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PEEJAY POST
Issue 3/RY2012-2013/ 17 July 2012
President‘s Jotting
Inside:
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Media highlights
on Polio
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Something light
please…
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And more
“Our Vision:
Peace through
Service”
We meet
Tuesdays
12.45pm
Grand Dorsett Hotel,
Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
PeeJay Post Editor
Victor Lee
Bouquets and Brickbats to
victor@teralynk.com
012-4035397
races in Malaysia. We are truly moving
towards a 1 Malaysia and cultural
understanding when the Chinese fan dance
was performed by Indian students. As part of
their fund raising activities, a carnival kicked
off after the formal part of the IU Day and we
Rotarians gave our full support by
participating in the carnival.
This year’s Rotary Theme “Peace Through
Service” of Rotary International President
Sakuji Tanaka was very well carried out by
these young Interactors. International
Understanding is a cross border and cross
culture programme aimed at fostering closer
relationship amongst people of different races
through better understanding of each other’s
Assunta Interact Club’s International cultural practices, beliefs and needs. Through
Understanding Day
better understanding of each other, we
accommodate, tolerate and embrace the
On Saturday, 7 July 2012, a number of RCPJ diversity in the world.
Rotarians namely PP Eric Wong, VP Dr.
Krishna Moorthy, PP Chris Ng, Hon. These young Interactors had carried out and
Secretary Siti Haslindah, RTn. Tony Ong, Rtn completed a very commendable project.
Pua Boon Yee, Rtn Victor Lee and I were Giving hope to others who are less fortunate
present at Assunta Interact Club’s unconditionally and without reservation and
International Understanding (IU) Day.
without asking for returns or rewards. These
achievements could only come through great
Their theme for this year’s IU was “Gateway leadership, teamwork and harmony.
to Headway; Bestowing Solidity” meaning
the beginning of progression.
Hearty congratulations to Interact President
Dana Low and her team, Teachers and
In collaboration with World Vision Rotarian Advisors.
Malaysia, this year the Interact Club of
Assunta planned to raise RM20,000 to help Well done! Great job!
build a school library to benefit students in
Prohut Primary School in Bati, Cambodia at
President Koh Kia Heong
International Understanding Day.
Among the audience and guests were
Principal Rita Shanthini, Teacher Advisors
Puan Shanti and Puan Isabelle of SMK
Assunta, parents and more than 600
Interactors
from
various
schools.
Organizing Chairperson, Interactor Yasmin
Imam welcomed the guests and gave a very
good speech, outlining the thought and hard
work put in by the Committee in organizing
the IU Day.
Audience and guests were entertained to
cultural shows representing the various
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RI Theme RY2012-2013 “Peace Through Service”
Rotary International
Media spotlights global polio eradication, Rotary’s role
Rotary International News -- July 19th 2012
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative,
including Rotary’s role as a spearheading
partner, continues to generate coverage in
the news media and on social networks. The
Washington Post ran an editorial in support
of the initiative, which mentioned Rotary’s
traveled the world to immunize children
against polio and is chair of the Rotarian
Action Group for Polio Survivors and
Associates, appeared in REAL
SIMPLE magazine.
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achievement in raising more than US$200
“Clearly, we are moving toward a
future that will be characterized at
once by desperate needs and vast
potential. We Rotarians are
especially well-positioned to serve
as a bridge between the problems
and the possibilities. We have a
strong presence in nations that are
technology-rich as well as in
countries that can barely meet
even the most basic human needs.
Let us use that presence — and the
unique perspective it affords us —
to create the vibrant spirit of
Rotary…and extend it to every part
of the globe.”
Read a Rotary Voices blog post
by Robert S. Scott, Rotary’s
million to match the $355 million in
International PolioPlus
challenge grants from the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
Committee chair, on Pakistan’s
Rotary’s End Polio Now Facebook page
progress in polio eradication.
reached almost 226,000 people during the
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week of 9-15 July. A“This Close” public
Eradication Emergency Action
service announcement (PSA) on
Plan.
international cricketing superstar Shahid
Afridi of Pakistan received 634 likes, 10,074
shares, and 54 comments on the End Polio
Read about the Global Polio
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See an infographic illustrating
how close the world is to
Now Facebook page; and 933 likes, 368
shares, and 26 comments on the Rotary
eradicating polio and what's
Facebook page. Bill Gates also shared the
needed to finish the job.
PSA on his Facebook page, which has more
than 1.5 million followers, where it received
3,123 likes, 437 shares, and 242 comments.
Earlier this year, news of India’s milestone
achievement of going one year without polio
and Rotary’s leading role garnered coverage
in the Associated Press, The Economist,
Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters,
and other major media.
A profile of Ann Lee Hussey, who has
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Contribute to help End Polio
Now.
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Calender (Club, District & RI)
Events
Dates, 2012
Time
CHS interact club installation
27 July
2pm-4pm
SAS Interact club installation
31 July
RCPJ Business meeting.
(Lunch meeting on 31st
cancelled)
Club Admin
Service Projects
TRF and New Gens
PR and Membership
31 July
3:30pm5:30pm
5:30pm
1 August
7 August
8 August
14 August
8pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
Host(s) / Venue
Dewan Brother Phillipe Wu, SMJK
Katholik
Dewan Bakti, SMK Sultan Abdul
Samad
Grand Dorsett
Rupert & Chris / TBA
YS Lim / KGNS
Eric & Balram/ KGNS (upstairs)
TBA
District & RI
3 in 1 TRF+MDR+PR seminar
RC Bukit Bintang
Dengue Fever Campaign
RC Bandar Utama
“Cheshire New Challenges”
MT Kinabalu climb
5 Aug. 2, 23 Sept
8am-5pm
17 July
1pm-5pm
27-31 August
RC Taiping / Fleminton Hotel,
Taiping
CMK (L) Sentul
Contact : President of RCBU
Our Meeting of
17 July 2012
For this week our guest speaker was Richard Gan on the Bukit Gambang resort city. It is an impressive
project water parks, drive through safari, team building venue and huge ball rooms capable of housing
3100 participants. For more information please visit www.bgrc.com.my. Our club will also be exploring
the possibility of hosing supercamp at this location and Richard has offered to assist and explore this. If
anything some are worried there are too much attractions at the location that our Interactors may find it
hard to focus on the leadership camp itself.
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Something light please…
Famous Dilbert quotes:
1.
I say no to alcohol, it just doesn't listen.
2.
It's not hard to meet expenses, they are everywhere.
3.
A printer consists of 3 main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
4.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was
the genius.
5.
Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
---- News Flash from the offshore Broome, Western Australia ---The Australian Navy intercepted three boatloads of people off the north west coast of Australia today.
This placed the Navy in an awkward position, as the boats were not heading to, but away from Australia
towards Christmas Island.
Another surprise finding was that they were loaded with Australians who were all seniors of pension age.
Their claim was that they were trying to get to Christmas Island so as to be able to return to Australia as
illegal immigrants and therefore be entitled to far more benefits than they were receiving as legitimate
Australian pensioners.
The Navy, it is believed, gave them food, water and fuel and assisted them on their journey.
We are booking the next boat, let me know if you want to come.
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Meeting Vital Statistics (17 July 2012)
Attendance:
22/44 = 50%
Raffle
RM 45
Fines
RM 238
Others
RM 50
Total
RM 333
Cumulative to-date
Next Meeting: 24 July 2012
Intr Introducing: Michael Chua
Thanking: Dr. J.D. John
Finemaster: Jack Lim
Fellowship: Siti
Raffle: Harjit
Raffle
RM 155.00
Fines
RM 505.00
Others
RM 150
Total
RM 810.00
Birthdays & Wedding Anniversaries, July 2012
Birthdays
Rotarians :
Birthdays
Spouses :
Wedding Anniversaries
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Olivia Lim – 7th
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Datin Karen Lim – 9th
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PP Liew Shou Kong – 17th
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Datin Jackie Low – 25th
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PP Dr JD John – 17th
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Ricky Ying and May Woon – 12th
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PP Rupert Goldman – 18th
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Chris and Chin Peng – 18th
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IPP Jack Lim – 21st
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Rupert Goldman and Wendy – 25th
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Raymond Tan – 30th
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Datuk Rahman Ramli and Datin Hani –
7th
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On Film, 10 July 2012
One
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Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya
RCPJ is part of an international movement founded by Paul P.
Harris in 1905.
The purpose of the organization is to bring together business and
professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage
high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill
and peace in the world.
There are 33,976 clubs and over 1.22 million members
worldwide at present.
Rotary's best-known motto is "Service above Self", and its
secondary motto is "They profit most who serve best”.
www.rotarypj.com
rotarypj@gmail.com
Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya
The PeeJay Post is
published by the
Public Relations
Committee of RCPJ
About RCPJ
RCPJ was chartered on 6 January 1961 with
over 40 members at present. It is one of the
oldest Rotary clubs in Malaysia. Rotary is an
international
movement
founded
on
international friendship and service to the
community in which it is located. Perhaps the
most prominent of its project has been and
still is, Polio Plus, the eradication of polio
from the face of the earth. It is a non‐political,
non‐religious,
nonracial,
non‐sectarian,
nongovernmental voluntary organization
comprising men and women of many varied
professions.
Over the past years, RCPJ was responsible for
providing Petaling Jaya's urban community
with its first public library, for equipping
children’s playground, and starting a
kindergarten, while at the national level, it
succeeded in launching the National Kidney
Foundation, the precursor of the country's
first centre for urology and neurology, to
mention some of its more spectacular
achievements. By 1990, RCPJ expanded its
service activities to establish regular
community support in the form of schools
nutrition,
vocation
guidance,
youth
development through
Rotaract and Interact Clubs and bus shelters
and pedestrian bridges. Besides that, RCPJ
has also addressed contemporary local
issues for the aged, the handicapped, the
poor, the environment, health and
International
relationships.
More
recently, RCPJ carried out the Golden
Child Project for the terminally ill,
Ten‐Pin Bowling for the physically and
mentally challenged children, children’s
cheer project for the less privileged,
vaccination for hawkers in SS2, Petaling
Jaya, organising Super Camps to reach out
to the youths and conducting the
Lighthouse Project to train teachers to
teach English. In 2005, the Club put into
action the Super Mums project to
empower single mothers to start and
sustain their home based business and to
be financially independent.
DYMM Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah
Sultan of Selangor, is Patron of the Rotary
Club of Petaling Jaya.