It was a rainy day, heavy rain in fact.
However, we had a great attendance for this meeting. We had our usual seasoned
Toastmasters, our youngest Toastmaster and some guests participated in the
meeting.
It was a little different for this meeting.
We used up to 2 rooms for our meeting. As we are in the progress of preparing for our first ever Open
House Event, we were planning for some video shooting for some esteemed
Toastmasters to share with our guests on why Toastmasters, CC, Serena Kong had
also set up s second room for this purpose.
The team was here at the Bangunan MCA, in
PJ Selatan quite early for our 263rd meeting on 27th November 2012. This was
the last meeting we had in this meeting venue for year 2012. This is because
our meetings in December all fall on public holidays. We are going to have
another joint meeting with Puchong English Toastmasters Club on 17 December
2012 (Monday) at 8:00pm.
The theme of the meeting was "Counting Down... Preparing... Welcoming
You!", proposed by the Toastmaster of the Evening, CC, CP Lau. We are
marching into the final month of the year. Many of us despite busy counting down
for the festive holidays, a lot of us are still busy preparing for budget
allocation and sales target setting for year 2013.
Our club is also counting down, preparing
and welcoming all to our first ever Open House Event to be conducted on 15
December 2012. To all members, please look out for further details from our
blog, Facebook Group.
The word of the day was "Resplendent". This was proposed by
CC, Serena Kong, our Grammarian of the day.
CC, CP Lau started off the meeting by explaining
to our guests about the history of Toastmasters International as well as our
club, Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club. He also mentioned some of the
benefits as Toastmasters.
Table Topics session has always been the
most interesting session of the meeting. Our Table Topics Master was CC, CL EK
Yeo. The topics prepared was in conjunction with our theme of the day and they
were simple that all our participants were able to spoke on their feet. Thanks to EK for your great effort.
Our participants for the table topics were:-
1.
CC, Mathew Philippose
2.
ATMG, KL Loh
3.
CC, Kelvin Chong
4.
DTM, Dr. John Lau
5.
CC, Ron Yeap
 |
| They are emphasizing an important point |
Bravo to all of them for accepting the
challenge and giving their impromptu speeches.
The meeting moved on to the very
interesting session, the project speech session. We have 3 speeches lined up
for the members.
TM Mahadevan has begun the session by
delivering his 4th speech. His speech objective was - How to Say It, and his
speech was "Prevention is Better than Cure". He shared his experience
on how to be healthy. It is always important to prevent something from
happening instead of having to cure it later on. Mahadevan's speech has got us
to think of our health. 
CC, Mathew Philippose (Yes! He is
officially a Competent Communicator now!) was the second speaker of the day. He
presented his final speech of the CC manual, where he was to Inspire His
Audience! His speech title was "Life is a Journey". He started his speech by lighting up 3
candles wit different lengths. This indicated different of him at different ages,
different stage of life. He emphasized that life is a journey, not a destiny.
We must all live to the fullest of our life. With his powerful message, he has
truly inspired us. Well done Mathew! A standing ovation from all of us to your
achievement in the Toastmasters journey! 
Our 3rd speaker was none other than our President,
Ken Chan, ACS, ALB. He presented his 2nd story from the Storytelling series from
the Advanced Communication manual - Let's Get Personal. His title was
"Scam City". He shared with us his experience that he scratched a
"Toyota Altis". However, it was a scam as there were more than 5 of
his neighbors also scratched the same "Grand Prize" for the same day.
After the break, the meeting proceeded to
the Speech Evaluation session. ACB, ALB Julia Leong was the evaluator for all
participants of the Table Topics session. She commented on the strengths of
every speakers. Not only that, she also provided constructive suggestions to
them on how to improve and bring their speaking skills to the next level. Thank
you Julia.
DTM, Francis Ng evaluated on Mahadevan's
speech. from his evaluation, it was advised that Mahadevan should present some
very specific points instead of the general points. perhaps he could have
zoomed into one particular point and described in more detail.
ATMG, KL Loh evaluated on Mathew's speech.
he evaluated on his speech content that every small story from him actually
described the journey of his life and it inspired the members.
DTM, Dr. John Lau, our Toastmasters
International President 2012/2013 evaluated the last speaker, Ken Chan. It was
a very interesting evaluation from him. He suggested to Ken to changed the
tonality and excitement to make the story more interesting.
Our Mr. General Evaluator, DTM, Geoff
Andrew also provided his comments and constructive advices to speakers for
their improvements.
DTM, Dr. John Lau was awarded The Best
Table Topics Speech award, Ken Chan, ACS, ALB was awarded The Best Project
Speech award and DTM, Dr. John Lau was awarded The Best Project Speech
Evaluation award.
Appreciation to our role players of the
meeting:-
·
ASAA - CC, CP Lau
·
TME - CC, CP Lau
·
Grammarian - CC, Serena Kong
·
Ah Counter - CC, Ron Yeap
·
Time Keeper - CC, Kelvin Chong
The Toastmasters International President,
DTM, Dr. John Lau also shared with us his valuable experience on how he met
with people, encouraged and helped them to embark on the Toastmasters journey.
His great manner, humble approaches as well as the enthusiasm has walked the
talk of "Why Toastmasters!".
As the token of appreciation for his visit,
Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club has presented a book titled "The Legacy
Effect". We wish that DTM, Dr. John Lau, on his journey to visit
Toastmasters around the world, will leave a legacy for all of us! (and carry
our signatures to tour around the world!)
Meeting adjourned at 9:30pm.
