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