Meeting #381 - Teacher’s day

Wow, today we had quite a big group with 20 attendees. Surprisingly 8 out of them were non-Toastmaster guests. The good news was that few of them were interested to join our club!

Don’t be confused, Teacher’s Day actually falls on 16^th May, not today (23^rd May).

We started the meeting late at 7.27 pm. Mainly due to the absence of a few role players, also a speaker. We were also a bit involved to welcome new faces who reached a bit late. We should plan well of the timing from upcoming meetings.

Manish Jha, CC, who at the last minute took the role of SAA, called the meeting to order and passed the floor to the Competent Communicator President Ron Yeap. 

Every one of us were requested to introduce ourselves and in our introduction use the Theme of the day “Teacher’s day“ also the Word of the day “Bestow”.

Subsequently, Toastmaster of the Evening, Chitirra led the meeting steadily. Since we had guests, she briefed the History of Toastmasters International followed by introducing the role players.

Next, we came to the Table Topics Session. I (Ooi Yee) was bestowed the Table Topics Master role. Following were the topics which I prepared in advance and the name of the participants who spoke on that topic is right next to it.

 

1) Suggest few things that should change/improve in our education system?  -CP Lau, ACB ALB

2) Let’s share with us one of your unforgettable teachers.  -Jia Min (Guest)

3) What course would you study if you can choose again? – Lynda (Guest)

4) Don’t become a teacher. -Ivan Chee (Guest)

5) Imagine you were selected as the students’ representative to give a speech on Teacher’s Day. How will your speech like? - Gobinath(Guest)

After casting the vote for the Best Table Topic Speaker, we moved to the Assigned Speech Session. We had only 2 speakers today as one of the speakers was unable to attend the meeting due to some last minute emergency.

First Speaker: Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB

Speech #7: Research you topic (Competent Communication Manual)

Title: Emotional Outbursts

Evaluator: Tn. Haji Hashim Adnan, DTM

He shared,It happens — we all get emotional at work or on road. You might scream, or cry, or pound the table and stamp your feet. This is not ideal office behavior, of course, and there are ramifications to these outbursts, but they don’t have to be career-killers either. If you take a close look at what happened, why you acted the way you did, and take steps to remedy the situation, you can turn an outburst into an opportunity.

Second Speaker: Ron Yeap, CC

Manual: The Entertaining Speaker

Speech #5: Speaker After Dinner (Advanced Communication Manual)

Title: Remembering Mr. Lau

Evaluator:  CP Lau, ACB, ALB

Haha, Ron was brave enough to speak on an entertaining speech topic with a sad story.

As usual, we went for a 10 minutes break before the next heavy Evaluation & Reports sessions. Our smart and sincere General Evaluator Ivan Chow, CC, CL explained the session and led his team of evaluators to give evaluations on table topics and each project speech. We also practice open evaluation where the audience can share their opinions and suggestions on the speeches.

Open evaluation was followed by Grammarian report by Dr. Thilla, DTM, “Ah” Counter report by Shain and Timer report by Sivadas, CC. We collected a few Ringgits of “Penalty” from our members today, due to bad crutches and repetitive words. Good job, Shain! Members, please take the lessons.

Then, GE Ivan Chow, CC, CL presented his report. He gave some comments and constructive suggestions on how to improve the club and member speeches.

Finally, it was time for the last and exciting awards session before adjourning the meeting. Mr. President, Ron presented the award to the following winner, announced on the coming events and delivered his closing address.

Note: We didn’t have the best assignment speech and best evaluator awards today as there were only 2 project speeches.

Last but not the least, our club president Ron Yeap, CC , invited the guests to share some feedback about the meeting. Due to time constraint, we were not able to get the feedback from all our guests. However, we welcome them to share with us their thoughts anytime.

Time was up and Ron adjourned the meeting. Good night every one and see you in the next meeting!.

See you all again on 30th of May 2017.

Sincerely, 

Thanks to the Team,

Manish Jha, CC

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club

Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017

P/S: 

Thank you so much to the whole team including writer -Yap Ooi Yee, editor, reviewer- Shain Anand  and critics to provide your timely sincere support and feedback to keep up the good work.

Meeting #380 - Your Vote, Your Voice

The meeting #380 was a relatively short meeting but important.Club members turned up to exercise their rights in the Annual Business Meeting after the meeting. Our theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice.”

The opening of the meeting was carried out by our respective Dr. Thilla C., DTM. She led us sprightly in reciting the Toastmaster’s Promises. Followed by the President’s address from Ron Yeap, CC. It was the electrifying session. First, he invited Chitirra, grammarian to introduced the word of the day, “harmonious” and encourage us to use during our introduction. The theme provoked good thoughts and voiced in harmonious way.

The session was conducted in a zestful manner before passing the floor to the Toastmaster of the evening, Shain. He is a fast- learner and he lead the whole meeting harmoniously without showing any nervousness. This was his maiden time to take up this role. Well done, Shain!

In this meeting, we did not have prepared speech as our schedule did not allow us to have it. However, we had a very interesting Table Topics™ session. Experienced Table Topics™ Master Ben Hoe, CTM, CL gave good topics the speakers to ponder about. The speakers were:

     A)   Charmine Lee, ACB, ALB -“There is no such thing as the vote does not matter”

     B)   CP Lau, ACB, ALB -"Showing up and involve in the decision making"

     C)   Guest Jia Ming -“President is selected not elected”

     D)   Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB -“Money has replaced the vote”

     E)   Serena Kong, ACB - “Never believe that you should be silent”.

All of speeches were evaluated by KL Loh, ATMG. He listened, he encouraged and he highlighted the areas of improvement for each individuals.

In this meeting, we had our past president Ken Chan, DTM to be our General Evaluator. He was humorous and he lighted up the whole evaluation session. His team members of the functional roles were:

      A)   Timer- Wendy Sim

      B)   “Ah” Counter- EK Yeo, CC, CL

      C)   Grammarian- Chitirra

The club meeting adjourned at 8:40pm.  The club meeting ended early to give way for our Annual Business meeting. See you all in our next meeting on 23rd of May 2017.

Sincerely, 

Thanks to the Team,

Manish Jha, CC

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club

Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017

P/S: 

Thank you so much to the whole team including writer -Serena Kong ACB, editor, reviewer- Mathew Philippose, CC ALB  and critics to provide your timely sincere support and feedback to keep up the good work.

     

     

Ascending To Success

This is the most exciting, enriching and fulfilling moment when we ascend to success. Ladies and gentlemen we together ascended to conduct the meeting number 379 in our club. We were valorous enough to have a fun filling, educational meeting on this Tuesday 25^th April 2017. Ascending to Success was the theme of the day and ‘Valorous’ was the word of the day.

We started our meeting on time at 7:15pm. Assistant Sergeant At Arms Manish Jha, Competent Communicator called the meeting to order. As his role defined, to make sure the setup of our meeting venue is done before a meeting begins, and lead the members through the recital of Toastmasters promises. Yes he has done it diligently.

Our President Ron Yeap, CC greeted everyone, began his presidential opening speech by bringing us through the theme. Our grammarian had also introduced the word of the day, ‘Valorous’. Ron had then set the floor for everyone to introduce themselves encouraging everyone to use the theme of the day and the word of the day. Well, as I evidenced there everyone ascended to success while telling their success stories in their short introduction. It was worth knowing all of them once again.

Ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for generous, humorous, and ever friendly Toastmaster of the Evening, Kelvin Chong, ACB. Yes, you heard me correctly, he is such a wonderful person. Kelvin, ACB briefed us on the history of Toastmaster International as well as the history of our club before introducing the role players.

 

The first presentation was done by Ken Chan, DTM in presenting his invocation presentation. His speech was truly uplifting by sharing with us about transformational leadership. Everyone learned a tip or two on the difference between leaders and managers.

Moving on, we have our seasoned Toastmaster, Serena Kong, ACB led us through the Table Topics session, one of the most exciting session in the meeting. She was the Table Topics™ Master. She had prepared the nice topics in colorful cards. We had four courageous Table Topics™ speakers.

The sun was almost set and the night was getting more exciting. This evening we were ready with 3 speeches from the Competent Communication Manual and one from the Advanced Communication Manual. Our 1^st prepared speech speaker was none other than Toastmaster Chitirra, delivered her 4^th speech from the Competent Communication Manual – How to Say It. Her speech title was ‘Drink and Dive’, and I was her speech evaluator.

Chitirra shared a story in her speech about a trip to Terengganu with two bosom friends. She used so many rhetorical devices, metaphor as this was in her speech objectives. She went to do snorkeling and ended up with very unpleasant trip. She learnt a very import lesson says, don’t just drink and Drive may cause an accident, also don’t drink and Dive into water. It may cause another accident.

Our second speaker of the day was Toastmaster Joel Silas. He was doing his 5^th speech ‘Your body speaks’. His speech Title was ‘International Language’. His body languages added marks to his presentation. It was very funny, humorous and captivating to the audience. I love it very much.

Third speaker of the day was Toastmaster Yap Ooi Yee. She was doing her 6^th speech ‘Vocal Variety’. Her speech title was ‘The Importance of Presentation skills’. To me, she is a very good speaker. Always speaks from the heart. On this day she not just used good body language which she learnt in her previous chapter. She also used very well vocals for different character in her speech. Her message was ‘everyone has a different speaking skill & presentation style. They are very vital in our life especially in career.  To be a good speaker, we can’t run away from practice, practice & practice’. Yes, it has deeper meaning.

Fourth speaker of the day was Ron Yeap, CC. He was doing speech #2 from Advanced Communication Manual ‘Speeches by Management’. His speech title as well name of the speech chapter was ‘Appraise with Praise’. Who doesn’t like to be appraised? All, correct J this was my day when speaker, President Ron appraised me in his speech. He asked me, when can I start my advanced speeches? I promised to start the next term. Thank you, Ron Yeap, CC.

Our sincere Timer EK Yeo, announced for the break, 15 mins. It was time to chill and fill. Chill with our fellowship and fill our hungry tummy.

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome back. We welcomed our General Evaluator, Ramdas Nayar, DTM. Ramdas was the Past District Governor, a very senior Toastmaster from MIMKL Toastmasters Club. As a senior Toastmaster he explained the meaning of speech evaluation. He called upon Table Topics™ Evaluator, Kevin Khoo, CC. Kevin was very sharp in listening all the Table Topics™ speakers. So, he was able to highlight the strengths and weakness about the speeches. It was really a constructive evaluation from Kevin Khoo, CC.

Ramdas Nayar, DTM had also called upon all four valorous speech Evaluators in the sequence of Manish Jha CC, CP Lau ACB ALB, Ken Chan DTM and Mathew Philippose CC ALB to evaluate the four wonderful speeches. It was really interesting and eye opener evaluation from them.

Role players were called to share their reports by our General Evaluator. Grammarian- Dr. Thilla, DTM. She is best in grammar like an experienced Grammar Teacher. Substitute Ah’ counter Toastmaster Wenny Loh, she helped our club to make some money from members who made the speech crutches. Thank you, Wenny. Finally, our Timer Ek Yeo, CC CL shared his precise timing report.

It was time to appreciate the best performers- 

Our club President Ron Yeap, CC took over the control of the stage to summarize the whole meeting. I would say. With this we have ascended to succeed another fruitful meeting in our club.

Sincerely, 

Thanks to the Team,

Manish Jha, CC

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club

Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017