Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club Meeting #180 on 25 August 2009.
The Merdeka Spirit continues into our 180th toastmasters club meeting on 25 August 2009. In line with the Merdeka Spirit, the theme of the night was “Love Malaysia” and the word of the day was “Independence.”
Most of the members including our GE, Lucky came in colourful batik instilling the Love Malaysia spirit in all of us. First time SAA, TM Abdurrahman called the meeting to order right on time with the confidence of a seasoned speaker.
Mdm. President, CC, CL Liew Siew Yin delivered her presidential address with passion calling us to Love Malaysia, a beautiful country where people of all races and religion lived harmoniously together as One Malaysia. Feelings of patriotism ran high that night with her delivery followed by an invocation from CC, CL Raymond Sii who inspired us to love and respect our colorful Malaysian Flag.
We stop and break fast with our Muslim friends, all in a very jovial mood. Our Malaysian food is certainly very tasty thanks to CTM, ALS Paul Tan.
CC Sook Meng, our bubbly and energetic TME was witty throughout the night as she conducted the meeting in a very well organized manner.
Our Club’s ever jovial stalwart, Tuan Hj Naburi, ACB, CL was Table Topics Master for the night and had us in stitches with his friendly but comical expressions. TM Sue Hooi, Erica, Julia, Abdurrahman and Ginny all rose to the occasion when they volunteered in giving impromptu speeches on topics relating to the theme of the night. Kudos to all for their courage!
CTM, ALS Paul Tan, as humor master, gave some interesting, highly refined and polished jokes and had majority of members breaking into hearty laughs.
We were pleasantly mesmerized by four young speakers giving informative and interesting well prepared speeches no 1, 2, 3 & 4 respectively. The speeches were delivered with confidence, light humor and very engaging with the audience. TM William Lee gave his ice breaker speech, “Where I come from”, TM Vince Kek motivated and engaged the audience with “What Make Your Life 100%”, TM Eileen shared with us on “Will Power & Self Discipline” and TM Wilson inspired us with his referjob2earn.com income generating scheme. Congratulations to all the speakers for their efforts!
Rounds of applauses was given to all first time role players, ASAA Abdurrahman, Ah-Counter, Julia Leong, Time Keeper Sharon Siew and Ice Breaker, William Lee.
ATM-B, ALS General Evaluator, Lucky gave an overall positive evaluation summary of our club filled with good suggestions for improvement while his team of evaluators were very zealous and sincere in giving positive feedback to our equally enthusiastic speakers and audience.
Awards for the best Table Topics speaker and the best project speech speaker went to TM Julia Leong and TM Vince Kek respectively. Congratulations!
Mdm. President reminded members of following date and wished all members a safe journey home.
Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest
Date : 12 September 2009 (Saturday).
Time : 1.30 p.m. (lunch will be served at 1 p.m.).
Venue : Wisma WIM, No 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 KL.
Have a very Nice and Pleasant Week-End
Julia Leong
Treasurer
The Mousetrap story
The Mouse Trap and You
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
What food might this contain?' the mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning : 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, 'Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.'
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The pig sympathized, but said, 'I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.'
The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well, and she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, Dear Toastmasters the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember - when one of us is threatened, we all are at a risk.
We all are together in the Toastmasters journey.
We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
REMEMBER. . .
EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER... FOR A REASON...
Regards
Lucky
http://BANGSAR. blogspot. com
http://KLADV. blogspot. com
http://IMCOSY. blogspot. com
A Recipe For Happiness...
Two Heapful cups of Patience
One Heartful of Love
Two Handsful of Generosity
One Headful of Understanding
A Dash of Humour
Sprinkle With Kindness
Add Plenty of Faith
Mix Well
Spread Over A Period of A Lifetime
Serve To Everyone YOU MEET
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
What food might this contain?' the mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning : 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, 'Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.'
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'
The pig sympathized, but said, 'I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.'
The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well, and she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, Dear Toastmasters the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember - when one of us is threatened, we all are at a risk.
We all are together in the Toastmasters journey.
We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
REMEMBER. . .
EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER... FOR A REASON...
Regards
Lucky
http://BANGSAR. blogspot. com
http://KLADV. blogspot. com
http://IMCOSY. blogspot. com
A Recipe For Happiness...
Two Heapful cups of Patience
One Heartful of Love
Two Handsful of Generosity
One Headful of Understanding
A Dash of Humour
Sprinkle With Kindness
Add Plenty of Faith
Mix Well
Spread Over A Period of A Lifetime
Serve To Everyone YOU MEET
Merdeka Spirit
August 11, 2009 was an awesome meeting! Everyone was in high spirit and the meeting room was filled with energy. There were 8 guests as well, kudos!
The President, CC CL Siew Yin delivered her presidential address in line with the theme of the meeting, “Merdeka Spirit”. A shout of “Merdeka” echoed through the room and reverberated by the members. New members ie. Vince Kek, Abdulrahaman and Eileen Lau were voted into the club and went through the induction session. CC Cindy Foong as the TME was well prepared, amiable and composed. She was even equipped with a Malaysian flag! Invocation was well delivered by ATMG KL Loh who inspired all members and guests to stand up and shouted, “Merdeka” 3 times. It was indeed a high spirit session.
Table Topics Master for the first time, CC Kok Sook Meng gave very interesting topics during her session and 3 out of 4 participants were guests. Bravo to all of you! The prepared speeches were equally creative, mesmerizing and informative. .. "When I Close My Eyes" by Vince Kek, "Fasting" by Eileen Lau and "A Twist of Fate" by Julia Leong. We were very privileged to listen to our club’s champion ie. ACB, CL Haji Naburi’s humorous speech followed by open evaluation from the floor.
Thanks to CC, CL KH Song for providing the sumptuous food. After yummy food during break, ACS, CL Johnny Yong led the interesting evaluation session. Congratulations to the role players for the first time, ie. Alvin Wong as the time keeper, CC Kok Sook Meng as the Table Topics Master and TM Vince Kek for his Ice Breaker speech.
The blue ribbon of the President Distinguished Club 2008/09 from Toastmasters International was presented by the Area W1 Governor, Syamala to the our Immediate Past President, CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan. Syamala delivered a very informative speech and further enhanced by the “Frog Story” in her delivery. Thanks to TM Julia, we had very tasty Secret Recipe cake for our August babies’ birthday celebration.
Some dates to note:
1. Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Venue: MIA Resource Center. Date: 13 August 2009. Time: 7pm
2. Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Date: 12th September 2009 (Saturday) Time: 1:30pm (lunch will be served at 1 pm)
Venue: Wisma WIM, No. 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.
Have an awesome week ahead!
Liew Siew Yin
President
2009-2010
The President, CC CL Siew Yin delivered her presidential address in line with the theme of the meeting, “Merdeka Spirit”. A shout of “Merdeka” echoed through the room and reverberated by the members. New members ie. Vince Kek, Abdulrahaman and Eileen Lau were voted into the club and went through the induction session. CC Cindy Foong as the TME was well prepared, amiable and composed. She was even equipped with a Malaysian flag! Invocation was well delivered by ATMG KL Loh who inspired all members and guests to stand up and shouted, “Merdeka” 3 times. It was indeed a high spirit session.
Table Topics Master for the first time, CC Kok Sook Meng gave very interesting topics during her session and 3 out of 4 participants were guests. Bravo to all of you! The prepared speeches were equally creative, mesmerizing and informative. .. "When I Close My Eyes" by Vince Kek, "Fasting" by Eileen Lau and "A Twist of Fate" by Julia Leong. We were very privileged to listen to our club’s champion ie. ACB, CL Haji Naburi’s humorous speech followed by open evaluation from the floor.
Thanks to CC, CL KH Song for providing the sumptuous food. After yummy food during break, ACS, CL Johnny Yong led the interesting evaluation session. Congratulations to the role players for the first time, ie. Alvin Wong as the time keeper, CC Kok Sook Meng as the Table Topics Master and TM Vince Kek for his Ice Breaker speech.
The blue ribbon of the President Distinguished Club 2008/09 from Toastmasters International was presented by the Area W1 Governor, Syamala to the our Immediate Past President, CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan. Syamala delivered a very informative speech and further enhanced by the “Frog Story” in her delivery. Thanks to TM Julia, we had very tasty Secret Recipe cake for our August babies’ birthday celebration.
Some dates to note:
1. Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Venue: MIA Resource Center. Date: 13 August 2009. Time: 7pm
2. Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Date: 12th September 2009 (Saturday) Time: 1:30pm (lunch will be served at 1 pm)
Venue: Wisma WIM, No. 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.
Have an awesome week ahead!
Liew Siew Yin
President
2009-2010
Merdeka Spirit
August 11, 2009 was an awesome meeting! Everyone was in high spirit and the meeting room was filled with energy. There were 8 guests as well, kudos!
The President, CC CL Siew Yin delivered her presidential address in line with the theme of the meeting, “Merdeka Spirit”. A shout of “Merdeka” echoed through the room and reverberated by the members. New members ie. Vince Kek, Abdulrahaman and Eileen Lau were voted into the club and went through the induction session. CC Cindy Foong as the TME was well prepared, amiable and composed. She was even equipped with a Malaysian flag! Invocation was well delivered by ATMG KL Loh who inspired all members and guests to stand up and shouted, “Merdeka” 3 times. It was indeed a high spirit session.
Table Topics Master for the first time, CC Kok Sook Meng gave very interesting topics during her session and 3 out of 4 participants were guests. Bravo to all of you! The prepared speeches were equally creative, mesmerizing and informative. .. "When I Close My Eyes" by Vince Kek, "Fasting" by Eileen Lau and "A Twist of Fate" by Julia Leong. We were very privileged to listen to our club’s champion ie. ACB, CL Haji Naburi’s humorous speech followed by open evaluation from the floor.
Thanks to CC, CL KH Song for providing the sumptuous food. After yummy food during break, ACS, CL Johnny Yong led the interesting evaluation session. Congratulations to the role players for the first time, ie. Alvin Wong as the time keeper, CC Kok Sook Meng as the Table Topics Master and TM Vince Kek for his Ice Breaker speech.
The blue ribbon of the President Distinguished Club 2008/09 from Toastmasters International was presented by the Area W1 Governor, Syamala to the our Immediate Past President, CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan. Syamala delivered a very informative speech and further enhanced by the “Frog Story” in her delivery. Thanks to TM Julia, we had very tasty Secret Recipe cake for our August babies’ birthday celebration.
Some dates to note:
1. Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Venue: MIA Resource Center. Date: 13 August 2009. Time: 7pm
2. Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Date: 12th September 2009 (Saturday) Time: 1:30pm (lunch will be served at 1 pm)
Venue: Wisma WIM, No. 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.
Have an awesome week ahead!
The President, CC CL Siew Yin delivered her presidential address in line with the theme of the meeting, “Merdeka Spirit”. A shout of “Merdeka” echoed through the room and reverberated by the members. New members ie. Vince Kek, Abdulrahaman and Eileen Lau were voted into the club and went through the induction session. CC Cindy Foong as the TME was well prepared, amiable and composed. She was even equipped with a Malaysian flag! Invocation was well delivered by ATMG KL Loh who inspired all members and guests to stand up and shouted, “Merdeka” 3 times. It was indeed a high spirit session.
Table Topics Master for the first time, CC Kok Sook Meng gave very interesting topics during her session and 3 out of 4 participants were guests. Bravo to all of you! The prepared speeches were equally creative, mesmerizing and informative. .. "When I Close My Eyes" by Vince Kek, "Fasting" by Eileen Lau and "A Twist of Fate" by Julia Leong. We were very privileged to listen to our club’s champion ie. ACB, CL Haji Naburi’s humorous speech followed by open evaluation from the floor.
Thanks to CC, CL KH Song for providing the sumptuous food. After yummy food during break, ACS, CL Johnny Yong led the interesting evaluation session. Congratulations to the role players for the first time, ie. Alvin Wong as the time keeper, CC Kok Sook Meng as the Table Topics Master and TM Vince Kek for his Ice Breaker speech.
The blue ribbon of the President Distinguished Club 2008/09 from Toastmasters International was presented by the Area W1 Governor, Syamala to the our Immediate Past President, CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan. Syamala delivered a very informative speech and further enhanced by the “Frog Story” in her delivery. Thanks to TM Julia, we had very tasty Secret Recipe cake for our August babies’ birthday celebration.
Some dates to note:
1. Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Venue: MIA Resource Center. Date: 13 August 2009. Time: 7pm
2. Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Date: 12th September 2009 (Saturday) Time: 1:30pm (lunch will be served at 1 pm)
Venue: Wisma WIM, No. 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.
Have an awesome week ahead!
The Contest Night that is full of Laughter!
It's contest season again!
For Toastmasters, it's a time to get our blood pumped up. On 28th July 2009, we had our club's 2009/2010 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests. It was an event that brought all the club members as well as Toastmasters from other clubs together. Apart from that, we are honored to have our Division Governor, DTM Soh Fong Wai as our Chief Judge that night. And this time around, we had in total 15 contestants from our club:
Humorous Speech Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Khoshim Malim
3. KL Loh
4. Paul Tan
5. Haji Naburi
6. Victor Wan
7. MK Low
Evaluation Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Paul Tan
3. Haji Naburi Idin
4. Gean Lau
5. Victor Wan
6. MK Low
7. Khoshim Malim
8. Tan Ben Hoe
As usual, Victor Wan is kind enough to bring along his camcorder gadget to record the entire contest night! He will be doing some editing before showing us the final footage. So stay tuned folks.
As you can imagine, the Humorous Speech Contest is all about humor! On that night, we had some good laugh throughout the contest, as MK Low humored us about 'Contractor', as KL Loh revealed 'The secret of Staying Young', as Paul Tan answered the question of 'Where do you come from', as Abdul Aziz gave us some tips on 'The Best time to Invest', and amongst others. It was an enjoyable and entertaining session for all of us.
For the Evaluation Contest, we had Cheah Soo Chuan from MIM Toastmasters Club of Kuala Lumpur as the Test Speaker, and he gave an Ice Breaker Speech for 5-7 minutes. All the contestants are to evaluate the speech and provide their feedback in the allocated time of 3 minutes.
So after the Test Speaker had spoken, all the Evaluation contestants (including me!) had to leave the room and got quarantined in another room (not for AH1N1 purpose, of course). After that, each of us will enter the room to give our evaluation speech, one after another.
Though I was not in the room to hear all the evaluations, I believed all of the speeches were good and carried out in their unique style. Why? Because except me, all the contestants are very experienced speakers, not to mention their evaluation skills!
After a hard time deciding, the winners were announced at the end of the evening.
To all the winners and contestants, I wish to give my heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to all of you!
Evaluation Contest
CHAMPION : Low Meng Koon
1ST RUNNER UP : Paul Tan
2nd RUNNER UP : Tan Ben Hoe
Humorous Speech Contest
CHAMPION : Hj. Naburi Idin
1st RUNNER UP : Khoshim Malim
2nd RUNNER UP: Low Meng Koon
MK Low and Haji Naburi, both seasoned, humorous and powerful speaker that I know, will represent Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club in the Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on Thursday, 13 August 2009 in MIA Resource Center in Brickfields! Good luck to both of you!
Apart from that, I'd like to thank the role players that night as well. Though some of them are first-timers in their roles that night, they have done a marvelous job! Without you, it would not have been such a wonderful and successful night.
THANK YOU to:
Chief Judge :
Soh Foong Wai, DTM
Organizing Chair:
Julia Leong
Humorous Speech Contest Chair:
Cindy Foong
Evaluation Speech Contest Chair:
Kok Sook Meng
Test Speaker :
Cheah Soo Chuan
Timers:
1. Chong Huey Yee
2. Siva Das
Ballot Counters:
1. EK Yeo
2. Ginny Leng
3. Eileen Lau
Sergeant at Arms:
1. Wilson Ten
2. Francis Ng
3. Vince Kek
Last note to all, we will be posting the links to the Speech videos soon, so stay tuned!
Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010
For Toastmasters, it's a time to get our blood pumped up. On 28th July 2009, we had our club's 2009/2010 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests. It was an event that brought all the club members as well as Toastmasters from other clubs together. Apart from that, we are honored to have our Division Governor, DTM Soh Fong Wai as our Chief Judge that night. And this time around, we had in total 15 contestants from our club:
Humorous Speech Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Khoshim Malim
3. KL Loh
4. Paul Tan
5. Haji Naburi
6. Victor Wan
7. MK Low
Evaluation Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Paul Tan
3. Haji Naburi Idin
4. Gean Lau
5. Victor Wan
6. MK Low
7. Khoshim Malim
8. Tan Ben Hoe
As usual, Victor Wan is kind enough to bring along his camcorder gadget to record the entire contest night! He will be doing some editing before showing us the final footage. So stay tuned folks.
As you can imagine, the Humorous Speech Contest is all about humor! On that night, we had some good laugh throughout the contest, as MK Low humored us about 'Contractor', as KL Loh revealed 'The secret of Staying Young', as Paul Tan answered the question of 'Where do you come from', as Abdul Aziz gave us some tips on 'The Best time to Invest', and amongst others. It was an enjoyable and entertaining session for all of us.
For the Evaluation Contest, we had Cheah Soo Chuan from MIM Toastmasters Club of Kuala Lumpur as the Test Speaker, and he gave an Ice Breaker Speech for 5-7 minutes. All the contestants are to evaluate the speech and provide their feedback in the allocated time of 3 minutes.
So after the Test Speaker had spoken, all the Evaluation contestants (including me!) had to leave the room and got quarantined in another room (not for AH1N1 purpose, of course). After that, each of us will enter the room to give our evaluation speech, one after another.
Though I was not in the room to hear all the evaluations, I believed all of the speeches were good and carried out in their unique style. Why? Because except me, all the contestants are very experienced speakers, not to mention their evaluation skills!
After a hard time deciding, the winners were announced at the end of the evening.
To all the winners and contestants, I wish to give my heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to all of you!
Evaluation Contest
CHAMPION : Low Meng Koon
1ST RUNNER UP : Paul Tan
2nd RUNNER UP : Tan Ben Hoe
Humorous Speech Contest
CHAMPION : Hj. Naburi Idin
1st RUNNER UP : Khoshim Malim
2nd RUNNER UP: Low Meng Koon
MK Low and Haji Naburi, both seasoned, humorous and powerful speaker that I know, will represent Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club in the Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on Thursday, 13 August 2009 in MIA Resource Center in Brickfields! Good luck to both of you!
Apart from that, I'd like to thank the role players that night as well. Though some of them are first-timers in their roles that night, they have done a marvelous job! Without you, it would not have been such a wonderful and successful night.
THANK YOU to:
Chief Judge :
Soh Foong Wai, DTM
Organizing Chair:
Julia Leong
Humorous Speech Contest Chair:
Cindy Foong
Evaluation Speech Contest Chair:
Kok Sook Meng
Test Speaker :
Cheah Soo Chuan
Timers:
1. Chong Huey Yee
2. Siva Das
Ballot Counters:
1. EK Yeo
2. Ginny Leng
3. Eileen Lau
Sergeant at Arms:
1. Wilson Ten
2. Francis Ng
3. Vince Kek
Last note to all, we will be posting the links to the Speech videos soon, so stay tuned!
Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010
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