Last night was the appreciation dinner for the committee hosted by Mayor Alex Yam. This event is traditionally held after the dinner for all the Club 100 members to thank the committee.
It was at the East Treasure Chinese restaurant at Clark Quay. I didn’t know this place. The food was decent and their speciality is crocodile meat soup!
We talked about how we can do so much more if we had a dedicated staff to help the committee. We need someone to maintain our database, respond to queries, plan and send out newsletters, organize regular outreach sessions and talks and plan events. This way we hope to maintain the number of our current members and bring in more new members.
Apparently PA rules do not allow us to have a dedicated staff to do this. Even if this staff was fully funded by the committee. I suggested a full time volunteer who was prepared to do this for free and again this isn’t possible.
Strange how we tie ourselves up in knots with rules and regulations and forget that the real reason for our existence is to help others and not be bogged down with red tape.
I can now understand why in the US there is this huge push to cut rules and regulations and terminate unnecessary departments and staff who are just there administer these unwieldy regulations.
Perhaps this is another reason why our smart nation ambitions is going nowhere. We must set a clear end result and a time period to get it done and cut off unnecessary road blocks in the way to reach that objective.
Anyway I have tried my best….
daily musings 
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