22.09.2020 Meeting # 470- Do What Matters Now

It was 4^th Tuesday of the month 22 September 2020, members and guests supposed to get online on or before 7 or 7:15 pm. I was rushing from office as I planned to take all the measures proactively to attend meeting on time because it really matters how we plan. So, Tonight I was playing a role of TME and honestly speaking I was partially prepared. So sorry hehe.

Oh Gosh, I reached home by 6:50 pm finally. I smiled and turned on my laptop to get ready before 7. There I was, many members waiting for me to get in, greeted good evening and I kept working behind the chat room on my preparation till ASAA call for the meeting.

Meeting started at 7:15pm as usual on time without any delay by ASAA, the charming Rey Thean PM2. She recited the Toastmasters promises and reminded us our oath being a Toastmaster. She also made sure we are all set to begin with and gracefully passed the floor to our Mdm. President Julia Leong, DTM. Julia is our president who is positive and encouraging to all. She opens the floor and asked all of us to share what really matters or mattered in your life in our introduction. This is something that, you can’t find it in all the clubs where each member and guest are invited to introduce themselves and use WOD and Theme of the day in their intro. It also helps us to practice to use WOD in our learning journey.

It was about 7:40pm, my name was called out, ‘now I like to pass the floor to our Toastmaster of the Evening Manish Jha.’ My ears rose to take command. As a TME, I am obligated to run the meeting from beginning until end. I first briefed the guest about the history of Toastmasters International and our club, so they can see the benefits Toastmasters membership offers. Moving on first session was prepared by Julia Leong, DTM as Table Topics® Master. Julia prepared all the interesting topics and we had 4 brave challengers accepted this nerve racking challenge to speak in Table Topics®. Table Topics® is the one that teaches us how to think on our own feet and speak effectively within two minutes. It allows us to craft a mini speech on the spot with interesting opening, examples and a take home message. That’s why it is challenging. Trust all four- Aizat, Emran, CS Ong and Myself(Manish Jha) really had a great time sharing experiences and personal stories.

It was then when our dedicated Timer announced times up for Table Topics® and I then commenced for prepared project speech session. This evening, we were fortunate to have 3 brilliant speakers. Abdul Rahman, PM2 was the first speaker – He was doing his speech from Toastmasters educating program path Presentation Mastery, level 3, project 1 – His speech was about to deliver a well organised social speech. Rahman made setup of social event and talked about how Toastmasters in MM-KL has helped him in his speaking journey. He actually praised his fellow Toastmasters for contributing in his life. The speech was fun and inspiring. He made us feel touched. Trust me, he has improved tremendously. You are on the right track buddy, keep it up!

Our second speaker Rey Thean, PM2 was very humorous. She was also attempting her speech from Presentation Mastery path, Level 3. Speech objective was to know your Humour. She actually made us laugh all the way from her experience about food delivery services. She started with her first experience when she was hungry scrolling through Facebook and an ad pop up “Crave it and Grab it” . Hahaha... We all got connected in her speech. She gave her Asian mindset, how it triggered her calculative thoughts when she wanted to order doughnuts for RM2, and she had to pay RM5 for delivery charges... hahaha, it was rather right, and I could not disagree. She took a turn and calculated how could she spent her RM5 wisely; how her mum nagged her on the money spent. It was completely entertaining speech. Those who missed it had missed so much entertainment.

Finally our speaker 3 is Mathew Philippose,EC3. He attempted the path of Effective Coaching, Level -4. His speech objective was to handle difficult audience. He was sharing the comparison between online meeting and physical meeting. There were some interrupters, chatterers, arguers planted prior to the speech to ask any type of difficult questions to the speaker, to see how they are handled effectively. It’s not easy to handle when you are presenting your prepared speech and questions are coming spontaneously from all the sides. Let me tell you Mathew did excellent not just by answering all the questions, also completed what he wanted to tell the audience within time. This ability takes time to develop and master. That’s how Toastmasters education program is designed to train you to  speak even with difficult audiences.

It was time to break for 5 minutes before we continue the evaluation session. Our General Evaluator of the evening was NK Valli, DTM from MIMPJ Toastmasters club. She is a member of Toastmaster for the last 25 years. She came back after a break and I handed over the control to her to conduct the hallmark of the meeting which is the Evaluation Session. She started by briefing what is evaluation for the benefits to the guests. The first evaluation was began with Table Topics® Evaluation by our ATMG, KL Loh. He got shine one for his detailed evaluations for all four Table Topics speakers. He clearly highlighted speaker’s strength and recommended what can be improved with justification. Next, it was time to hear evaluation from Toastmasters CP Lau, DTM, Chitirra, LD1 and Tn. Hj. Hashim, DTM. Our awesome evaluators did pretty good job. They listened the speech, highlighted the speaker's strength, suggested the change on their deliveries.

Finally it was time to appreciate best performers of the evening. Unfortunately due to one speaker got time disqualification so we couldn’t vote for the best speech. However, we voted for the best Table Topics® Speaker and Best Speech Evaluator- I was surprised until my eye popped out when I saw my name as the Best Table Topics® Speaker which was rarely happened because our club got many good speakers. The Best Evaluator went to the unbeatable Tn. Hj. Hashim, DTM. With all this fun and joy, we finally finished our meeting at a high note. Mdm President expressed appreciation to everyone and concluded the meeting with our memorable group picture.

 

Blog Writer: Manish Jha, IP1

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

 

 

08.09.2020 Meeting # 469- Never Let Go of Your DREAMS

Word of the day: Hankering

Do you still remember your dreams? Are you having the hankering to achieve your dreams?

This could be a tough question for some people, but not to the bunch of people that allocate their busy schedule to attend the Toastmasters meeting of Money Mastery-KL.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, those attending Toastmasters meeting has their mind hankering to become a confident, successful public speaker and leader.

To make that dream come true to these dedicated Toastmasters, massive action has to be taken to overcome any challenges that come in the way, including meeting online even though the physical meeting is not conducive during this pandemic era.

At 7pm, members, role players gradually ‘warmed up’ the Zoom meeting room with greetings and laughter. Thanks for their punctuality, the meeting was able to start at 7.15pm according to the schedule.

The theme of this meeting as mentioned earlier, could be the easiest and yet the toughest questions to the members. I noticed that some members that have their goals clear in mind, confidently shared their hankerings with proud; others who were yet to determine their future directions, would have a good moment to do self-reflection after this meeting.

I really missed the Invocation Session. KL Loh, ATMG brought us the story of WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum, on how his hankering of making worldwide communication easier and free, that led to the founding of WhatsApp application. So, guys, with strong will and action, your hankering can turn into reality.

One crucial skill that Toastmasters got to pick up in the meeting is to challenge impromptu speaking, the Table Topics® Session. Table Topics® Master made good effort to ask the most pertinent questions about the participants, goal, viewpoints that jive around the theme, “Never Let Go of Your Dreams”.

However, Toastmasters do train its members on the prepared speeches. To kickstart the Prepared Speech session, Chloe Lau was the first on stage to deliver the project 2 of Pathway Level 1 which titled “Love or Hurt”. She spoke about how the parents’ over-pursuing of their children’s academic excellence, turned into hurt to their children.

The next speaker is Rey Thean, PM2. she shared with the audience a persuasive speaking project with the title “Is 2020 the Right Time to Buy Property?” The speaker was obviously clear that she would not leave the audience wonder on the question she asked in the title again. She had obviously laid out all the valid reasons and concrete proof that the time is now! Well done on that convincing attempt.

The last speaker of the night is Mathew Philippose, EC3, who brought us a heart warming personal stories on how he coached his subordinate on the job. His speech title is “Opening Doors of Opportunity”. Mathew gave hsi full support and encouragement to his subordinate, just like how he also gave the same support and encouragement to our fellow members.

The meeting called for a short break, and to be taken over by the General Evaluator (GE) when we returned.

The first evaluator to take the spotlight was your truly Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB as the Table Topics® Evaluator. I carefully evaluated every speakers with their strength and notes for improvement, as well as tips on attempting Table Topics®. Unfortunately that made the session went over time and GE commented to me to be more watchful of time management. I duly take the feedback with open heart.

The second project speech evaluator was CS Ong, PM2, evaluating our new member Chloe Lau. Chloe had been diligently delivering speeches in our meeting. Her quick improvement in the speech delivery including body language, tonality and effort in speech preparation had impressed CS Ong a lot.

The second speech evaluator was Chester Liam, MS2 from Extol Toastmasters. Chester’s evaluation style on Rey was ‘contest-ready’ according to GE, as the evaluation was very inclusive with the observation of speech content, delivery style and suggestions for improvement.

The third project speech evaluator was CP Lau, DTM. CP expressed his appreciation on the effort Mathew gave to his subordinate. CP also suggested Mathew to give measurable success factors in his coaching conducts so that he could know his subordinate has been ready to be independent.

Our club always gave additional air time to members to give extra input during the open evaluation session. This short 5 minutes can sometimes gave more perspective and in-depth feedback to the speakers.

GE enjoyed the meeting in MMKL, as well as praised MMKL’s practice of giving opportunity to everyone to speak, always become the excellent club among the area and division level. However, GE also hope that we could improve the slides used by the TME during the introduction.

President Julia returned to the stage for he closing speech. She also announced the best performers of the night. Here’s the list of the winners,

Best Table Topics® Speaker: Amira (guest)

Best Speech Evaluator: CP Lau, DTM

Best Project Speaker: Chloe Lau

 

The meeting ended around 9.45pm and we would not forget to capture a group photo with every attendees in the frame.

Blog Writer: Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

 

25.08.2020 Meeting # 468- A New Chapter Begins

 

Word of the day: Abnegate

While public speaking is an essential component of success, it is also a phobia to many people.      

I know I’m not going to screw up a RM1 million project, and I’m not going to lose anything, neither life nor money. But the fear of public speaking often gets the better me. What if I make a mistake at the centre of attention? What would others think of me?

Money Master-KL has brought me a refreshing learning experience in public speaking and new perspective on peer feedback. Here, I would like to share my experience and learning at this club meeting.

To kick off the meeting, the president Julia Leong, DTM, delivered her opening speech in crisp and clear voice.  She shared the tips of forming positive money habits and fostering meaningful relationships even with all the new norms in our new chapters.  

Then the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) Mathew Philippose, EC2 took over the floor. While he was briefing on the club’s history, he showed his energy, enthusiasm and speaking from heart.

Later the Table Topics® Master Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB, started a fun Table Topics® Session. During this session, we had KL Loh, ATMG, Julia Leong, DTM, Manish Jha,IP1, Hj. Hashim, DTM took up the impromptu speaking. They presented different styles of well-structured speeches spontaneously and spoke in time.

As I watched on, I was actually learning a lot from these experienced and charismatic speakers. I get a better picture about how a confident speaker is like.

I attempted a Table Topic® question too. However, I was too tense and my mind went blank. I could hardly construct a proper sentence so I stammered a lot. I didn’t even know what I was actually talking.

Was I laughed for poor performance?

Did I get punished for using improper English?

No! Absolutely not.

In fact, my frustration and my thoughts of giving up only lasted briefly because of the other members’ response. As I was giving my speech, I noticed other members were nodding and smiling kindly. This somehow made me become calmer.  Later I received encouraging messages from the members recognising my effort, I felt being accepted and supported. With this support, I was motivated to take up the challenge again the next time.

Evaluation session was once dreadful for me. It was time I would be confronted with my mistakes and fault!

But at Money Mastery-KL, I just love how the evaluation is made.

When the evaluator Manish Jha,IP1 evaluated Julia Leong, DTM ’s prepared speech, he expressed how much he loved Julia’s excitement in her sharing and the colourful slides of the paradise in Malaysia. He then suggested and demonstrated how to increase audience engagement in the speech.

The second evaluator Hj. Hashim, DTM told the speaker Abdulrahman, PM2 that he liked the way he projected himself, completely at ease. He also acknowledged Abdulrahman’s effort on his compelling and well-constructed speech. Hj. Hashim then provided examples on how to incorporate power and feelings by using vocal variety to make it a more successful persuasive speech.

How about the evaluation of my Table Topic® speech which I thought a disappointing one?

Thank you Chitirra, LD1. She first empowered me by telling I had a good speech opener. She said she experienced my tense and she suggested that I do not focus on doing right or wrong and just be relaxed and allow my mind flow.

No judgement. No criticism.

I highly appreciate the constructive feedback from the honest and supportive evaluation. I am genuinely motivated when what has been done well is highlighted. The recommendations are indeed useful to improve to the next level.

Today we did not have voting for the best project speaker. However, the Best Table Topics® Speaker went to Manish Jha,IP1.  At the end of the meeting, President Julia Leong, DTM thanked the General Evaluator Kishan Doshi, DL5 for his time and his evaluable comments. The club will try to have more educational events in future.

‘Friends Helping Friends Succeed’. It is not only a slogan, it is exactly what Money Mastery-KL is doing. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the club members, providing supportive and positive environment where I can learn and grow.

 

Blog Writer: Chloe Lau

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

 

 

11.08.2020 Meeting # 467- Sweat Now, Shine Later.

Word of the day: Paragon

Toastmasters has in its nearly 100-year history grown into a platform that has become a launching pad for not only aspiring public speakers, but also for people in the fields of training, lecturing and even entertainment. Indeed, it will amaze you to know that even entertainers such as stand-up comedians have emerged from Toastmasters membership. Malaysia has one such example.

In respect to trainers and lecturers, the prepared speeches are an opportunity to try out how one is going to deliver a lecture or training program. Ignore the time limitation of any prepared speech. Just look at how you present yourself. Presentation is the attractive wrapper in which your content is delivered. An exciting speech captures attention, appropriate and quality content educates, informs and trains. The feedback loop that is quintessential in every meeting provides you the speaker with useful and insightful recommendations on improving your speech.

The meeting was opened by our charming president, Julia Leong, DTM. The meeting stated with the round of introductions. Later she talked about the famous martial arts exponent and actor, Bruce Lee and the wisdom that Bruce Lee displayed and told. When Julia Leong, DTM talked about Bruce Lee, memories of my teenage years came back to me. It was in the 1970s that Bruce Lee became a household name. Kung Fu fighting was a disco hit in the 1970s and credit must be attributed to Bruce Lee. Julia Leong, DTM, told some of the advice Bruce Lee left behind for us.

She then passed the floor to the TME, Abdulrahman, PM2. TME Abdulrahman, PM2, gave a detailed description of the club’s history and the mission of Toastmasters.

Our president, Julia Leong, DTM, introduced the Table Topics® session. She was very creative in the use of pictures to invoke feelings in the speaker and the speaker was to give a speech base on the picture. This is the first time I have seen this and I will share it with clubs in other clubs within and outside this country. Mathew’s Table Topics® speech as given with much passion and conviction. Our guest Oliver Ng, IP1 delivered a speech about how we are a part of nature and being suicidal can be avoided by our connections to family and friends. Chloe Lau, our new member, spoke about how we must struggle to reach our goals. The picture she chose showed birds flying and based her speech on it. I was the second last Table Topics®® speaker and I spoke about reaching our goals. My speech was triggered by the image of the sky. Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB, spoke about the problems with the use of tablets by children. He is a young father and this is a pertinent issue. Many parents must choose wisely how their children use tablets.

The prepared speech session then started. The panel evaluator, Chittira, LD1, and the General evaluator, Robert Ram, DTM, gave their instruction to the speaker and panel evaluator. Chloe’s speech was about false memory. False memories create problems. Her speech was from the Presentation Mastery of Pathways. The next speaker was CS Ong, PM1, and his speech was in accordance with the Presentation Mastery like Chloe’s. He spoke about mentoring and his experience in mentoring. He gave a speech on how he was mentored. It was a very informative and insightful speech. The last prepared speech was delivered by Mathew Philippose, EC2. His speech was about his father’s experience during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. His talked about how his father adapted well to the situation back then and escaped being sent to the infamous ‘Death Railway’. Time keeper Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB, said that there were no time disqualifications.

After the break, Manish Jha, IP1, gave a full and lively evaluation of the Table Topics® speakers. He had observed keenly how each Table Topics® speaker used the visual aids to make their speeches. He gave each speaker advise and room for improvements.

Next was the evaluation session for the prepared speeches. The first evaluator was Chitirra, LD1 who evaluated Chloe Lau’s speech. She described what she liked about the speech and the way Chloe expressed herself. Robert Ram, DTM, commented on Chitirra’s evaluation.

Tuan Haji Hashim, DTM, gave his evaluation of CS. Ong’s speech. A point worthy of note about the way Tuan Haji Hashim, DTM, gives an evaluation is his emphasis on vocal variety, passion and body language. Robert Ram, DTM, gave his opinions to both the speaker and evaluator.

Oliver Ng, IP1, gave his evaluation of Mathew Philippose’s speech and was definitely impressed with Mathew’s father’s experiences during WW2. Oliver Ng, IP1 advised Mathew Philippose, EC2, to get a laptop stand so that his image can be fully viewed.

Best Table Topics® : Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB & Oliver Ng, IP1 (Double Winner)

Best Speech Evaluation : Hj. Hashim, DTM

Best Assigned Speech : CS Ong, PM1

To conclude, it was a memorable meeting. It is no wonder that this club is a President’s Distinguished Club. Just look at its members. 

Blog Writer: Vijaykumar, CC

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

28.07.2020 Meeting # 466- Compassion and Faith

 

Compassion and Faith, are the 2 essential pillars of humanity. Without any of it, we would turn into a ruthless, uncivilized, and unworthy person. In this meeting, we are going to discuss deeper around this topic.

The meeting started with President’s opening speech. Our president, Julia Leong, DTM, led the theme discussion by telling us a story that happened to her son-in-law’s dental clinic where the value of compassion was shed to a less-fortunate patient. It ignited the motivation to the members and attendees to share their personal stories of the moment they contribute without asking for any return.

The Toastmasters meeting program usually comes in 3 sessions, which the 1^st session is called the Table Topics® Session; 2^nd part is the Prepared Speech session where the members came prepared with their speeches according to the Toastmasters education requirements; while the 3^rd session is called the Evaluation session where all the speakers that had spoken earlier were given a thorough feedback for their further improvement.

The first session kicked started by Abulrahman, PM2 who was the Table Topics® Master for the day. His topics related the impromptu speakers to the core of compassion and faith. We were fortunate to have seasoned speakers volunteer themselves to take up the impromptu speaking challenges. Among them are CS Ong, PM1, Datuk John Lau, DTM, Manish Jha, IP1, and Vijaykumar, CC.

The 2^nd session of the meeting started with Hai Liang, our newly-minted VPE, took the lead to deliver the 1^st project speech. He was delivering on Effective Coaching pathway Level 2 Project 2, Understanding Your Communication Style with the speech title “The Evolution of my Communication Style”. He shared with us his different experience and encounters while working abroad in many region and continents, and the communication style varied from place to place.

The second project speaker was Rey Thean, PM1 who was presenting a Level 2, Project 3 program from the Presentation Mastery path. Her title was, “My Blind Spot: The Button”. Through a personal incident that happened to her, she was able to learn a valuable lesson from her mentor. As she said,”A mentor is able to see through your blind spot immediately”

The third speaker was Mathew Philippose, EC2, whom would be delivering  a Social Speech from the Effective Coaching Pathway. He delivered an eulogy to commemorate the memorial day of Late Francis Ng, DTM, who was our passionate founding member and Past President. Although it was a short speech, we could feel the courtesy and sympathy it brought.

The meeting adjourned for a short break and resumed to the 3^rd session, the Evaluation session. We need a freash pair of eyes to observev the conduct of the meeting for our improvement. The honor of this role fall on the shoulder of the General Evaluator (GE), who is Past District 51 Governor, Ramdas Nayer, DTM.

He invited his team of speech evaluators for their feedback to the speakers. KL Loh, ATMG provided his laser sharp observation towards the Table Topics® speakers. Next, Mr. GE also called for the project speech evaluators which included Manish Jha, IP1, Julia Leong, DTM, and Datuk John Lau, DTM to give their views and feedback to the project speakers

After the Technical Role Players had also delivered their report, Mr. GE took over the control to give his evaluation speech on the conduct of this meeting. By his observation, our club had done many things right. He like the way our evaluators gave their evaluation speech which was not meant to ‘white-wash’ the speakers. They provided a lot of constructive feedback and encouragement to motivate the speaker to perform better.

The meeting came to a closing when finally President Julia Leong, DTM took over the control again. SHe announced the best performers of the evening.

Best Table Topics ® - Datuk John Lau, DTM

Best project Speech - Mathew Philippose, EC2

Best Evaluation Speech - Datuk John Lau, DTM

In her closing speech, Julia reminded our members that this is the club that has the safe environment for members to learn and grow as our motto will always be “Friends Helping Friends to Succeed”. She spoke her closing message with strong compassion and faith like a caring mother, just like what the theme of the meeting had called for.

The final highlight of the meeting was to have everyone turn on their camera to pose for a group photo. The meeting adjourned at 9.45pm.

Blog Writer: Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

14.07.2020 Meeting # 465- The Beginning Of New Normal

Meeting #465 (14.07.2020) marked as the beginning of the term. It was our club first meeting and many were excited. Members joined the zoom meeting earlier and started to chat to each other.

The first highlight of the meeting was the President’s Speech. President Julia Leong, DTM urged us to uphold the achievement of President distinguished club and our mission of friends helping firends to succeed. In essence, she encouraged us to take up the challenge to be a better speaker, as she said, “if I can do it, you can do it, we all can do it.”

After that, we have a short self-introduction and talked about the theme, “The beginning of a new normal”. Many shared how they had adapted to the changes, for example, learn to attend new meeting, wash hands more frequently, practice physical distancing, wearing mask, “grab” food, buy groceries online and follow the Government SOP guideline in the workplace. In general, the “New” normal has impacted our life. 

Followed by, an interesting Table Topics^® session. Here are the topics:

Speakers	Topics
Victor Wan, DTM	Will you plan to have a new normal trip?
Guest Aizat, MS2	How does the new normal affect your life?
Rey Thean, PM1	What is the hardest thing to comply in the new normal?
Manish, IP1	What is your “new normal” dining out experience?
Chloe Lau	Will the “new normal” ever go back to the old one?

The second highlight of the meeting was the ice-breaker speech, presented by Chloe Lau. She looked composed, spoke out loud and clear in her presentation. Listening to her speech, I started to know her a bit more. She loves English and she turned her interest to career. Two years ago, she opened her English Centre and students learned the Grammar at different paces. She is proud to become an educator. She found that Toastmasters is a platform where she can learn the soft skill like speech presentation, giving feedback that helps to make her a better person and can impact more life. She hopes she can learn and grow in Toastmasters while improving her English and fulfilling her dream.

Rey Thean, PM1, on the other hand, gave a very engaging speech and many had responded to her questions in her speech. She spoke well, paced well and her research presentation was very interesting. Well done, Rey!

Our third speaker, Mathew Philippose, EC2, gave his hats off to the previous EXCO team on their contributions to the club. He brought us back and recognise their efforts. His speech was so motivating. Thank you, Mathew!

The third highlight of the meeting was having a good General Evaluator and with her strong panel evaluators in the meeting. It was so happy to see the progress of Chitirra, LD1 in her evaluation. Her evaluation was very lively, and highlighted the strength of the speaker. The evaluation was so encouraging and it is so important to the speaker, especially it was the first speech presented by Chloe in the club. Keep it up, Chitirra, LD1. 

The fourth highlight of the meeting was the moment of encouragement. We voted the best performers of the night. The results were shown as below:

Best Table Topics^® Speech: Chloe Lau

Best Assigned Speech: Rey Thean, PM1

Best Assigned Speech Evaluation: Hj Hashim, DTM

We had a splendid night. This meeting adjourned with good speeches, positive vibes and constructive evaluations.

Blog Writer: Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2020/2021

30.06.2020 Meeting # 464- What Toastmasters Means To Me

17 years of glory, Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club closes its final meeting of the term with a bang together with their installation ceremony of the incoming EXCOs. What went on that night at the club, on the last day of the 2^nd half of the epic pandemic year of 2020?

We’ve been having an array of online meetings due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Today being the last meeting of the term, we decided to go with something different than the usual. The meeting kick started at 7.15pm online with our ASAA Serena Kong, ACB, CL introducing the house rules, leading the Toastmasters’ promise in which we take pride and to call upon the great KL Loh, ATMG for his final introductory address as club President.

With his zest, power and burning desire that has fuelled the torch that he will be passing on to the incoming President, he began his address with a boom and called upon all the members to share their wonderful experience in Toastmasters.

Today’s word of the day was ‘serve’ and each member gave a 3 minute rendition of how Toastmasters served them and how they served society in Toastmasters. It was truly an walk down memory lane for each of us.

Later on the Toastmaster of the Evening, Rey Thean, PM1 gave a brief history of Toastmasters International and the heritage and strength of Money Mastery-KL TMC. The respective role players Abdulrahman, PM2, as the As-Counter, Hai Liang as the Grammarian, EK Yeo, CC, CL as the Timer and our Division Director Kishan Doshi, DL5 as the General Evaluator explained their roles and we moved on to the highlight of the night which was our very first virtual Installation Ceremony.

Our Division Director, Kishan Doshi, DL5, gave his address and discharged the existing EXCO team.

We kick started the swearing in ceremony of each EXCO as follows: 

President-Elect: Julia Leong, ACG, ALB 

VP Education-Elect: Oo Hai Liang

VP Membership-Elect: Serena Kong, ACB, CL

Treasurer-Elect: Yeo Eng Keng, CC, CL

Secretary-Elect: Abdulrahman, PM2

SAA-Elect: Rey Thean, PM1

Congratulations to our amazing new EXCO 2020/2021 and we hope you serve the club in line with our Toastmasters Values of Integrity, Respect, Service and Excellence.

To the previous EXCO of Term 2019/2020, well done on being a President’s Distinguished Club and serving the club with your heart and soul.

Later on, we had our fun Quiz Master, Manish Jha, IP1 bring the whole Zoom meeting alive with a little general knowledge quiz by having us answer in teams. Nothing stops us from having fun at MMKL, not even a lockdown.

The respective role players gave us their best feedbacks and finally our President KL Loh, ATMG gave his epic closing for the last time. With his heart of gold and gratitude he thanked each and everyone in MMKL for their amazing support to serve when called upon to do so.

It was a heart to heart, soul to soul meeting that filled us with joy and hope for the upcoming term ahead. Nothing will stop MMKL from achieving its goals and may the force be with us.

Stay Safe Folks!

Blog Writer: Chitirra, LD1

Regards,

MM-KL EXCO

2019/2020