Rotaract Club of Port Klang Centennial

Happy New Year!!

2010-01-05T06:58:00.000-08:00

Dear fellow Rotaractors, Rotarians & friends,

Happy New Year to all of you! Hope this New Year 2010 brings lots of good news to all of us!

2009 has been a rather fun and interesting year for me, where I’ve learned and did my best to serve Rotaract as well as benefit all of us. In these 6 months period, we had actually done so many big projects!! Youth Leadership Congress, Blood Donation Drive, Polio Eradication Fund Raise, District Rotaract Conference, Seminars, Project Tunari and etc. Im not sure, how many lives we had saved so far through our Blood Donation Drive as well as Polio Eradication Fund Contribution. Isn’t that so satisfying being a Rotaractor?

To add on to that, DRR Sanjeev had pointed out in his speech during the DRC at Kuala Kangsar, that all other small clubs should take us as an example. Since we managed to conduct big projects within 6 months with just a few of us. Wow!! Now I totally agree that quantity does not matter. What really matters is the quality, and Rotaract Club of Port Klang Centennial has it. My sincere thanks from the bottom of my heart to all those who had contributed directly and indirectly so far. You have actually make a way to improve yourself. I’m sure all of us had learned a lot through Rotaract withins these 6 months. No doubt, I’ve learned a lot. And it has been a very exciting first half RIY09/10 for me, with all of you. I hope you too had enjoyed your presence here with me.

I’ve also made many close friends in our club itself within these short period of time, and i'm sure you too. I suppose you can look forward for more fellowship activities to foster our relationship in the second half of RIY09/10.

So, to kickstart the second half of RIY09/10, we will be having a general meeting on this Thursday. Details of the meeting are as below:

Date: 7th of Jan, 2010
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: PP Kuah’s Office, Klang
Agenda: DRR’s Visit

DRR Sanjeev will be having an official visit to our club this Thursday. Thus, I’m hoping for a full attendance from all of you. Guests are mostly welcome.

I have certainly enjoyed having you, be it, active or non-active members.

Thank you.

Regards,
Nanthini

Joint Meeting with Provisional Rotaract Club of Kelana Jaya

2009-12-01T00:18:00.000-08:00

Dear fellow Rotaractors, Rotarians & friends,

We will be having a joint meeting with Provisional Rotaract Club of Kelana Jaya on this Thursday.
Details of the meeting are as below:

Date: 3rd of Dec, 2009
Time: 8.30PM
Venue: Perdana Hall, Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club.

The speakers for the night are 2 cyclists, Richard & Stani. They are going to give a talk on their expedition and experiences gained throughout their journey around the world. Do you believe if I say that they are doing a world tour by bicycle for 7 years? If you don’t, please check out their website at http://www.velomad.com/

Please feel free to join us this Thursday.

Guests are mostly welcome.

Regards,
Nanthini

'DRIP FOR DROP' BLOOD DONATION DRIVE

2009-11-30T23:31:00.000-08:00

We will be conducting “Drip for Drop’ Blood Donation Drive. Details as follows;

Date: 13th Dec 2009
Time: 10am-5pm
Venue: Harvey Norman, AEON Jusco Bukit Tinggi Klang

Please join us in this precious mission to help the needy.

For further details, please contact:

OC Gun – 012 2912261

Rgds,
Nanthini

Youth Congress 2009 - Joint project by Rotaract Club of Port Klang Centennial & Rotaract Club of Taylors University College

2009-11-24T02:00:00.000-08:00

A successful project indeed! The main purpose of the congress was to ensure a positive CHANGE in todays youth and helping them to enhance their personal skills. We achieved our aim. The participants clearly went back with a brand new attitude. We had 5 influential speakers and 2 workshops. One on problem solving and the other on enhancing communication skills. It only costs rm5! With lunch and tea refreshment and a goodie bag not to forget the lucky draw session!

The best part it was free for the 1st 100 participants courtesy of Datuk Vinod Sekhar from Petra Group.

All in all it was a successfull project and hopefully we'll be able to do it again next year. Thanks to all the sponsors and Rac TUC President and OC Michelle Yong.

By Elizabeth

District Rotaract Assembly (DRA): We learn, We Interact and That’s it?

2009-11-23T06:20:00.000-08:00

By PP Lee Hui Hui

I remembered my first District Rotaract Assembly (DRA) in HolidayVilla, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur in year 2005. That was few months after my club obtained its charter. The venue was near to my place of work. So it was a blessing. But, it turned out that I had to return to office in the morning because of an urgent deadline.

And because of that, I missed my first group photo session after the opening ceremony.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself getting to know new faces from different club (although I feel odd at first fitting in)

Did I learn something there? Yes, I admit I did learn a lot about rotaract. For my first DRA, I attended the President/ President Elect/ Vice President Workshop with my club chartered president.

I remembered brainstorming solutions during the case study session. It is a norm for Rotaract club leaders to face problems like:

1) Inactive members and lack of participation in projects (Very common)
2) In ability to retain current members. (So common)
3) Difficulty in finding new members to ensure club continuity. (Common)

In DRA in Penang (March 2007), I attended the President/ President Elect workshop for the second time (because I did not hold any club office position for year 2006).

This time round, there was no case studies session (thank you to my GDLs PDRR Chandra and PDRR Dinesh). What I had was more of an opinion sharing session by the incoming club presidents, president elects and vice presidents.

They do share the same doubts and fears like me. I would not know whether my fellow incoming board that went to the DRA training with me learned about such issues.

The common topics raised were lack of active members to commit and take up projects.

I also listened to complaints by the respective district officers (who are also leaders in their club too) who raised issue like lack of participation in organized district projects and other interpersonal relationship problems.

What I can summarise is this = the survival of rotaract clubs purely depends on common factor – degree of interpersonal relationship among its members.

I was given the opportunity to be a panelist speaker in the morning plenary session led by PDG Dato Dr Low Teong. Title was how to build effective rotaract club. I spoke about from my club’s perspective on effective rotaract club based on email input from RAC Port Klang members.

All in all, it turned out that all the panelist speakers (PDRR Jamie, District Rotaract Chairman (DRC) and incoming DRC and myself) got the feedback from the audience what we have presented does not match with the current situation faced by the district rotaract clubs.
(I don’t have to mention this, but I am sure readers will know what I mean)

In a nutshell, it ain’t a blue sky picture! And it is a reality.

And this case, why are we attending the DRA? Is there a common solution to solve human relationship issue?

Problems will never get solved if there is continuous bickering. Projects will never be executed if members don’t want to do it.

In this case, the DRA is just a platform for us to gather, learn, have fun and that’s it?

I had to make this sweeping statement => Have anyone ponder to put the knowledge to good use by serving well and building relationships?

In essence, joining a non profit organization like rotaract is actually one of the ways to learn to build relationships, formed new friendships and be a better person and leaders in our own field.

We have to learn to give and accommodate with members that come from different background, age group, financial standing, personality, beliefs, attitude and culture.

It is never easy building and strengthening human relationships. It is never easy being a leader because being human, leaders can make grave mistakes.

As I am writing this article I realized I am still learning..

As fellow rotaractors, we must bear in mind to learn how to adapt to difficult situations and face potential setbacks in managing projects and our own rotaract clubs.

Nevertheless we as rotaractors must always strive to be a better person and hoping someday we are able to see the blue sky picture i.e. strong and effective rotaract clubs.

P/S Fellow members, I wrote this article about two years ago. I had reposted this for our learning and knowledge

WHOLE BRAIN POWER LEARNING SYSTEM SEMINAR

2009-11-12T07:12:00.000-08:00

Rotaract Club of Port Klang Centennial and Rotaract Club of Klang present’s WHOLE BRAIN POWER LEARNING SYSTEM SEMINAR.

The brain is an organ and can be physically stimulated to improve learning. Traditional approaches to learning primarily use the left-brain. Learning is most effective when both sides of the brain are involved. Also simple exercises (Educational Kinesiology) can help anyone to concentrate better and improve their learning skills.

You’ll discover how to:-
• Use innovative, easy-to-follow techniques to learn anything two to ten times faster.
• Enhance your learning styles and explore new styles

Talk Outline:-
• Problems of Learning
• Understanding the Left and Right Brain
• Understanding the Conscious and Unconscious Mind
• Power of Educational Kinesiology
• Successful Learning Strategies (Spelling Strategy and Speed Reading)
• Q and A

Duration : 2 Hours
Date : 15th Nov, 2009 (Sunday)
Time : 2pm
Venue : Royal Klang Club
Price : Free
Refreshments provided.

“It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Edmund Hillary (1st person to climb Mount Everest)

Seeking new challenges, Our keynote speaker Mr.Osman left banking and is now the principal Trainer and Coach of MO Life Strategies, a business he found to provide Training and Development.

He specializes in Personal Leadership, Sales Motivation, Customer Service and Attitudinal Change and has conducted many Management/Leadership and Training sessions throughout Malaysia , for banks, finance companies, learning institutions and individuals.

So guys, please reserve your seats ASAP.

By President Nanthini

New blog for the club

2009-10-28T01:50:00.000-07:00

Due to the request from the members, I have created a new blog that will serve various purposes. I strongly believe that this club blog will increase our club’s exposure to more potential members as we continuously update our club’s activities and details through the club’s blog. I am asking all members to participate by contributing articles to be posted to the blog. Do work with me to bring our club to even greater heights.

Sincerely,
Jia Thiam