Meeting on the 10 of May 2012

Club Meeting on the 10 of May 2012

The meeting begun with the ring of the bell at 1.25pm, this was followed by the royal toast by President Joyce. There were fewer of us at the meeting today as many were at the RI convention at Bangkok and were not back from the trip.

Hon Secretary Jim Poh announced the Board of Directors and Chair meeting to be held at the Bunga Raya Restaurant, the Royal Lake Club on Monday 14 May 2012 at 6.30pm. He also reminded members of the Installation Night on Saturday 14 July 2012 at the new studio banquet hall at Renaissance Hotel. He also announced the he will be volunteering members to play their part in the installation dinner being the incoming Vice President.

President Joyce announced that there would be no meeting next Thursday 17 May 12 as the meeting has been replaced with the Friday 18 May 12 TRF might at Bukit Jalil.

There was no speaker for the day but our IYE Emel volunteered to speak of his experience so far in Malaysia. He has stayed with several families and has gone to different schools. He is quite at home with his present school where he found the majority of his friends to be Malay. He walks or bikes to school from where he is staying.

He spoke of his experience in Sarawak and his visit to the long house in the interior, where they donated fire extinguishers to the inhabitants. He is in his final stage of stay in Malaysia and the members saw a different Emel with his hair dyed black from his original blond. This was good for him, so that he could ‘ponteng sekolah’ (play truant) easier being one with the local crowd.

David gave a short story of his experience in Nigeria. PP Robert Ng gave account of his shortest ever insurance payout that took 3 days after the incident. The incident happened on Sunday and the pay out by the insurance company was made on Tuesday.

The meeting adjourned at 1.52pm by President Joyce.

Meeting on the 3 of May 2012

RC Gombak Meeting on 3 May 12

Meeting started with the ring of the bell and the royal toast as usual at 1.15pm by President Joyce Lim.                                                          

This was followed by announcements by President Joyce. She informed that the Thursday meeting on 17 May 12 shall be replaced by the TRF dinner at Bukit Jalil on Friday 18 May 12.

Each participant shall have to top up RM20 for the dinner. Guest would have to pay RM60 .

Board of Directors meeting shall be at 6.30pm Monday 14 May 12 at the Bunga Raya Restaurant, the Royal Lake Club.

PP Jeff Hoh introduced the speaker for the day, Dr. Yeo who was here to speak on snoring.

He gave an interesting talk on snoring accompanied with different variety of snoring sounds depending on which part of air track was constricted. He also informed the various solutions to snoring.

He began his talk on long term effects on snoring, that could lead to heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia. He explained that first few hours (4hours) of sleep is known as NREM

restful sleep followed by the 2^nd part of REM Sleep where the heart

beat becomes faster and when we dream.

Sleep has this pattern of NREM and REM and is to be continuous. Snoring interrupts this sleep as the airways are constricted and carbon dioxide builds up that is when we wake up.

One thing for sure from this talk I understood the miracle of sleeping. Sleep is a need and assures us of good health as the good doctor said we can do away with food for a week but certainly will not be able to do away with sleep for a week.

The meeting ended with many questions and David (our newest member) had a few words of thanks for the speaker.

The meeting closed at 2:00 pm.