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Message from the Division B Governor


Fellow Toastmasters of Division B,  
 Good day to all of you.
In August 2009, I took part in Adidas King of the Road Race (21 km) at Shah Alam. The route rather hilly and weather was humid. Nevertheless, with adequate pacing, liquid and stretching I managed to finish the race with realistic timing. There was another runner whom was struggling to finish the race. With the will power and the confidence that he had " I will do it", he reached the finishing lane. Few minutes, the runner fainted and rushed to the medical camp for 1st aid treatment. 15 minutes later, he woke up and told that he is fine and has will power to drive back home.
As he reached the car, he fainted again at the car park and rushed to nearest medical center. Unfortunately, on the way to medical center, he blew his final breath. Upon postmortem, the doctors reported that, the boy was not fit to take part in any sporting activities and required passive rest for 6 months. The boy should have been realistic to his health condition before taking part in thecompetition.
The lesson I learnt was, we could have the will power or I can do attitude BUT we should be REALISTIC with our targets and aims. As club leaders, with 51 days more, we need to assess the realistic targets to be achieved by end of the term. Else, the exco would be burnt out and would not have no interest in continuing to serve the club as members or exco.
One of the criteria of goal setting in SMART is realistic. Thus, will power is not enough but we need to be realistic in our goals.
New Baby Club - Gamuda TMC
We have new club in Division B, Gamuda TMC which was chartered on April 1. It's under Area B2 under the caring of Ai Ling, Parasakti, Victor Ong and Leona Liman. Let's support the club by visiting the club and sharing our knowledge. They are located at Damansara Perdana.
20th Annual Convention 
Dennis Wee and Emil Anthony will represent the Division and will contend with 10 other Division champions at the District Contest on May 26 @ 8.30am, Penang Annual Convention. 
Let's cheer and give them our support.

April Dues
Penapisan and SPAD has pledged to submit the dues by end of May.
  


Upcoming activity - Leading Corporate GEN-Y
There's always a challenge to manage a age group if you don't belong to them. It also requires a specific leadership skills to manage that group. We will be having a special workshop on managing Gen-Y. The workshop will be handled non other than TM Melissa Norman (member of Kelly TMC& Managing Director of Kelly Services Malaysia). Attached the poster for more info.
It will be held on 8 June 2013.
Contact Emil Anthony (MAS MAWAR) for registration (emil.anthony@gmail.com).

Division Targets
Target
Current Status
Distinguished Club
20
9
New Members
157
208
Competent Communicator
81
24
Advance Communicator
24
14
CL/AL/DTM
27
32
  
President Distinguished Club
Taman Indrahana TMC (Area B2) became the 1st club to achieve perfect score of 10 points.  
Crystal TMC (Area B5) became the 2nd club to achieve perfect score of 10 points. 
D'Utama TMC (Area B4) has achieved 9 points and just short of 2 Competent Communicators to obtain full score of 10/10. 
Select Distinguished Club status
Phoenix (Area B6) , Taylors University (Area B5), D'Utama Adv (Area B1) has achieved 7 DCP goals and roaring to go for more.
Distinguished Club status
SCOPE(Area B5), Lafarge Malayan Cement (Area B4) and KEU (Area B5) has achieved 5/6 points and they have qualified as Distinguished club. Nevertheless, I’m sure they would not stop there but eager to go for higher awards.
  
Deloitte Malaysia (Area B1), Shah Alam (Area B3), Mas Melor (Area B5) and MAS Cempaka (Area B6) has achieved 5 points or above and just short of few members to achieve the charter strength. Sustain the fire and you will get it.
Area Governor visit
The Area Governor visit reports should be submitted via TI website by 31 May'13.
Regards,
Meyya 

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