JDouglas Resource: Dec 3, 2012

29 November 2012 - a historical moment, personally for me coz after months of planning and discussion with PUTRA Business School (PBS) management, finally the Club is legally recognized as representative of all PBS students....

It was a great success for my organizing team, which consist of MBA intake May 2012.

The following is my welcoming speech:

Greeting, good afternoon

Our distinguished guest, Dr. Ahmed Razman, Head of Non-Thesis Programme

Fellow MBA students of Putra Business School (PBS), and other students from other faculty of PBS. I welcome you all with open hands and humble heart. Your present and support have given me and my organizing team a great pleasure and courage to carry on with our effort, to mobilize this MBA Club movement.

Today’s agenda is focused on the 1^st Annual General Meeting of Putra MBA Club….

Perhaps, many of you would like to know the short history of this Club. Well, we are still very young, barely a year. We first started back in May this year, where most of the initial members are from May intake. The idea of MBA Club was first coined by Dr. Ahmed Razman himself. He is currently the lecturer of Accounting subject for MBA course. Back then the first committee nominated was Sharifah, the Secretary, Kerk, Treasurer and myself the President.

Our journey has just begun…this is the first step of a thousand miles. The first step is always the hardest, because there are some many unknown possibilities and obstacles.

As you can see from the distributed proposal on activities and programs, there are lots of things to be discussed and finalized.

Basically, the Club’s role and objective is mainly acting as intermediary between students and the management of Putra Business School. Lately, there were lots of issues and concerns relating to the poor accessibility to our student portal, scholarship red-tape, unfriendly e-books format, limited student parking and so on. We as the Club representative will try to find a solution/ suggestions and forward it to the PBS for consideration and approval.

I would open up to the floor for any suggestions or ideas that the Club can work on. It does matter whether the idea or suggestion is small or may seem ridiculous because this is the platform for us speak up your mind and your heart.

Last but not least, I end my speech and allow the next course of ceremony to proceed.

Thank you.

After my speech, Dr. Razman delivered his speech and made a wonderful announcements...
He announced that by mid-next year PBS new building will be completed and the Club will be given maximum 4 rooms to operate its office and other activities. He also announced that PBS will provide free website under PBS new portal. The Club is authorized to represent all PBS students and the Club's representative would join the PBS management meeting on monthly basis to discuss administration affairs.