PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

In my opening address, I mentioned I was very fortunate to have a committed team who selflessly devoted their time and efforts to attain common goals and objectives in order to steer the Club to greater heights. This year’s theme, ROTARY SHARES, is a catalyst to re-align our philosophies of life and our actions as a consequence of being a member of this organization.

Rather than re-emphasize our differences, we have been geared to embrace our commonalities and to live and thrive on PEACE, LOVE, HARMONY, TRUST and INTEGRITY that should at all times characterize a GOOD RELATIONSHIP and PARTNERSHIP.

I mentioned that the main challenges the Club was facing are Attendance at Regular Meetings, Fellowships with total membership participation and Membership Development. As a consequence, Task Forces have been formed headed by Senior & Experienced Past Presidents in these three areas of primary concern:

These Past Presidents have tasked to make their Finding, propose their Recommendations and the Proactive Actions to be undertaken by the Club to move forward.

In the ‘report card’ that I had to submit to the DG prior to his visit to our Club, he gave us ‘two thumbs up’. The reports from the Treasurer and all other Service Avenues were well received and accepted by all members present. In his comments, the DG said our Club was a model to emulate in our District.

The Club Assembly was followed by very good Fellowship that carried on till the wee hours of the night. The following day, Tuesday 4th March 2008, the DG officially addressed our Club at our regular luncheon meeting. His inspiring address was further testimony in our quest of SERVICE ABOVE SELF.

Attendance Make-up events/activities 

The Board at its recent meeting has declared effective immediately the following event/activities of the Club as attendance make-up events & activities namely:

1. Interactors Leadership Seminar
2. ICC Charity Concert on 22 Mar 08 at HGH Sentul
3. Super Camp (Interactors) from 24-27 May 08 at Trolak
4. Golden Child Project on 8 Apr 08 at Sunway Lagoon
5. CLE (Concentrated Language Encounter)

Resulting from the above declaration attendance at any of the above events and activities qualifies as a make-up for absence from a weekly meeting, if it is within two weeks before or after the said weekly meeting. It is nevertheless the duty of an attendee who wishes to claim a make-up to notify the attendance chairman accordingly.

NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS 1 March 2008

ATTENDANCE – NOTICE OF MAKE-UP

For clarification to all members and for ease of reference, the attention of all members is drawn to the provisions of the Club Constitution relating to make-up for non-attendance at weekly meetings of the Club:

"Article VII Section 2 : Notice of Make-up. In the cases set out in sub-section (a)(ii) & (a)(iii) or section (b) of section 1 of this Article, the member shall only be counted as being in attendance if notice of the fact is given by the member personally to the club. In cases set out in sub-paragraphs (a)(i) and (iv), such notice may be given by the member personally or by the secretary of the club visited."

(Section 1 of Article VII sets out the various opportunities for make-up)

INTERPRETATION

1. It is the duty of the absent member to notify the Club (viz. Attendance Chairman or the Secretary). It is NOT the duty of the Attendance Chairman or the Secretary to chase an absent member for make-ups. No notice received by the Club means no make-up.

2. To constitute a valid make-up, the notice must contain the (i) name of the event claimed to be a make-up, (ii) date of that event and (iii) the date of the missed weekly meeting.. These particulars are to determine whether there is a valid make-up. If either (i) or (ii) is not given, there is no valid makeup. If (iii) is not given, but (i) & (ii) are given, it will be assigned to the missed meeting nearest to the make-up date. The prior practice of the absent member just writing “make-up” in the attendance book will no longer be acceptable. Notice (in writing or verbally) given by an absent member stating MERELY that he has made-up for any missed meeting or for any period of time is not valid notice and hence not a valid make-up.

3. To avoid disputes, the notice must be in writing, which can be by letter (typed or hand written), faxed to or by post or by eMail given or sent to the Attendance Chairman or Secretary.

4. The 2 week rule applies for make-ups, meaning it is a valid make-up if it is within 2 weeks before or after the missed meeting. If the absent member is out of the country for more than 2 weeks, this rule is waived as long as the make-up is done out of the country and during the absence out of the country.

(Note: An absent member is one who has not physically attended one or more of the club’s weekly meetings.)

Liew Shou Kong
Hon. Secretary RCPJ

1. Women are unpredictable. Before marriage, she expects a man, after marriage she suspects him, and after death she respects him.

2. There was this guy who told his woman that he loved her so much that he would go thru hell for her. They got married - and now he is going thru hell.

3. A man inserted an 'ad' in the classified : "Wife wanted ". Next day, he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing : "You can have mine."

4. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.

5. It's easy to tell if a man is married or not. Just watch him drive a car with a woman sitting beside him. If both his hands are on the wheel, you can be sure he is married.

6. A man received a letter from some kidnappers. The letter said, " If you don't promise to send us $100,000 I swear that we will kidnap your wife." The poor man wrote back, "I am afraid I can't keep my promise but I hope you will keep yours."

7. "What's the matter, you look depressed." "I'm having trouble with my wife." "What happened?" "She said she wasn't going to speak to me for 30 days." "But that ought to make you happy." "It did, but today is the last day."

Al Gore and the Clintons are flying on Air Force One. Bill looks at Al, and chuckles and says, "You know I could throw a $10,000 dollar bill out the window right now and make one person very happy." Al shrugs his stiff shoulders and says, "Well I could throw ten $1,000 bills out the window and make 10 people very happy."

Hillary tosses her perfectly sprayed hair and says, "Of course, then, I could throw one hundred $100 bills out the window and make one hundred people very happy."

Chelsea rolls her eyes, looks at all of them and says, "I could throw all of you out the window and make the WHOLE COUNTRY HAPPY!"