If you want to make a
change that feels significantly different, you need to learn and put them in
place of your life. Each person starts from where they are right now. That
means in order to move on to another place you need to accept where you are at
this very minute. But accepting where you are does not mean you have to stay
there.
Colin Firth as Harry Hart
in Kingsman says it this way: “My
point is that the lack of a silver spoon has set you on a certain path that you
needn’t stay on. If you are prepared to
adapt and learn, you can transform”.
As usual, the venue of the
club meeting was held at MCA Petaling Jaya Selatan, No. 9C (2nd
Floor), Lorong 8/1D, 46050 Petaling Jaya.
There are 12 our club members and 5 quests who included members from MIA
Toastmasters Club Joshua Chan, ACB, ALB as General Evaluator and Phoenix
Toastmasters Club Poi Yu Ai as Ah Counter.
ASAA Olivia Chen called the meeting to order at
7:15pm. Then the meeting begun with “A Toastmaster’s Promise” recited by
the Toastmasters’ members to pledge their commitment in the Toastmasters
Educational Program.
Our Club President Chitirra took over the control of the
meeting. In her welcome address, she greeted our distinguished guests – General
Evaluator Joshua Chan, ACB, ALB from MIA Toastmasters Club. Then, Grammarian,
Shain Anand introduced the word of the day “Humdrum”. She invited members and
guests to do a self- introduction and encouraged them to use the word of the day
“Humdrum” and to use the theme of the day “Change Your Routine, Change Your
Life”. All the members and guests did well during the self- introduction
session.
Next our veteran club member
Hj. Hashim, DTM gave his Invocation Speech which was perfectly aligned with the
theme of the day. He intently
shared with us about integrity, relationship and commitment which he
experienced in his career and family life. It was a marvellous and inspiring
speech coupled with his always amazing use of vocal variety and body language.
The Toastmaster of The
Evening, EK Yeo, CC, CL briefed us on the history of Toastmasters International
and our club. He mentioned how TI (Toastmasters International) was founded and
inspired millions of people across the world. He also explained the
benefits of the Toastmaster Educational Program to our professional career and
personal life. He then introduced the role players from our club for this
meeting in the sequence below.
Grammarian – Shain Anand;
“Ah” Counter– Poi Yu Ai (Phoenix
Toastmasters Club)
Timer– Wendy Sim, CC
General Evaluator – Joshua Chan, ACB, ALB (MIA
Toastmasters Club)
All the role players
introduced their roles and objectives for the evening and from then it was
all-set-go!
Table Topics™ Master, Chitirra was invited to take
over the control from the TME. She had prepared 8 topics related to word of the
day. Members and guests were encouraged to participate. She explained the
objective of Table Topics™, the time limitation for each speaker and the rules
before all the Table Topics™ speeches. The purpose of the Table Topics ™ session is to develop the impromptu speaking
skills of individuals where they are required to follow the structure of speech
making with an opening, body and conclusion during the speech delivery.
The order of Table Topics™ speakers were as below:-
1) Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB –“What do you want most?”
2) Jason – “What chances do you wish
you have taken?”
3) KL Loh, ATMG– “Change is only constant”
4) Mike Chin– “If not now, then when?”
5) Olivia Chen, PM1 – “When was the
last time you tried something new?”
All 5 speakers received a big
applause and soon votes were cast for the best Table Topics™ speaker.
The efficient
TME took over the session from the Table Topics™ Master and proceeded with the
assigned speeches from the Advanced Communication Manual and Pathways.
Pathway: Presentation Mastery Level 3: Project
1 – Persuasive Speaking
Speech Title – “Buy this pen”
KT Chok, PM2 shared with us his story on “Wolf of Wall Street”, and how people
buy on emotion, greed, generosity or even goodwill, buying things for solutions
and buying based on the story of the item. His speech was delivered with
confidence, the required vocal variety and as usual, it was injected with
humour.
Advanced Communication and Leadership Program
Manual: The Professional Speaker
Project 4: The Professional Seminar
Speech Title – “Fishing Rods n Hooks”.
Speech Evaluator – Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB
KL Loh had
demonstrated a variety of presentation styles in his speech using elements of
body language, vocal variety and good eye contact. He introduced us the
investment tools by using charting in the stock market. You will be mistaken if
you think this topic is humdrum then you will miss the opportunity to create
your wealth from the stock market shared by the speaker.
The meeting called for a break for
refreshments for 10 minutes at 8:45 pm.
Soon after our TME EK Yeo, CC CL
called the meeting to order and then invited the General Evaluator, Joshua Chan, ACB, ALB to chair
the meeting. He led the session with his panel of
evaluators. He began by explaining the purpose of the evaluation
followed by the evaluation from the respective evaluators:
- Table
Topics Evaluator - Manish Jha, CC, IP1
- Speech
Evaluators - Chitirra and Mathew Philippose,
CC, ALB
Evaluation on Speech Evaluators under Pathways’ Evaluation
Projects:
- KL
Loh, ATMG on Chitirra
- Hj.
Hashim, DTM on Mathew Philipose, CC, ALB
The purpose of the evaluation was to share what the speakers
or evaluators have done good, and if there are any shortfalls by giving
constructive criticism for their improvement.
Role players’ reports were given splendidly by:
- Grammarian –
Shain Anand
- Timer – Wendy Sim, CC
- Ah Counter – Poi Yu Ai
Club President Chitirra was called on the
stage by the TME to give her presidential closing address. She first thanked
the TME who handled the meeting diligently. Then she presented the award for
the best speakers for the evening.
Best Table Topics™ Speaker – Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB
Best Speech Evaluator – Hj. Hashim, DTM
Token of appreciation to the GE – Joshua Chan, ACB, ALB
Finally, Mdm President, Chitirra summarized
the entire meeting and asked the guests to share their thoughts about our
meeting for the night. The meeting adjourned at 9:45 pm
It was indeed not a humdrum meeting with two
project speeches. The meeting designated with superior quality of project
speeches, Invocation Speech, Table Topics Session and Evaluation reports which enlightened
everyone as the joy of club members and guests were visible towards their
Toastmaster journey. It was a great evening!
Thanks
to EK Yeo, CC, CL, contributors,
writers and reviewers.
Sincerely
Dato Dr Mary de Silva, PM3
Money Mastery –KL
Toastmasters Club
VPPR (Vice President of Public Relation 2018/2019)
VPPR (Vice President of Public Relation 2018/2019)
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