HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY - CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

MESSAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR…..CHEERS! !!!

This is truly a Great Inspiration. ....

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time
to choose a successor to take over the business.

Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he
decided to do something different. He called all the young executives
in his company together.

He said, 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO.
I have decided to choose one of you. 'The young executives were
shocked, but the boss continued. 'I am going to give each one
of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant
the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with
what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then
judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be
the next CEO.'

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others,
received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the
story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted
the seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had
grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began
to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.

Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.

Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.

By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have
a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he
had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but
he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however.
He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the
seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company
brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.

Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot.
But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick
to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment
of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot
to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful --
in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and
many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
executives.

Jim just tried to hide in the back. 'My, what great plants, trees,
and flowers you have grown,' said the CEO. 'Today one of you will
be appointed the next CEO!'

All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with
his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to
the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, 'The CEO knows I'm a
failure! Maybe he will have me fired!'

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened
to his seed - Jim told him the story.

The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim,
and then announced to the young executives, 'Behold your next
Chief Executive Officer!

His name is Jim!' Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow
his seed.

'How could he be the new CEO?' the others said.

Then the CEO said, 'One year ago today, I gave everyone in this
room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it,
and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds;
they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.

All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and
flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you
substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with
my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new
Chief Executive Officer!'

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends

* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness

* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective

* If you plant hard work, you will reap success

* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

* If you plant faith in GOD, you will reap a harvest

So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

'Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back'

Contributed by: SKL WALIA
Posted by: Hj Naburi, VPPR.

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Brain Teaser for 2009

Irish Maths Test

An Irishman applied for a job on a construction site, but the foreman wouldn't hire him until he passed a simple maths test.
Here is your first question, the foreman said. "Without using numbers, represent the number 9."
"Without numbers?" The Irishman says, "Dat is easy," and proceeded to draw three trees.



"What's this?" the boss asked.
"Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine," said the Irishman.
"Fair enough," said the boss. "Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."
The Irishman stared into space for a while, then picked up the picture that he has just drawn and made a smudge on each tree. "Ere you go."


The boss scratched his head and said, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
"Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99."
The boss was getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire this Irishman, so he said, "All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100."
The Irishman stared into space some more, then he picked up the picture again and made a little mark at the base of each tree and says, "Ere you go. One hundred."


The boss looked at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!"
The Irishman leaned forward and pointed to the marks at the base of each tree and said, "A little dog came along and crapped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred."
"So, when do I start?"

Contributed by Julia Leong.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, MAY 2009 BRINGS YOU HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, GOOD HEALTH AND PEACE. LET US PRAY TO THE ALMIGHTY TO SPARE ALL US FROM THE EVILS AND ECONOMIC SCOURGE THAT'S LOOMING AHEAD. BE POSITIVE AND HAVE PMA, POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE AND TOGETHER WE WILL BRING OURSELVES AND OUR CLUB TO GREATER HEIGHTS. WHILE ENDEAVORING IN PURSUIT OF OUR INDIVIDUAL GOALS IN OUR TOASTMASTERS JOURNEY, LET US DO IT WITH HUMILITY, DIPLOMATICALLY, AND WITH MAGNANIMITY SO THAT WE DO NOT HURT OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELING AND WE AVOID BEING ACCUSED OF BEING A BRAGGARD, ARROGANT AND SELF CENTRED PERSON. THIS IS JUST AN ADVICE FROM AN OLD MAN WHO LOVES EVERYONE IN THE CLUB AND ALSO LOVE THE CLUB.

Posted by:

Hj naburi

VPPR

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X'mas Spirit At the last meeting of the year-23rd Dec.,2008

ENTHUSIASM

Norman Vincent Peale once said “Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you will become an excited person and be merry always. Life will take on a new zest, with deeper interests and greater meaning. You can talk, think, and act yourself into enthusiasm or dullness and into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and a surging depth of joy”.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have limitless enthusiasm. The world belongs to the enthusiastic. A major difference between people is their level of enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm reflects your reserves, your unexploited resources and perhaps your future. You will never rise to great heights without joy and enthusiasm.

No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts and new vision. It’s your own fault if your enthusiasm is gone. You have failed to feed it. What’s enthusiasm? Henry Chester answers, “Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action” Helen Keller said “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. It isn’t our position, but our disposition the makes us happy.

May I take this opportunity to wish the Christian “Merry Christmas” and to all of you a very Happy New Year.

Hashim Adnan

23 Dec 2008


HO..HO..HO.. EVERYONE were in the christmas spirit and we had a really enjoyable and fantastic christmas meeting. The turn up were good with almost everyone wore red attire as requested by the TME Huey Yee. The meeting started on time by the ASAA, Sanjay who led us in reciting the Toastmasters Promise and for a first timer, Sanjay did his job very well. Well done Sanjay.


The President took over from Sanjay wishing everyone merry christmas and he delivered the above invocation to the delights of everyone present. The President also expressed the gratitude and appreciation on behalf of the club, to KL Loh, ATM-G, and Mechmar Bhd., for their generous donation of RM2000 to the club fund as token of appreciation for us conducting the speech-craft workshop for the management staff of Mechmar.


The TME, Huey Yee, ACB, CL, being an experienced MC led the audience through the meeting with full of fun and laughter in the true meaning of X'mas spirit. Calista Chan and Sook Meng delivered their fifth project speeches, very much enjoyed by the audience. Gean Lau thrilled the audience with her hello, hello phone speech. and to top it all, much to the delights and appreciation of the audience, Cindy Foong did her 10th project speech with an inspiring speech urging everyone to look into the mirror and examine ourselves what have we really contributed anything to life. With the year 2008 coming to an end she urged everyone to change and become a postive minded person and to give commitment with full of conviction and to contribute to the club for us to maintain the standard excellence in the DCP goals of the club. With that speech Cindy Foong was declared the Competent Communicator, the first to achieve it for this term, and she was given a standing ovation. Kudos and congatulations to Cindy Foong, CC. We must give Cindy a special salute because she is a true example of a toastmaster with full of commitment, tenacity, and conviction and the courage to conquer the many hurdles in her life and because of her strong commitment she managed to complete the required CC assigments in FOUR years.

Ordinarily and in most cases, many would have given up and left the club. You are a fantastic and wonderful toastmaster, COMPETENT COMMUNICATOR CINDY FOONG. WELL DONE!


Many thanks goes to Tony Lim from Friendship TMC who was the General Evaluator of the evening. He was in full praise of the club and it's members with our high standard and quality meeting in all aspects of toastmastering. Congratulations to Money-Masteryans. Kudos and Keep it up.


The best awards for the evening goes to KL Loh, Best Evaluator, Sook Meng, Best Project Speaker, and President Hj Hashim, Best Table-Topic Speaker. Congratulations to the winners.


The meeting end up with everyone exchanging christmas gifts much to the joy and fun of everyone wishing each other Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.


WISHING ONE AND ALL 1 YEAR OF HAPPINESS

12 MONTHS OF PROSPERITY,

52 WEEKS OF SUCCESS,

365 DAYS OF GOOD LUCK,

8760 HOURS OF GLADNESS,

525600 MINUTES OF GOODNESS


MAY YOU ENJOY EVERY SECOND OF THIS GREAT NEW YEAR 2009 WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!!


MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH A WORLD OF HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH,

PROSPERITY, PEACE & SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THE NEW YEAR..........

ALL THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)


Few minds wear out; more rust out.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.


Posted by:

Hj Naburi Idin

VPPR

MINUTES OF EXCO MEETING HELD ON WED 17 DEC. 2008 AT A&W PJ

On a pleasant Wednesday evening, the masterminds of Money Mastery KL Toastmaster Club gathered together at A&W in PJ for their exco meeting. The team of five was led none other than our inspiring president Tun Haji Hashim. Also present were the ingeniously humorous VPPR Haji Naburi, evermore dedicated VPM EK Yeo, brilliant and insightful Treasury KH Song and of course, the self-proclaimed diligent Secretary Gean Lau.

This Exco meeting was a follow-up on the few points highlighted during the TLI meeting on the previous Saturday. President Haji Hashim started off the meeting by addressing the immediate challenge of the club- sourcing for the right meeting venue. By 'right' I mean easily accessible and reasonably priced meeting venues. Ideas were immediately thrown into the air- using other club's meeting venue but on a different date or time; sourcing for other available meeting rooms in office blocks or association buildings such as WIM, MIA, or MIM; returning to the comfortable but pricey Shah Motel function rooms; or settling with the current venue but looking at other possible ways to increase the club's income. Treasury KH Song will proceed to explore those options together with our club adviser, Francis Ng.

Next on the menu was the need to increase bonding among club members, through organizing social activities and outings for the members. Our VPPR Haji Naburi agreed to the idea of setting up a committee to organize some social outings and also to the suggestion of our President- putting together a periodical newsletter to provide latest news updates of our club and members. The idea of having more joint meetings and club visiting trips was applauded by the team as a brilliant way to boost networking among our members also with other club's members.

In between burgers and fries, the point of membership retention plan was addressed. VPM EK Yeo promised to follow up with the sleeping members on encouraging them to join our fortnightly meeting again. As highlighted in the TLI meeting, the idea of having a name tag for our members and guests during the meeting would certainly make networking process easier. After all, having to keep repeating and spelling your name (if you happen to have a very special name) to everyone in the meeting is such a daunting task. VPM EK Yeo will follow up on getting ready the name tags.

With that consensus we moved on to the next item on the list- carrying out community services. After the highly enjoyable and educational speechcraft program conducted by our club with Mechmar Bhd. senior executives and management staffs, the excos are extremely motivated to do another speechcraft program, or perhaps a youth program next year. Hmm, if that realizes, it would be an interesting project for the club next year. Though it requires significant amount of effort in planning and organizing, the outcome is totally worth it! The opportunity of networking, the process of learning from and guiding others, sharing our passion about toastmaster-ing with non-toastmasters are truly satisfying!

After discussing all the above, the group revisited and reassessed the club educational goals of 2008-2009. Though we are proud and encouraged with current achievement of 5 DCP points and being the first in Area W1 to achieve distinguished status, we still need to put ourselves out for accomplishing the remaining goals. Some uncertainties are blotting out our chance in achieving the goal no. 2 (Earn an additional 2 CCs) and no. 5 (Earn one CL, ALB, ALS or DTM). At this point, the exco and members are advised to be as aggressive as ever and go the extra mile to bring home our long defended President Distinguished Status. Few suggestions were raised to help our club achieving the goals, such as showcasing our DCP progress chart at every meeting to boost up the engagement level of our members, conducting a speech marathon to provide our members with more speech opportunities, inviting special guest speakers to share some guidance and tips on public speaking, etiquette, humourous speaking, etc to improve members' communication and leadership skills.

As the exco meeting comes to an end, everyone in the team acknowledges the fact that this is indeed a challenging term for Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club. Nevertheless, as what they always say: when there is a will, there is a way. With that in mind, the exco meeting adjourned at around 9pm, and everyone in the team brought home their own action plan.

Recorded by:

Gean Lau,

Secretary

Dated 17th Dec., 2008

Posted by Hj Naburi,

VPPR

BREAKING NEWS !!!!!

Below is the update of the DCP goal:

			Comments to date
Goal 1	Earn two Competent Communicators (CCs)	- TM Cindy Foong - TM Gean Lau	Speech 9 Speech 5
Goal 2	Earn an additional two CCs	- TM Sharon Siow - TM Calista Chan - TM Erica - TM Kok Sook Meng	Speech 4 Speech 4 Speech 4 Speech 4
Goal 3	Earn one Advanced Communicator (AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold)	- CTM ALS Paul Tan	Paul lost his manual, promised to re-do all the speeches in the missing manual within this term
Goal 4	Earn one additional AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold	- CTM CL Haji Hashim	Work in progress
Goal 5	Earn one CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM	- CTM, ALS Paul Tan	Achieved
Goal 6	Earn one additional CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM	- CTM CL Haji Hashim	Achieved

I have full confidence in Cindy and Gean in achieving their CC this term based on their commitment and consistent past performance. :)

Main challenge is to get another 2 CCs. Working as a team, I would appreciate if you could help to encourage and urge Sharon, Calista, Erica and Sook Meng to achieve their CC before 30 June 2009.

I wish to highlight that Calista will not renew her membership as she is having difficulties in coming to our club from Sg. Long.

In addition, please help to put pressure to Paul in achieving his ACB whenever you see him :P

Thanks!

Siew Yin

That's the latest report from our VPE.

OUR CLUB IS THE FIRST TO ACHIEVE DISTINGUISHED STATUS IN AREA W1 AND WE RECEIVE RECOGNITION FROM THE AREA GOVERNOR SACHIT. THANK YOU AREA GOVERNOR.
WELL MEMBERS THAT MEANS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 5 DCP POINTS BUT ACCORDING TO FRANCIS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 7 DCP POINTS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MEMBERS.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO COMPLETE THEIR ASSIGNMENTS ON ANY OF THE MANUALS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DCP POINTS, PLEASE BE REMINDED TO COMPLETE THEM BEFORE JUNE 2009 TO ENSURE "PRESIDENT DISTINGUISHED STATUS" TO THE CLUB. IF YOU THINK THE NEXT 12 MEETINGS IS NOT ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE THE SPEAKING SLOTS NEEDED FOR YOUR SPEECH PROJECTS PLEASE CONTACT FRANCIS TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR YOU TO DO YOUR PRESENTATIONS AT OTHER CLUB MEETINGS.

THE EXCOS HAD THEIR MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY 17TH DEC., 2008. A FEW THINGS HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR THE NEXT HALF OF THIS TERM TO MAKE THE YEAR 2009 AN EXCITING AND ENJOYABLE AND HAPPY TO EVERY MEMBER.

IF ANY MEMBER HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO VOICE IT OUT IN OUR BLOG OR YAHOO GROUPS EMAIL.

THE PRESIDENT REPORTED TO THE EXCOS THAT KL LOH, ATM-G REPRESENTING MECHMAR BHD. DONATED RM2000 TO OUR CLUB TREASURY AS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FOR THE JOB WELL DONE BY OUR MEMBERS LED BY THE PRESIDENT TO CONDUCT THE SPEECHCRAFT WORKSHOP FOR THE MANAGEMENT STAFF OF MECHMAR BHD. A MILLION THANKS TO KL LOH AND MECHMAR BHD.

Why English is used in IT

Why We Use English for IT

Why Malaysian Government insists on using English for math and science?

This is because the whole world uses the language as an information and/or
technology language. How dangerous it will be if we try to use Bahasa ,
especially in school. See example below:-

Hardware = barangkeras

Software = baranglembut

Joystick = batang gembira

Plug and Play = cucuk dan main

Port = lubang

Server = pelayan

Client = pelanggan


Try to translate this:

ENGLISH:
That server gives a plug and play service to the client using either
hardware or software joystick. The joystick goes into the port of the
client.

Now in BAHASA:
Pelayan itu memberi pelanggannya layanan cucuk dan main dengan menggunakan
batang gembira jenis keras atau lembut. Batang gembira itu akan dimasukkan
ke dalam lubang pelanggan.

Now you know...why?

contributed by KL Loh
Posted by Hj Naburi

BE KIND TO OTHERS AND SAY GOOD THINGS

.THAT'S the theme of our meeting held last tuesday 9th Dec., 2008. This is the second last meeting of the year. The attendance was good and we had two guests, Mr and Mrs Chia brought in by Francis Ng, DTM. Based on the theme above, the President, Hj Hashim, CC, CL, gave his usual Presidential invocation in his opoening remarks. This is his inspirational invocation:

"THINK THANKS"

Please be reminded fellow members and readers, be aggressively thankful.
When it comes to living, do you take things for granted or take them with gratitude?
Thanksgiving is the attitude of a productive life.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks in an expeditious manner.
How long has it been since you thanked those closest to you?
So, go to your beloved ones and say "THANK YOU"

Thanksgiving, you will find, creates power to your life because it expeditiously opens the generators of your heart to respond gratefully, to receive joyfully and to react creatively.
The person who forgets the language of gratitrude will never find themselves on speaking terms with happiness.

Dwight moody said, "be humble or you'll stumble" Henry Ward Beecher pointed out, "A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves".
So think thanks and be kind to others and say good things.

The timing of the meeting was perfect and the events went according to schedules. The general evaluator, DTM Sivalingam from D'Utama TMC was very impressed and so was the 14 year old daughter of Marcus Chee, Merrilyn and gave high praise to the way we conduct our meeting. Kudos to all and keep it up.

The assigned ASAA, Khoshim CC, was absent and he was graciously replaced by Siew Yin, the ever efficient VPE, who did a very good job of making sure that everyone took their seats on time. Well done Siew Yin.

Paul Tan in his usual antics, was the TME and he coducted the meeting very well with his encouraging comments on the speakers. They were six of them. All spoke very well. Derrick Teh and Julia Leong delivered their ice-breakers speech. The audience was so impressed with Julia who spoke like a seasoned toastmaster was voted the best project speaker. Congratulations to Julia and Kudos, you are a champion speaker in the making. The new toastmasters who were graduates of the speechcraft from Mechmar really made their presence felt as they dominate the project speech agenda. Kok Sook Meng gave the audience an early advice of how to prepare for retirement with her "My Golden Home: My Dream" speech. Teh Yi Ling, dubbed as the number two chilli padi of the club after Huey Yee, telling us to stick to our life's path with her "Love Your Path". Sanjay another member from Mechmar also performed his duty as a time-keeper for the evening very well. I am sure KL Loh their big boss, was proud of his staff. Congratulations and kudos to all of you from Mechmar. Sook Meng is so enthusiastic to finish her ten speeches that I noticed she had booked her speaking slots at every meeting until April next year. Well done Sook Meng. I hope your enthusiasm will catch on with the rest of the members and the President can be rest assured that the DCP award is already in the bag.

We were warned by Cindy Foong that mother earth is in great danger in the wake of global warming, for it takes only six degrees celcius in increase temperature to put the whole world under water. Everyone was happy to see the eagerness of Cindy to complete her CC manual and by the next meeting she will deliver her tenth speech and be declared a Competent Communicator, CC. Kudos to Cindy and we look forward to your final speech.

Marcus Chee, ACB delivered his Advance Communication Story Telling project module #3 titled "the Colour of rights" in his dramatic manner and was well evaluated by KL Loh, ATM-G who shared the same passion and admiration of Civil Right hero of the late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King who inspired Barrack Obama, the President Elect of the USA. KL Loh was voted the best evaluator of the meeting. Well done to both of you.

The General Evaluator, DTM Sivalingam was a polished and very seasoned toastmaster and his detailed evaluation report was well appreciated by the members and we should take note of his advice to make our meeting a perfect and faultless meeting. However I promised Sivalingam for a good nasi lemak, unfortunately our "caterer" Paul Tan failed to supply it on the excuse that the "cook" went on strike and absconded to Kota Baru, Kelantan. So we forgave him for Francis took quick action to provide us with an assortment of "buffet" dishes and a few of us gobble up to their hearts content to overcome their " refugee-like " hunger. Luckily Huey Yee's birthday cake was spared till the end of the meeting and our "MIA" long lost member MK Low helped to cut the cake and sing Happy Birthday to the birthday chilli padi.

The next meeting which will be two days before Christmas, on 23rd December, the TME Huey Yee reminded everyone to bring a RM10 gift for exchange in the Christmas spirit and to celebrate X'mas everyone is advised to come in either green or red attire. Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year to everyone.

Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR