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Wednesday, 4th January 2006 Issue 23 - 2005/06 Page 4 THE 50% LUNCH PRE-COLLECTION RULE Voted at the Club AGM on 28th December 2005 To start off with, Hon. Sec. Freddy announced that the Club was fortunate to have sufficient members in attendance at the AGM for quorum to be reached. Then we continued with a most exciting and rather controversial topic – the “lunch pre-collection rule of 50%”. In spirit, it appeared that all members present were prepared to support the rule. However, Rtn Louis raised some pertinent concerns regarding the mechanisms involved in deciding on the quantum, collecting and accounting for the pre-payment. are many complexities implied by the proposed rule which are unanswered if the Board does not verbalize its mechanics. PP Kanesalingam also stood up to agree that it seemed difficult to vote when clarity was not given on the matter. At that juncture, Hon.Sec. Freddy noted that the floor had 3 lawyers speaking who seemed to be at odds with each other. This caused a great deal of mirth and somewhat distracted from the issue at hand. Rtn Louis asking for details of implementing the proposed rule Rtn Louis animatedly raising his concerns on the 50% quantum Rtn Louis was uncomfortable to vote on something as important as this proposed rule without having the current Board communicate the mechanics of implementation. Hon.Sec. Freddy replied that the Board had decided that it was best to ask for members’ approval before planning the structures for implementation. The logic was that if members did not approve, then why waste time to plan for its implementation. However Rtn Louis made the point that there Rtn Louis also challenged the logic of why 50% would be precollected. Given RI attendance guidelines, a member could attend only 30% of his own Club’s meetings and make up the balance to meet minimum attendance needs. Hence, why not 30% pre-collected instead of the proposed 50%? This query did not receive a clear response. Finally the floor voted and the majority carried the vote to agree on allowing this new rule to pass. The Board then PP Kanes making his point about the need for clarity Rtn C ham Mew ran thru’ the accounts for 2004-05 Bulletin of the Rotary C lub of Kuala Lumpur DiRaja
Wednesday, 4th January 2006 Issue 23 - 2005/06 Page 5 committed to put in place a structure which would be communicated to members as soon as possible. Cham Mew about the finalized accounts for the previous Rotary Year. This was passed with little incident. We then heard from Rtn and past Treasurer (2004-05) Wong FROM THE DESKTOP OF A ROTARIAN GEMS FROM THE WEB Wow! A New Year rolls around. In the same vein as the last bulletin, I would like to keep this editorial material less serious and more fun for this issue. To start with, I was rather disappointed when PDG Dato’ Mus was invited to speak at the Club’s last meeting of 2005. My disappointment was not with his content or his delivery, I was more taken aback that he did not request a 10-second laughter break for all. Hence, I registered my complaint to him at the recent Rotary-Rotaract Conference. Then lo-andbehold, he was asked to address the Conference attendees and promptly launched his famous laugh therapy session. a group of 20 Germans are flapping their arms up and down and clucking hysterically like chickens. "Come on, you chickens, let me hear you cluck, cluck, cluck, and bock, bock, bock, and flap your wings like you mean it," commanded Heiner Uber, a giddy 45-year-old professor of laughter, doing his own best chicken imitation and sending the group into fits of raucous cackling. Helmut Kohl, a former chancellor of Germany, once said that Germans were so afraid to laugh that they would hide in the basement to do it. But Uber is determined to change that. The founder of a new chain of German laughing schools, Uber wants to help Germans grapple with 12 percent unemployment, dreary weather and a difficult history by teaching them how to have a good guffaw. PDG Dato’ Mus speaking on 28th December I realize some members find it ludicrous to do the laugh therapy but I (forgive my relatively youthful exuberance) find it amusing. Anyway I was very pleased when Rtn Rizal sent me an article about laughter therapy in Germany. It is worth sharing with all, so please enjoy… GERMANS GETTING O.K. TO LIGHTEN UP By Dan Bilefsky, International Herald Tribune (Contributed by Rtn Rizal Sardon via email on 1st January 2006) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2005 – MUNICH In an old farmhouse on the outskirts of this Bavarian capital, Pres. Low showing that RC KL members know how to laugh "For decades, we Germans have been the grandmasters of depression," said Uber, whose favorite pastime is to go to national monuments in authoritarian countries and try to make stone-faced guards giggle by staring at them. "The new generation of Germans is ready to smile again," he added. Germans are not alone in their desire to learn how to laugh, which researchers say relieves stress, increases disease- Bulletin of the Rotary C lub of Kuala Lumpur DiRaja
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