The Dangers of PSSTAS Disease

I remember posting something about this deadly disease sometime ago... (Click here for the old posting) and to be honest with you... I am seeing some of you who might already have gotten infected but you might just not realize it! PSSTAS is ... fortunately curable.... There is a known cure for it but it takes time and it also takes one's determination to get over it because it is not viral or caused by bacteria... mainly caused by genetics that involves Egoism.

Scientists have discover the Ego genes is a defect and mostly affects the male species more than that of the female ones. But, females also have to be careful as the PSSTAS might just attack you even though the tendency is towards the testosterone of the guys....

There are also case studies that were proven by many pharmaceutical companies where PSSTAS attacks one to the extend that the person do not realize they are hallucinating and showing symptoms... and also develop terribly bad habits of mankind.... this is very serious and really need to be dealt with.....!

Symptoms of PSSTAS: 

1. You are feeling really SS (Syok Sendiri) and Bangga-land when you recently attended some functions...

2.  You feel so proud of yourself to the extend that you go round telling people that you have achieved that award and no one else deserves it better than you

3. You start expecting your juniors to respect you to the max... and start to scold them or show LCLY  face(arrogant.. in short form of a rude Cantonese phrase - sorry! No other word best fit this description)

4. You expect your juniors, Omega Leos, and even Lions to treat you slightly or a whole lot more differently cause you are the Top award winner mahhhhh....

5. You start to develop the thought of the following...! You start to feel the following and these lines pop up here and then...:

i) Why should I have done so much in the past!? 

ii) Why should I have contributed so much? 

iii) Why should I have done all those projects? 

iv) I should have just joined another club where I dont need to do anything at all!!! I

v) I feel foolish now

vi) No one respects me anymore. Get this award also no point. I better gather up my other friends (with the same symptoms) and start talking bad about the whole wide world including those who cared for you before!

vii) I am not going to join any Omega Club anymore (For Alphas)

viii) I am going to quit soon or make myself less active cause everyone else hates me (For Omega)

THE CURE......

i) Smack yourself three times.. really hard... at the back of your forehead. If you cant reach, ask your mother to help you

 

ii) Look at the picture next to you and LOOK AT IT EVERYDAY to tell yourself how lucky you are that you even have a house to live in and stop bi*ching about ppl not respecting you, ppl not layan you.. ppl not being happy with you....

Tell yourself that you are one lucky fella that you actually still had the chance to eat that lousy tasteless pack of RM3 bihun at the Leo Forum and survived the entire fiscal year after kena scolding non-stop from Alan Thoo......That you don't have to search the pile of rubbish hoping to find a leftover piece of bread and basi punya milo packet.

iii) Recite the LEO Pledge one more time.... 3 times a day, until you finish. This is even the best Antibiotic around... but you must finish it!!!!! If you already have forgotten how... Go ask Jeremy Goh to sing I PLEDGE to you (but you might have to pay him for the taxi fare and some angpow money for his time.

iv) Shut the **** up, and start to think again.... that the Top Award given to you... is just one lousy piece of paper for recognition, the trophy will be good when you have an itch at the back and you cant reach it.... and that badge is good for you to be used as a pin for baby V's diapers.....!

Well.. then.. you shall be fine.....! :)

AWARDS

Awards presented to individuals or clubs.. are merely given away as a form of recognition. They are there to give recognition to your excellent work as well as an inspiration to the younger ones so that one day.. THEY CAN BE LIKE THEIR SENIORS... Go up on stage to receive that Award... that piece of paper and metal... that symbolize success. Do you want your juniors to end up EXACTLY like you?

Remember.... The Awards thingy are nothing but just 5 minutes of fame... okay.. maybe that'll be a little too short! 5 hours perhaps? 5 days???! That's it!!! That's all you will get. But at the end of the day, joining the Leo Club means a whole lot MORE than just that piece of paper. Do not deny that fact! Joining the Leo Club is supposed to be for friendship and fellowship... helping those in need.... giving shelter to the ones that needed it most.. and also to enhance personal development skills and all those! 

Stop being an idiot and start coming back to reality. If you can't get yourself out of PSSTAS.... there is seriously no point for you to join any OMEGA Leo Club too... It only proved one point... I made a wrong decision in giving those awards away. My selection and recommendations are wrong and that, I should have just given it to someone else?

Hmmmmm....A good point to wonder and ponder on. Should I give any awards at the end of this fiscal year? Did I create the PSSTAS disease? Sighhhhhh.... Or could it be just.... YOU.....? Not everything in this world revolves around you my friends. Think about it. After all, LEO is a service organization ...You haveeeeee to get yourself out of the PSSTAS disease and cure yourself,....

I'll be waiting ... Will always be.... ONe day you will be cured. But till then...

Dont join any Omega Club. Go find some other SS clubs to join. And Good luck to you and your future. :)

Best of Regards

Alan Thoo

Ex PSSTAS patient

40 Years in Service... We're Stronger than Before

40 Years in Service... Stronger than Before...

Some say this tagline as the theme for the year is kind'a SS (aka Syok Sendiri).. but come to think of it.. after 40 years of rendering services to the community.. oh well... We wanna be proud of it.. My question is.. "Why not?!"

As the District Chairperson for the 2nd term this year, I would like to state that Stronger than Before is a theme I chose to instill pride in the work that we all do. I seriously feel that it is important that we all take Pride in whatever we do. It is only then, we feel the strength to continue to do what we do best!!!! It is very important that we believe in the work that we do, take pride.. and then walk the talk whenever we do anything in the line of duty!

Further more, being a Leo, besides serving the community... there's a whole lot more reasons why one join! Just the reasons of Fellowship, Self enchancement, character development and team-building alone justify every single reason why we join the Leo Club! Hence.. after 40 years of the existence of the Leo Program in our District, and even our Multiple District 308 (Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei)... why not shout out WE'RE STRONGER THAN BEFORE!

This is seriously not an SS moment. Let's justify:

1) Existence:
We had 1 club formed (Anderson School Ipoh) back in 2nd September 1970....today District 308B2 stands at approximately 90 clubs.. and the MD308 has more than 200 clubs in total!

2) Projects
I cannot recall every single fundraising project in our MD last fiscal year, but the few in our District that really caught my attention would be the Fallen Stars Project in Ipoh and Penang that both collected Rm25k for kidney patients!!! Sri KL's Charity concert raised RM20 000 alone.. and we are talking about just 3 projects combined we have exceeded RM45k in fundraisers alone. What about others? I dare shout out no less than RM100k in total throughout the fiscal year for MD308?

How about projects last fiscal year that caught the attention of the media? The ICCP in Penang? The Kinta River Clean-up in Ipoh, the HOPE project in PJ, and the tons of other projects in Kedah that got into the media limelight? Bernama TV interviewed our IPDG Choong Kwei Loi during the ICCP... Kinta River Clean up was also covered by TV1 News and 8TV Celebrity Chat and HOPE on TV1 news too!

3) Community Service
From my record alone, and I'm pretty bad in maths.. I believe I have counted not less than 100 community service based projects in our District last fiscal year that included visits to welfare homes; bringing kiddos out for movies or picnic, family days; Sight First projects, health related projects that included seminars, exhibitions, visits and many more!!!!

4) Membership Drive
We saw an increase of not less than 15% of our Leo membership in the last fiscal year! How about that?

Hence.... with all these, in a summarized point... shouting out 40 YEARS IN SERVICE... STRONGER THAN BEFORE is justified before we even shout it out!

I am very proud of each and everyone of you as you have all excelled so much in character building and you MADE A DIFFERENCE in your life.. as well as others! Let's make things happen this fiscal year! Instead of an annual guideline, here's a quarterly one that you might want to look at:

1) Organize projects for others also.. not just amongst yourselves!

a) Fellowship Projects
We have seen many IR or IU days being organized, especially in the Klang Valley. International Relationship or International Understanding... is a term that is used to instill more fellowship amongst one another. Well, the only problem that I see is.. these projects are mainly organized for and amongst Leo members. if you want to organize a fellowship project.. can you involve others too? For example.... invite your scouts, st. john's ambulance, band boys, Interactors or any other clubs in your school to join in the fun! Let's do more with Fellowship projects this fiscal Year! Let's not just have your own SS moments (Hahahah).. let's have a more seriously fun project for your school students. For the alphas.. why not organize a Family Day in school where you invite parents and teachers to join in the fun too? (for those who smirk and start thinking... ahhhh this wont work... then shame on you! Have you ever tried it? if you havent.. then shoooshhh away that thought and start planning!)

b) Community Service
have you ever thought that your members might just be extremely bored with those visits to welfare homes where you would actually do the following:
i) Chat with old folks
ii) Sing rasa Sayang to the Children
iii) Read a stroy book
iv) Clean up the grill, window panes bla bla bla

Why not bring them out for a picnic? Why not organize a Zoo visit? Why not bring them for a movie? Why not bring them out of their homes and sponsor them to a play.. a concert? a Show? whatever! Think of something different this time round!!!

c) School Services
Please do more school services this fiscal year! Haha. Nuff said. yes. it's important. Well, law of nature teaches us this very simple fact. you want your teachers and School authorities to love you,... you must first love them! This is the theory of reciprocity! meaning, you give first.. then you expect a natural giving-back response! hence, if you start doing more school service projects... and one day, you seek for approval to go somewhere or do something else from your school authorities... the response might be different!

A task for Omega Leos....
the District projects that I intend to conduct this fiscal year would be mini- Leo Forums for the respective Porfolio Chairpersons... i.e. Environmental and Health Convention; Community Service Convention bla bla bla. Maximum of 2 days 1 night retreat where we train your young Alpha Leos on their portfolio jobs....For example.. the Health and Environmental Convention, we invite all the Health Chairpersons + Env Chairpersons... there will be workshops planned... seminars.. trainings etc etc.. on their portfolio.. giving them a chance to learn something new, and go back to their clubs... to spread the word around!! This is very preliminary. Any Omega Leo Clubs who wish to chair one of the respective portfolio Conventions.. you are more than welcomed to send me an email and we shall take it offline aye!

i) Health
ii) Environment
iii) Community Services
iv) IT
v) Fundraising
vi) Membership
vii) Public Relation

Well... we are kind'a all set!

40 Years in Service Mega Scale Celebration

I am also looking for 40 Leo Clubs, be it Alpha or Omega, to organize projects around our District....marking the official launching of the 40 Years in Service term!!! As we are marking Eco and Go Green in our calendar too this fiscal year... we shall go with 40 Green Projects nationwide!

All you need to do is to propose an Eco project, be it small, medium or large scaled.. to be done in your own state. It could be planting of trees, clearing of rubbish in school, exhibition, seminars etc etc.....! As long as it is an Eco-focused project, that'll do! We need 40 of such Eco projects to be done concurrently throughout our District! yeah.. no kidding!

You need to invite your sponsoring Lions Clubs to be present, and atleast 1 school official (teacher or senior assistants or principal) for the Alphas. To those clubs who are interested, please send an email to Leo Justin Yee (justinyjw@hotmail.com), who is also the Leo Cabinet Region 4&5 Co-ordinator or contact Leo Justin at 016-566 3736.

Please propose what you would like to do if you are part of the 40 Leo Clubs doing this. The target date is 29th of August 2010, the Saturday before our actual date, at 9.20 a.m.! And on the actual date (2nd September 2010), we shall have an online celebration (more details later!)

Well... discuss this at your BOD meeting...and come up with something ya! Do note that the 40 Clubs will receive special patch for their club banners and all OCs will obtain a special pin for their contributions!

Alright.. this should be enough to keep you all busy for a while! Hahaha...

Good luck in all that you do... and remember... ROARRRRR!!!! to the 40 years in Service!!! Roar! Roar! Roarrrrr!!!!!

Regards

Lion Alan Thoo
District Chairperson for Leo Clubs
Ditrict 308B2 - Malaysia

"LISTEN" by the Fallen Stars Project

ON the 17th of January 2010... a tragic boatrace accident dawned upon Leo Club and Lions Club members in Malaysia... 3 beloved Leo members, the late Leo Jason, Brendon & YiZhang passed away.. People mourned their deaths and everyone were sad during this darkest hour of our lives...

That's when LISTEN was born...It's a song to bring everyone's life back to normal... but not forgetting them ... "We should stop mourning death.. but instead... Celebrate Life!!!!" - ROARRR!!!!

LISTEN
Performed by the Fallen Stars Project (Members of the Leo Club I.M.O)
Music by Chris Thoo
Lyrics by Alan Thoo, Marcus Loh, Baki Zainal
Arrangements by Alan Thoo
Produced by Rafikoncept Productions
Executive Producers - Lions Club of IMNC
Copyrights 2010 Giant Ants (M) Sdn Bhd

There's this time in this place
Not too long ago we knew each other
We smiled and laugh we cried a tear
There's so much memories with you being here

All your friends love you so...
You are like an angel to everyone...

We remember you always told us
To reach for glory...you inspired us
You taught us how
How to stand when we fall
Standing stronger with just one call

Somehow or rather we're still together
Theres a part of you in us that makes us stronger

Chorus
Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... as we shed a tear or two
Even though you've moved on
To a place far beyond
Memories of you will stay on
So listen.

For every breathe we take, an obstacle we shall break
Walk us through this journey, a legacy we shall make
And we shall be strongAnd we will strive on
No matter come what may, we will keep moving on

Teardrops wont cause no pain
The sunshine is here again
As we feel your halo guide us through the rain

Chorus
Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... we believe well make it through
Sadness was from yesterday
We know hope will come and stay
Therell be miracles and wonders as we pray

And Listen... Time has passed us by
Listen ... We'll promise we will try
To shed a tear no more
Hand in hand we will soar
Thank you for the strength you gave before

Listen.... as we sing this song for you
Listen... we believe well make it through
Listen... Time has passed us by
Listen ... We'll promise we will try
So Listen Way up high we shall fly
Listen No matter what we'll try

Listen... Listen...
Listen... Listen

The Making of "Listen"...

DISTRICT 308B2 BEST "SLEEPER"??!

The recently ended District 308B2 LEO Camp was a blast! The 3 day 2 night camp was held at the White Resort National Service Campsite located at Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia. Attended by approximately 100 Leos from Selangor, Perak & Penang, the camp managed to train Leos to understand and fulfill the true meaning of L.E.O! Video is posted on the District LEO WebTV site and also available on the side bar of this blog! Instead of blogging about the camp... Just view the 10minute long snippet of the entire journey Leos went through..!! ROAR!!!

Now... I introduced BEST SLEEPER in Region 4 last fiscal year!!! Let's take it to the next level
~~~ Let's see who is the BEST "SLEEPER" OF DISTRICT 308B2!!!! (hahahaha)~~~

As you can see the panel of vote on your left... Vote now for the BEST "SLEEPER".. and the winner will walk away with RM 100.00 cash!!!! This means, YOUR CAMP REGISTRATION FEE IS REFUNDED!!!!! Vote now!!!!!!!

Regards

DC Alan Thoo

*Disclaimer:

There is absolutely no purpose of this competition! Yup! NO REASON AT ALL! You guys don't like it... don't vote! Don't go round stabbing my ways of doing things as we're just having fun here!! I can't change how your conservative mind thinks, but I can certainly change the way I think about how you peeps think! Sorry.. I'm the DC for Leo... not the DC for Taking Care of The Ageing

A Special Visitor from the Phillippines!!!

District 301-A2 (Phillippines) LEO Cabinet President, Leo Daryl Patrick Ruiz, will be joining us at the installation of the District 308B2 LEO Cabinet on the 19th of December 2009! Fully sponsored by Event Plus (M) Sdn Bhd & the Lions Club of Ipoh Metro N.C., Leo Daryl will be arriving on the 17th and will be leaving Malaysia on the 24th.

Leo Daryl will be attending the Charity Home Hopping pilot event @ Ipoh on the 18th of December 2009 in Ipoh (more info from the organizers later...), and then the installation of LEO Cabinet President, Leo Eliza Chia on the 19th of December 2009 in Ipoh. Thereafter, we are still scheduling for his visits to our Leo Clubs all over our District in hopes of sharing what they have done in Manila that we can do here too! Likewise, Leo Daryl will also be bringing back some of our ideas to share with his Filipino counterparts after his visit!

So, Leos... if you have an event coming up between 17th-24th of December, please send me an e-mail ~ alanskthoo@yahoo.com ~ so that I can make some arrangements. Who knows, we might just be able to make it to your event!!!

Leo Daryl, 2nd from left, at a Lions/Leo induction event in Manila

Regards
Lion Alan Thoo
DC Leo

District 308B2 LEO Cabinet Installation!

Dear Leos,

19th December 2009 marks another milestone of success in our District as we install the cabinet officers of the District 308B2 LEO Cabinet! Inevitably it has been almost 40 years since the existence of the Leo Club program in District 308 (Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei), and B2 has taken the first step to follow the International guidelines to form our very own LEO council... but for us, we call the council ~ The LEO Cabinet.

Headed by mostly past presidents of Omega Leo Clubs, or some candidates strongly recommended by their respective club, advisors or RCCs, the LEO Cabinet is aimed at providing more on ground support to all LEO Clubs all over the district and aiding the District Chairperson & Regional Committee Chairpersons.

The LEO Cabinet is not here to take over any duties or roles, or impose any rules & regulations etc etc. It is here to assist, support and help the LEO program in anyways possible.

We hereby invite everyone for the Installation dinner @ Heritage Hotel, Ipoh, on the 19th of December 2009 at 8.00pm. Kindly RSVP with Leo Eliza @ 012-5238041 asap!

Your support and attendance is deeply appreciated!

Regards

Alan Thoo
DC Leo