Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters has completed 384 meetings
since inception. This day 29th June 2017 is very special to the club
because it is the end of term. As usual
members starts streaming into the meeting as early as 6.30pm. The Assistant Sergeant At Arms(SAA) Chong Ji
Sheng struck gavel at 7.15pm and the meeting was called to order.
As usual the SAA spelled out the house rules and led the
group to recite the Toastmasters Promise. He then invited the President Ron Yeap
for the opening address to the sound of applause.
This was a very emotional and historical meeting not only
for our President Ron Yeap but also for our club as give farewell to our 15th
President since inception. The President welcomed our General Evaluator Advance
Communicator Silver, Advance Leader Bronze(ACS, ALB) Alan Wong. The President
drew the attention of the club of its achievements of the club for the term. He
thanked all who contributed to help the term session to end well. The President announced that the theme of the
day was “All's Well that Ends Well”. Surely he says the club did well and it will
end well. He said this meeting is going
to be the climax of term. He then
invited the Grammarian Shain Anand to introduce the word of the day. As the
Grammarian introduced Moxie as the Word of the Day with its meaning energy,
courage and determination. The word charged and ignited the club to use the
word, Moxie. The President than extended the invitation to all those seated at
the meeting to introduce themselves using the theme and the Word of the Day.
Which such a charged atmosphere the President handed the
meeting over to the ToastMaster of the Evening (TME) Mathew Philippose who
welcomed the club members. Normally in our meetings the TME introduce the
history of Toastmasters, however as there was no non-toastmaster guests, he
went on straight to introduce the role-players for the meeting. These
role-players give an essence to the meeting, the Grammarian, Toastmaster Shain
Anand, the Ah Counter, Toastmaster Yap Ooi Yee, The Timer, Competent
Communicator Wendy Sim and the General Evaluator Alan Wong ACS, ALB.
The TME took the liberty also to facilitate the role of Humour
Master. Distinguished Toastmaster Haji Hashim Adnan volunteered to share some
humorous stories that brought the club to laughter. The TME added a few humorous moments he
encountered in the club.
With an uplifting atmosphere, the TME invited the table
topics master FooFung Jiun. The Table
topics Master invited members for this impromptu session. There was an
overwhelming response with the following members Mathew, Chong Ji Sheng, Ron
Yeap and Yap Ooi Yee. Each captured the audience with their unique impromptu
speeches. The table topics were related to love experiences blended with the
theme of the day.
As
the TME took over we saw a string of young buddy speakers take the stage. The
first speaker was Mandy Chan, she may be shy, but she captured the audience
with description of various types of beauty. Her speech was titled, "Lover of
beauty”.
It is her third attempt from the Competent Communication
Manual. Mandy surely had improved much
from the first speech she delivered at our club. Her speech began to flow like
water from her mouth equipped with quotations, humour and examples with vivid
description.
The
second Speaker Chittira Amirthalingam well used the stage through her body
movements expressing her story she was speaking. She displayed body movements as she attempted
her fifth speech on the topic “Body Speaks”. As she appeared on the stage she
echoed the screams and facial expression in her speech titled “Poach the
Roach”.
She
was talking about cockroaches and her experiences. It was an interesting
speech. In fact she had the privilege to have her father who came just
before her speech was due. It is very
rare to have a family member to witness our speech.
Our
final speaker was toastmaster Joel Silas, who had a captivating title “What the
world looks for” I should say he is a fluent speaker. This speech is his sixth
speech on the topic, “Vocal Variety”. Joel
Silas has a cheerful countenance as he speaks.
During his speech he caught the attention of the audience by
asking some simple questions that can make the audience respond easily. Joel
with a glowing smile gave a challenging speech “what the world looks for” as he
created awareness through his speech.
The meeting was adjourned for a break. There was an array of
food to experience during the break. The meeting was soon convened with the
ASAA Ji Sheng calling the meeting to order. Toastmaster Ji Sheng handed over
the meeting to the Toastmaster of the Evening Mathew. The TME welcomed everyone
back to second part of the meeting. It is time for evaluation and feedback, it
is valuable time as we learn how to improve ourselves. To help in this session we invited our
General Evaluator Alan Wong to preside over this session.
The Table Topics Master Advanced Communicator Bronze Serena
Kong was the first to be called to present her evaluation, she gave a very uplifting
evaluation for each speaker pointing their strength and areas of improvements. This evaluation helps us to know how to speak
in any situation when we are called upon to say something for a few minutes in
any event.
Soon we moved on to our next session in evaluation for
prepared speeches. The evaluators Competent Communicator Manish Ja ,
Distinguished Toastmaster Haji Hashim Adnan and Distinguished Toastmaster Dr
Thilla Chelliah came up to give their respective evaluations as they were called
upon to the stage. The general evaluator
gave encouraging remarks to add value to the evaluations.
The next phase of the evaluations was to hear how well the
club did in our usage of language and
grammar, was there any speech crutches and did we keep up to the time in each
section. In Toastmasters it is not
sufficient to do well in activities in our club but we learn how to be a master
of time also. Our role players
Grammarian Shain Anand, Ah Counter Ooi
Yee and Timer Wendy Sim all spelled out how well we did.
Finally the General evaluator summed up the meeting giving
us valuable thoughts to lead the club to a greater height for the future. Has
he handed over the meeting to the TME Mathew the club applauded for invaluable
advise by the General Evaluator.
The
TME invited President Ron Yeap to give
away the Awards for the best performers. The club voted for each session and
now is the time to witness who won the awards. The Best Table Topics
performance fell on none other but the President himself. So the TME Mathew
presented it to the President. It is such a befitting honour that the President
was voted the Best Table topics Award on his last day in office. The Best
Speech Evaluator award went to Distinguished Toastmaster Haji Hashim who had
been a the best evaluator many times before. The Best Speech Award was given to
the smiling face Chittira Amirthalingam.
The awards of the day were given away and the TME handed the
meeting over to the President for the closing address. After the President gave the announcements he
gave an excellent outstanding speech. The speech was such a splendour, and all
the members stood up to give the President a standing ovation.
In the history of the club each person stands for the
president only once in his life time. Thus we have witnessed the 15th
President of the club who led the club to President Distinguished Status.
It is truly glamorous as we seeing him stepping down. Our next meeting on 11th July will be presided by our President Elect Wendy Sim. There will be an installation meeting of the new Office bearers 22nd July 2017. Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters club has shaped many people to be effective communicators, speakers and leaders. The club is proud to continue its legacy in the years to come as an outstanding club.
Sincerely,
Thanks to the Team,Manish Jha, CC
Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club
Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017
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