Ron Yeap, ACB, CL was the
Sergeant-At.Arms for the evening.Before the meeting start he ensured everything
was in order and everyone had taken their seats.At 7:15pm we started the meeting
and Ron reminded us, members and guests of the house rules of the club.He also
asked the members to stand and repeat after him the promises of Toastmasters. As
he finished and the members were seated, he called upon the president Chitirra,LD1 and
invited her over onto the stage. Chitirra, LD1 took the stage. She was wearing magnificent
clothes looking as charming as a star coming from world of Bollywood. Chitirra,
LD1 started her welcome speech,greeting the guests and members.She had a great sharing
on the theme of the day which was dedicated to the earth and protecting the
species. She stressed out that our earth is our home and we must always
remember our duties as humans to preserve our home and natural species. She called
upon the Grammarian to introduce the word of the day which was ''preserve''. She
also encouraged everyone by giving them the chance to stand and introduce
themselves to the audience and give a little bit of their sharing and thoughts
about Earth Day and to make use and practice of the word ''preserve''. As her
speech session came to an end, she thanked everyone for coming and wished
everyone to enjoy the day, she passed the stage to the Toastmaster of the Evening to
start the show.
Manish Jha, IP1 was the Toastmaster of
Evening and with his smile, well presented on the stage, he made everyone
comfortable and welcomed. He shared with the audience the history of Toastmasters.Furthermore,
he introduced the role players of the meeting which were assigned as shown
below. They all were given a chance to stand and explain their roles to the audience.
1. Rey Thean (Ah-Counter)
2.
Chester
Liam (Grammarian)
3.
Chong
Yik Ming, VC3 (Timer)
4.
Foong
Sook Hwa, ACG, ALB (General Evaluator)
At
7:55 pm, it was time for Manish, IP1 to invite Toastmaster Abdul rahman onto the
stage and start the Table Topics™ Session. Abdul rahman took the stage
cheerfully, engaged with the audience and let the fun begin. He briefed the audience
on the Table Topics™ rules. It is an impromptu speech where the participant is invited
to speak from 1 – 2.5 mins in any assigned topic without any prior preparation.
It is certainly challenging but exciting.
The
prepared topics were all related to Earth Day.Great delivery on the chosen
topics by Rahman. There were four participants who took on the stage and they
were given different assigned topics to speak about.
The
participants were as follows:
1. Vijaykumar, CC: Reduce, Reuse, Recyle
2. Rey Thean: If you could invent something
to save the environment what would it be?
3. Rajendra: How would you spread the
awareness to encourage others to preserve the environment
4. Manish: Humans are the main reason to
impact the natural ecosystem. Agree or disagree.
Well
delivered speech and storytelling by all of the participants giving their best
thoughts on the topics. Before the end of the session, Abdulrahman asked for
the timer’sreport, all the participants were within the allowed time and there
was no disqualification. The audience were asked to vote for their best Table Topics™speaker.
Manish, IP1 the Toastmaster of the
Evening took the stage again.At 8:10pm, the project speech session was announced
and Manish, IP1 introduced the speakers' names and a brief interesting
introduction on their speech titles.
The 1st speaker was Ken
Chan, DTM withhis speech title ‘'Ken, He Can''. He was conducting the ice
breaker speechfrom Level 1 of theDynamic Leadership pathway module. No doubt Ken
Chan, DTM is one of the top professional speakers in MMKL with a strong presence
of body language, gestures and confidence on the stage. In his speech content,
he mentioned about where he came from which was from a small town in Ampang,
Kuala Lumpur famous for ‘Yong Tau Fu’. He shared with the audience about the
different levels of his past life, from his schooling days up to his working
life starting of his career in accounts and reaching the top of his career in
training. We were really amazed to hear some of Ken’s life stories.
The 2nd speaker was Rajendra.
He recently joined the club as a member, and this was his first prepared speech
to start his journey in Toastmasters. He was doing the ice breaker speech from
the path Presentation Mastery, Level 1 with his speech title ''Life Is Like A
Roller coaster Ride''. Excellent delivery and confidence from Rajendra on the stage.
He shared with the audience about where he came from which was South India. He
spoke about his family and his past life as a student, graduating and starting his
career in civil engineering. He also shared with the audience about his goals
to be a leader one day in the future. He shared about his amazing wife and how
they both found love and they would always encourage each other to pursue their
dreams in life.
The 3rd speaker was none other than
Ron Yeap, ACB, CL with the title of his speech “Keep Them Laughing'' taken from
the Series of Humorously Speaking from the Advanced Communication Manual. His
speech objectives were to develop a kind of communication, keeping it fun &
entertaining. He succeeded on this from the time he took the stage. His vocal
variety, gestures and funny jokes were well noticed and admired by the
audience. We were just laughing along with his speech.He shared some of his
personal career experience byputting a lot of funny contents which made us
laugh and stay entertained.As Ron finished his humorous speech, the stage was passed
back to Manish who asked for the timer’s report. There was no voting for this
session as one of the speakers exceeded his given speech time limit.
After awhile, Manish announced for a
15 minute break where everyone was enjoying the food and having some social
chatting and catching up amongst each other.
After the break, at 8:45 pm, we
resumed the meeting and it was the Evaluation & Reports Session, where all
the speakers received constructive feedbacks from their evaluators and members.
The Toastmaster of the Evening, Manish, IP1 passed the stage to the General
Evaluator, Foong Sook Hwa, ACG, ALB to run the session. She thanked all for
inviting her to the club, and it was seen that she has a lot of love for MMKL.
The members and I really appreciated her presence as our General Evaluator.
Sook Hwa called upon the Table Topics™
Evaluator, EK Yeo, CC, CL to come on the stage and give his evaluations for the
participants of the Table Topics™. He described each speaker’s speech, focusing
on the areas in which they excelled and also highlighting some of the areas of
improvement such as their vocal variety, gestures and stage usage. After a
while,Sook Hwa called upon the first evaluator Vijaykumar, CC to give his
evaluation on Ken Chan’s speech. It was an excellent evaluation delivered from Vijay
where he pointed out to the audience the parts in which Ken excelled in his
speech and how impactful and easy to absorb his ideas were. He also mentioned
that the vocal variety was well adapted in Ken’s speech.
The 2nd evaluator was Hj.
Hashim, DTM. He was impressed from Rajendra's improvement shown as his first
speech although he newly joined the club.Hj.Hashim, DTM shared with the
audience the areas where Rajendra excelled in his speech. Eventually, he also
pointed out to the audience the areas of improvement and Rajendra's next challenge,
such as vocal variety, use of stage and also his body language.
The 3rd evaluator was
Chitirra, LD1. She delivered an excellent evaluation for Ron. She highlighted
to Ron his speech’s strength and how he met the objectives of his speech by
making everyone laugh. It was challenging for her to spot any areas where Ron
should improve as an expert speaker, however, Chitirra also suggested to Ron that
he could adopt the speaking style of a comedian.She gave him an example of
Russell Peters and other stand-up comedians’ delivery styles.
Last but not least,it was the session
for Sook Hwa, ACG, ALB our General Evaluator to give her feedback to the evaluators. She
thanked all evaluators and mentioned that overall the feedbacks were excellent
and constructive. She also allowed for the audience for an open evaluation session
to give their thoughts on the speakers’ performance. At 9:30pm she requested
from all the technical role players (Ah-Counter, Grammarian and Timer) to share
their reports with the audience. Nevertheless, Sook Hwa revealed her overall
feedback on this evening’s meeting. She evaluated all the role players,
evaluators and the whole club. She mentioned that MM-KL is one of her favourite
clubs which she would never hesitate to come and visit anytime.
Before the meeting ended, it was time
to appreciate our best performers of the meeting. Manish Jha, IP1 Invited the President
Chitirra, LD1 to the stage to give the appreciation certificates and gifts. Everyone
was excited and eager to hear the results. Drum rolls were in the air as
everyone kept guessing the winners of each category. For this evening the
awards went to:
Best Table Topics™ Speaker: Rey
Thean
Best Assigned Speech
Evaluation: Hj.Hashim, DTM.
At
9:45pm, it was time to do the closing address by the President. She adjourned
the meeting as always with a remarkable photo of the day as a group. That was
our event of the evening. It was full of joy and fun. Hope you enjoyed reading
this and see you all in our next blog.
Blog Writer: Abdul rahman Azazi,
PM1
Regards,
MM-KL EXCO
2018/2019
