Kuching Toastmasters Club installs New Excos for the term 2011/2012

Kuching-  It was a night filled with fun and joy as Kuching Toastmasters Club held its 24^th 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).