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Continuity of Service through Effective Leadership

Rotary Club of Pudu 2015-16

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January 11 , 2016 Issue# 25



Headings Hyperlinked Page #

Editorial 3

President’s Message 4

Berita Pudu 5

Pudu Events - Events / Birthdays / Wedding Anniversaries 6

About The Speaker 7

Speaker’s Text 8

Picture Gallery 11

Announcement 14

District News 15

RI News 16

Get Inspired! 17

LOL... 18

Fit Brains 19

Motivational Quotes 20

IN THIS ISSUE...



Sawasdee Krub... Here I am visiting our sister club in Songkhla, with PP Alex Chang. It was such joy to be able to meet our ‘extended’ family members here. We were greeted by PP Sombat at the airport. He took good care of us from the time we arrived. We joined the ‘Ride for Student’ event that they hosted and it was definitely a success! The smiles carved on those little school children’s faces upon receiving their bicycles were priceless… It was a success simply because of one element that stood out from the rest, which is, a healthy relationship. Why did I not use the word teamwork instead? Well, I was not able to find the team, but rather a family is

what was visible... You see, the amount of respect that they have and give upon each other was just fantastic. They see every individual as a person, and, the status, position, and age was not taken into consideration at all. The senior members were helping to carry heavy boxes for the young ones, the President collecting rub-bish around the area, the DG serving food and drinks to the participants, and many more of these type of ‘sightings’. To add to this were the ‘thank yous’ and the ‘sorrys’ (in Thai language of course…). When everyone can do this, then giving instruction becomes much easier, and most of the time, not necessary at all as eve-ryone knows and does their best towards the same goal/objective/vision.

I believe that this is the culture that our fellow Rotarians throughout the world should practise so that the clubs will re-main healthy and prosper. Also, most importantly, retain mem-bership. Have a wonderful week ahead my dear brothers and sisters.

Puvaneswaran (Iswaran) Shanmugam Editor [email protected]

EDITORIAL



It’s Thursday again. The day I promised the Bulletin Editor that I’ll provide the weekly message to fill the President’s

column. Again I don’t know what to write on. After last night’s Board meeting and all the arguments and finally ap-proval of all my papers except one deferred, I should be happy. Well, I am actually, because I had feedback. And for any system – mechanical, electronic or human – feedback is good; in particular the negative ones.

From the above diagram, a servomechanism has an input and output. But there’s also a feedback loop. The reason is the inputs are normally unstable; hence the need to stabilize the system so that the outputs are nice and smooth. For example your PA system – the microphone (input) and the speaker (output.) With negative feedback to cancel the background noise and other noises like over-boost, reverbs and so on, you’d get a very nice output of your voice or music. But if have too much positive feedback like having your microphone too close in front of the speaker, you will get a howling sound; most unpleasant and annoying. It’s the same with the human system. Good negative feedback is needed to temper down the final outcome of a pro-posal or policy change; especially concerning some new ideas, a break from traditional practices, a change in direction or whatever. However, too much negative feedback is no good either because humans, unlike machines, have emo-tions that can cause irrational thinking especially when they not very well informed or are just poor readers or inter-preters of facts in front of them on the screen or on paper. Likewise, too much positive feedback (too close to the speaker analogy) is no good either. It might make the leader happy to have “yes men” around him; and even telling him how good he looks although he is quite naked as in the

“Emperor’s new clothes” children stories of Hans Christian Andersen. And this morning Alex sent me this quote “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled; and that has made all the difference – Robert Frost.” Yes, I am the guy who likes to take the road less travelled – in my 4x4 holiday adventure trips or in running this Club. I like to question the norm and find a new and better way of doing things. Some people may be uncomfortable with that, but we are in the 21st Century – the Digital Age. We must adapt to changes. My vision for this Club is that by 2020 we should be fully digitized and all our documents that’s found all over the place will be in cloud storage; and we can access it and work on it from anywhere in the world. As former British PM Harold Wilson once said, inter alia “…the only institution that resist change is the graveyard.” So what’s your choice, my fellow Rotarian presidents after me?

Dato’ Muslim Ayob President/Secretary RY2015/16

Rotary Club of Pudu [email protected]

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE



BERITA PUDU

Visiting Rotarians Club

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Guests Host

Ms Grace Ng PP Mike Tung

Dr. Koay Chew Aik Club - Speaker

Mr Francis Liew IPP Daisy Chiu

Ms Yeoh Siew Peng PP Alex Chang

Ms Nicole Siew Rtn Sannice Soh

Ms Chestal Chin Rtn Iswaran

Dr. Osman Pres Dato’ Muslim

Attendance Pax

Club Members 21

Visiting Rotarians -

Guests 7

TOTAL PRESENT: 28

Collections RM

Birthday/Anniversary/Fines 76.00

Paying Dinners 150.00

Raffles/Others 60.00

TOTAL AMOUNT: 286.00

LIST OF NAMES STATISTICS

Club Proceedings 1. Sergeant-at-Arms Ray Choo called the meeting to order at 1:15PM 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 Rtn Ong Shiou Ting and the list of fines were:

RM1 - All as Happy Ringgit.

RM2 - All those who did not attend the club AGM.

RM1 - All those who did not appear in the last club Bulletin.

RM2 - All those who did not wear a nametag.

RM1 - All those who did not wear a jacket or a neck tie.

RM10 - PDG Dr. Paul Lee & Rtn Dr. CC Wong for their birthday celebration.

RM5 - President Dato’ Muslim for his upcoming wedding anniversary.

3. INTRODUCING -

Rtn Robert Tan did the introduction.

4. THANKING -

Rtn Dr CC Wong thanked Dr Koay for a very enlightening and educational presentation.

Dr Koay has shared some dangers of the Aedes mosquitoes. He has proposed some measures to con-

trol the spread of the Aedes mosquitoes.

Rtn Dr CC Wong then presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a Memento to Dr Koay Chew Aik.



PUDU EVENTS

January 11, 2016

Club Assembly

Please check the Club Diary...

Speaker:

Mr. Jerryson Abraham Doss

Topic:

The Starfish Project

Duty Table:

Rtn Elaine Tan

Fellowship:

Rtn Tenny Lee

Finemaster:

Rtn Laura Lee

Introducing:

PE Sandy Soh

Thanking:

Rtn Angela Cheong

Date/Day Time Event Venue

11 (Mon) 06:30PM Club Weekly Meeting Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur

11 (Mon) 07:30PM Club Assembly (Mid Term Review) Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur

18 (Mon) 12:45PM Club Weekly Meeting Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur

25 (Mon) *** No Meeting - Thaipusam ***

TODAY’S PROGRAMME NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMME

CLUB DIARY OF EVENTS FOR JANUARY 2016

January Rotarians

2nd - Rtn Ong Shiou Ting 4th - PDG Dr Paul CK Lee 15th - PP Datuk YK Chew 20th - PP Alex Chang 20th - Rtn Dr CC Wong 22nd - PP Gary Lim January Spouses’

8th - Ann Carven (Rtn CT Heng) 10th - Ann Esther (PP Dato’ Dr Lee Hoo Teong) 16th - Ann Rowena (PP Gary Lim)

January:

7th - Rtn Dato’ Rosemarie & Spouse Eng Lee 27th - Rtn Dato’ Muslim Ayub & Ann Raja Azma 28th - Rtn Choo Jee Sam & Ann Suit Yong

BIRTHDAYS WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES



Our speaker for the week was Dr Koay Chew Aik, the mosquitologist, graduated with

Bachelor's Degree majoring in Applied Entomology (Hons), which is the study of in-

sects, from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 1991.

He has the real passion for the insect & insecticide industry. A survival of two-time

dengue severe fever victim, fortunately he has a wise grand mom to save him

from the near death phenomenon. Started his applied sciences research career of

mosquito control at the Vector Control Research Unit (VCRU), Universiti Sains Malay-

sia (USM), Penang, working on vector mosquitoes’ population dynamic, ecological &

behavioral studies.

Participated in public health vector control field work projects with Bayer & Shell on ultra low volume (ULV) application

technique & formulation evaluation with the World Health Organization (WHO) Asia Pacific sponsorship.

He has over 25 years of R&D experiences of various household insecticide science, chemistry and formulations devel-

opment for South East Asia countries when working for reputable MNCs in Singapore, Australia & Malaysia. He leads

the Consumer Connection Programme & Consumer Insight study for household insecticide product innovation devel-

opment prior to pursuing his doctorate degree .

His Ph.D. is focused on finding a simple way to suppress the population of mosquitoes without harming to other in-

sects. The minds changing & lives saving strategy of Dr K Solutions products: The Mosquito Home Station (MHS) and

MozOne Mini Spray (MMS), are based on this study.

They are designed to reduce the Aedes mosquitoes population density as well as to avoid man-mosquito contact, to

break the dengue transmission ripple reaction, with the mission of making dengue threat a history for Malaysia by

2020

ABOUT THE SPEAKER



SPEAKER’S NOTE



PICTURE GALLERY

Weekly Club Meeting - January 04, 2016

Rtn ST’s first ever Fine session...

Rtn Robert Tan introducing our guest speaker...

Dr. CC Wong thanking Dr. Koay Memento presentation...with PP Mike Tung and Dr. Koay...

Dr. Koay in action...

SAA, Hon. Secretary and the President. Can you find the Hon. Secretary?



PICTURE GALLERY

Weekly Club Meeting - January 04, 2016



PICTURE GALLERY - YWCA

Oops! What’s happening here?

Want to see more…? Check out our next week’s e-Bulletin, Issue #26 ...

Not so clear la... Very foggy...

Paparazzies…?

Who?



ANNOUNCEMENTS

Event:

INTERNATIONAL NIGHT - IU (FEATURING ROMANIA & POLAND) Date/Time:

February 27, 2016 Venue:

Bekay Court, Lorong Enau off Jalan Ampang (near Russian Embassy) OC:

PP Alex Chang



Partnerships, Innovation, and Evaluation, 1: Introduction

This post is the first in a series on increasing the impact of Rotary. The series will feature case studies of great service projects that have achieved larger impact through partnerships, innovation, and evaluation. The hope is that the case studies will encourage clubs and districts to think bigger in their service work. The series will cover each of the areas of focus of the Rotary Foundation, as well as polio.

Service work through volunteering or projects is at the heart of what Rotary is all about. Membership surveys suggest that the main reason why members join and remain in Rotary is the opportunity to serve (see my recent book on Rota-ry). Fellowship and networking are also very important, but service is first.

Rotary is a fairly decentralized organization with at its core the Rotary club. Rotarians come in many shapes and forms, beliefs and passions. There is amazing diversity in the types of service work that Rotarians engage in. This is a strength as members choose to contribute to the causes they are most passionate about.

Most of the service work that Rotarians engage in is done through volunteering, not through service projects that ben-efit from financial support from the Rotary Foundation (TRF). In adition, many projects implemented with TRF support are small and based on local opportunities identified by clubs. These projects may not rely on partnerships, they may not be especially innovative, and they may not be evaluated in depth. As long as it is clear to clubs and local communi-ties that the projects are helpful, a lack of partnership, innovation or evaluation is not necessarily a major drawback. One straitjacket does not fit all in Rotary. At the same time however, if Rotary is to have a larger impact globally, there is also a need to put together more and larger projects that do rely on partnerships, are innovative, and are monitored and evaluated properly.

Partnerships help to implement larger projects and benefit from the expertise of organizations that are among the best in their field. Partnerships may also generate visibility and media coverage for Rotary (polio is the best example). Part-nerships have a cost since effort is required for collaborations to work. But if partnerships deliver scale, expertise, or visibility, gains outweigh the costs.

Innovation is even more important than partnerships to achieve larger impact and discover better ways to serve com-munities. Without innovation, the contribution of TRF is a drop in the development assistance bucket. TRF does have a respectable size, but in comparison to development funding, it is very small.

Total annual giving by the foundation represents less than half a percent of what the World Bank provides in develop-ment assistance every year, and this is just one of a number of development agencies. But if Rotary experiments and innovates, pilots that prove successful can be scaled up by other organizations with deeper pockets, thereby achieving larger impact. Without serious monitoring and evaluation, innovation does not help much because impact on the ground must first be demonstrated at the pilot stage for a promising intervention to be scaled up. Innovation and eval-uation are like twins: they work best as a pair. Evaluation is also needed for Rotary to learn internally from both suc-cesses and mistakes.

All three ingredients ̶ partnerships, innovation, and evaluation, can help increase the impact of Rotary’s service work. In order to encourage clubs and districts to move in that direction, this series will show how partnerships, innovation, and evaluation can be harnessed to serve Rotary’s mission of service above self. The series will tell the story of pro-jects in each of the areas of focus of TRF: promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, growing local economies, and eradicating polio.

You will learn about an innovative financing mechanism for polio eradication; an award winning project reducing under five mortality in Mali; a program that is transforming teaching and learning in Nepali classrooms; a project to save the life of mothers and children in Nigeria; a program to invest in the writing skills of disadvantaged youth in the United States; projects and initiatives to improve access to water and sanitation in Uganda; and the work done by Rotary with Peace Centers. All these projects are in one way or another innovative. They all leverage partnerships. And virtually all build on solid monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Hopefully, the series will give you additional insights into some of the great projects that clubs and districts are implementing around the world.

DISTRICT NEWS

Another Article by PP Baskaran



For her work to mitigate extreme poverty around the world, Susan Davis has received many honors. But the 2015-16 Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award has special significance. “It feels like a circle of completion,” says Davis, who was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in 1980-81, doing graduate studies in international relations at Oxford University in England. “Rotary invested in me when I was young, and now is celebrating the harvest.” A decade ago, Davis co-founded BRAC USA to advance the mission of BRAC -- Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee -- the world's largest nongovernmental development organization, which was founded after Bangladesh’s partition from Pakistan in the 1970s. The U.S. branch is dedicated to fighting poverty and to creating opportunities for the poor in Africa and elsewhere. Fulfilling that mission hasn’t been easy. Davis’ work has been disrupted by floods, cyclones, earthquakes, and war. Even worse was the sudden and deadly Ebola epidemic in 2014 in West Africa. “I wasn't sure how to protect our staff and clients and accompany these vulnerable communities out of this tragic situ-ation,” says Davis, who served as BRAC USA’s president and chief executive officer until her departure this month. She quickly contacted Ebola experts and connected them with BRAC USA’s representatives in affected countries. “I lost sleep and cried with each death,” she says. Two of those deaths were particularly painful. Ophilia Dede, a BRAC credit officer in Liberia, and her husband suc-cumbed to the virus, leaving behind a little girl. Davis helped set up a scholarship fund for her education. But she doesn’t allow such painful experiences to deter her. “The urgency of the need and the tangible opportunities to make a difference keep me going,” she says. “And I have been blessed by seeing two big ideas — microfinance and social entrepreneurship — take root globally.” From 1987 to 1991, Davis championed microfinance while working as a program officer with the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh. She developed a consortium that raised $175 million, increasing the availability of microloans in Bangla-deshi villages to 44 percent from 5 percent, she says. Though debates endure over how much credit microfinance should receive for the country’s progress, conditions in Bangladesh have improved significantly: According to The Econ-omist, life expectancy in the country rose from 59 to 69 during a 20-year span ending in 2010. Davis also is co-author, with journalist David Bornstein, of the book “Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.” And she is involved with Ashoka, a non-profit organization that supports social entrepreneurship; as a director, she oversaw its expansion to the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

A resident of New York City, Davis is widely recognized for her work in the field of international development. She was appointed to the board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnership in 2012, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on the boards of the Grameen Foundation, the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund, and the African Women's Development Fund USA. Davis has come a long way from the small town in southwest Louisi-ana, USA, where she grew up. The Rotary scholarship provided her first opportunity to live abroad. She believes that her Oxford experi-ence allowed her to be taken seriously, and credits it with helping her land a job with the Ford Foundation. Perhaps most importantly, says Davis, that Rotary-sponsored year gave her an entirely new perspective on power and privilege. “Oxford was larger than life in my imagination,” she recalls. “But

when I became a part of Oxford and got to know the dons and the students, I realized that, whether rich or poor, we were all just human beings and all of us were vulnerable and full of imperfections.” Davis will be honored at the Rotary International Convention in Korea in June.

RI NEWS

Foundation Honoree Creates Opportunities For The Poor

Susan Davis shares a photo with school children in Pakistan. Davis co-

founded BRAC USA to advance the mission of BRAC -- Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee -- which is dedicated to fighting



GET INSPIRED !

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that

every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control

his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father

suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days

passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave

a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you

say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."

The little boy then understood how powerful his words were. He looked up at his father and said "I hope you can forgive me father for the holes I put in you."

"Of course I can," said the father.

Nails In The Fence



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