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Wednesday, 8th March 2006 

Issue 31 – 2005/06 Page 1 

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Bulletin of the Rotary C lub of Kuala Lumpur DiRaja


Issue 31 – 2005/06 Page 2 

Club Notices 

Royal Patron 

Duli Yang Maha Mulia 

Sultan Selangor Darul Ehsan 

YEAR 2005-06 

President 

Low Kok Hwa 

Tel: 7980 0210 Fax: 7980 1712 

lasen@tm.net.my 

President Elect 

David Teh 

Tel: 4042 3311 Fax: 4042 3327 

dtlt@streamyx.com 

Vice President 

Dato' Abdul Razak Hashim 

Tel: 4022 4455 Fax: 4022 4455 

darraz02@hotmail.com 

Honorary Secretary 

Freddy Chan Kah Hong 

Tel: 9223 8386 Fax: 9223 8396 

freddy@tm.net.my 

Honorary Treasurer 

Chiu Kim Boo 

Tel: 9130 4911 Fax: 9131 7590 

kimboo@pc.jaring.my 

Immediate Past President 

Dr. Lee Hock bee 

Tel: 2282 6210 Fax: 2282 5709 

hockbeelee@yahoo.com 

Directors 

Club Service 

Choy Hong Nang 

Tel: 9131 9803 Fax: 9131 8696 

jcekap@pd.jaring.my 

Vocational Service 

Thomas Varughese 

Tel: 7959 2788 Fax: 7957 0072 

tvarughese@hsbc.com.my 

Community Service 

Francis Chan Hooi Wah 

Tel: 6203 1060 Fax: 6203 1098 

kwchan@pc.jaring.my 

International Service 

Horst Wippern 

Tel: 4252 7112 Fax: 4257 7262 

wippern@pd.jaring.my 

New Generations Service 

Justin Teoh 

Tel: 6157 8193 Fax: 6157 5662 

justin@disjubm.com.my 

Fellowship Service 

Steve Lau Keng Lim 

Tel: 9130 6622 Fax: 9130 3622 

stevelau@streamyx.com 

Sergeants at Arms 

Lau Choo Seng 

Tel: 2691 8007 Fax: 2691 7616 

laucs99@pd.jaring.my 

Tan Kok Chong 

Tel: 2142 7152 Fax: 2148 2481 

kcputri@pd.jaring.my 

RC Makati 40th Charter Anniversary Celebrations 

· Our sister club RC Makati was chartered in 1966 and will thus be celebrating its 40th 

charter anniversary in March. Our club has been invited to participate in the celebration, 

and the tentative programme is as follows: 

- 08 March - Arrival and welcome dinner 

- 09 March - Visit to RC Makati's various community service projects 

- 10 March - Golf game (morning) 

- 11 March - Departure 

- Anniversary ball (evening) 

· IS Director Horst announces that he would like to 'assemble a team' from our club to travel 

to Manila for what promises to be an excellent fellowship and high-class dinner event. 

· Those interested, and especially those who have long-standing connections with RC 

Makati, please contact IS Director Horst so that planning can take place without too much 

delay. 

72nd RI District 3300 Assembly 

· The District Assembly is a platform that covers four days of training for Club Office 

bearers and Rotarians. 

· DGE Dato’ Jimmy Lim from our Club will be hosting this event. Let’s attend in strength to 

support him and be proud of our home-grown DG for 2006-07: 

- Date: 6th to 9th April 2006 (Thursday-Sunday) 

- Venue: Holiday Villa Hotel, Subang 

- Thursday – Friday (6th-7th April): Training for in-coming Club Presidents, Secretaries & 

Treasurers. 

- Saturday–Sunday (8th - 9th April): All other Office Bearers & Rotarians. 

This was the last update received from Rtn Reiner Allgeier’s via email about what’s in 

store for the next few weeks … 

Lunch Time Speakers 

· 08.03.2006 – Rainer Herret, Executive Director of MGCC 

Topic: Bilateral business relations btwn Malaysia & Germany 

Member - no introduction 

· 15.03.2006 – Tan Sri Dato' Ernest Zulliger, Chairman Asian Business Solutions 

Topic: Making value creation a core competency, Introduction by Rtn Reiner 

Allgeier 

· 22.03.2006 – H.E. Tierry Rommel, Ambassador European Union 

Topic: The role of the EU in Malaysia, Introduction: TBC 

· 29.03.2006 – Dato' Abdul Kadir Bohd Deen, Director Halim Mazmin Berhad & former 

Ambassador to Germany, Topic: TBA, Introduction by Rtn Reiner Allgeier 

Editors 

Andy Khoo 

Tel: 016 6574646 Fax: 6203 2877 

aakhoo@yahoo.com 

Louis Cheah 

Tel: 7803 0410 

lcbp@tm.net.my 



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Weekly Proceedings On 1.3.2006 

Meeting Convener: PP. Stuart Pack 

National Anthem & Loyal Toast: Rtn. Attan Akmal 

Welcoming Guests: Sgt. at Arms Lau Choo Seng 

Introducing Speaker: Pres. Low Kok Wah 

Speaker: D.G. Dr Ken Khoo 

Thanking Speaker: Pres. Kok Wah 

Distinguish Guests: 

- DG Dr Ken Khoo 

- First Lady Swan Sim 

- AG Hj. Zainuddin 

Visiting Rotarians: 

- P.P.Peter Holzer: R.C. Switzerland 

- PDG Paul Osimo: R.C. Havertown .USA. 

Visiting Guests: 

- Dick Quinten guest of Uwe Ahren 

- K.C Chong guest of P.P. William Lau 

- Wan Mohd. Rasul guest of Halim 

- Rtn .Ann Datin Peck Lin guest of PDG. Beh Lye Huat 

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The Rotary Club Of Kuala Lumpur DiRaja 

We meet at 12:30pm every Wednesday 

at The Shangri La Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. 

Service Above Self 



Issue 31 - 2005/06 Page 5 

Luncheon Talk 

By DG Ken Khoo 

the urgent need in development of Rotary is not more clubs 

nor larger clubs…it’s the evolution of of a truer & stronger 

philosophy. He then quoted Confucius from the Analects that 

gave steps to develop oneself successfully, which is 

Sincerity…essential to achieve peace & success. 

DG Ken Khoo speaking... 

He began by reminding the club that its 76 year old and that 

rotary must have touched thousand of people in our 

community in this period, and that Paul Harris once said that 

DG & 1st lady 

He asked all Rotarians to uphold the principle of promoting 

ETHICAL PRACTICES and advocates the TRUTH and what is 

FAIR to ALL CONCERN, ready to offer hands of 

friendship/fellowship, spread goodwill an share what is 

beneficial….and while we enjoy our fellowship be mindful of 

the needs of others, lend a hand to the needy and sow the 

seeds of love. He ask us not to be kiasu (from a saying in 

Chinese). 

President thanking DG 

He ended by saying R.I. has chosen the shortest month 

which has just past as World Understanding Month and 

wished us PEACE 

FROM THE DESKTOP OF A ROTARIAN 

GEMS FROM THE WEB 

The proposal for pre-charging some amount of our weekly 

lunch costs has created deep controversy and contrarian 

views over the past months, culminating in verbal vitriolic 

hurled across the ether via email. Emotions have been high 

as members debated opposing sides of the proposal with 

passion. 

While dissent is healthy, at times arguments and comments 

became less helpful as anger appeared to be simmering 

close to the surface of some exchanges of opinions. 

I suppose it is natural for folks to get emotional and sarcastic 

when passionate. However it is sad when we allow our 

personal differences and differences of opinions to clearly 

divide the Club. As respected leaders of society and 

Rotarians, we should be open minded in looking at all views. 

Then in our consideration of the options, we should subscribe 

to the final vote, whichever way it turned. It is key that we 

close ranks at the end to ensure the future success of the 

Club is guaranteed. 



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I came across a verse (entitled “Different Drums…”) which 

admonishes us to accept, celebrate and take advantage of 

diversity, both in character and viewpoints. Perhaps we forget 

that diversity enriches the gene pool for future survival of the 

species. After all, if we all subscribed like robots to the same 

thoughts, then there would not be any future enrichment and 

growth of the Club. 

This verse is followed by some observations on how geese 

have evolved to cooperate as a species. It has wonderful 

reminders of how we should work together as Rotarians. 

Well, at least I think so. You decide after you peruse both, 

okay? 

So I hope you will read articles below and enjoy… 

And in understanding me, you might come to prize my 

differences from you, and far from seeking to change them, 

you might preserve and even nurture those differences. 

LESSONS FROM GEESE 

(Author unknown, downloaded from 

www.inspirationalmail.com) 

Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates “uplift" 

for the birds that follow. By flying in a "V" formation, 

the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if 

each bird flew alone. 

Lesson 1: People who share a common direction and sense 

of community can get where they are going quicker and 

easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another. 

DIFFERENT DRUMS AND DIFFERENT DRUMMERS 

(Author of verse is unknown, downloaded from 

www.inspirationalmail.com) 

If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that 

my want is wrong. 

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you 

correct my view. 

Or if my emotion is more than yours, or less, given the same 

circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more weakly or 

strongly. 

Or yet if I act in some way other than your design for action, 

let me be. 

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. 

That will come only when you are willing to give up changing 

me into a copy of you. 

I may be your spouse, your employee, your child, your 

parent, or your friend. If you will allow me any of my own 

wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open 

yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not 

seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right- for 

me. 

To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not 

that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are 

no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming 

waywardness. 

Fact 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly 

feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly 

moves back into formation to take advantage of the 

lifting power of the bird in front of it. 

Lesson 2: If we have as much common sense as a goose, we 

stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. 

We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others. 

Fact 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into 

the formation and another goose flies to the point 

position. 

Lesson 3: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and 

sharing leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent 

on each others' skills, capabilities, and unique arrangements 

of gifts, talents, or resources. 

Fact 4: Geese flying in formation honk to encourage 

those up front to keep up their speed. 

Lesson 4: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. 

In groups where there is encouragement, the production is 

much greater. The power of encouragement (to stand by 

one's heart or core values and encourage the heart and core 

of others) is the quality of honking we seek. 

Fact 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded, or shot down, 

two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to 

help protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to 

fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation 

or catch up with the flock. 

Lesson 5: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand 

by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong. 



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R.I.PRESIDENT VISIT CYPRUS 

(Biland Sadek, Cyprus editor of RI District 2450's magazine 

submitted by PDG Dato’ Mus via email on 28th February 2006) 

RI President Stenhammar met with Greek and Turkish 

Cypriots during his visit. After the intercity meeting, Rotarians 

held a press conference to discuss Rotary's role in fostering 

peace and understanding. 

"[We have demonstrated] …the commitment of Rotary to 

support people of goodwill to work together under Rotary for 

the benefit of their communities, irrespective of differences in 

religion, language, and culture," adds Strongylos. 

Rotarians are among a growing number of residents helping 

end the mistrust that has divided the Mediterranean island of 

Cyprus into ethnic Greek and Turkish enclaves. So, when RI 

President Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar visited with them at an 

intercity meeting in Nicosia last month, members of the 

country's 18 Rotary clubs celebrated the event as recognition 

of their humanitarian and peace-building efforts. 

"It was indeed a great boost for Rotary in Cyprus and our 

region, and we thank President Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar for 

his visit," says John Strongylos, district governor of Rotary 

International District 2450 and a member of the Rotary Club of 

Kyrenia. 

For centuries, Cyprus has been a meeting point of southern 

European and Middle Eastern peoples and cultures. But for 

much of the last 43 years, inter-communal violence and 

tension have thwarted hopes of a united, multicultural nation. 

The cooperation between Greek and Turkish Cypriot 

Rotarians, therefore, offers a glimmer of hope for the rest of 

the polarized country, some Rotary leaders say. 

According to Strongylos and Doros Jeropoulos, a fellow 

Cypriot and a past district governor, local Rotarians worked 

with senior Rotary leaders to ensure that the political divisions 

in Cyprus didn't split the island's Rotary clubs along ethnic 

lines. 

Two of the 18 clubs are in the Turkish sector, which is still 

politically separated from the rest of the country. So the unity 

of Rotary clubs in Cyprus is an achievement that has 

empowered Rotarians to lead peace efforts by example, 

Jeropoulos and Strongylos say. 

"The visit of the president I can say played a very important 

part in strengthening [our working together], because it was 

clear to everybody that all Rotarians were indeed united, and 

we thank him for this," notes Jeropoulos. 

Jeropoulos explains that despite political differences, the 

Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities are now in 

communication. 

"They visit each other, and political parties, cultural 

associations, youth associations, [and so forth] are trying to 

work together on many issues," he says. "We are trying to 

put on the side any issues that hurt and so far we [have] 

managed to stay on the Rotary path alone." 

The level of cooperation among local Rotarians across 

Cyprus's social and political fissures has impressed Past RI 

President Luis Vicente Giay, who previously helped to foster 

peace and understanding among members of the Greek and 

Turkish Cypriot Rotary clubs. 

"It was an immense achievement for Rotary," says Giay. "The 

United Nations and the government are trying to link both 

[sectors] but haven't been able to. Cypriot Rotarians, however, 

have set aside their differences and set an example for the 

rest of the country." 

According to Giay, Cypriot Rotarians may be on the verge of 

replicating the peace achievement of Past RI President James 

L. Bomar Jr., who in 1980 helped defuse an explosive border 

dispute between Argentina and Chile. 

During the 3-5 January trip, Stenhammar also met with toplevel 

political leaders, including acting President Demetris 

Christofias and Nicosia Mayor Michael Zampellas. 

Additionally, he inaugurated a US$200,000 umbilical cord 

blood bank sponsored by 10 local Rotary clubs. 

"It's the largest project ever funded by The Rotary Foundation 

on the island of Cyprus," says Giay, who is the Foundation's 

trustee-chair elect. 



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Upcoming Events & Fellowship Activities 

· Wine Tasting Fellowship Evening 

Join us to try out a large variety of wines (French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Australian, 

NZ, South African, Chilean, Argentinean & some Californian) brought in by this distributor. Nice of 

them to supply dinner which could include pizza, cheese, crackers, noodles, roast pork & roast 

duck. 

Date: 

30th March 2006, Thursday (sorry they don’t do Fri-Sun) 

Time: 

7pm onwards till late 

Venue: AsiaEuro Enterprise (a fine wines & premium spirits dist.) # 1 & 3 Jalan PJU 3/49, 

Sunway Damansara, 47810 PJ, Tel: (03) 7806-2828 Organizers: Rtn Steve Lau & 

Rtn Andy Khoo 

R.S.V.P: 

Rtn Andy Khoo (email only aakhoo@yahoo.com) or Rtn Steve Lau 

(limited to first 24 confirmed) 

· Next Club Golf Fellowship Following the successful organization of the previous 2 golf events, 

Fellowship Director Rtn Steve Lau is now planning the next occasion 

Date: 

18th March 2006 (tentative TBC) 

Venue: KGPA, Jalan Damansara & Jalan Bukit Kiara Junction (TBC) 

Organizers: Rtn Steve Lau & Rtn Andy Khoo 

Attire: Golf wear 

Avenues Of Service Meeting Schedule 

Meeting Name Chair Person When (every month) Time 

Board of Directors 

President Low 

1st Tuesday 

6pm 

International Service 

Horst Wippern 

2nd Wednesday 

2pm 

Vocational Service 

Thomas Varughese 

TBC 

7pm, RSC Bkt Kiara 

Club Service 

Choy Hon Nang 

3rd Wednesday 

2pm 

Fellowship Service 

Steve Lau 

3rd Wednesday 

2pm 

Community Service 

Francis Chan 

4th Wednesday 

2pm 

New Generations Service 

Justin Teoh 

4th Wednesday 

2pm

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