2006-07 board of rckl diraja named - Rotary Club of Kuala Lumpur ...

Wednesday, 4th January 2006
Issue 23 – 2005/06 Page 1
At the last weekly Club meeting for 2005 (which also served as the Club AGM and the Club’s 2nd Assembly) on 28th
December, members voted on candidates proposed for the Board of 2006-07. This Board of Directors is to support PE David
Teh’s upcoming year as President of the Club.
PE David elatedly pointing out his team members
PE David congratulated VPE Ing King (looking excited
to be on board)
As emailed by PE David Teh on 29th December, he congratulated the members of his Board of Directors for 2006-07
who were duly elected as follows:
President
President Elect
Vice-President
Immediate Past President
Secretary
Treasurer
Club Service Director
Vocational Service Director
Community Service Director
International Service Director
New Generation Service Director
Fellowship Director
– David Teh
– Dato' Abdul Razak
– Yeo lng King
– Low Kok Hwa
– Freddie Chan
– Peter Tham
– Francis Chan
– Mohd Nor Halim
– Justin Teoh
– Reiner Allgeier
– Andy Khoo
– Dr Kenneth Chin
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Notices
Royal Patron
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Sultan Selangor Darul Ehsan
YEAR 2005-06
President
Low Kok Hwa
Tel: 7980 0210 Fax: 7980 1712
lasen@tm.net.my
President Elect
David Teh
Tel: 4042 3311 Fax: 4042 3327
dtlt@streamyx.com
Vice President
Dato' Abdul Razak Hashim
Tel: 4022 4455 Fax: 4022 4455
darraz02@hotmail.com
Honorary Secretary
Freddy Chan Kah Hong
Tel: 9223 8386 Fax: 9223 8396
freddy@tm.net.my
Honorary Treasurer
Chiu Kim Boo
Tel: 9130 4911 Fax: 9131 7590
kimboo@pc.jaring.my
Immediate Past President
Dr. Lee Hock bee
Tel: 2282 6210 Fax: 2282 5709
hockbeelee@yahoo.com
Official Ceremony for Presentation of School Bags
· Pres. Low announced an official ceremony will be held for the symbolic
presentation of school bags (Major Project 2005-06) to a high-level representative
from the Ministry of Education.
· The ceremony will be at our weekly lunch on 11th January 2006.
Visit of DG Ken Khoo to RC KL DiRaja
· Pres. Low announced DG Ken Khoo's upcoming visit to the Club.
· This visit is scheduled for our weekly meeting on 1st March 2006.
Update or Change of Member Classification – URGENT
· Club Service Director Rtn Choy notifies all members to review (and revise if
appropriate) their classification with immediate effect
· PDG Dato’ Mus stresses to all members that any classification is only “loaned” to
them by the Club and should accurately reflect their current vocation
· Any requested change should be informed to:
- Club Service Director Rtn Choy
- With c.c. to Classification Chairman PDG Dato’ Beh
Directors
Club Service
Choy Hong Nang
Tel: 9131 9803 Fax: 9131 8696
jcekap@pd.jaring.my
Vocational Service
Thomas Varughese
Tel: 7959 2788 Fax: 7957 0072
tvarughese@hsbc.com.my
Community Service
Francis Chan Hooi Wah
Tel: 6203 1060 Fax: 6203 1098
kwchan@pc.jaring.my
International Service
Horst Wippern
Tel: 4252 7112 Fax: 4257 7262
wippern@pd.jaring.my
New Generations Service
Justin Teoh
Tel: 6157 8193 Fax: 6157 5662
justin@disjubm.com.my
Fellowship Service
Steve Lau Keng Lim
Tel: 9130 6622 Fax: 9130 3622
stevelau@streamyx.com
Sergeants at Arms
Lau Choo Seng
Tel: 2691 8007 Fax: 2691 7616
laucs99@pd.jaring.my
Tan Kok Chong
Tel: 2142 7152 Fax: 2148 2481
kcputri@pd.jaring.my
Editors
Andy Khoo
Tel: 016 6574646 Fax: 6203 2877
aakhoo@yahoo.com
Louis Cheah
Tel: 7803 0410
lcbp@tm.net.my
Lunch Time Speakers
This was the last update received from Rtn Reiner Allgeier’s via email about what’s in
store for the next few weeks …
· 04.01.2006 – Thomas Brandt, General Manager MGCC Kuala Lumpur, Topic: Asia in
those days - presentation of a book, Introduction by Rtn Allgeier
· 11.01.2006 – Wolfgang Schlimme, MD of BMW Malaysia, Topic: The Future of Automotive
Industry in Malaysia, Introduction by Rtn Allgeier
· 18.01.2006 – H.E. A. Bravo, the Ambassador of Mexico, Topic: still to be announced
Introduction by Rtn Allgeier
· 25.01.2006 – Rtn. Ridza Abdullah, Topic: Islamic Finance
Avenues-Of-Service Meeting Schedule
Meeting Name Chair Person When (every month) Time
Board of Directors
International Service
Vocational Service
Club Service
Fellowship Service
Community Service
New Generations Service
President Low
Horst Wippern
Thomas Varughese
Choy Hon Nang
Steve Lau
Francis Chan
Justin Teoh
1st Tuesday
1st Wednesday
2nd Tuesday
3rd Wednesday
3rd Wednesday
4th Wednesday
Last Wednesday
6pm
2pm
6.30pm,Chili's PJH
2pm
2pm
2pm
2pm
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Weekly Proceedings On 28.12.2005
Meeting Convenor: PP Stuart Pack
National Anthem & Royal Toast: PE David Teh
Welcoming Guests: Pres. Low
Speaker: No speaker (due to Club AGM and 2nd Club
Assembly)
Visiting Guests:
· Mr. Thiagarajah, guest of Rtn Thomas Varughese
Right : Banner of RC
Bombay Hills South with
the unique Club credo of
“Be Happy &
Communicate
Happiness”
Rtn Zed presenting Pres. Low with a banner from RC
Bombay Hills South
Birthday Boys
Pres. Low had a good “catch” at this meeting as he
announced birthdays for PP Kanesalingam (1st
January), VPE Yeoh Ing King (3rd January) and Rtn
Dr Tam Mun Fong (20th December).
Right: 3 birthday boys after being serenaded by Club
members
The Rotary Club Of Kuala Lumpur DiRaja
We meet at 12:30pm every Wednesday
at The Shangri La Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.
Service Above Self
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THE 50% LUNCH PRE-COLLECTION RULE
Voted at the Club AGM on 28th December 2005
To start off with, Hon. Sec. Freddy announced that the Club
was fortunate to have sufficient members in attendance at the
AGM for quorum to be reached.
Then we continued with a most exciting and rather
controversial topic – the “lunch pre-collection rule of 50%”. In
spirit, it appeared that all members present were prepared to
support the rule. However, Rtn Louis raised some pertinent
concerns regarding the mechanisms involved in deciding on
the quantum, collecting and accounting for the pre-payment.
are many complexities implied by the proposed rule which are
unanswered if the Board does not verbalize its mechanics.
PP Kanesalingam also stood up to agree that it seemed
difficult to vote when clarity was not given on the matter. At
that juncture, Hon.Sec. Freddy noted that the floor had 3
lawyers speaking who seemed to be at odds with each other.
This caused a great deal of mirth and somewhat distracted
from the issue at hand.
Rtn Louis asking for details of implementing the
proposed rule
Rtn Louis animatedly raising his concerns on the 50%
quantum
Rtn Louis was uncomfortable to vote on something as
important as this proposed rule without having the current
Board communicate the mechanics of implementation.
Hon.Sec. Freddy replied that the Board had decided that it
was best to ask for members’ approval before planning the
structures for implementation. The logic was that if members
did not approve, then why waste time to plan for its
implementation. However Rtn Louis made the point that there
Rtn Louis also challenged the logic of why 50% would be precollected.
Given RI attendance guidelines, a member could
attend only 30% of his own Club’s meetings and make up the
balance to meet minimum attendance needs. Hence, why not
30% pre-collected instead of the proposed 50%? This query
did not receive a clear response.
Finally the floor voted and the majority carried the vote to
agree on allowing this new rule to pass. The Board then
PP Kanes making his point about the need for clarity
Rtn C ham Mew ran thru’ the accounts for 2004-05
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committed to put in place a structure which would be
communicated to members as soon as possible.
Cham Mew about the finalized accounts for the previous
Rotary Year. This was passed with little incident.
We then heard from Rtn and past Treasurer (2004-05) Wong
FROM THE DESKTOP OF A ROTARIAN
GEMS FROM THE WEB
Wow! A New Year rolls around. In the same vein as the last
bulletin, I would like to keep this editorial material less
serious and more fun for this issue.
To start with, I was rather disappointed when PDG Dato’ Mus
was invited to speak at the Club’s last meeting of 2005. My
disappointment was not with his content or his delivery, I was
more taken aback that he did not request a 10-second
laughter break for all. Hence, I registered my complaint to
him at the recent Rotary-Rotaract Conference. Then lo-andbehold,
he was asked to address the Conference attendees
and promptly launched his famous laugh therapy session.
a group of 20 Germans are flapping their arms up and down
and clucking hysterically like chickens.
"Come on, you chickens, let me hear you cluck, cluck, cluck,
and bock, bock, bock, and flap your wings like you mean it,"
commanded Heiner Uber, a giddy 45-year-old professor of
laughter, doing his own best chicken imitation and sending the
group into fits of raucous cackling.
Helmut Kohl, a former chancellor of Germany, once said that
Germans were so afraid to laugh that they would hide in the
basement to do it. But Uber is determined to change that. The
founder of a new chain of German laughing schools, Uber
wants to help Germans grapple with 12 percent
unemployment, dreary weather and a difficult history by
teaching them how to have a good guffaw.
PDG Dato’ Mus speaking on 28th December
I realize some members find it ludicrous to do the laugh
therapy but I (forgive my relatively youthful exuberance) find it
amusing. Anyway I was very pleased when Rtn Rizal sent
me an article about laughter therapy in Germany. It is worth
sharing with all, so please enjoy…
GERMANS GETTING O.K. TO LIGHTEN UP
By Dan Bilefsky, International Herald Tribune
(Contributed by Rtn Rizal Sardon via email on 1st
January 2006)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2005 – MUNICH
In an old farmhouse on the outskirts of this Bavarian capital,
Pres. Low showing that RC KL members know
how to laugh
"For decades, we Germans have been the grandmasters of
depression," said Uber, whose favorite pastime is to go to
national monuments in authoritarian countries and try to make
stone-faced guards giggle by staring at them. "The new
generation of Germans is ready to smile again," he added.
Germans are not alone in their desire to learn how to laugh,
which researchers say relieves stress, increases disease-
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fighting hormones and emboldens the immunity system.
Interest in laughing as a coping technique has become such
a global phenomenon that settlers in the West Bank are
using laughter to relieve stress, while the Pentagon has a
laughing club for the families of soldiers sent to Iraq.
Uber perfected his technique under Madan Kataria, an Indian
doctor known as the Giggling Guru, who pioneered a method
of combining funny movements with yoga-like breathing.
The students were presented with dozens of laughs, including
the lion laugh, tongue stuck out, hands posed like lion claws
and a roaring laugh; and the mobile phone laugh, a hand held
to the ear as if holding a phone and then a ringing laugh.
Uber emphasized that wannabe gigglers could train their
bodies to laugh long and hard without having to resort to telling
jokes. To prove his point, he instructed the group to lie down
on mats, close their eyes, and imagine a funny scene from
their childhoods. Suddenly, the silence was interrupted by an
uproarious "Ho, ho, ho!" laugh from a portly student with a
walrus mustache. This gave several other students a case of
the giggles. Within seconds, the entire group was laughing in
rising and ebbing cackles, gurgles and roars that lasted for an
hour and 15 minutes.
PP Dato’ Koay breaking out into a chuckle
At Uber's laughing class in Munich, the session began with
participants sitting in a circle and stretching, before moving
on to the laughs. Uber instructed the students to clap their
hands and breathe deeply to get the blood circulating. Then
he told them to march in circles around the room chanting
"ho-ho-ha-ha-ha-ha" while staring into each other's eyes,
because eye contact tends to accentuate the hysteria.
"We Germans seldom laugh without a reason," said Annette
Borchard, a 39-year-old biology teacher from Munich, as she
lay on the mat, shaking in a fit of hysteria. "It is so liberating
just to be able to laugh for the sake of laughing."
Laughing has been a lifelong vocation for Uber, who grew up in
postwar Munich in a household where his father, a former Nazi
soldier, forbade his children to laugh at the dinner table. When
his mother warned him at age 5 that "only stupid people
laugh," Uber said he decided to rebel and make laughing his
lifelong ambition. "Some people think that a German who
teaches people how to laugh is the equivalent of an American
general joining the Vietcong, but I never wanted to do anything
else," he said.
"We look like a bunch of crazy people," laughed Theresa
Inzenhofer, a nurse, before squealing uproariously.
New VP Elect Ing King grinning with joy
IPP Dr Lee and Rtn Kok Leong sharing a laugh
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Uber's students, who pay E260, or $300, for a two-day
session, include elderly women, banking executives and
hairdressers. Adi Frohle, 39, a garage-door maker from
Stuttgart, said he decided to attend when he was driving in
his car and heard Uber imitating a wild hyena on a radio
program. Frohle said he laughed so hard he had to pull over
to the side of the road.
Now, Frohle, who has Lyme disease, an ailment transmitted
by ticks whose symptoms can include temporary blindness,
headaches and skin rashes, laughs in bed for an hour each
morning, a ritual he says diminishes the symptoms.
"Laughing has helped me to get outside my head and to keep
my fear under control," he said.
Laughing was considered a remedy as early as the 13th
century, when surgeons used humor to distract patients from
the pain of surgery. But laughter has since become less
prevalent, researchers say. In the 1950s, people laughed an
average of 18 times a day. Now, they laugh only six times a
day.
After studying philosophy and working as a journalist, Uber
began studying global laughing rituals. His first book,
"Countries of Laughter," took him to the Arctic Circle, where
he learned to imitate animal laughs from the Inuit, to a clown
school in Hannover, Germany, and to a laughter festival in the
Japanese town of Gobo, south of Osaka, where people spend
days in a laughing-induced trance.
Scientists say that the curative benefits of laughter are
extensive. A raucous giggle can decrease stress and help
alleviate depression because laughter spurs the brain to
activate pain-reducing endorphins and neurotransmitters
known as dopamine that create a feeling of euphoria.
Research by Lee Berk, a laughter expert and professor of
medicine at Loma Linda University in California, found that
laughter lowers blood pressure and produces so-called "killer
cells" that gather in the blood and destroy bacteria.
Rtn Steve & Ann Francena laughing heartily at PDG
Dato’ Mus’ C onference laughter break
On a recent trip to Shanghai, his quest reached its high point,
he said, when he managed to induce laughter in a dour
Chinese soldier. "I just kept looking at him and staring with as
big a smile as I could muster and then suddenly after several
minutes his lips began to turn upward in the beginning of a
laugh - it was a triumph," he says.
PE David telling a joke while smiling at it
himself
Uber travels the world giving his laughing classes. He wants to
open laughing schools in the United States.
Berk concluded that laughter could act as a drug on the
body's immune system after testing the hormone levels of
patients as they watched Charlie Chaplin comedies. "The
physical benefits of laughter are serious stuff," he said. "If you
could encapsulate laughter in a pill form, it would be in every
medicine cabinet in America."
But in the immediate future, he said, his next project is to
convince the new German chancellor, Angela Merkel, a former
scientist from the former East Germany, to attend one of his
schools.
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"Give me two weeks with Angie and I'll have her rolling on the
floor like a little giggling girl," he said.
In the meantime, laughing schools may soon have some
competition. In Nanjing, China, a local entrepreneur has
opened the "cry bar" where people can pay E7 to have a good
bawl, even providing onions to induce tears.
Rtn Horst, Ann Simone & Rtn Rizal also letting loose at
the Rotary-Rotaract C onference
Upcoming Events & Fellowship Activities
· Chinese New Year Dinner
- The Club's annual Chinese New Year fellowship dinner.
- Date – 11th February 2006 (Saturday)
- Time – 7.30pm onwards
- Venue – Shangrila Hotel
- Organizer – Rtn Dr Kenneth Chin
- Attire – TBC
· 3rd Club Assembly & DG Fellowship Night
- To coincide with the visit by DG Ken Khoo.
- Date – 28th February 2006 (Tuesday)
- Tentative Time – 7.30pm onwards
- Tentative Venue – Maju Palace, Maju Junction
- Organizer – Rtn Steve Lau
· Next Club Golf Fellowship
- Following the successful organization of the previous 2 golf events, Fellowship Director Rtn Steve Lau is now
planning the next occasion
- Tentative date – proposed for March 2006
- Tentative venue – KGPA at Jalan Damansara & Jalan Bukit Kiara junction
- Organizers – Rtn Steve Lau & Rtn Andy Khoo
- Attire – golf wear
· Golf Friendly & Fellowship with RC Raffles City, Singapore
- This is now tentatively scheduled for 17th to 18th February 2006
- A’Famosa Malacca is still the most likely venue until further notice
- Fellowship Director Steve Lau is the organizer
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