Saturday, September 6, 2008

DG Dr Rajindar Singh & First Lady PP Surendra visit to The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah - 02 Sep 2008

District Governor 2008/2009 Dr Rajindar Singh & First Lady PP Surendra were in Penang for their visit to the various Rotary Club. The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah play host to DG & First Lady visit to our club on 02nd September 2008.

As The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah held their weekly meeting at The Paradise Sandy Bay Resort, Tanjung Bungah it was recommended that our DG stayed at this resort as we are in partnership with Paradise Sandy Bay Resort to promote on a "Donate While You Sleep" campaign to raise fund for the club as well as to promote the resort.

On hand to welcome our DG visit were AG Dr Ranjit Singh & President Aikky Tan and fellow Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah.
The line up programme for DG visit start with a welcoming lunch together with Rotarians from The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah and this was held at a restaurant at the Penang Chinese Swimming Club. Later in the afternoon, DG together with AG met up with the main board members of The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah with the President Aikky Tan, Secretary PP Michael Ong and Rotarians Joseph Tang for a briefing to DG on the activities and other matters pertaining to the running of the club.
This was then followed up with a meeting from Interactors from the Interact Club of PCGHS & Chung Hwa. President of both Interact Club then briefed visiting DG on their various activities of their respective club and this was followed up on a speech to the Interactors by DG which dealt with the functioning of the club to reach out to more members and promote Rotary activities to all their school & class mates.

Later in the evening, there was an assembly meeting and this was held with the Board of Directors of The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah presenting their respective avenues activities to DG.

This was then followed up with dinner for invited guests, Interactors, teacher advisors and Rotary Anns. There was a wide spread of sumptuous dish prepared by the resort for the evening and everyone of us have a hearty dinner and the many deserts was indeed tempting for us to take eventhough the belly does not have more space save for this delicious dish! The proper weekly meeting of The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah was then held with the DG, AG and President at the main table set up. Welcoming speech was given by President Aikky Tan on DG visit to our club and to all our invited guest. DG Dr Rajinbdar Singh then gave his speech on his visit to our club and he was indeed happy to note that the club is functioning well to promote on the Rotary activities in contributing to the various programme for the community.
The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the TAR Schoilarship award to Miss Ban Lee Ching of TAR College and this was presented by our DG to her together with her parents. Fellowship, this is important in Rotary and this would not be complete without knowing each one of us well together with our invited guests. The Rotary Club of Tanjung Bungah bade our Distrit Governor 2008/2009 Dr Rajindar Singh & First Lady PP Surendra & family well and appreciation of thanks for their presence to attend this functions with fellow Rotarians and wishing them having a wonderful & memorial stay for the next 2 days visiting other Rotary Club in Penang.




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