Have you forgotten Chinese New Year or you still remember? We Toastmasters always look for the occasions and chances to celebrate each moment. Well, pretty fair we had our theme ‘Fortune and Luck’ and Word of the Day – Beatific. This year is called The Year of Pig according to the Chinese calendar.
For this meeting, we were supposed to have Ramdas, DTM as our General Evaluator but when he couldn’t make it due to his personal reasons. He arranged a replacement, guess who DTM, Robert Ram. We were very happy but guess what, on that day he was coming from Singapore and we decided to have our General Evaluator our Division C Director DTM Ken Koh from EXTOL TMC who at first was supposed to be a project speech evaluator. Well, DTM Robert Ram became one of our project speech evaluators. Yes, sometime it happens. There was another story this evening. We were already informed that our club president can’t make it so our VPE was geared up to take up this role and run the meeting but guess what our VPE got stuck at work and our brave VPM took up the control and run the meeting from the beginning to the end. It was interesting.
Our meeting was called to order by our SAA, DTM CP Lau. He introduced the house rules, led the members with recital of Toastmasters Promises and nicely handed over the control to our Acting president VPM, KT Chok, PM4. Our president in his opening address introduced the theme of the day ‘Fortune and Luck’, he also explained the theme and asked all the members and guests to introduced themselves. He called upon Invocation speaker DTM Ken Chan. Since I was late due to my work but what I heard from others. He was excellent at inspiring and entertaining the audience. Finally, our Toastmaster of the Evening EK Yeo, CC, CL took control to run the main meeting. In Toastmasters meeting we usually have three items in our agenda: Table Topics, Prepared speeches and Evaluation.
It was around 7:50 and our TME called Table Topics Master Wendy Sim, CC to conduct the Table Topics session. Wendy Sim, CC is the most improved Toastmaster in our club. She has got tremendous improvement in her ability of doing speeches as well as in her leadership. She is also our Immediate Past President. She was diligent to conduct this session. She prepared 6-7 topics and guess what? All topics were awesome, based on Chinese New Year. In fact all 4 guests and including one of our member attempted the Table Topics. As good as the topics were thrilling , I would say all the Table Topics speaker were bold enough to make their speeches convincing with their personal story, logics and emotions.
Time turned and TME, started with projects speech session, First speaker Phang Chew Yee was doing her ice breaker. Abdul rahman, a new member, was her evaluator who already gone through this experience. The speaker came up with her title “Who is Phang Chew Yee”. Interestingly, she brought props which say her name in Chinese and explain in English what the meaning of her name ‘Swallow in the Autumn’. Then she talked about her spiritual background, education and career. Overall, we as an audience get to know more about her and she was pretty good about doing her 1st speech as ice breaker from Pathways, Presentation Mastery Level 1. She was given a standing ovation for completing her Ice Breaker Speech.
Our 2nd Speaker was Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB. Mathew is a professional Trainer in Pharma Company. He has done many speeches before. He is one who can prepare a mesmerising speech in 1 hour and meet the objectives of the speech. However, Mathew was prepared for his speech based on pathway – Effective Coaching, Level 1, Researching & Presenting. He came up with his speech Title “Fear of Public Speaking”. He talked about how the transformation happened in his life and overcome Fear of Public Speaking. His speech evaluator was KT Chok, PM4 who really gave his evaluation which was constructive and uplifting to the speaker. It needs great deal of listening skills to do evaluation.
Our Final speaker of the day was DTM, Ken Chan. He was doing his speech from Presentation Mastery Path, Level 2, Understand your communication style. His speech title was ‘D.O.P.E.’. His speech evaluator was DTM, Robert Ram. He started with his speech and explained what is D.O.P.E. He asked audience, which personality you are. D –Dove, O –Owl, P –Peacock and Eagle. He first explained the characteristics of each bird and asked which bird are you to create some example in order to understand more about yourself. We knew more about ourselves. All the three speakers did a great Job.
Finally there was break time for 10 minutes. People rush over to Nasi Lemak. MM-KL nasi lemak is very special.
Right after that break, our TME EK Yeo, CC, CL, called our GE to take over the evaluation session. Our General Evaluator was Ken Koh, Division C Director. He explained the evaluation session first then he called each evaluator one by one to share their evaluation for the speeches just had. First as per agenda there was Table Topics evaluator DTM, CP Lau who evaluated all the five speakers.
In sequence, here came each project speech evaluator. Abdul Rahman evaluated Phang Chew Yee’s speech. He was doing evaluation for the first time. The best thing was he was able to good suggestion to improve her speech and bring to next level. Then the seasoned evaluators KT chok, PM4 and Robert Ram, DTM gave wonderful evaluation for the two speakers respectively, Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB and Ken Chan, DTM. In evaluation, usually we as a speech evaluator we recognised the best things displayed in the speech and highlight the room for improvement. Our general evaluator Ken Koh, DTM acknowledged the best part of the club and suggested rooms for the improvement.
Finally it was time appreciate the best performers of the Day:
Best Table Topics Speaker: Hj. Hashim, DTM
Best Project Speech Evaluation: Robert Ram, DTM
General Evaluator: Ken Koh, DTM.
Nevertheless it was a Beatific meeting. Our acting president VPM, KT Chok, PM4 appreciated all the best performers and he summarised the whole meeting. We ended our meeting with as usual memorable group picture. See you all in our next meeting.
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