This report should have been written by Huey Yee. But last minute she "threw the pen" at me.Like it or not I have to do it. I'll try my best to write down what happened at the meeting.
The meeting was attended by: The President, Hj Hashim, who played the role of an invocator. As usual Hj Hashim gave a very inspiring invocation entitled "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL". The gist of it, is that every success must experience failures and mistakes in life. Everyone should learn from their failures and when you fall down, you will get up and rebounce upward far greater than your drop-down. Anyway I will post the actual text in our BLOG so you can read it there.
The President was suppose to be the evaluator for Derrick Teh, but he did not turn up. Hopefully Derrick will attend the next meeting on 25th Nov. to do his Ice-breaker speech.
The VPE Siew Yin, also took up a dual role as Ah Counter as well as Table- Topic Master. She gave a very interesting topic to the five speakers led by Hj Naburi, then KL Loh, followed by our guests, Duncan and Kumaran and lastly Raymond Sii, the member who was MIA (missing in action) for some time. He was lost for words due to his long absence. But he made a courages comeback by delivering his first advance speech from the Professional Speaker Series. "Welcome back Raymond", and from now on, we will see more of you at our future meetings.
Congratulations to our guest Kumaran who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award. Both Duncan and Kumaran have decided to join our club. Congratulations to both of them for making the right decision in choosing our club. WELCOME Duncan and Kumaran.
As Ah Counter, Siew Yin had a field day ("night") in making money for the Club. Abu Bakar, the TME who did a very good job in conducting the meeting also had to pay the most fines of RM4.20 for having 42 speech crutches. So much so he had no small change for car park. As usual Hj Naburi, the next champion contributed RM2.30. I presume it's a record collection for the club and Song,the club treasurer, will be laughing his way to the bank. Unfortunately he was absent.
The evening was made hilarious by KL Loh's jokes with interjection from the members especially Hj Naburi with his letter from Osama to Bush with the message :
370H-SSV-O773H. To understand it you have to read the code upside down then you get the message.
The project speeches were all from the Advance series with Victor Wan's "Roasting" of Hj Naburi, who got carried away when he was doing the evaluation. Instead of evaluating Victor he went through the history of the club and definitely overshot his time allocations. Not only was Hj going overboard with time, but the other two speakers, Raymond Sii, and Wan Chee Wing and their evaluators, Huey Yee and Janice Ooi respectively, also overshot their time allocation. For the first time there was no Best Speaker and no Best Evaluator award given tonight.
The absence of our advisor, Francis Ng was greatly felt by the meeting especially to Victor Wan who was supposed to Roast him. This is one of the rare occassion that Francis did not come to the meeting as he is attending the District 51 Convention in Bali. Without Francis we still manage to run a successful meeting. Touche to the President, who was the earliest to arrive to arrange table and chairs and placing the banners and helping Paul to prepare the nasi lemak. He was the last to leave the meeting room to rearrange the table and chairs with the help of Paul, Duncan, E.K. Yeo and Hj Naburi. Normally, all these were done by Francis.
The birthday cake was also prepared by the President. Hj Naburi and Janice and Wan Chee Wing except for Alwin who left early, had their birthday song and blowing candles ceremony and Huey Yee helped to cut the cake for everyone.
Well done to all the role players. Abu Bakar, the TME,- a well run meeting. Cindy Foong, the Timer, even though with an injured hand after being attacked by snatch thieves a couple of nights before, Cindy still turn up to take up role. Thank you and kudos to Cindy. We pray that you will overcome the trauma soon and our sympathy to you Cindy.
Paul Tan was Grammarian and as usual gave his lengthy report and advice.
The General Evaluator was Chen Voon Hann who is no stranger to our club, our friend from MIA TMC, did a very good job in his duty and tried to bring us to the next level by suggesting that we ought to think seriously about practising open evaluation which is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Not to forget Tan Ben Hoe our cool IPP in his usual style was the Table Topic evaluator, appreciated by everyone.
All in all, it was a successful meeting and everyone had a good time. Our guest, Kumaran who came for the first time was very impressed with our performances decided to join as a member of our club together with Duncan.
Well done guys and gals. Keep it up.
Report by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
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