It was a meeting
started with a lot of excitement. It is our second meeting of the month. In
conjunction with the celebration of 91st anniversary for
Toastmasters International, we have our theme of the meeting, titled “When I am
91 years old”. A golden question, one of the most wise question, “What are you
going to do when you are at 91 years of golden age?”. Food for thought…
It was an exciting
meeting, simply because we had our first “speech marathon” for this term. With
the enthusiasm of members wanting to improve on their communication skills,
presentation skills, we are hopeful for more speech marathons in the coming
months.
It was our club’s
honour to have some very experience Toastmasters lending their helping hands,
sharing their insightful view on our members’ speech delivered. We were proud
to have Gabriel Chong, ACB, ALB from ITC Bintang Toastmasters Club, Juliana
Heng, ACS, ALB from KPMG and PJ Bilingual Toastmasters Clubs as well as Chan
Pick Kuen, CC from MIMKL Toastmasters Club as our General Evaluator.
Even though it was a
speech marathon meeting, we managed to keep the excitement of the meeting by
still having the Table Topics session. Kudos to our VPE, Ron Yeap with such
good planning in the agenda. Thank you Ron!
It was interesting
to hear from fellow Toastmasters, as they introduced themselves their opinion what
and how they would want to be when they reach at the age of 91 years. In the
meeting, our eldest and most senior member, Tn. Hj. Hashim Adnan, ACS, ALS who
is at the age of 70, wishes to continue to tee off every alternate day at the
golf course. I will say we look forward to see that, Hj. Hashim.
In our Table Topics
session, the first volunteer was our long missing chartered member, Alwin
Chuah, CTM, CL. He received a topic that asked for his opinion, “Do married
people live longer?”. Alwin is definitely one of the happiest man on earth
after he has married his wife. He shared about his family life, how supportive
and open minded his wife is. One of his best time is to be with his children. I
guess, married people will be happier and will definitely live longer. Alwin
was voted the best Table Topics Speaker of the day. Well done Alwin, and get
ready for the Table Topics Contest in January 2016.
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| Best Table Topics Speaker: Alwin Chuah, CTM, CL |
Vijayakumar, CC took
on another topic, titled “Why smart people live longer?”. Vijay agreed and
shared that smart people live longer, simply because smart people know what is
good for them. They know what is good in terms of food as well as life style.
Our visitor, Juliana
Heng, ACS, ALB shared her view, whether she will be an asset or a liability at
the age of 91 years. Working in the finance industry, she started with a humour
that she was just off duty dealing with asset and liability for the whole day,
hoping to have some fun at the Toastmasters meeting, and yet, she than
responded to the amazing question with a wish to setting up “Juliana
Foundation”, to help people to realize their dreams, she affirmed that she will
definitely be an asset when she is 91 years old.
Our member, Manish,
also shared on how to live up to 91 years old. His main point sent across to
everyone was that to live up to 91 years old or beyond, focus on health and
keeping a good food habit are the key points.
Our VPE, Ron Yeap,
CC was the final Table Topics speaker. He did not agree to the topic
he received, “Why baby face live longer?”. In his opinion, he said
people with baby face has no relation with long life. He emphasized, to live
long, it is a matter of how we take care of ourselves, not depending on the
look itself.
The meeting went on
to the second session, the project speech marathon.
The first speaker of
the day was Vijayakumar, CC. His topic was about “Be a Trustee”. It
sounded very technical and “heavy” at the beginning of the speech where Vijay
explained on the definition of “trustee”. However, the key point of Vijay’s
speech on trustee is to persuade all of us to extend the concept of “trustee”
to our personal life. He highlighted that, whatever we do to others, we will
get it back eventually. What goes around, comes around. He mentioned that being
a trustee, we do not get involved in the “object”. We ought not to have emotion
to being a trustee. We do not be greedy, do not get angry, and we do not feel
jealous. His message to us, “In order to be a trustee, you can’t be
possessive”.
Vijay’s speech was
evaluated by Ken Chan, DTM.
Cheng Seng San, our
second speaker of the day. He is a professional financial trader, and his
speech was “The Market Always Right”. Being an expert in share market, he
started off his speech by sharing his view on the closing index of KLCI. He
then moved on with very detailed and “technical” analysis on the share market
analysing the ups and downs of the index, prices to support his idea that
market is always right. The fluctuation was affect with many factors which all
of us should consider if we are to move into the share trading. I like to thank
him for his professional sharing and we look forward to learn more.
Alwin, CTM, CL was
the evaluator for Cheng. He has suggested a few tips for Cheng in order to help
him with more proficient delivery of his next speech. Thanks to Alwin, surely
we need more of him in our meetings so all of us can learn from him.
Manish, the third
speaker delivery his fifth speech from the Competent Communication manual,
titled “Power of Perception”. He told us in his speech that we actually have 9
senses, but we only make use of 5 of them. He talked about “thick minded” and
he shared a story of a thick minded student. From an incident that the student
saw it with his own eyes that rough rope can change the shape of a stone, with
it he changed his perception of himself from being “stupid” he transformed himself
to a better person.
Kevin Khoo, CC was
his evaluator. As an experienced speaker, Kevin pointed out a few areas that
Manish needs to work on in order to bring his speech to the next level. Well
done Manish and thank you Kevin for helping our member, Manish.
Our 4th
speaker of the day was none other than our seasoned speaker, Ken Chan, DTM.
After sharing his DTM story, liar story, he talked about “sucker” with a title
“ I’m a Sucker”. It was a humorous speech, yet inspirational. He changed the
bad connotation of “sucker” to a very positive character of being a sucker. His
technique of the speech organisation, based on time based. From sucking baby to
poet sucker, which his poem sucked! He classified 2 types of suckers in his
working life, i.e. energy sucker and blood sucker. Ken, again demonstrated his
talent in using acronyms. The energy suckers are “A”rgumented, like to “B”lame,
“C”omplain and very “D:ramatic. The audience was filled with laughter from his
speech. Thank you Ken for bringing to us a humour and relaxed evening.
Ken’s speech was
evaluated by Juliana Heng, ACS, ALB.
The last speaker of
the day was our senior member, past president, Hj. Hashim Adnan, ACS, ALS, delivered
his advanced speech, titled “How to Keep It Alive”. He shared the challenges of
maintaining the recognition program. There is a research on the recognition
program by an university and the “how to” which we can “package the program”,
“reminding the team”, “level of recognition” and “champion”.
His evaluator was
Gabriel Chong, ACB, ALB, which paid full attention to Hj.’s speech and provided
him with some very useful tips to improve on his future speeches. He suggested
that Hj. Hashim could strengthen his speech not only on the “how to” but more
to “inspirational”. Very good tips and thank you Gabriel.
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| Best Project Speech Speaker: Ken Chan, DTM |
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| Best Project Speech Evaluator: Kevin Khoo, CC |
Our madam General
Evaluator, Chan Pick Kuen, CC took over the next session on the evaluation. The
team of functional role reported their reports respectively.
