08.10.2019 Meeting #446- Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests 2019/2020

‘’Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing’’ and “Evaluation is the breakfast of champions’’, the two wonderful quotes were such a good sunshine in our house, hooray! The time had come readily to celebrate the annual Club Level Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club which held on 8^th Oct 2019, Tuesday on the 3^rd floor of MCA PJ Selatan.

It has been weeks of planning for the big night by the organizing team and to make sure it was as memorable and successful to match the weight of legendary MMKL Toastmasters Club, the team was led by the enthusiastic Organizing Chair, Abdulrahman, PM2.

Imagine, Phones buzzing, human voices, the ambiance on a buzz surrounding the 3rd floor of MCA PJ Selatan as all arrive early to set the last-minute touches for the contests.

We were honoured with the presence of our Chief Judge Chan Yen Shen, CC, ALB, the Area directors, Past Area Directors and all distinguished toastmasters and non-toastmasters guest. The refreshment was served between 6:45pm to 7:00pm, with legacy Malaysian local food, nasi lemak, curry puffs, bananas and drinks.

Between 7:00pm to 7:30pm multiple briefings were done concurrently. Chief Judge’s briefing to role players, Contest Toastmasters to contestants, Organizing Chair to the SAAs. With everybody in check, at 7:30pm when the clock struck, the gavel was struck and the contest was called to order.

The charming SAA is none other than Wendy Sim, CC. She called the contest to start and did excellence job of gathering everyone on time, welcoming everyone with cheerful smile. After she informed the contest house rules to audience and the floor was then passed to the Organizing Chair, Abdulrahman, PM2 to give his opening address.

He welcomed the audience and sincerely thanks all the distinguished guests, diligent role players and contestants to be part of this magical night. The floor was handed to our Humorous Speech Contest Toastmaster, the brilliant Manish Jha, IP1 who outlines the contest rules and introduced the contestants and their order of speaking slots. Let me hear a big laughs ha…ha..ha …ha . he said this is to get you all ready for the anticipated unstoppable laughs out, our contestants coming up with their best punch lines to make the crowd lough loud off their seats and he then called for the Humorous Speech Contest to begin. 

The contestants were called according to the sequence they had drawn.
1) KT Chok
2) Hj. Hashim Adnan
3) Jocelyn Chew
4) Rey Thean
5) Chitirra
6) Ken Chan

The audiences were certainly entertained with these humorous stories. With big laughter and happy beating hearts we all adjourned for a short 10 min break before the next contest begin.

When we returned from the break, Wendy, CC called us in and invited the Evaluation Contest Toastmaster, the graceful Julia Leong, ACS, ALB to begin the contest. She introduced and welcoming the contestants and then passed the floor to The Test Speaker, Szi Yiing to share with us a test speech titled “Emotional Intelligence’’.

She was vibrant and informative and shared a worthy content on emotional intelligence and the importance of the topic to our life. But that is not for me to say! It was left to our Evaluation Contestants.

The contestants were brought to the holding room to write their evaluation speech while the hall was open for air time. The contestants was called in by the sequnce they were drawn as well. 

1) Vijay Kumar
2) Rey Thean
3) Jocelyn Chew
4) Hj Hashim
5) Ken Chan
6) Ron Yeap
7) KT Chok 

So many varieties of input for Szi Yiing and audience to pick up and learn from MMKL’s glorious evaluators. Honestly I felt the humour and the hysterias laughs were presented in room even though we were actually conducting evaluation. ‘’We learn more in the moment of excitements’’ a quote which were livening it.

As the contests ended and as the Chief Judge went on to tabulate the results, Manish Jha, IP1 took on the stage to interview contestants with interesting sets of questions. The feedback and the contestant’s impression were fantastic of course.

Following, with the tokens of participation to contestants and tokens of appreciation to role players were given. 

1. Humorous Speech Contestants
2. Evaluation Contestants

Reaching to the epic moment of the night arrived. Curiosity was killing us all and so the Chief Judge was called to hand the results to contest toastmasters on twice for the announcements of each contest winners. Drum rolls were filling the air through out and the results stated wait for it as below.

Humorous speech contest 2019/2020 results

1^st place. Ken Chan

2^nd place. Hj. Hashim bin Adnan

3^rd place. Rey Thean

Evaluation Contest 2019/2020 results

1^st place. Hj. Hashim bin Adnan

2^nd place. Ken Chan

3^rd  place. Ron Yeap

⭐ BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS ⭐

Finally, the President, KL Loh, ATMG was called on to the stage to give his closing address and call it a night. He gave some words of encouragement and motivation and special thanks to everyone whom made the night memorable and successful and called for all to stay for a group photoshoot by our official photographer Sunil Kumar to cherish this momentous contest night.

Contest was a big success and joy. Yes, we made it, We stand together as one whether we are role players, participants or audiences of a contest because at any level we can learn and be inspired through contests like this. Seize the opportunity always and victory is always ours whether your are number one as a participant or sitting in the last row as an audience. There’s always something you can take home at a Toastmasters’ contest or meeting because there’s always something you can contribute if you become a Toastmaster. Until the next contest period good vibes, don’t get too critical and just keep laughing and smile because life itself is a Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest where you’re the participant and the judge yourself. 

Thanks to photo editor, and reviewers.

Blog Writer: Abdulrahman Azazi, PM2

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2019/2020