Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): Blog 435

We have come thus far! It was our 435^th meeting after 17 years! This meeting also marked the final 4^th meeting of the term. Time flies. Hence, we had our meeting themed “Plan, Prepare, Perform!” which we are gearing up for the formation of our new Club Officers! It was a regular club meeting cum Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club’s Annual Business Meeting.

Our Assistant Sergeant At Arms, Olivia Chen, PM1 whom had called the meeting to order, led us by reciting the Toastmaster’s Promise. It was a timely reminder that, as a member of Toastmasters International and our club, we “attend the club meeting regularly”. Thanks to Olivia.

Madam President, Chitirra, LD1 then took over the stage and gave her presidential opening address. She shared her experience being the president of the club this and brought out the importance of plan, prepare and perform in order for us to maintain up keep quality meetings. The word of the day, “Success” was introduced by our grammarian, Vijaykumar, CC. We had a few guests visited. Through the round of self-introduction, we got to know each other better and it gave us the opportunity to speak and make use of the theme and word of the day.

As we are in the Ramadan month, we brought forward our break time so we had the “bukapuasa” together with our Muslim members. It was a fun-filling and food-filling break session. Thanks to Hj. Hashim Adnan, DTM for his delicious dates. The signature nasilemak and bananas have never failed our taste buds.

During the break, we filled up our stomach. After the break, our past president, also the Area C1 Director, Ron Yeap, ACB, CL continued to fuel up our brain. He presented to us an invocation speech. Failing to plan, is planning to fail, the bring-home message that he had for us. His very close to us example, plan, prepare and execute the holiday plan, to have a pleasant and happy family holiday. Thank you Ron!

Our first timer Toastmaster of the Evening, Mike Chin, took over the stage. A round of applause to Mike for his courage in taking up this role and performed it very well. I particularly like the way he introduced the history of Toastmasters International as well as our club. It was informative, yet simple and precise. The overall conduct of the meeting was very smooth. Well done Mike! Keep it up!

We have our members whom took up the following roles during the meeting:-

1. General Evaluator – Wendy Sim, CC

2. Ah Counter – Rajendra

3. Grammarian – Vijaykumar, CC

4. Timer – EK Yeo, CC, CL

Thank you for carrying out your duty diligently. Your demonstrated attentive listening skill is something ach and everyone of us should learn and practice.

Moving on, the exciting, interesting and fun Table Topics session was led by again our first timer, Rey Thean. Kudos to Rey!

She stood on stage, explained to us the objective, purpose and rules of this session very steadily. The topics Rey chose were interesting yet challenging. The audience was very participative. We have 5 speakers who challenged the stage and took on the topics provided, they are,

1. Tan Be Hoe, CTM, CL – If it is to be, it is up to me

2. KL Loh, ATMG – The most important lesson of my life, so far

3. Steven Khaw, DTM – If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

4. KT Chok, PM4 – Poverty is the state of mind

5. Annie Wong – Courage is not the absence of fear

Congratulations to Steven Khaw, DTM for voted as the Best Table Topics Speech award! We learned a lot from your presentation.

The 5 table topics speeches were evaluated by yours truly.

Our General Evaluator Wendy Sim, CC led us on the evaluation and reports session. She was very encouraging and uplifting during her evaluation. She has also suggested the rooms for improvement to us. Be puncture is the message she sent across to us. Thank you Wendy for your advice. We noted with thanks.

Due to the scheduled Annual Business Meeting, our meeting adjourned at around 8.30pm with the fun of learning, sweet smiles on everyone’s face in the group photo. We look forward to meeting all in our upcoming meeting on 28 May, 2019.