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| Acting President, CP Lau, CC |
On Tuesday 14th August 2012 was our club’s 1st
meeting of the month at Bangunan MCA, Lorong 8/1D Petaling Jaya. We had a good turn up. Out meeting #255 began
at about 7pm with the Sergeant-At-Arms, Kyle Kuah, TM calling the meeting to order.
He led us in the first 5 promises of Toastmasters. He then handed over to the Acting President,
CP Lau, CC. He invited the members to introduce themselves. The Acting President
then introduced the Word of the Day, Perseverance,
which is a strong persistence in course of action. He shared in his opening
address of how through perseverance our club has been a President‘s Distinguished Club for the last 9 years.
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| Matthew Phillipose, TM first-time Toastmaster of the Evening. Well done! |
The Acting President then handed the meeting over to the
Toastmaster of the Evening, Mathew Philippose. TM Mathew highlighted the theme
of the day which was Heritage is our Legacy.
It was very interesting evening, in our humor session. Ron
Yeap, TM put audience to laugh with a story on the bow and arrow. It was a day
packed with of five prepared speeches.
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| Kyle said Facebook is all we need |
TM Kyle Kuah a young energetic student
from Help University led the speeches by sharing on Facebook. Everyone may know
Facebook but he led us to see the many faces that Facebook has so that we can
make the full use of it.
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| Ron Yeap delivering Project Speech #6 of the Competent Communication Manual on Vocal Variety |
TM Ron Yeap a project
engineer in Data Center Specialist Company next took to the stage with topic on
Project Management in a Nutshell. He pointed out that everyone has a project.
He created a realization that a wedding, a house renovation or a family vacation
is a project. Many a times these are delayed because we did not take into
account certain point of view that may come along the way. It can be from the
wife, or the mother or a friend. He stressed that it is important to take into
account the unforeseen situation as we plan and have an oversight of how to
manage.
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| CP Lau presenting Technical Presentation from Advanced Communication Manual |
The next interesting topic was Software Testing by on CP Lau,
CC; he gave a step by step understanding of how software testing is done. He
gave everyday life experiences how the software testing can be done in a simple
way for example what happens after a product is scanned in the supermarket. CP
Lau, CC had been in IT industry for the past 20 years gave such a detail power
point presentation and he kept the audience glued.
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| Seasoned speaker Ken Chan, delivering his speech with title 'Financials' |
He was followed by another interesting topic on Financial.
This topic was shared by a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and he too
has been 20 years in the financial industry. He is none other than our
President Ken Chan, ACS, ALB. He peeled out the details of financial statement
one by one. Can one ask for anything more complete in a ten minute presentation
and not forgetting with his witty humor and an unceasing broad smile?
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| Serena Kong, attempting speech in Story Telling |
Yes, who did we have after that it was our Serena Kong, CC
who came with a story telling with the topic The Ugly Duckling. Who could have
imagined in this true story the ugly duckling would be the person she trusted
but ended up as a cheat. Her story gave
a the understanding that duck is only cute as long as it is not playing with
the mud the moment a person does dirty tricks he becomes an ugly duckling that
no one wants to come near.
After the one and half hour thought provoking, informative
and humorous session, all adjourned for break with food and fellowship. There was an
interesting lay out of food from “nasi lemak” to all kinds of local delicacies from Pasar Ramadhan.
Once the break was over in about 15 minutes all sat down to
hear the evaluators, it is said feedback is the breakfast for the champions so
we had the following to feed us with their evaluations, Alwin Chuah, CTM, CL; Kelvin
Chong, CC; KL Loh, ATMG; Tan Beng Hoe, CTM, CL; and Francis Ng, DTM. This was followed by a detail report by Grammarian,
CP Lau, CC; Ah-Counter, Serena Kong, CC and Time Keeper, Kelvin Chong, CC. And finally
we had the General Evaluator, Dr William Lau, DTM.
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| Dr. William Lau, honored to have him as our General Evaluator |
Dr William Lau began with appreciation for the changes in the
meeting room that has been set up. He said since he last came some time ago there
have been some commendable changes. This goes to show that the club takes the
comment during the evaluation seriously. He swept clean every aspect of detail
from the speeches and evaluations. It was really interesting.
When the control was passed back to the Toastmaster of the Evening,
the president was called to give the appreciation award to the following
persons. The Best Evaluation to Tan Ben Hoe, CTM, CL; the Best Project Speech to
CP Lau, CC and our Appreciation award to Dr. William Lau, DTM. While the President
winded up the meeting, he asked our guest of the evening, who is the first
timer Mr. Jayden Chen to give his comments. He said he liked the meeting and felt it benefited
him. He is looking forward to join the club.
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| August babies, Tan Ben Hoe and Kelvin Chong |
The meeting adjourned at 10.10pm and we had a birthday
celebration for the August babies, Tan Ben Hoe and Kelvin Chong.
by,
Mathew Philippose, TM
by,
Mathew Philippose, TM
