28th May falls in the 5th week of the month and we have our 3rd meeting of the month.
It is about 6.30 pm, members of Money Mastery-KL
Toastmasters are already streaming for club meeting #276. It was an exciting
time with eager voices sharing various topics of interest. Well to add to the
atmosphere was some refreshments to fill the stomach, just before we start the
meeting. We had the “nasi lemak”, curry puff and “satay’ on the table to feast
on.
It was 7pm and all had assembled in the meeting room. With
the sound of the hammer, Assistant Sergeant at Arms CP Lau, CC; called the meeting
was called to order. He reminded on the house rules and led all in the
toastmasters promise. 
The meeting was then handed over to the President Ken Chan
ACG, ALB to officiate the meeting. The president welcomed all and on his
invitation the grammarian CP Lau CC introduced the Word of the Day, “Jubilate”
meaning express great joy, rejoice or celebrate. He also announced the theme
“harvesting for the future” and asks all members to introduce themselves. As
the members introduced themselves they used the word of the Day and the theme
of the day.
The meeting was than handed over to the Toastmaster of the
Evening (TME) Mathew Philippose CC. He mentioned some brief changes in
the agenda and led the session recalling the history with the members
participating in quiz. He then invited the role-players to explain
their roles. Next came the interesting session Table Topics. This session was
led by EK Yeo CC, CL. There were a total of 5 participants aho were given various
topics centered on the word “Jubilate”.
The meeting proceeded
with agsigned speeches by Angel Law TM on her Speech title “Go Vege”. Angel was
giving her 2nd speech from the CC Manual on the topic Organize Your Speech. Her speech was followed by Mahadevan TM with his speech title “Regular
Exercise is the Key to Long and Healthy Life”. He was giving his 9th
Speech in Competent ommunication Manual. This was followed by Ken Chan ACG,
ALB with his speech title “Taken”. Ken Chan’s speech was from the Advanced
Communication Manual on Communicating Change.
As the speeches came to a close the Toastmaster of
the Evening adjourned the meeting for a 10 minute break. This was a time to refresh
and enjoy the food which was available in abundance. The time passed so fast and all were back in
the room as the Sgt of Arms CP Lau took control and handed it back to
Toastmaster of the Evening who invited the General Evaluator (GE) Francis Ng
DTM to preside over the evaluation session. He called on the evaluators EK Yeo
CC, CL; Haji Hashim Adnan CC, CL; and Victor Wan ACB, ALB to present their
evaluations. Each evaluator gave much invaluable knowledge in speech presentations to the
group present through their evaluations. At the request of the General Evaluator, the Grammarian CP Lau CC, gave insight to the use of the Word of the
Day and special phrases and words used, He at the same time highlighted misused
words and improper sentence constructions.
He being in charge of the Ah Counter added his report with the speech crutches made during the meeting. Well all those
who had speech crutches put in five cents for each speech crutches, so has to
make us better speakers for tomorrow. The Timer EK Yeo CC, CL gave the time check list
and it was generally good as we were on time.
Finally the General Evaluator Francis Ng DTM gave
general evaluation on the whole meeting process and gave finer points to
improve the meetings in future. The TME
took of over from the GE and invited the President to give away the
awards. The best Table Topics speech was given to Mathew Philippose, the best
Project speech to Ken Chan and best Evaluator went to Hj Hashim Adnan. The president
gave his closing speech and closed the meeting at 9.30pm.
Signing off,
Mathew Philippose, CC
