Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): August 2015

Meeting Theme: House of Cards

11^th August was a great night. Members and guests were sharing their opinion towards the theme of the night “House of Cards”. What is House of Cards? A famous TV series? You might be right, but we were not discussing about the TV series in the meeting.

Ron Yeap, CC

Our club Acting President, Ron Yeap, CC quickly took over the control from the SAA SS Cheng to start the meeting. He told that theme was interesting, very timely, topic that very closed to our daily concerns. From its literal meaning; A house of cards (also known as a card tower) is a structure created by stacking playing cards on top of each other. It refers to a flimsy structure, arrangement, or situation that is in danger of collapsing or failing.

The word of the day is capricious. All the members and guests were happily introduced themselves by using the theme of the day as well as the word of the day.

Next, our pretty Toastmasters of the evening, Wendy Sim inspired us with Confucius quote, “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home". Just like John D. MacDonald said, “Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.” She encouraged us to connect with friends with integrity and be an integrity person.

Also, she introduced Malcolm Sze, CC,CL , general evaluator who is a member from Sai Master Toastmasters Club. He is also the President of Mandarin & Cantonese Toastmasters Club. On the other hand, David Tan, CC, CL from Malacca Toastmasters Club volunteered to play role as grammarian. “Ah” Counter was played by SS Cheng and timer was taken by Serena Kong, ACB.

The night became more interesting when CP Lau, ACB, ALB took over the control as humour master. He shared with us the arguments among the organs, i.e., eyes, nose and mouth, which one was more important and how they should be re-positioned. We all had good laughs on the arguments and indeed, it was a good humour speech.


Thank you, CP. I love the lesson of your speech.

Followed by the interesting table topics session, led by EK Yeo, CC, CL. We had four bravo attempted the topics and they were:

TK Tan

Malcolm Sze

David Tan

Manish Kumar

For the assigned speech session, we had 4 speakers on different project speech and that required them to achieve different speeches objectives.

Speaker 1: Hj. Hashim Adnan,ACB, ALS

Advanced Manual: Specialty Speeches

Project Speech #5: Introduce The Speaker

Title: The Power of Voice

Hj. Hashim had done a thorough introduction of each speakers to get us prepare to listen to their speeches.

Speaker 2: Manish Kumar

Competent Communication Manual: The Ice Breaker

Title: Manish, Then and Now

Standing Ovation: Well done, Manish!

Title: Just for Laughs

Speaker 3: Ken Chan, DTM

Competent Communication

Manual: How to Say It

It says, beauty and gingers are old companions, but i would rather to tight it with age. He is hot, strong and experience. Good speech was delivered!

The Successful Club Series

(Skill Building Programme)

Speaker 4: Victor Wan, ACB, ALS

Project Speech:

Keeping The Commitment

Exemplary people excel at what they do and are excellent examples to others. Victor, you had showed a good example to us. We learned a lot from you- "Keeping The Commitment!"