Kuching- It was a
night filled with fun and joy as Kuching Toastmasters Club held its 24th
Installation Night recently at the Sarawak Club. The theme for this year’s installation event
and also for the club during the new term is “Creating Opportunities”.
The club’s new president, ACB Clement Langet Sabang said the
theme “Creating Opportunities” was chosen because the new committee aims at
providing members the opportunities to improve their public speaking and
leadership skills.
“We will be creating more opportunities for members to make
more speeches and take up more leadership roles. This will make them better speakers and
leaders later on.”
“We will also provide members of the public who are
interested in improving their communication and leadership skills such
opportunities through our guest nights and training meetings”, he said after
being installed as the President on that night.
The club’s patron, Datu Dr. Haji Yusoff Hanifah and his wife
Datin Zaleha Abdullah were the guests of honour for the night. After performing the installation ceremony,
Datu Dr. Haji Yusoff Hanifah in his speech urged the club’s members to keep an
eye for the opportunity that could be hidden inside any problem.
“According to an old English proverb “Necessity is the mother
of invention.” By the same token I would
argue that problems are the motivating factors that lead to the creation of opportunities.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally
dwarfs the problem. But there are a few
occasions in our life when a great opportunity knocks on our door in disguise,
in a less obvious form or in different shades of light,” he said.
“All of us do not have equal
talent, that’s the fact of life. But all of us could have an equal chance to
take a careful look around us for the second or third time more thoroughly so
that we could create an opportunity for the betterment of ourselves and the
society we live in,” he added.
The Exco for the term 2011/2012
comprises of Clement Langet Sabang (President), Iris Cheng (Immediate Past
President), Ivy Puah (Vice President Education), Cuthbert Lo (Vice President
Membership), Bernard Yong (Vice President Public Relations), Shirlene Yeo
(Secretary), Ang She Hua (Treasurer), Marlene Sim (Sergeant At Arms), Thow Soon
Peng and Ivan Cheng (Committee Members).
