines are already in use. One is the killed Salk vaccine (developed by Jonas Salk), which consists of chemically inactivated wild poliovirus (all three types), and is given as an injection. The Salk vaccine predominantly induces systemic antibodies that protect against disease by preventing its spread from the gut to the nervous system. However, the Salk vaccine does not induce strong mucosal immunity, and so poliovirus can replicate freely in the intestines of even vaccinated individuals and the infection can then be spread to unvaccinated contacts. The second is the Sabin vaccine (developed by Albert Sabin), which is a live, attenuated vaccine, containing weakened vaccine strains of all three polio virus types. It is given orally, replicates in the intestines of vaccinees, induces both mucosal and systemic immunity, and protects against infection of the intestine by ingested virulent poliovirus. But it can also revert to a virulent form, and there are documented cases of outbreaks caused by circulating reverted Sabin poliovirus from areas from which the natural virus had been previously eradicated. The Sabin vaccine has been used to eradicate the polio virus from most of the planet. Renowned polio vaccine expert T. Jacob John, a retired professor at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, and member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) said India too has had eight instances of iVDPV from 2009 to 2013. As healthcare has advanced, B cell related immunodeficient persons live long with reasonably good health, John explained. Some of them would have taken the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in childhood while a few would be chronically infected. ―There may be others about whom we may know nothing until some crisis happens. That could be a person developing polio due to the chronic iVDPV, which can happen after global polio eradication,‖ John added. Another eventuality is the spread of iVDPV to non-immune persons, leading to circulation and then polio – of one or more cases. ―We have to be aware and vigilant – and we are.‖ Martin said that surveillance ―is particularly important at this end stage of the global polio eradication initiative‖ to minimise the risk of polio coming back. Chances of outbreaks According to him, research results would help design optimal strategies for the polio-eradication endgame, including improved surveillance to quickly detect and characterise poliovirus from clinical and environmental samples, and vaccination schemes and antiviral treatments to complete eradication and minimise the risk of a polio comeback. John also said that Sabin viruses in OPV is a double edged tool. Immunodeficient persons have this peculiar phenomenon of chronic infection, which does not happen with wild polioviruses. ―So it is a biological curiosity with unexplained reasons.‖ Second, Sabin viruses rarely cause paralytic polio, which is indistinguishable from wild virus polio except that the virus is vaccine Sabin. Finally, vaccine viruses can spread and lose their attenuation (their weakened state) and become wild-like, even causing polio outbreaks. John estimates that there may be some 400-500 polio cases annually due to Sabin-origin viruses – more than cases caused by wild viruses, thanks to eradication efforts. ―The benefit to risk ratio that was acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable now,‖ and a switch to an injectable polio vaccine (IPV) is a must, advises John. India and all other oral polio vaccine (OPV) using countries will introduce IPV in 2015/16 and, thereafter, the trivalent OPV vaccine that works against all three types will be replaced with the bivalent OPV containing only types 1 and 3.



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