The 09th
of July was a memorable night as it marked the very first meeting of the Term
2019/2020 with our oldest member as our newest President. Alongside our club’s
motto “Friends Helping Friends Succeed” our theme of the meeting was
“Cherishing Our Friends” with the word of the day being “Relationship”.
The
ambience of the room was filled with delight and excitement as the new EXCO and
members prepared well for this first and auspicious meeting. Our newest member
Jocelyn, took the stage at sharp 7.15 to call the meeting to order and led us
well through the Toastmasters’ Promise and gracefully passed the stage on to
our new President, K L Loh, ATMG.
K L
Loh, ATMG was full of zest and zeal and he jumped, clapped, and yelped during
his lively first Presidential address. He cheered on all the past presidents,
he introduced each and every one in his team of EXCO and he reiterated the
glory of the club and the importance of Toastmasters. Flabbergasted!!!
The
members and guests were given a quick opportunity to speak about the theme of
the day and it was great as we reminisced out motto “Friends Helping Friends
Succeed” and how much we really love Toastmasters and each other.
In
this first ever meeting we had a double kill session with two amazing DTMs. We
had both an Invocation Speech by C P Lau, DTM and a Humour Session by Ken Chan,
DTM. C P Lau, DTM never fails to lift our spirits while Ken Chan, DTM never
fails to spray some laughing gas in the air. With that, the tone and mood was
set as the stage was handed over to our lovely lady, Area C1 Director and
authentic member of Money Mastery-KL, Julia Leong, ACS, ALB who played the role
as Toastmaster of the Evening.
Julia
Leong, ACS, ALB, just like our President was full of vigour as she brought us
through the history of the club and Toastmasters. She then introduced each of
the role players. Today Phang Chew Yee, CC was the Ah-Counter, Chitirra was the
Grammarian and C S Ong was the Timer. As General Evaluator we had the District
Table Topics™ Champion, Robert Ram, DTM.
We
then moved on to the fun and exciting impromptu speaking session called Table
Topics™ by our Table Topics™ Master of the day, Ron Yeap, ACB, CL. He had with
him an array of interesting topics on which members Vijaykumar, CC, and KT
Chok, PM4 and guests Elysia, DTM and Guest Yazen attempted them and did great.
It was
time to move on to the Assigned Speech Session where we had 4 speakers on the
trail today. First up, we had Ken Chan, DTM doing the 2-2-2. His second path,
second level, and second project on Understanding Your Leadership Style with
his speech title “Different Stroke, Different Folks”. He highlighted the
various leadership styles that exist and how each may differ or be applied to
various individuals. His evaluator was Hj. Hashim, DTM who was bubbly and
strong on his evaluation.
Next
up, we had our Vice President of Membership, Abdulrahman, PM1 embark on the
second project of his second level under Presentation Mastery. He was to do a
speech on Effective Body Language with his title The Power of the Triple P
Theory, The Rule of Success. He explained his life as a kid till he went on to
work and how he became successful at where he is now through the power of
“People Pushing People” to do something and motivate others to success.
Rajendra was his evaluator who was also working on his Level 1 Project 2.3 on
how to give an evaluation. He did well for his first ever evaluation.
Our 3rd
speaker was none other than Olivia Chen, PM1 who returned to complete her Level
2 under Presentation Mastery. Under the Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring
with the title “The Torch Light”, she spoke about how her mentor nurtured her
to be a better speaker and highlighted the differences between a mentor and a
coach. She was evaluated by C P Lau, DTM who gave her his positive feedback on
her topic.
Last
but not least we had Ron Yeap, ACB, CL do another speech from his Advanced
Communication Manual with the title “The Waterfall That I Fall Into” whereby he shared his
personal story on how he nearly escaped death at a waterfall retreat he went
to. With that he concluded that in life you don’t always get second chances. He
was evaluated by our young and upcoming Evaluation Queen, Rey Thean, PM1 who
gave her witty evaluation.
We
headed for a short break after an overwhelming but enjoyable Project Speech
Session. After that we went on for the learning session which was the
Evaluations session. General Evaluator, Robert Ram, DTM took on the stage with
might and energy and called upon the respective evaluators as mentioned above
to do their evaluations. Before the Project Speech Evaluations, he invited
Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB to first give his Table Topics™ Evaluation. Mathew
Philippose, CC, ALB was humble and articulate in his evaluation as always which
inspires the speakers to return as their better selves.
We had
a quick round of Open Evaluation which is our club’s usual practice to enable
all to provide their fair share of feedback. After that we had the respective
role players read out their technical reports followed by the General Evaluator
giving his best feedback for the betterment of the club. He was truly a ball of
energy.
The
floor was passed back to the beautiful Toastmaster of the Evening, Julia Leong,
ACS, ALB who helped the President read out the names of tonight’s champions as
follows:
Best
Table Topics™: KT Chok, PM4
Best Project Speech: Ron Yeap, ACB, CL
Best Evaluation: Hj. Hashim, DTM
K L
Loh, ATMG took on the stage to give his closing address with a bang. He invited
the guests to give their feedback, congratulated our first time role players of
the night who were Jocelyn as the ASAA, CS Ong as the Timer and Rajendra as the
Evaluator. He gave his power packed closing address which made us want to
return for sure for the next exciting meeting. Truly he has a way of knitting
the relationship between the members with his sincere love and liveliness.
The
meeting was adjourned with a group photo but that was not it as we gathered for
a cake cutting session for our July babies Julia, Rey & Chew Yee. A simple
act that can create a big impact on our relationship as a Toastmaster family
from one of the best clubs in town. Truly we are Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters
where we cherish friends as family. Love Always!
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