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Continuity of Service through Effective Leadership

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November 16 , 2015 Issue# 18



Headings Hyperlinked Page #

Editorial 3

President’s Message 4

Berita Pudu - Club Proceedings / Attendance / Collection 5

Pudu Events - Events / Birthdays / Wedding Anniversaries 6

About The Speaker 7

Speaker’s Text 8

Picture Gallery 9

Announcements 12

District News 14

RI News 16

Get Inspired! 17

LOL... 18

Fit Brains 19

Motivational Quotes 20

IN THIS ISSUE...



It’s 37,000 feet above the sea level... I’m on my way to Shenzhen, China and I’m going to miss our weekly club meeting for the second time now...yikes! Well I do know that a makeup is necessary so I went to the Rotary Club of Shanghai while I was there just last week. They had it in Shanghai Marriot Hotel and it was indeed an experience. We ex-changed banners and had a good fellowship. Interestingly, only a handful of them are from the mainland and the bigger group were either from Europe or US. During fellowship, I had a very interesting discussion with this two gentlemen. One of them owns a construction company, from France and another is a professor in neurology from Germany. As we spoke

we arrived with this question that they asked me - “What are the three important values or criteria that a leader should have?” So as they were staring at me, waiting for an answer and with great curiosity thinking that I’ll be providing some leadership models from the books or gurus, I told them this - “Well, it is Respect, Respect and Re-spect.

By this time I was already laughing inside because of the look that they gave me. The French guy commented - “That’s it!”. I then nod-ded and explained that it means Respect Your Self, Respect Others, and Respect Your Family. I continued by saying that a leader should be able to respect himself first before he can even respect others and his family. I also mentioned that the family comes last not be-cause they are least important, but they make the entire relation-ship, to self and others, wholesome. After quoting some examples and all, the professor then said that he has never heard leadership defined with such simplicity and prioritizing self respect before any-

thing else, and he continued to talk about how this is so true and lacking from where he comes from.

One can be a well known figure, or holding many important positions, or even own many businesses, but if he/she do not respect one’s self, others and family, then he or she can never be a true leader. Now ask yourself, which area are you lacking in? Remember that we are humans after all and the great-est strength is to recognize our weaknesses so we can improve ourselves. If I may share, I still have got much work to do with the first one, which is, respecting myself. Anda bagaimana?

Puvaneswaran (Iswaran) Shanmugam Editor

EDITORIAL

Banner exchange with President of RC Shanghai

Skies of Shenzhen - The Phoenix



We had a good talk last Monday 9th November by AG Teoh on the subject of membership development. He should know because his Club, the RC of Bukit Bintang, made history by making a fantastic recovery from eight members in 2009 to 117 members in 2012 in a span of four years. They reached 117 mem-bers when he was the President. Now they are stabilising at 80, some 20 members having resigned to set up a daughter Club. Fantastic; indeed it is the word. He cited many items that enabled them to achieve this success. One of them is pride of belonging; be-cause with pride one will do everything to ensure that the Club is respected; is known; is well patron-ised; have committed members that will not taichi on any task; looks good and other things that come naturally. If one is not proud of the Club, then “none of the above” will prevail. Secondly, he said the Club must have a vision as to what it should be in three years’ time. And this vi-sion may be revised year by year; but always what do the members want the Club to be in three years’ time. In other words, the members must “buy -in” to the vision. A special committee headed by a senior Rotarian is tasked with this strategic thinking. There are many more details expounded, but to me the

two mentioned are sufficient guidance for any club to achieve what Bukit Bintang achieved. For our Club, the instilling of pride in the Club is being done by many means eg dressing up, not dressing down; participating in Club and District events; being involved in projects as a Club and not by avenues, as in our Open Day and ARE-3R projects; doing good with youths and old people; rising to the challenge and surpassing the target in fund-raising ; and many more commendable initiatives indicative of mem-bers having pride in the Club. However, we are a little lacking in the area of vision. I have a vision but a short term one; and that is to uplift this Club to its former glory by emphasising a 1Club approach through the efforts of a committed leadership. But I don’t have a vision as to what this Club should be in three or four years’ time. For that we need a “think tank” consisting of a group of senior Rotarians of experience. Presidents should not be made to do the thinking; he is too busy running the Club. Perhaps as PE he could devote his time doing the thinking and planning – albeit for his year in office – because when he is President he

should be implementing his plans; no more thinking, no more planning. But actually, in our structure we do have that group of senior Rotarians who should be doing the strate-gic thinking to assist the President and therefore the Club. After all we are an old Club; going on 50 next year.

Dato’ Muslim Ayob President RY2015/16 Rotary Club of Pudu

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE



BERITA PUDU

Visiting Rotarians Club

Rtn Ronnie Leung RC Lantau, Hong Kong

AG Teoh KS RC Bukit Bintang - Speaker

Guests Host

Mr Mahmood PP Gary Lim

Attendance Pax

Club Members 21

Visiting Rotarians 2

Guests 1

TOTAL PRESENT: 24

Collections RM

Birthday/Anniversary/Fines 79.00

Paying Dinners 110.00

Raffles/Others -

TOTAL AMOUNT: 189.00

LIST OF NAMES STATISTICS

Club Proceedings 1. Acting Sergeant-at-Arms VP Jeffrey Yap called the meeting to order at 1.20PM on behalf of President Dato’

Muslim. He welcomed all Rotarians and guests. He then led in the singing of the National Anthem and the Loyal Toast.

2. FINEMASTER- The Finemaster was PP KH Low and the list of fines were:

RM1 - Members seated at the last table.

RM2 - PDG Paul for not remembering Deepavali on Tuesday.

RM1 - All as a Happy Ringgit.

RM2 - VP Jeffrey for a successful fund raising project.

RM2 - PP Dato’ Dr Lee for proposing Rtn Iswaran who did a good job as the MC at the Charity Premier “Spectre”.

RM2 - PP Gary for securing a donation of RM42,000 from UPS.

RM1 - All who attended the Charity Premier “Spectre”.

RM10 - IPP Daisy for her birthday celebration.

3. ANNOUNCEMENT -

Called upon the introducer for AG Teoh KS.

4. INTRODUCING -

PP Gary Lim did the introduction.

5. THANKING -

PDG Dr Paul Lee thanked AG Teoh Kwan Swee for a very enlightening and educational presentation and complimented AG Teoh on his passion for Rotary.

He has shared some practical membership development and retention tips which can be adopted by R C Pudu.

PDG Dr Paul then presented a certificate of appreciation and a memento to AG Teoh



PUDU EVENTS

Speaker:

PDG David Ho

Topic:

CLP—The RC Petaling Jaya’s Experience

Duty Table:

Rtn Elaine

Fellowship:

Rtn Wong Shuyi

Finemaster:

PP Phang PS

Introducing:

PP Kumar

Thanking:

PP Sim Bee

Date/Day Time Event Venue

16 (Mon) 12:45PM Weekly Club Meeting Shangri La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

21 (Sat) 10:00AM RFOD Committee Meeting Autorr Foundation

23 (Mon) ************************** No Meeting - deferred to Nov 24 ***************************

24 (Tue) 6:30PM Joint Meeting of GP 10 Clubs Holiday Villa, Jalan Ampang

26 (Thu) 6:30PM RFOD Committee Meeting Royal Lake Club

28 (Sat) 10:00AM RFOD Committee Meeting Autorr Foundation

30 (Mon) ******************************** No Meeting - holiday! ***********************************

TODAY’S PROGRAMME NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMME

CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2015

November Rotarians

5th - IPP Daisy Chiu 5th - Rtn Angela Cheong 13th - Rtn May Lim 20th - PP Dato’ NK Jasani 20th - Rtn Robert Tan 20th - Rtn Bobby Teoh 28th - Rtn Sarkunan November Spouses’

3rd - Spouse Edward (Rtn Choy Ying) 16th - Ann Chantra (Rtn Chinniah) 22th - Ann Pearl (Rtn CC Wong) 23rd - Ann Elaine (PP Alex Chang) 29th - Ann Lilian (PDG Dr. Paul Lee)

November:

1st - Rtn Roy & Ann Siew Kien 15th - Rtn CT Heng & Ann Carven 23rd - Rtn CC Wong & Ann Pearl

BIRTHDAYS WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

NO MEETING

Please check the Announcements...



AG Teoh Kwan Swee hails from a small kampong called Chui Chak in Perak. He received his secondary Graduated school education in St Anthony's in Teluk Intan. He graduated from the University of Malaya in 1976 with a Bachelor Degree in Econs and Statistics and after which he worked as a Statistician to fulfil his obliga-tion as a Perak State Government Scholarship holder. AG Teoh then continued working in a bank and his last position held was the senior General Manager before he left the bank to be on his own. Right now, he is the MD of L&Z Imports & Exports Sdn Bhd. He also holds many other positions such as the Director of Elecut Holdings and Director of Elecut Hair & Beauty Sdn. Bhd. On Rotary, He was the President of Rotary Club of Bukit Bintang in 2011. He also held the position of the Chairman of Past Presidents Council in 2014. Then he continued to be the Assistant Governor for RY2015-16 and also Club trainer of Rotary Club of Bukit Bintang. He has held various positions in the District committees. To name a few, he was the;

Chairman of Dengue Task Force, Chairman of Economic

Community Development Committee

Member of MDR, Club Services and Community Service. Soon, AG Teoh will be the Chairman of the District Membership Development and Retention Committee for RY2016-17. For more information about AG Teoh Kwan Swee and his work, please contact:

Email: [email protected]

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Ponder this...

mailto:[email protected]



SPEAKER’S TEXT



PICTURE GALLERY

Before the start of the meeting... VP Jeffrey Yap - the Acting Sergeant-At-Arms. That look...

The fine looking Finemaster - PP KH Low.

Thanking was done by PDG Dr. Paul Lee, with a memento from the club.

Banner exchange with RC Lantau, Hong Kong.

Weekly Club Meeting - November 09, 2015

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind..

- Nathaniel Hawthorne -

AG Teoh KS giving his talk. That smile...

Quote of the Day



PICTURE GALLERY

Weekly Club Meeting - November 09, 2015

Fellowship...Fellowship...Fellowship...



PICTURE GALLERY

Rotary Family Open Day Committee Meetings

From the many meetups...From the many meetups...From the many meetups...



ANNOUNCEMENTS

Event:

JOINT MEETING OF GP 10 CLUBS Date/Time:

November 24, 2015 (Tuesday) @ 6:30PM Venue:

Holiday Villa, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur Host:

RC Bukit Bintang

Event:

INTERNATIONAL NIGHT - IU (*Date Change) Date/Time:

February 2016 Venue:

TBA OC:

PP Alex Chang Event:

ROTARY FAMILY OPEN DAY Date/Time:

November 29, 2015 (Sunday) @ 9:30AM Venue:

Autorr Foundation, Ampang, Kuala Lumpur OC:

PP Mike Tung Event:

RI PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO D3300 Date/Time:

December 05 & 06, 2015 Venue:

Sunway Convention Centre, Petaling Jaya OC:

PP Karthi, RCCD



ANNOUNCEMENTS - Join Us!



Request from Siti Subaidah, DG 2015-16

We have about 120 Interact Clubs in our District, sponsored by 50 Rota-ry Clubs. Leadership is an essential part of Rotary and it is through our active involvement with our Youth can we help emerging leaders devel-op their potential.

Youth Service is one of our avenues of service and we are committed to nurture and mentor our youth. Interact and Rotaract is part of our Ro-tary family and we have a responsibility, a responsibility in inspiring them to aspire to be Rotarians.

While we can take pride that Interact clubs in our District is one of the largest group in this region, unfortunately, today, many clubs have taken a lackadaisical attitude towards managing our Interact Clubs and most Interact Clubs have very little connection or engagement with Rotary. Their life in the Rotary family seems to end at Interact.

The District Interact Conference is an annual District event, that brings our Interactors together to share and experi-ence leadership in a different form and experience.

It is an opportunity for our Interactors to bond, learn more about the Rotary family and this year an added bonus as the event is being hosted at the TLDM – Navy Camp in Lumut, with additional activities the kids will be involved in.

Currently the registration stands at 369 and we can accommodate 600 participants.

Please register your Interactors and give them the opportunity to experience Rotary.

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DG D3300 Siti Subaidah making her official club visit to RC USJ.

Provisional Interactors from Kingsley International School sharing their excite-ment of being chartered soon

District 3300 has its own Facebook page. Click on link below to see the happenings: https://www.facebook.com/rotary3300 (click on the link above if you are viewing this page online)

DISTRICT NEWS

Happenings Around The District, Interact & Rotaract...

https://www.facebook.com/rotary3300



Dear Rotarians,

Each Rotary year, past, present and incoming Rotary district and senior leaders attend Rotary institutes to share infor-mation, build connections and exchange ideas about Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. The institutes usually meet for three to five days, and the program includes:

Training for District Governor Elects, District Governor nominees and District training teams.

An update on The Rotary Foundation and its programs

A report on our polio eradication efforts

A five year forecast presented by a director or other board representative

An open forum where Rotarians can make recommendations to the board

Local and international speakers sharing information on relevant topics

A chance to network, reconnect with friends and find inspiration for continuing your service and leadership in your community Entertainment and social outings. During Council of Legislation years, Rotary institutes also include a ses-sion for COL representatives and alternates and a general discussion for discussing council proposals.

The institute held in Manila this year was to cater for Rotarians from 3 zones, namely zone 6B, 7A and 10B and this particular institute attracted 1200 Rotarians from 16 different countries that come within these 3 zones.

Among the dignitaries present included incoming RI president, John Germ, RI president nominee, Ian Riseley(2017-18), PRIP Gary Huang, PRIP Wilfrid Wilkinson and a host of RI directors. The plenary sessions and the breakout ses-sions were very informative and well attended. More Rotarian leaders from our district could attend the next institute to be held in Bangkok from 2nd to 4th December, 2016.

Among the interesting statistics- Taiwan, Philippines and Thailand are among the top 20 countries in the world in giv-ing to The Rotary Foundation. The Rotary club of Manila 101 (district 3810) made a giving of USD500,000 for The Ro-tary Foundation on 16th August. Membership rise in these zones are among the highest in Rotary’s increase of 30,000 new members in the first five months of this Rotary year. Rotary progress is indeed impressive in our zones. For statis-tic purpose, our district membership is currently 1736 members with 76 clubs while district 3310 has 1936 members with 64 clubs.

Some of the proposed enactments that were brought up for discussion were:( to be debated at the council of legisla-tion in 2016)

To provide that each club pays dues for a minimum of 10 members ( as compared to the current rule to pay ac-cording to the exact numbers of members).

To authorise the RI board to suspend or terminate a club for litigation related actions and to amend the provisions for repeated election complaints from a district.

To allow for flexibility in club meetings and attendance.

To add a fifth part to the object of Rotary to encourage a new generation of global leaders

To allow for flexibility in membership and classification.

We may or may not agree with some of these changes being proposed but these are interesting times for Rotary. Some of the fundamental principles of Rotary like attendance, classification, minimum club membership and dues etc. are being put to test but a clear picture will only emerge once the Council of Legislation meets in 2016 and makes a decision one way or the other. Our district COL representative is PDG Leslie Salehuddin.

District 3300 has its own Facebook page. Click on link below to see the happenings: https://www.facebook.com/rotary3300 (click on the link above if you are viewing this page online)

DISTRICT NEWS

Manila Rotary Institute - Reported by PP Dr. Baskaran RC Butterworth

https://www.facebook.com/rotary3300



Find new and innovative ways to improve your community by attending one of five presidential conferences this year, hosted by RI President K.R. Ravindran and Foundation Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith. The conferences, to be held around the world between January and March, will highlight Rotary’s areas of focus. Use these links to learn about each of the programs and to register to attend:

Peace and Conflict Resolution, 15-16 January in Ontario, California, USA

Disease Prevention and Treatment, 19-20 February in Cannes, France

Economic Development, 27 February in Cape Town, South Africa

Literacy and WASH in Schools, 11-13 March in Kolkata, India

WASH in Schools, 18-19 March in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines All five conferences will be led by local Rotary districts and are open to nonmembers as well as Rotary members. Con-ferences will feature engaging speakers, informative general sessions, and hands-on workshops. Attendees will have the opportunity to network with fellow leaders and take away new ideas and strategies to put into action. Whether you’re already working to improve your communities through these areas or would like to learn how to do so, you won’t want to miss this unique opportunity.

Members of the Rotaract Club of University of Findlay, Ohio, USA, attended the 2010 Uniendo America Project Fair in Antigua, Guatemala, to look for international service pro-jects. Here they visit Clinica del Nino Sano: Borrando Huellas ("Erasing Scars") in Guatemala City, a pediatric burn clinic supported by the Rotary Club of Guatemala Metropoli.

A student at Uswathun Hasana Maha Vidyalaya in Galle, Sri Lanka.

This is one of 20 schools rebuilt through the Schools Reawaken project after the 2004 tsunami. The tsunami killed more than 30,000 people and dis-placed over 850,000 in Sri Lanka alone. District 3220, The Rotary Foundation, and Standard Chartered Bank supported the effort.

Source from Rotary International website at:

http://www.rotary.org/ (click on the link above if you are viewing this page online)

RI NEWS

Attend One of Five Presidential Conferences

Rotary Images

http://www.rotary.org/



Once upon a time a psychology professor walked around on a stage while teaching stress management principles to an

auditorium filled with students.

As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the typical “glass half empty or glass half full” ques-

tion. Instead, with a smile on her face, the professor asked, “How heavy is this glass of water I’m holding?”

Students shouted out answers ranging from eight ounces to a couple pounds.

She replied, “From my perspective, the absolute weight of this glass doesn’t matter. It all depends on how long I hold

it. If I hold it for a minute or two, it’s fairly light.

If I hold it for an hour straight, its weight might make my arm ache a little. If I hold it for a day straight, my arm will

likely cramp up and feel completely numb and paralyzed, forcing me to drop the glass to the floor. In each case, the

weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it feels to me.”

As the class shook their heads in agreement, she continued, “Your stresses and worries in life are very much like this

glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens.

Think about them a bit longer and you begin to ache a little. Think about them all day long, and you will feel com-

pletely numb and paralyzed – incapable of doing anything else until you drop them.”

The moral: It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses and worries. No matter what happens during the

day, as early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down.

Don’t carry them through the night and into the next day with you. If you still feel the weight of yesterday’s stress, it’s

a strong sign that it’s time to put the glass down.

GET INSPIRED !

The Weight of the Glass



LOL!



Magic Word Squares.....

Answers will be posted in our RC Pudu clubrunner portal by this coming Wednesday :) Visit our portal : http://portal.clubrunner.ca/3045/ (click on the link above if you are viewing this page online)

FIT BRAINS

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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES - Eleanor Roosevelt

To handle your self, use your

brains…

To handle others, use your

heart...

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