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PEEJAY POST ROTARY CLUB OF PETALING JAYA FEBRUARY. 2021 | Issue 8 District 3300 Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya blessing shelf The PeeJay Post is published by the Peejay Post is a monthly PUBLIC IMAGE publication featuring event COMMITTEE updates and current club EDITOR - news. If you wish to PUBLISHER : JOYCE LEE contribute articles, please email rotarypj@gmail.com
CLUB INFORMATION Board of Directors (2020-2021) Chartered on the President 6th of January 1961 Victor Lee ___________________________________ lapkong38@gmail.com President Elect Correspondence Address: Melisa Francis melisa.francis1@gmail.com Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya Vice President No. 121, Block A, Nicholas Chan Kelana Centre Point, nicholas@yellowshorts.com.my SS7/19, 47301 Imm. Past President Petaling Jaya, Selangor. IPP Usha Gopalan Phone: +603-7491 1812 u_ushaz@yahoo.com Fax: +603-78052817 Email: rotarypj@gmail.com Hon. Secretary PAG Rianne Chin ___________________________________ rcadvisory@hotmail.com Hon. Treasurer Website Barry Tan brytan87@gmail.com www.rotarypj.com Membership ___________________________________ Carrien Chong info@itg-ind.com Facebook Public Image Joyce Lee www.facebook.com/rotaryclubpj joycelee2u@gmail.com ___________________________________ Club Administration Rajiv Mathews George Weekly Meetings rajiv.harvest@gmail.com Community Service Every Tuesday of the week Datin Sivanes (1st Tues (off)/ sivanes57@yahoo.com 2nd Tues 12:30pm/ 3rd Tues 12:30pm/ Rotary Foundation and Int's Service 4th Tues 7pm) Terence Tiew ttboon27@yahoo.com Location of regular meeting: Youth Services Anushia Mariappan Dorsett Grand Subang anushia_isha@live.com Jalan SS 12/1, SS 12, 47500 Subang Jaya, Board Advisors Selangor, Malaysia PDG David Ho PAG Dato Kevin Yong PAG H. S. Dharan
PRESIDENT JOTTINGS February, being the shortest month of the year, did not limit the continuing contributions of our club in its service to the community and in the pace of activities. First was the visit of the District Governor (DG). It was our first ever virtual DG visit efficiently managed on Zoom. Not being able to physically meet didn’t dampen the warm customary welcome we normally have for our DG, as we secretly arranged gifts, flowers and food delivered to his house, one after another. I am also glad the DG got to spend time with our Interactors and Rotaractors. In particular, I must say that the presentation from our Interactors of Catholic High School was flawless! Directors seamlessly executed power point presentations as if they were pre- recorded! Our Interactors have always been We were overjoyed by the professional our pride and they have never ceased to amaze greetings we received from our sister clubs in me. There is no compulsion; yet they always go return. I reiterate our stance that Covid has changed many things in our lives, but our sister the extra mile. Hang in there just a little longer club relationship will not waiver. I believe that as school classes will resume when the we shall come out stronger and with much Movement Control Order (MCO) is lifted and more fellowship after the pandemic. RCPJ we will be there in full support. You are our future and I am confident in your The next event in February was the 12th capabilities as demonstrated by your anniversary of our Rotaract club. It was not an performance for the DG. easy journey, but many Rotarians supported in the background, even though they may be too busy to attend our meetings. Just like in any Then there was the short break for the Chinese voluntary club, there are cold spells, there is New Year. First few days felt great as I could sit excitement, there are arguments and there are and do nothing but eat. But doing nothing and tears. In the end the journey binds us together eating was nothing new as these activities were and we excel and learn in many different ways. pretty much like what I was doing during the President Derek and team, you are doing a MCO. Having said that our club was able to put great job, so keep it up! together a greeting on Zoom to our sister clubs that celebrated Chinese New Year.
PRESIDENT JOTTINGS In the month we also had our first I would like to end by stating how I am Facebook live meeting. Well done Director amazed by how proactive and energetic my Rajiv and VP Nicholas. RCPJ is most BOD is. The culture is to jump onto certainly utilizing new technology at the opportunities presented by the changing age of 60. In addition, on the service environment, voice out how we can projects front, we were able to launch contribute and help, and followed by swift another four blessing shelf locations in our action. We are proactive so much so that neighboring state of Negeri Sembilan. we may even give the impression that we Congrats to our Covid team for continuing are too ambitious. I would like to share my to touch lives even when we ourselves own experience of meetings in Israel. I was were constrained by movement control. I shocked in these meetings to experience a remember during the district project small group of module engineers arguing highlight presentation someone raised the forcefully with the head architect. question along the lines of “how do you However, after the meeting they would go know your efforts will not be for a drink happily knowing that their goal abused?”There are so many needy whom is to improve the product and nothing was we have met and the stories they have told personal.We are exploring and attempting us are heartwarming. Out of 10 people, so many new things this year. The BOD has there may be the two who make us a good heart and this mutually supporting question our work. Instead, I choose to be culture, though challenging, and inspired by the eight who we are able to reminiscent of my experience in Israel, has help. Be inspired by the passerby in simple become the norm in this group. attire who donates what they can or banks in anonymously into our project fund. Be inspired by those in the community and Rotarians who share our common cause. Be inspired by organizations such as FFM Berhad and Etika Dairies which donate drinks in hundreds of cartons. It is clear to me that we have unexpectedly gained so much more than we have given. Just like any project, with good management, we can reduce abuse and perform minor miracles. For this I take off my hat to our dedicated Covid team.
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES Wedding Anniversary Liew Shou Kong & Ivy 05 JD John & Rohini 20
SERVICE PROJECT The Rotary Blessing Shelf Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) Signing Ceremony of Blessing Shelf with Rotary Club Rahman Putra, KL West, Damansara West with our District Governor Teoh Kwan Swee.
SERVICE PROJECT Blessings from the Community The objective of the shelf is to provide food These families in our community need a little and necessity relief to M40 community whose help to put food on their tables. income are affected by economic recovery stage due to impact of Covid-19 first quarter Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya in collaboration of 2020. These are group of people who has with VPro Pharmacy. The blessing shelf has lost their job or has continuous salary been set up in the following locations: deduction. And at the same time encourage the wealthier community to provide support - V Pro Pharmacy Bukit Jalil to the shelf by donating food and funds for - V Pro Pharmacy Mayang purchase of goods and daily use products for - V Pro Pharmacy Kota Damansara these families. - V Pro Pharmacy One City Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya (RCPJ) has formed a task force since MCO 1.0 to carry out Covid-19 Relief Support in different areas of need for the community. After distributing 15,000 face shields to Hospital Sungai Buloh and essential medical items to 6 local Klinik Kesihatan, now RCPJ has provided 5 blessing shelf to support the local community in Klang Valley in these hard times.
SERVICE PROJECT launched in starting at Pure PhysioStretch. VIPs attended: 1.) YB Mary Josephine Prittam Singh Ahli Dewan Undangan Rahang 2.) YB Veerapan A/L Superamaniam Ahli Dewan Undangan Repah 3.) Nicole Tan Lee Koon NS State Exco, Wakil Rakyat DUN Bukit Kepayang 4.) Adun LOBAK YB TUAN CHEW SEH YONG. 5.) Adun NILAI YB TUAN ARUL KUMAR A/L JAMBUNATHAN 6.) Adun & Exco CHENNAH YB TUAN LOKE SIEW FOOK 7.) Adun SEREMBAN JAYA YB TUAN GUNASEKAREN A/L PALASAMY Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya appeared on Sin Chew news.
WHY DID I JOIN ROTARY ? ----BY ROTARIAN FAN KA CHUN In Form 5, I was elected Community Service Director of the club. VP Nicholas Chan was IU Director then. We had a few legacy projects under community service which included teaching kids in St Paul's Church Petaling Jaya. Other projects included road curb painting, glass shutters repair and replacement for classrooms and raising funds through car washing. We also organized old folks home visits and sharing some activities with them, such as performing some cultural events which included singing and dancing to cheer the elderly. Essential items such as rice, oats, crackers, adult diapers, mugs and old clothes were raised and donated to these old folks’ homes. Interactors who participated in such events enjoyed the various activities and gained experience on how to provide proper care for geriatric patients. I also enjoyed getting to know more friends from different schools through International Understanding Day (IU Day) events held by Interact clubs sponsored by the Rotary Club of Born on 6th November 1978 in Kuala Lumpur, I Petaling Jaya (RCPJ), such as SMK Sultan Abdul attended kindergarten at the Church of the Holy Samad PJ, SMK La Salle PJ, SMK Assunta PJ, Rosary Kuala Lumpur, primary school at SJK(C) SMK (P) Taman Petaling and SMK (P) Sri Aman Chen Moh Petaling Jaya, secondary school at SMJL PJ. Katholic in Petaling Jaya and removed class in Form 6. I joined the Catholic High School Interact Club in Form 2. When walking back to class after morning assembly, I saw a booth of ICCHS inviting new members to join. So, without understanding what Interact Club was, I signed up with a few classmates and that’s how I became an Interactor. It was only in Form 3 that I started to be actively involved in ICCHS activities. I remember my first activity was fund raising for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Bangsar Shopping Centre. We raised the most funds for that day!
WHY DID I JOIN ROTARY ? ----BY ROTARIAN FAN KA CHUN During my Interactor life, I also learned a lot from After working for three years, I resigned and our Teacher Advisors and Rotarian Advisors, PP partnered with an UMS friend to start our own Jack Lim & PP Michael Toh. Industrial Automation & System Integration company, PROSYS Automation, located in After CHS, I studied Electrical and Electronics Sunwaymas Commercial Centre PJ. We are Engineering at University of Malaysia Sabah (UMS) mainly involved in Multiphase Flow Metering and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering with System & Custody Flow Metering System in the Honours degree in year 2002. I began my career as Oil & Gas industry. I am also fortunate to partner an industrial trainee and later as a system engineer with my other UMS friends to form few in an Industrial Automation company in Dataran engineering companies (CMEIS) involved in Prima PJ. My very first automation project was to Mechanical Valve business (Oil & Gas), Water & automate a milk & juice production line in Dutch Wastewater Treatment plant system, Lady Milk Industries, Section 13 PJ. Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation, Sampling System, Chemical Dosing System & Seawater Electro chlorination Plant System (Power Industries). One day, my CHS high schoolmate cum ICCHS member, VP Nicholas Chan whatsapped me that he is now a Rotarian of RCPJ and currently with our ICCHS Rtn Advisor PP Jack Lim. VP Nicholas invited me to a RCPJ lunch meeting to meet PP Jack Lim and get to know more about RCPJ. I was very excited to meet PP Jack Lim, had a great chat with him and had the chance to get to know more about RCPJ, my sponsor club during my Interactor life in ICCHS. From then onwards I joined a few more lunch meetings as a guest of VP Nicholas. He briefed me on what RCPJ stands for, and the work of the club. Eventually, I decided to join RCPJ because I wanted to contribute more to society and to get to know more friends as I was always busy with my company business. I was inducted as a Rotarian on 9 Oct 2018 and my wife, then pregnant, witnessed the occasion; a day after I became a Rotarian of RCPJ, my first boy was auspiciously born on 10 Oct 2018! I certainly hope that my journey with RCPJ will be meaningful and am certainly glad that I now have a bunch of good friends in RCPJ.
ROTARY HISTORY Why the Rotary year begins 1 July Ever wonder why 1 July is the beginning of the Rotary year? Initially, our conventions played a key role in determining the start date of our fiscal and administrative year. Rotary’s first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended, on 18 August 1910. The 1911-12 fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning with the first day of the 1911 convention on 21 August. Attendees at Rotary’s first convention in Chicago in 1910. Rotary’s first fiscal year began The next August, the Board of Directors ordered the day after the convention ended. an audit of the International Association of Rotary Clubs’ finances. The auditors recommended that the organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to The term “Rotary year” has been used to signify give the secretary and treasurer time to prepare a Rotary's annual administrative period since at financial statement for the convention and board, least 1913. An article in The Rotarian that July and to determine the proper number of club noted, “The Rotary year that is rapidly drawing delegates to the convention. to a close has been signalized by several highly successful joint meetings of Clubs that are so The executive committee agreed and, in April situated as to assemble together easily and 1913, designated 30 June as the end of the fiscal conveniently.” year. This also allowed for changes to the schedule Since the executive committee’s decision in for reporting club membership and payments. 1913, the end of the Rotary year has remained Even The Rotarian changed its volume numbering 30 June. system to correspond to the fiscal year (beginning with Volume 5, No. 1, in July 1914). Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in July or August until 1917. Delegates to the 1916 event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution to hold future conventions in June, mainly because of the heat in cities where most of them occurred. The next one was held 17-21 June in Atlanta, Georgia.
CONTACT US RCPJ is part of an international movement founded by Paul P. Harris in 1905. The Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya The purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to www.facebook.com/rotaryclubpj provide humanitarian service. encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and www.rotarypj.com help build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 33,976 clubs and over 1.22 million rotarypj@gmail.com members worldwide at present. Rotary's best-known motto is "Service above Self", and its secondary motto is "They profit most who serve best". The Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya RCPJ was chartered on 6 January 1961 with over 40 members at present. 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, non-racial, non- sectarian, non-governmental voluntary organization comprising men and women of many varied professions. Over the last 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 SuperCamps 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.
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