MARCUS CHEE, SECOND RUNNER UP IN DIVISON W EVALUATION CONTEST

CONGRATULATION TO MARCUS CHEE. He made our club proud when he was placed second runner up at the Division W "Humorous speech and evaluation contest" held yesterday, 25th October 2008 at WIM's TMC venue in TTDI. Marcus represented Area W1.
It was a successful and well organised contest with 122 toastmasters and guests in attendance. From our club, the President, Hj Hashim, VPE Siew Yin, VPPR Hj Naburi and DTM Francis (one of the SAAs) and Janice Ooi were there. We enjoyed the contest very much where we were kept laughing by the six humorous contestants.
The winners of the humorous speech contest were Roger McGowan (Speecom), Nishan (KPMG KL) and Suresh from Sai Masters Club.
The Test Speaker, Shirley Ng gave a very impressive speech on "The POwer of Encouragement". She implore on all of us to offer Encouragement to anyone who needs it. The recipient must learn to ACCEPT Encouragement and appreciate the encouragement given. This should be the practice in our club meetings and for that matter in our daily life. When a person is feeling down and depressed and dejected and before he thinks that the world is coming to an end and decides to move to the next world by comitting suicide that's the time when he needs all the ENCOURAGEMENT in the world for him/her to move forward and carry on with life.
In a toastmasters environment it is the duty of every member especially when he is playing the role of evaluator he must practice and apply the Power of Encouragement and the recipient must learn to accept the encouragement. When we practise this principle, we are actually invoking this year's TI President's slogan, "The Courage To Conquer"
Quite propitiously our President Tuan Hj Hashim aptly applied the "Power of Encouragement" with his invocation of "IN TRYING TIMES, DON'T QUIT" at the last meeting held on Oct, 13th, 2008.
Read on and you will be inspired.....

IN TRYING TIMES, DON'T QUIT

"The world will always give you the opportunity to quit, but only the world would call quitting an opportunity" (Clint Brown) One of the most powerful principles ever preached is: NEVER GIVE UP.

Nobody and nothing can keep you down unless you decide not to rise again. H.E. Jansen said, "The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee". Find a way to, not a way NOT to.

A lazy man is always judged by what he doesn't do. The choice of giving up or going on is a defining moment in your life. You cannot turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Too many people stop faster than they start. Instead of stopping, follow this English proverb: "Don't fall before you are pushed" The choice is simple. You can either stand up and be counted, or lie down and be counted out. Defeat never comes to people until they admit it. Your success will be measured by your willingness to keep trying. (GO FOR THE EXTRA MILE). Have the courage to live. Anyone can quit, but not you I hope, not me either.

"QUITTERS DON'T WIN, WINNERS DO NOT QUIT"