Vol 18 Number 11 SELAMAT PAGI 12 September 2009

Member's Contribution

From the Editor

The Rotary Foundation Seminar6th September 2009

“Change and decay in all around I see;O Thou, who changest not, abide withme.” - Henry Francis Lyte

orget the dreadful anniversary that is today. Countries are still at it butwe seek healing and move on.

I reflected, somewhat sheepishly, howI froze in the midst of thanking HEP Williams (Aussie High Com) some-time in May 2009. Couldn’t explain itbut sure as hell understood thebleakness experienced by those insimilar situa-tion. Maybe there was toomuch effort in it (as my mother wouldhave said). But was I over-awed by theoccasion that it contorted and distortedmy flow? In mine, there was no flow atall so I am still lost with no prescription.

In her effort to bring service back toRotary, our president adopted theseamless transition approach toleadership change – with neither

pageantry nor glitz. She kept theceremony but dispensed with the pomp.The installation event in June flowed,though comically flawed, was nonethe-less smooth.

Frances’ maiden speech as Presidentbespoke of business as usual andreminded us that our moral compassremained at true north. Now with the clubembarking on the Education Fund underPP Yoke Leong, RCBKS is truly lookingnorth.

In all my years in RCBKS, I couldn’tremember the number of times the clubhad seek the publicity of media as itwasn’t really the culture to measure ourrelevance by the number of timesRCBKS or its community projects gotfeatured in the press. It had been a longtime since anyone attempted to alleviatehis/her importance by being pictured witha high government official/politician atclub projects. You see, people will soon

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realize that these gestures are butexcuses to seek– that proverbial – 3minutes of fame.

No doubt, and rightly so, the EducationFund will gain elevation as it materializesand as its beneficiaries come to the fold.This is not a bad thing as long as it is toinspire and remind us that there is stillsome good to be done out there.

I am sure, President she now is,Frances will, together with the team andthe discipline that they bring, guide thisproject to its destiny so that the destinyof some can be fulfilled.

Our only challenge is to put our collectiveefforts together, and behind the team, asit is time that RCBKS, once again, beseen as responsive to the

n a cold Sunday morning, after a night of rain, it would have beenperfect for a lie-in but someone had todrag himself out of bed to attend whatis perceived to be a boring seminar.Anyway, after dropping off my kids fortheir Sunday class, I finally ended up atthe Menara Yayasan Tun Razak, thevenue for the seminar after havinggotten lost and had to get directionsfrom President Elizabeth Yam ofKelana Jaya,

The seminar organised by the RotaryClub of Brickfields had a huge turnoutof 174 registrants from 45 Rotary clubswhich is very impressive consideringthat it was held on a Sunday. Thefactthat it only cost RM35 for a full day

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This is the main priority for 2009/2010.Having spent over US$1 billion over thelast twenty years, we must not fail at thislast hurdle. With the US$355 million fromthe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationplus Rotary’s US$200 million pledge ofwhich over RM90 million have beenreceived up to 30th June 2009, we arewell on the way to eradicating Polio fromthe face of the earth.

seminar with lunch,coffee and tea breaks certainly helped.Once again, we had RRFC PDG FongHoe Beng travelling up from Singapore toshare with us The Rotary Foundationgoals for 2009/2010 :

1. To eradicate Polio

The six areas of focus are :

I Peace & Conflict PreventionII Disease Prevention and TreatmentIII Water and SanitationIV Maternal and Child HealthV Basic Education and LiteracyVI Economic & Community Development

2. To concentrate on the six areas offocus of the Future Vision Plan

The Future Vision Plan is currentlybeing tested and fine tuned by 100 pilotDistricts around the world. Non-pilotDistricts will receive training on the newgrants structure in 2012/2013 with fullimplementation from RY 2013. .......continue on next page

3. To implement the Future Vision Plan

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Visiting Rotarian;PP Balasundram, RC Orewa NZ

Guests:Geraldine Loo, guest of SteveBunny. guest of Siew HwaDr Nabil, guest of Siew HwaArin, guest of Sanjay

Attendance: 67% Fines: $34

ATTENDANCE

Announcements

Club Service ~ Karen- Reported on the picnic at TamanRimba Kiara held last Sunday.- No meeting on 19 Sept'09 in view of Hari Raya long weekend.- There will be a birthday celebration for Sept after the meeting.

Rotary Foundation ~ Sunny- Members are encouraged to attendthe Rotary Foundation seminartomorrow. Cost is $35.00

Vocational service ~ CY- The Vocational service awardspresentation is on 3 Oct'09 during theregular club meeting.- Vocational visit to DHL is on 10 Oct'09Club meeting will be held there at 8amfollowed by the visit.

PP Yoke Leong presented a powerpoint presentation on the RCBKSEducational Fund working committee.

LAST WEEK'S SPEAKER

Rtn Steve Robinson- Birmingham Small Arms Company BSA (1861-1972)

It’s Saturday 5th September & it’s timeto share a few thoughts on the BritishMotorcycle industry. In particular the BSACompany that produced many of theiconic machines that are still runningtoday. As is customary I present a writeup of the subject at hand & having readmany articles, some books & searched numerous websites I cannot improve onthe following article by the AMA. If I was to add anything it would be that the BSA(Small heath works), Birmingham, had in it’s hey day employee’s numbering over13,000 people & often whole families. It had state of the art medical facilities andgyms to work out and train boys entering the industry from school. It made guns,bicycles, machine tools & Motorcycles, cars & much much more. The dream yearswere the mid to late fifties, some 12 years later the factory was closed as Japaneseperformance machines took over.

What went wrong?, well there were many problems – The factory was a target forGerman bombing raids & when rebuilt after the war became a mix of old and new,a lack of investment or investing in the wrong equipment, lack of resources after thesecond world war, limited labour force, fuel rationing, low wages, a run of severaldisaster products, political & governmental policy, consumer needs and behavioursthat were neglected are to name but a few. Often the fixes & attempts to rectify thesituation were too little too late. Morale was low, one year alone recorded a majorworkshop with 40 % employee turnover.

Oddly enough the1 Million Pound computerised parts management & supply systempurchased in 1955 & only completed in 1969 continued to automatically manufactureparts even thought sales of motorcycles had declined dramatically, thus even todaythere is a wealth of spares still available for these machines.

Strangely enough as the Motorcycle division grew to become BSA’s largest revenuecontributor, the managements focus and expertise was going in the other direction.Bert Hopwood sums it up quite succinctly in a few quotes taken from his book –What even happened to the British Motorcycle History. (ref. at the end of this article).

Bert Hopwood in Whatever Happened to the British Motorcycle Industry?

“The story of our failure is indeed one of gross mismanagement, for at no timein the last twenty years did we master the arts of assembling the right expertiseand planning management strategy based on the collected knowledge andadvice of those people who are always to be found within a company with anybackground...

“...with a further influx of experts from other fields, we were finally overrun by anupper/middle management who... were now in consumer durables.

Never for one moment did they seem to grasp that these particular things weremotorcycles and that we were supposed to be earning a living making them.”

As for me, I am a proud owner of a 1964 BSA 50 STAR purchased in Myanmar in 1996 for 200usd, a heritage of the Britishinvolvement in the Asia region at that time. Yes it leaks oil, and you kind of half ride half push the machine, but stop at the papershop & young and old alike come over for a chat! It sums up a bygone age and what might have been!

I would also like to add special thanks to another of our members, Grant O’Malley who has an impressive collection of classicbikes. Grant closed out the session by sharing his enthusiasm and a tale or two from his many experiences covering racingmachines to classic plodders! Also special mention to Mr. Tan Ving Hing who has a classic motorcycle restoration shop & rode hisBMW K1200 Tourer for members to see. We hope the club members enjoyed the talk. Poay Lim, thank you for the opportunity ofpresenting this.

26 September (Membership)

Sargeant-at-arms Desk Duty Introducer Thank Speaker Fines

12 September (New Generation)

Sargeant-at-arms Desk Duty Introducer Thank Speaker Fines

19 September'09(Sat)No meeting

26 September'09(Sat) 7.30amBusiness Meeting & EGM

3 October'09(Sat) 7.30amVocational Award Presentation

Vocational Visit to DHLDate: 10 October 2009

Club meeting @ BackofenDate: 31 October 2009

Fundraising Charity Nite

Date: 14 November 2009Venue: Hyatt Saujana, Subang

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CALENDER of EVENTS

Duty Roster

DISTRICT EVENTS....................

District Public Relations WorkshopDate : 11 October 2009

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Yoke Leong

Dr Sukumar'H1N1'

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4 To support EREY and the Permanent Fund

There were also speakers on the subject of Fund Development, Group StudyExchange, Polio Eradication, Matching Grants and issues involving MatchingGrants.

So, did I learn anything new from this seminar having attending our own seminarlast year? The answer is No, I did not learn anything new but I did learn a lot aboutwhat I do not know of The Rotary Foundation. ~ PP Sunny Khoo

Subject to the recommendations of the pilot Districts and adoption by RotaryInternational, there will be a complete revamp of the grants structure. There willbe two types of grants, Rotary Foundation District Grants and Rotary FoundationGlobal Grants. Districts will receive 50% of their DDF with full autonomy on theirusage. There will also be two types of Rotary Foundation Global Grants :

Club and District developed global grants which are partially funded bysponsors and receiving a match from the Foundation’s World Fund. This will befor larger humanitarian projects with a minimum of US$15,000 compared tocurrent minimum Matching Grant of US$5,000 ; Packaged global grants which are developed by the Foundation in collabora-

tion with Rotarians and strategic partners with expertise in the area of focus andfunded 100% by the Foundation World Fund.

To continue to encourage Rotarians to continue to support The Rotary Founda-tion with a minimum contribution of US$100 to the Annual Programs Fund everyyear.

75th District ConferenceDate: 7-9 January 2010Venue: Sheraton SubangEarlybird Registration Fee: $350(before end Sept 2009)

Dr. Sukumar, is a family Medicine Specialist from Ministry of Health. He runs theHealth Clinic in Tanglin. His presentation will touch base on Statistics, Vaccines/Prevention and Tamiflu/ Treatment.

Souvenir programme:Back cover (colour) RM 5,000Back inside cover (colour)RM 2,500Front inside cover (colour) RM 2,500Full page (B&W) RM 1,000Half page (B&W) RM 500

Health NEWS

Before you go to bed at night, prepare this magic potion: Finelychop or use the food blender to chop up two cloves of fresh garlicand let it expose to the air for a few minutes while you wash upyour blender or chopping board. The chopping releases the enzyme alliance in the garlic. Gather the choppedgarlic on a spoon and swallow it with water. The garlic will travel your entire digestive tract while you sleep and scavenge andneutralize all the toxins, carcinogens, harmful bacteria, fungi, viruses, foreignchemical before they can harm your healthy cells. Swallowing the chopped garlic will not give you garlic breath, as long as you don’tchew it. You brush your teeth and rinse your mouth before you go to bed anyway. In the morning, drink a big glass of water. Your first bowel movement will have astrong garlic odour and you will know that the harmful stuff have been eliminatedfrom your body. Try it, especially if you have had a bad eating day.

~ Contributed by James Cheong

Board of Directors 2009/10

PresidentFrances Po21731618(0)

President ElectTan Poay Lim77277127(0)

Immediate Past President/PRElsie Low77281807(0)

Vice President/Membership DirectorDr Sanjay Doshi23008030(0)

Honorary SecretaryCecelia Matuya56342870(0)

Honorary TreasurerPP Graham Bennett012-2918619

Club Service DirectorPP Karen Chong012-2893380

Vocational Service DirectorPP CY Fong78032276(0)

Community Service DirectorHo Ee Lay019-3395688

International Service DirectorSusan Lim012-2325860

New Generation DirectorGhaurry23003757(O)

Rotary Foundation ChairmanPP Sunny Khoo22849089(O)

James Lau/ Karen (Editor/Production)Poay Lim (Speaker's Programme)

Bulletin Committee

District Governor Leslie Salehuddin03-77297761 (0) 03-77297762(Fax)dgles0910@gmail.com

Assistant Governor Veiven Goon03-79805529(0) 03-79813514(Fax)vgoon@streamyx.com

Rotary Clubs in Group 9AmpangBukit Kiara SunriseKL WestPuduSri Petaling

RC Bugis Junction [D 3310] Saturday, 08:00 am Hotel Inter-Continental 80 Middle Road, Singapore

RC ChiangmaiThinthaingam[D 3360] Thursday, 12.00 noon International Center Chiangmai University, Thailand RC Chungli Chung Shing [D 3500] Thursday, 12.00 noon No 4, Ln 10, Gwo-Ti Street Chungli, Taiwan

Sister Clubs District 3300

IN FOCUS

WMKL is the Malaysian leg of the first ever WorldMarch that will travel the world starting from 2 October2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, in NewZealand to 2nd January 2010 in Argentina, asking forthe end of wars, the dismantling of nuclear weaponsand for an end to all forms of violence (physical,economic, racial, religious, cultural, sexual and psychological).Please find out more from www.theworldmarch.org.

In Malaysia, 5 NGOs: WAO, NURSALAM, VOICE OF THE CHILDREN, SPCA andWORLD WITHOUT WARS, are joining hands to organize this fun filled event,which will include a Lantern Walk themed “Reclaiming the Night” and StreetFestival at Jalan Bangkung, Bukit Bandaraya and Peace Dance at Leonardo’sWine Loft on 10 October 2009, from 6pm - 12 midnight. Venue: Jalan Bangkung, Bukit Bandaraya Date: Saturday, 10 October 2009Time: 6pm – 10pm Street Festival at Jalan Bangkung with performances by Malaysianartists, exhibitions by NGOs, stalls selling food, ethnic items etc. 8.30pm-9pm "Reclaiming the Night” Lantern Walk starting from Jalan Bangkung(Bring along your Tanglung and join us for this historic walk for peace and nonviolence) 9pm-12am Peace Dance at Leonardo’s Wine Loft (Retro dance party. Comedressed in the 60s and 70s style.)

For further info, pls email former Rotarian Edward Soo: edsoo@edsoo.com.my

World March for Peace and Non Violence