If you really want to enjoy this
blog, then wear your Halloween costume once again, to join this voyage through
Money Mastery KL's 394th meeting. On the 31st of October 2017, we turned to page 394 of Money Mastery KL's meeting book. The page unleashed the Halloween Genie. The Genie had both
tricks and treats under its sleeves. Voila. The Genie granted the meeting
with a spooky ambience. Members arrived in Halloween costumes of all sorts,
ranging from Wednesday Addams to the so called Toilet Paper ghost.
The Assistant Sergeant At Arms for the
evening Olivia Chow, who was taking up the role for the first time, called the
meeting to order followed by reciting the Toastmaster's promise.
Madam President Wendy Sim, CC, in
her pumpkin orange coloured attire, welcomed everyone present there and invited
the Grammarian Manish Jha, CC, with the Ghost Rider mask, to introduce the word
"Aghast" which means amazement or horror. The entire club was aghast
when they saw Manish in his mask. Afterwards, the control was passed over to
the Snake Oil Salesman a.k.a Toastmaster of the Evening Ron Yeap, ACB ALB. With
his big Moustache and the top hat, he took over the charge. Not only he nailed
the attire, Ron maintained a bulky voice throughout the meeting giving a
uncanny aura to the meeting as a whole
As it was a speech marathon, no Table
Topics® Session was conducted. The Snake Oil Salesman spilt the snake oil on
the audience and we were teleported to the Assigned speech session. We can see
6 speakers souls, waiting for their turn to
let go their fear of public speaking.
1. The first among them was Joel
Silas who can be called as the Toilet Phantom because he made himself a phantom
out of the toilet paper. Quite innovative. He was delivering his 8th speech
from the CC manual with the speech titled "Wanderlust". The speech
was about his tour to Europe which he presented with the help of photos. As
usual, Joel's humorous conversational style made the speech entertaining.
2. Second soul was Ken Chan DTM who
was doing the Ice Breaker speech for the 9th time with the title "Ken, He
Can". Only one word about his speech: awe-inspiring.
3. Time for our third soul, CP Lau,
ACB, ALB. He was delivering the speech from the Advanced Communication -
Speciality Speeches Series Manual.His evaluator was given the option to select
his speech title from a list of 5 speech titles. His speech title was "Progress is More
Important Than Perfection". Cool as you like, the maestro delivered the speech
with perfection.
4. After those seasoned speakers, it
was the turn of one of the newest souls of Money Mastery KL, Shelly Sim going
to kick-start her Toastmasters journey. "Who is Shelly?" Those
were the words reverberating among us when she came to the dais. She took us on
a short trip about her life. Even though it was her first speech she delivered it
like a pro with less fear and full of confidence. At the end of her speech, we were able to
say She is Shelly. She was also given a standing ovation for delivering her first speech.
5. Have you ever heard of the word
Thanatophobia? Well, we also didn't know about the word until our fifth soul
Chitirra started her speech. Ooh la la! Her speech had the closest resemblance
with the theme of the day. She was doing her Pathways Level 1 Project 2 speech
titled "Thanatophobia". Her unhurried style of speech delivery gave the meeting a
frightening.
6. Last but not the least, Srikant
was the final soul who delivered his Pathways Level 1 Project 2 speech titled "Adventures in Cambodia". He shared about his experiences in Cambodia which was
no less than an adventure filled with excitement and amazement for him.
Abracadabra. That was the perfect
speech session for a Halloween night. The credit goes to those 6 souls who
challenged themselves on the Halloween night. We voted for the Best Speaker. It
was time for a short break. But this time, the magic was on the refreshments.
We had the refreshments which were based on the Halloween theme, thanks to
Madam President Wendy. Thank God, we didn't need the Halloween Genie for that.
Else the Genie would have been annoyed by our requests.
After the break session, General
Evaluator Ching Lee Hwa, ACB, ALB was handed over the stage to walk us through
the Evaluation session. She invited the Speech Evaluators to give their
evaluation. Each evaluator gave their best evaluation for their respective
speakers. After each evaluation, the GE gave her personal evaluation to the
speakers which was indeed a bonus lesson for the speakers.
The panel of evaluators are as
follows with speaker's name inside brackets:-
1. Serena Kong, ACB (Joel Silas)
2. E K Yeo, CC, CL (Ken Chan, DTM)
3. Kang Fong Luan, CC (C P Lau, ACB, ALB)
4. Ken Chan, DTM (Shelly Sim)
5. C P Lau, ACB, ALB (Chitirra)
6. Ng Yee Chia, ACB (Srikant Marakani)
Finally, it was the time to
recognize our best performers:
Best Speaker : CP Lau ACB, ALB
Best Evaluator : Ken Chan DTM
Arthur Conan Doyle quoted -
"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror". Well, MMKL
definitely has that power of imagination and The Halloween Genie was the result of that imagination. The credit
goes to the entire club for making every meeting entertaining and meaningful. At
the end, MMKL turned the 394th page and the Halloween Genie went back with the hope that exactly one year later MMKL will re-open the page.
May the force of Halloween Genie
will always be with Money Mastery KL.
Role players for the meeting:
1. Olivia Chow (ASAA)
2. Ron Yeap ACB, CL (TME)
3. Shain Anand (Ah-Counter)
4. Manish Jha CC (Grammarian)
5. Mandy Chan (Timer)
Blog writer: Shain Anand
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