17th Anniversary & Installation Night 2019/2020

The stage was set. The red gorgeous carpet was ready to welcome flow of celebrities to witness the installation ceremony of the new Club Officers of Money Mastery KL Club in a Hollywood night themed event. The venue was Will You Cafe in Oasis Damansara on the 14th day of July 2019. 

It was also the 17th Anniversary of MMKL. The Organizing committee was early to the venue to make the arrangements. The red carpet was laid down to welcome the celebrities which lead them to a photo booth with props on the side. Photographer of the event, Shain Anand, was ready to capture those celebrities in his frame. Toastmaster and non-toastmaster celebrities started to arrive by 5:30 PM. They walked their stylish walk on the red carpet and gave their stylish pose on the photo-booth. Then they signed their Hall of Fame star which was put on the wall.

By 6:30 PM, the curtains were raised with the anchor of the night, DTM CP Lau, standing tall in his suit. He gave everyone the warmest welcome and handed over the stage to Organizing Chair Chitira’s to address the celebrities. This was followed by the Invocation speech by our vibrant member Mathew Philippose who uplifted the mood of the attendees by his powerful speech.

Up next was the address by District 102 Director, DTM Dr. Yvonne Leong,who congratulated the EXCO for their installation and wished them the best to take the club, area and district to the next level.

Then, it was the time for one of the club founders KC See, CEO of Questcorp Global on the stage. He took us through the early days of MMKL and how he chartered the club and how the club has evolved over the years. It is always good to know the history of the organization or the club you are a member of, because history teaches us a lot and we should learn from them.

Up next was time for dinner break. Various delicacies involving non-vegetarian items were served to all the celebrities.  Everyone enjoyed the meal.

Right after the dinner, we went to the main event of the night, installation of the club Exco members. Division C Director, Joshua Chan, ACS, ALB was the Installation officer. First, he discharged the EXCO of the previous term from their duties and started installation of new club officers starting from Sergeant- at- arm to President.

Here is the Executive Committew (EXCO) List:

President (PRE): KL Loh, ATMG
Vice President of Education (VPE): Rey Thean
Vice President of Membership (VPM): Abdulrahman, PM1
Vice President of Public Relations (VPPR): Ron Yeap, ACB, CL
Secretary (SEC): Rajendra
Treasurer (TRE): EK Yeo, CC, CL
Sergeant- At- Arm (SAA): Phang Chew Yee, CC
Immediate Past President  (IPP): Chitirra Amirthalingam, LD1

After the installation, the stage was handed over to the new President of MMKL KL Loh, ATMG, for his first presidential address. He started by paying tribute to the club mentors Lakmichand DTM, Geoff Andrew, DTM and the club sponsor KC See. He promised to keep the club’s President Distinguished status. He also shared about the challenges the club is facing and enlightened the guests about the vision this term. The speech was such an awe-inspiring one that no one present there could resist themselves for giving a standing ovation for Mr. President’s speech.

Up next, it was time for some fun. Our game master Jocelyn arranged 2 games for the celebrities, one was an Ice-breaker game and the other was a teamwork game. Both the games were excellent and everyone enjoyed it.

The, our club veteran Ken Chan DTM was handed over the stage for his speech session where he entertained the audience with his personal story that was full of humor element. After listening to him, I am sure our guest would love him very much.

Now, it was time to recognize the contributions of club members for the term 2018/2019. Following awards were given:

Outstanding Enthusiastic Award: Abdulrahman, PM 1

Outstanding Service and Leadership Award: Manish Jha, IP1

Outstanding Toastmaster of the Year: Ken Chan, DTM

Lucky draw was conducted and following were the winners:

Lee Li Eng (our ex-member)

Phang Chew Yee, CC

Chitirra Amirthalingam, LD1

Finally, the anniversary cake was cut and the group photo was taken before everyone signed off.

Blog Writer: Shain Anand

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2019/2020

09.07.2019 Meeting #439- Cherishing Our Friends

The 09^th 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 3^rd 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!

Blog Writer: Chitirra Amirthalingam, CC

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2019/2020

25.06.2019: Meeting # 438 – Why Do We Love Toastmasters?

Today marks the last meeting of the club for Term 2018/19. We started with the theme of the day, entitled “Why do we love toastmasters?”

Olivia Chen, PM1, the Assistant Sergeant At Arms of the day commenced the meeting with the Toastmaster’s promises and the floor was handed over to our dear Madam President, Ms Chitirra, LD1. She welcomed the guests and expressed gratefulness to the committees, seniors and Toastmasters of the club for supporting her throughout her term as President of the Club 2018/19. This followed by the Grammarian Rey Thean to introduce the Word of the Day “Endearment” which means words or phrases expressing love or affection.

Members and guests were then invited to introduce themselves and share their thought about why they love toastmasters. Out of sudden, the atmosphere in the room was filled with endearments.

After a round of introduction, Chew Yee, our Toastmaster of the Evening gave a warm welcome to all and started the session with a brief history of the Toastmasters International & our club MM-KL followed by an introduction of the role players which are

·         Ah-Counter                  : Abdul Rahman, PM1

·         Grammarian                : Rey Thean

·         Timer                           : Rajendra

·         General Evaluator       : N. J. Singham, DTM

Next, the table topic master, EK Yeo, CC, CL invited the braves to take up the impromptu speech challenge. Among the warriors were KT Chok, PM4 and 3 of our guests of the day namely, Shan, Paul Tan and Yazen. A round of applause to all table topic warriors!

Then, we proceed with the assigned speech session. There were 4 speakers on that night including our newly joined TM CS Ong and Jocelyn where both of them were delivering their ice breaker speech which is first speech in their Toastmasters journey.

First speaker, CS Ong delivered his speech with full of emotion and confidence. He demonstrated how his determination and perseverance in education changed his life! This is a success story inspired by a mother’s love that has transformed a boy from a rubber estate to now a successful and outstanding businessman.

 

The second speaker, Jocelyn has delivered an interesting and inspiring speech. Her will, determination and courage to change made her a better person. We are definitely inspired by her mission to always helping people by giving, sharing and learning. 

Julia Leong, ACB, ALB, the third speaker who was delivering Project 4 – Read Out Loud started off by the rhymes of ten little niggles. The mysterious murder of the 5^th little niggle was beautifully presented with full of expression, emotion and enthusiasm.

Finally, the last speaker, Ron Yeap, ACB, CL! He delivered his Project 1: The Folk Tale entitled The Bear Feast Story. All of us were nicely swayed by his movement in the story. In the end, message from the story was a feast can gain friends even if they are your enemies.

After a 5 minutes break, General Evaluator DTM, NJ Singham took over the stage for the evaluation session. He explained the session and introduced his panel of evaluators and role players.

It was fun to see all the seasoned evaluators dancing on the floor and giving out all words of endearment and constructive advises to all the speakers; demonstrating the spirit of friends helping friends to succeed! This followed by reports from each role players. Abdul Rahman, PM1, the Ah-Counter of the day showed his delight because his “Ah” was given immunity for the day!

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to GE DTM,NJ Singham for all the constructive feedback and advices for the Club’s improvement. Thank you Mr Singham and we will always remember this “What comes out from the lips, goes to the ears. What comes out from the heart, goes to the heart.”

Towards the end of the meeting, President presented awards to:

Best Table Topic Speaker        : Shan

Best Assigned Speech            : Jocelyn

Best Evaluator                         : Haji Hashim Adnan, DTM

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Ms Wendy Sim expressed her gratitude to the outgoing EXCO for the great effort and team work that has made the Club’s every events successful ones.

After a group photo taking session, an EGM was held to elect VPE and VPPR for term 2019/2020. Congratulations to Rey Thean nominated as VPE and Ron Yeap as VPPR for term 2019/2020 and the meeting adjourned. See you all on 9th July 2019. First meeting of the term under our newly elect president KL Loh, ATMG.

Blog Writer: -Jocelyn Chew

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO 

Term 2018/2019 

11.06.2019, Meeting No #437- Aidilfitri: Heart To Heart

Hari Raya Aidilfitri, marks the end of Ramadan and is considered the festival of gratitude to God and an occasion celebrated with families and loved ones. It is also the time of feasts, homecoming, contemplation, forgiveness and reconciliation. So, the MMKL family decided to celebrate the same in our Aidilfitri - Heart to Heart themed meeting. Members were asked to come in traditional Hari Raya attire. The room was filled with colourful outfits to suit the theme of the day.

CS Ong, the ASAA for the evening started the meeting with the Toastmaster’s promise and the stage was handed over to the club President Chitirra. She gave welcomed the guests and invited the Grammarian to introduce the Word of the Day “Gratitude” which means the quality of being thankful

Up next, our incoming President for next term, KL Loh ATMG came on to the stage for the Invocation speech.

The Toastmaster of the evening was Ron Yeap ACB, CL. He also came in the traditional Baju Melayu attire and started the session with a brief history of Toastmasters. After that he introduced the role players. The General Evaluator(GE) for the meeting was Vasudevan ACB, ALB. Slowly, we were moving into the core of the Toastmasters meeting. 

The first session was Table Topics session which was controlled by Wendy Sim CC, as the Table Topics Master. She invited volunteers for the session by offering green Raya packets containing money. Following were the Table Topics Contestants:

1.    Jocelyn

2.    Abdul Rahman

3.    Chew Yee

4.    Paul Tan

Up next was the assigned speech session. We had 3 speakers on the night.

First speaker was Ken Chan, who was delivering Level 1: Project 3 Researching and Presenting speech and his speech title was MBTI. MBTI means Myers–Briggs Type Indicator which is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions.

Second Speaker was Vijaykumar, who was delivering his Ice Breaker speech from the path Presentation Mastery. His speech title was My life.  He spoke about his journey of 60 years in his life.

Final speaker was Rajendra,who was delivering Level 1 Project 2 Researching and Presenting project. His speech was  titled An Unusual Experience. He spoke about stress in his life and how he overcome those. 

After the speech session, our VPM KT Chok,took over the stage to induct 2 new members into the club Jocelyn & CS Ong. A break was observed for 10 minutes.

Post break, GE Vasudevan took over the stage for the evaluation session. He explained the session and introduced his panel of evaluators and role players for the reports.

1. Table Topics Evaluator: Ng Swee Lyn, ACB, ALB

2. Speech Evaluator for Ken Chan: EK Yeo, CC, CL

3. Speech Evaluator for Vijaykumar: Haji Hashim DTM

4. Speech Evaluator for Rajendra: Shain Anand

5. Ah-counter : Chew Yee, CC

6. Grammarian: Abdul Rahman, PM1

7. Timer: Cetani Chen, ACS, ALB

8. Silent Evaluator for Shain: Uma Vasudevan, CC, CL

TME handed over the control to President Chitirra who took us through the Awards and Presentation session

Best Assigned Speech: Rajendra

Best Table Topics Speaker: Jocelyn

Best Evaluator: Haji Hashim Adnan DTM

The meeting was adjourned, group photo was taken and we signed off by cutting cake for June birthday babies.

Blog Writer - Shain Anand.

See you all on 25th June 2019.

Regards,
MM-KL
EXCO
2018/2019

Blog 436 – I smile, you smile

Counting down to the final 3 meetings of the term, we started the meeting with the theme of the day, I smile, you smile which warmed up the atmosphere in the meeting room.

Ek Yeo, who was our Assistant Sergeant At Arms, called the meeting to order by leading us to recite the Toastmaster’s Promises.

It was a special day for our Madam President, Chitirra, LD1 who then took over the stage and gave her presidential opening address. With the theme of the day, I Smile, You Smile, she warmed the room with a wide smile on her face while sharing how happy she felt spending time with us at Toastmaster on her birthday. She then proceeded to invite our grammarian, Shain Anand to introduce the word of the day, Pleasure. A few guest joined us with a round of self-introduction, where we got to know each other better and gave each of us the opportunity to speak and share our thoughts on the word of the day as well as theme of the day.

Malaysia is a multicultural country where we celebrate a variety of unique festivals together. Being in the Ramadan month, we had a wonderful “buka puasa” or fast breaking session with our Muslim members by bringing forward our usual break time and enjoying the signature nasi lemak and bananas while we had a wonderful time bonding with each other.

The meeting resumed when our Toastmaster of the Evening, Manish Jha, IP1, invited Matthew Philippose, CC, ALB, on stage. Matthew blew our mind with his uplifting invocation speech. Manish then took over the floor to brief our guest and reminded us of the history of Toastmaster International and how the leadership system has brought us to become one of the most successful non profit organizations. 

We have our members and a special guest from Toastmaster TTDI, ACS, ALB, Shari Wiemer, whom took up the following roles during the meeting:-

1. General Evaluator – Shari Wiemer, ACS, ALB
2. Ah Counter – VijayKumar,CC
3. Grammarian – Shain Ahnand
4. Timer – Wendy Sim, CC

Thank you for demonstrating how a great team work can be done. Your contributions had made the meeting run smoothly.

Next, came the adrenaline ride of the meeting, where we had the fun and exciting Table Topics session, nicely led by our president, LD1, Chitirra. In addition to introducing the purpose, objective and rules of the session to us, she gave our brave speakers a Ferrero Rocher chocolate as a reward on their courage to challenge the impromptu speeches on stage! Kudos to all 5 speakers, Paul Tan, KT Chok, Jocelyn, Danis and CS Ong, whom raised up to the challenge!

And Congratulations to CS Ong, our newly joined Toastmaster member for being voted as the Best Table Topics Speech award! His speech was very well delivered with confidence!

Moving on to the highlight of the meeting, our Assigned Speech Session, where we have our first speaker of the day, DTM, CP Lau, delivering his speech title, Golden Questions. It was nothing but a fruitful and eye opening experience to see a seasoned DTM dancing across the stage with his well delivered speech! The 2 golden questions which we all can learn to apply in our daily life for a more productive results are, What went well, and How can we do better. Thank you for sharing with us these golden questions CP Lau! Up next, our second and last speaker of the day was yet another

outstanding speaker, ACB, ALB, Julia Leong who had presented to us how her solar hot water system can help to save the environment. A very convincing presentation! Some of us were even interested to find out more about the product after the speech!

It was then time for a short 5 minutes break for our members and the guest before moving into our Evaluation and Reports Session.

Our General Evaluator Shari Wiemer, ACS, ALB, led us through the evaluation and report session enthusiastically and she shared with us some of the techniques practiced by her when evaluating a speech. She introduced the Pie concept, where we could point out 2 good points from a speech and 2 suggestions for improvement follow by an encouraging remark to motivate and inspire the speaker to do better! Thank you Shari! She then invited our Table Topics Evaluator of the day, ATMG, KL Loh to share with us his evaluation on our 5 brave speakers. KL did an excellent evaluation and provided constructive feedback to each of the speakers! Next, Rey Thean gave her first evaluation on DTM CP Lau’s Speech, great job on integrating the golden questions into the evaluation! The floor was then passed to CC, ALB,Mathew Philipose for the evaluation of ACB, ALB, Julia Leong’s speech swiftly. 

There was a special evaluation session by CC,CL, Shaun Koshy, who evaluated Rey’s evaluation. It was an eye opening session seeing how nicely the evaluation was given! After a short period of open evaluation, each technical role player presented their report to the general evaluator.

Towards the end of the meeting, the President presented the award to our best table topic speaker CS Ong and also presented a token of appreciation to our general evaluator, Shari Wiemer.

Toastmaster is a platform for us to practice our public speaking skills, polish our communications skills and enhance our leadership skills! Here we all grow at our pace to one day bloom into our fullest potential!

Blog Writer - Rey Thean.

See you all on 11th June 2019.

Regards,
MM-KL
EXCO
2018/2019