Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): 2009

Merry Christmas!

On 22nd December, we had our last Toastmasters meeting of the year. To all of us who were present in the meeting, it was a jolly occasion as it was a meeting that was filled with both warm Christmas spirits as well as Chinese winter solstice festive mood. To go with both the festive occasions, most of our members dressed in either Red or Green. Some even had their Santa's hat on to add on to the Christmas mood. Thanks to EK Yeo, our dearest VPE, an ever so patient and helpful figure, we even had some balls of glutinous rice (or more commonly known as Tangyuan in Chinese) which symbolize reunion as desserts. Apart from the jovial mood and wonderful desserts, we also had a great company that night. It was none other than our old and dear friend- Azmi Shahrin, a famous DTM in both Division W as well as District 51, who acted as our General Evaluator that night. As usual, his utter sense of humour and aptitude for public speaking kept the audience entertained well all night.

Besides those, this meeting was also different in a way that we had all advanced project speeches for the night. Unlike our usual meetings which we have a mixture of both Competent Communication and Advanced Communication speakers, all 3 speakers of the tonight presented their project speeches from the Advanced Communication series. When it comes to the Advanced level, the speeches become more and more interesting because the presentation could vary from a role play, to a story telling, to a seminar, and many others.

The first speaker of the night was me :) I presented a speech titled 'Negotiating with Skill' from the Advanced Communication series- Interpersonal Communication. It was a 10-14 minute presentation that combined a speech, a role play and a discussion.

The second speaker was Abdul Aziz, CTM, who presented a 20-40 minute seminar titled 'Increase Profitability through Quality', that was from the Professional Speaker Project.

Last but not least, Victor Wan, CC, CL presented his speech 'Think for the Future' from Advanced Communication series- Speaking to Inform.

In Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club, we always vote for the Best Project Speech and Best Evaluator of the night. It is a recognition as well as encouragement for our members for doing well in their speeches and evaluations. Here is a very big congratulations to Abdul Aziz and Francis Ng for winning the Best Project Speech and Best Evaluator of the night!

With that, our joyful meeting came to an end. That marked our last meeting of year 2009. Our next meeting will be in 12th January 2010. It is a meeting not to be missed because not only that it would be our first meeting in year 2010, it's also the night for our club International Speech and Table Topics contest! Yes, the contest season is on and we're very proud to be one of the first few clubs in our division to hold the contest for this season. It will be an interesting night, so ladies and gentlemen, make sure you come early to grab a seat yeah :)

Till then, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010

Happy Go Lucky

With the meeting theme of Happy Go Lucky, everyone was in a mood for a positive and easy going meeting for tonight. We are happy to have Ng Lay Choo, ACB, CL as our Madam General Evaluator of the night. As per normal meeting, the night started off with president's address from our club president, Liew Siew Yin, CC, CL. In her address, she sent a message that a happy go lucky attitude will keep us up when we are down, and ensure that we are always in a positive perspective for things that happen around us.

KL Loh, ATM-G was in charge of the Invocation session tonight. He shared that we as leaders to people in companies, we must embody a set of values that will guide us in everything that we do Values like honesty, integrity and transparency serve as the moral guide to a company practices, therefore they are crucial to the success and growth of a company.

To go along with the theme of the night, the Table Topics Master, Hoo Sze Ling (who is also a guest from D' Utama Toastmasters Club) has kept the audience entertained with topics like 'Wealth or Happiness, which one is more important?', 'What is the happiest moment in your life?', amongst others. The speakers were great, as all of them had demonstrated their impromptu speaking skills and spoke right about their given topics.

For the project speech session, we had in total 4 speakers tonight. Ginny Leng, TM spoke about how she made certain decisions in her life, and Vince Kek, TM spoke about his romantic love story. Both projects were from the Competent Communication manual. For the more advanced speakers, Abdul Aziz Youp, CTM presented an entertaining speech on (mis) communication. In short, it was about how communication could go wrong and why. Last but not least, Victor Wan, CC, CL presented useful facts and tips for the audience tonight in the topic of will writing. He advised the audience get a will done up as soon as possible for the benefits of your loved ones. As Francis Ng, DTM has also put it, "Don't let your loved ones go through hell when you are in heaven". Interesting. As an audience and Grammarian tonight, I'd say all the speakers have given their best in their speeches, and all have received positive and enlightening feedback from their speech evaluators.

In the evaluation part, the club has received some very positive feedback from the guests as well as from Mdm. General Evaluator tonight. From the comments, they are pleased with the comfortable setting of the club (except for the occasional noise from renovation next door tonight), the warm welcome offered to guests, the properly drawn up agenda (thanks to our VPE, EK Yeo and President Liew Siew Yin for this), the persisting high turn up rate of members for club meeting (yay!), and last but not least, the VERY famous and delicious nasi lemak (big thanks to Paul Tan for this one)! Thanks to all for your helpful comments and suggestions, one thing for sure is that we will work hard to keep it up!

Announcements:
1. Division W Better Speaker Series will be held on 14th Nov 2009 in ING Performance Centre. Great value and tips on communication skills you can bring home with only RM28 per person.

2. 2nd Club Officer Training is scheduled on 12th Dec 2009. Club Officers, please mark this down on your calendar. Details of the venue and others will be published soon.

3. Lovely news: our club member- Vince Kek, TM, is set to tie the knot with his fiancee soon. Congratulations to Vince!!! The couple is having their wedding banquet on 26th Dec 2009, in Golden Palace Seafood restaurant (119, Jalan Pudu, 55100, KL). All members of Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club are welcomed to join the couple for their wedding dinner. Halal, non-halal, and vegetarian food can be arranged.
Please RSVP with Vince Kek, latest by 24th Nov 2009.

Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010

Opportunities for the ones who are ready

It's a meeting that is full of inspirations and energy. It was a meeting that motivates everyone in the room to BE YOUR BEST.
In the Toastmasters' movement, it is important to have this commitment to yourself, and to the club. When you put in effort in preparing your speeches, spend some time practicing your delivery, only then you will be able to produce a good speech to the audience. In that way, we can all contribute to bring ourselves up and improve the standard of the club collectively.

Acting president EK Yeo, CC, CL delivered his acting presidential address that night with a clear and concise message- all of us should strive to be our best in everything that we do, and along the way, we should motivate our peers to do the same.

There was an inspirational quote that I heard in the meeting that night, and it still lingers on my mind until this minute. "You get the best out of others when you give the best yourself". It's true, isn't it? In order to bring out the best in the people around you, you have to first bring out the best of yourself. This rule applies to all of us, and in all stages of life, whether you're a working adult, or a student. Imagine you're in a competition, when you give it your best in the game, you will motivate your competitors to outdo themselves too. In that way, all of you would live the spirit, and make a good game.

Thanks to Julia Leong, TM, our Table Topics master of the day, who had brought forward few uplifting and inspirational quotes for our Table Topics session that night. Vincent Soon, who is a guest on that night, took the trophy of Best Table Topics Speaker home with his befitting talk about how his bunch of friends always do their very own best during swimming exercise in order to motivate the rest of the group to do the same.

For the project speeches, we had in total four speakers that night. Ginny Leng, TM shared a tip with us that night that we should never display an inverted peace sign ("V" sign with your fingers with palm facing yourself) as it means a grave insult to the person that you're facing. (Hmm I should start screening my pictures to filter that...) Abdulrahaman, TM spoke about his opinion on The World Order that night; and Vince Kek, TM conveyed a strong message to all of us that we should all do something to save our Mother Earth who is in sick, after quietly enduring all the harms we have done to Her. Last but not least, Abdul Aziz, CTM delivered a keynote address 'Heal Thyself' that night. I believe the audience that night has learned a thing or two about pharmaceutical industry practice that night. We should always check and see whether we really need take the drugs that promised us youth and health on the label. Anyone are to join me for a jog at FRIM?

During the speech evaluation session, all evaluators provided good feedback to the speakers and I believe they all have received a tip or two from their evaluators. Henry Fu, ACB, CL, our General Evaluator for the night, also shared his opinion on the overall flow of the meeting and the meeting arrangements. Thanks for his comments and suggestions. As people always say- feedback is the breakfast for the champions. That's how we learn to better ourselves.

At the end of the meeting, EK Yeo, acting president of the night made some announcement on the next Club Officers training which is scheduled on 12 of December 2009. Club officers who're reading the blog, please mark it on your calendar. Also, our club is launching an exciting project- a club newsletter! Victor Wan, KH Song and I, will be the central persons coordinating the newsletter. All members of the club are welcomed to participate in this project. We need someone who can write, proof read, and take good pictures. Also, anyone in the club is welcomed to contribute any useful material for the newsletter from time to time.

With this, the club meeting adjourned and a fellowship begins.

Yours sincerely,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009- 2010

Contests moments

Dear all,

If you have missed the 2009 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests of our club, don't worry!

Thanks to Victor Wan, who has made the effort in recording and editing all the contest videos. Now we have them all here, just click on the links below. Sit back and enjoy the show!

Cheers,
Gean
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010

1. Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests -

2. More Humorous Speech Contest Videos -

3. Last 3 Humorous Speech Contest Videos -

4. Test Speaker and Evaluations Contest Videos -

Love your country

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club Meeting #180 on 25 August 2009.

The Merdeka Spirit continues into our 180th toastmasters club meeting on 25 August 2009. In line with the Merdeka Spirit, the theme of the night was “Love Malaysia” and the word of the day was “Independence.”

Most of the members including our GE, Lucky came in colourful batik instilling the Love Malaysia spirit in all of us. First time SAA, TM Abdurrahman called the meeting to order right on time with the confidence of a seasoned speaker.

Mdm. President, CC, CL Liew Siew Yin delivered her presidential address with passion calling us to Love Malaysia, a beautiful country where people of all races and religion lived harmoniously together as One Malaysia. Feelings of patriotism ran high that night with her delivery followed by an invocation from CC, CL Raymond Sii who inspired us to love and respect our colorful Malaysian Flag.

We stop and break fast with our Muslim friends, all in a very jovial mood. Our Malaysian food is certainly very tasty thanks to CTM, ALS Paul Tan.

CC Sook Meng, our bubbly and energetic TME was witty throughout the night as she conducted the meeting in a very well organized manner.

Our Club’s ever jovial stalwart, Tuan Hj Naburi, ACB, CL was Table Topics Master for the night and had us in stitches with his friendly but comical expressions. TM Sue Hooi, Erica, Julia, Abdurrahman and Ginny all rose to the occasion when they volunteered in giving impromptu speeches on topics relating to the theme of the night. Kudos to all for their courage!

CTM, ALS Paul Tan, as humor master, gave some interesting, highly refined and polished jokes and had majority of members breaking into hearty laughs.

We were pleasantly mesmerized by four young speakers giving informative and interesting well prepared speeches no 1, 2, 3 & 4 respectively. The speeches were delivered with confidence, light humor and very engaging with the audience. TM William Lee gave his ice breaker speech, “Where I come from”, TM Vince Kek motivated and engaged the audience with “What Make Your Life 100%”, TM Eileen shared with us on “Will Power & Self Discipline” and TM Wilson inspired us with his referjob2earn.com income generating scheme. Congratulations to all the speakers for their efforts!

Rounds of applauses was given to all first time role players, ASAA Abdurrahman, Ah-Counter, Julia Leong, Time Keeper Sharon Siew and Ice Breaker, William Lee.

ATM-B, ALS General Evaluator, Lucky gave an overall positive evaluation summary of our club filled with good suggestions for improvement while his team of evaluators were very zealous and sincere in giving positive feedback to our equally enthusiastic speakers and audience.

Awards for the best Table Topics speaker and the best project speech speaker went to TM Julia Leong and TM Vince Kek respectively. Congratulations!

Mdm. President reminded members of following date and wished all members a safe journey home.

Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest
Date : 12 September 2009 (Saturday).
Time : 1.30 p.m. (lunch will be served at 1 p.m.).
Venue : Wisma WIM, No 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 KL.

Have a very Nice and Pleasant Week-End

Julia Leong
Treasurer

The Mousetrap story

The Mouse Trap and You

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

What food might this contain?' the mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning : 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, 'Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.'

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, 'There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!'

The pig sympathized, but said, 'I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.'

The cow said, 'Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well, and she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, Dear Toastmasters the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember - when one of us is threatened, we all are at a risk.

We all are together in the Toastmasters journey.

We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

REMEMBER. . .

EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER... FOR A REASON...

Regards

Lucky

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A Recipe For Happiness...

Two Heapful cups of Patience
One Heartful of Love
Two Handsful of Generosity
One Headful of Understanding
A Dash of Humour
Sprinkle With Kindness
Add Plenty of Faith
Mix Well
Spread Over A Period of A Lifetime
Serve To Everyone YOU MEET

Merdeka Spirit

August 11, 2009 was an awesome meeting! Everyone was in high spirit and the meeting room was filled with energy. There were 8 guests as well, kudos!

The President, CC CL Siew Yin delivered her presidential address in line with the theme of the meeting, “Merdeka Spirit”. A shout of “Merdeka” echoed through the room and reverberated by the members. New members ie. Vince Kek, Abdulrahaman and Eileen Lau were voted into the club and went through the induction session. CC Cindy Foong as the TME was well prepared, amiable and composed. She was even equipped with a Malaysian flag! Invocation was well delivered by ATMG KL Loh who inspired all members and guests to stand up and shouted, “Merdeka” 3 times. It was indeed a high spirit session.
Table Topics Master for the first time, CC Kok Sook Meng gave very interesting topics during her session and 3 out of 4 participants were guests. Bravo to all of you! The prepared speeches were equally creative, mesmerizing and informative. .. "When I Close My Eyes" by Vince Kek, "Fasting" by Eileen Lau and "A Twist of Fate" by Julia Leong. We were very privileged to listen to our club’s champion ie. ACB, CL Haji Naburi’s humorous speech followed by open evaluation from the floor.

Thanks to CC, CL KH Song for providing the sumptuous food. After yummy food during break, ACS, CL Johnny Yong led the interesting evaluation session. Congratulations to the role players for the first time, ie. Alvin Wong as the time keeper, CC Kok Sook Meng as the Table Topics Master and TM Vince Kek for his Ice Breaker speech.
The blue ribbon of the President Distinguished Club 2008/09 from Toastmasters International was presented by the Area W1 Governor, Syamala to the our Immediate Past President, CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan. Syamala delivered a very informative speech and further enhanced by the “Frog Story” in her delivery. Thanks to TM Julia, we had very tasty Secret Recipe cake for our August babies’ birthday celebration.

Some dates to note:

1. Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Venue: MIA Resource Center. Date: 13 August 2009. Time: 7pm
2. Div W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Date: 12th September 2009 (Saturday) Time: 1:30pm (lunch will be served at 1 pm)
Venue: Wisma WIM, No. 7, Jalan Abang Haji Openg, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur.

Have an awesome week ahead!

Liew Siew Yin
President
2009-2010

Merdeka Spirit

The Contest Night that is full of Laughter!

It's contest season again!

For Toastmasters, it's a time to get our blood pumped up. On 28th July 2009, we had our club's 2009/2010 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests. It was an event that brought all the club members as well as Toastmasters from other clubs together. Apart from that, we are honored to have our Division Governor, DTM Soh Fong Wai as our Chief Judge that night. And this time around, we had in total 15 contestants from our club:

Humorous Speech Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Khoshim Malim
3. KL Loh
4. Paul Tan
5. Haji Naburi
6. Victor Wan
7. MK Low

Evaluation Contestants:
1. Abd. Aziz Youp
2. Paul Tan
3. Haji Naburi Idin
4. Gean Lau
5. Victor Wan
6. MK Low
7. Khoshim Malim
8. Tan Ben Hoe

As usual, Victor Wan is kind enough to bring along his camcorder gadget to record the entire contest night! He will be doing some editing before showing us the final footage. So stay tuned folks.

As you can imagine, the Humorous Speech Contest is all about humor! On that night, we had some good laugh throughout the contest, as MK Low humored us about 'Contractor', as KL Loh revealed 'The secret of Staying Young', as Paul Tan answered the question of 'Where do you come from', as Abdul Aziz gave us some tips on 'The Best time to Invest', and amongst others. It was an enjoyable and entertaining session for all of us.

For the Evaluation Contest, we had Cheah Soo Chuan from MIM Toastmasters Club of Kuala Lumpur as the Test Speaker, and he gave an Ice Breaker Speech for 5-7 minutes. All the contestants are to evaluate the speech and provide their feedback in the allocated time of 3 minutes.
So after the Test Speaker had spoken, all the Evaluation contestants (including me!) had to leave the room and got quarantined in another room (not for AH1N1 purpose, of course). After that, each of us will enter the room to give our evaluation speech, one after another.
Though I was not in the room to hear all the evaluations, I believed all of the speeches were good and carried out in their unique style. Why? Because except me, all the contestants are very experienced speakers, not to mention their evaluation skills!

After a hard time deciding, the winners were announced at the end of the evening.
To all the winners and contestants, I wish to give my heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to all of you!

Evaluation Contest

CHAMPION : Low Meng Koon
1ST RUNNER UP : Paul Tan
2nd RUNNER UP : Tan Ben Hoe

Humorous Speech Contest

CHAMPION : Hj. Naburi Idin
1st RUNNER UP : Khoshim Malim
2nd RUNNER UP: Low Meng Koon

MK Low and Haji Naburi, both seasoned, humorous and powerful speaker that I know, will represent Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club in the Area W1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on Thursday, 13 August 2009 in MIA Resource Center in Brickfields! Good luck to both of you!

Apart from that, I'd like to thank the role players that night as well. Though some of them are first-timers in their roles that night, they have done a marvelous job! Without you, it would not have been such a wonderful and successful night.

THANK YOU to:

Chief Judge :
Soh Foong Wai, DTM

Organizing Chair:
Julia Leong

Humorous Speech Contest Chair:
Cindy Foong

Evaluation Speech Contest Chair:
Kok Sook Meng

Test Speaker :
Cheah Soo Chuan

Timers:
1. Chong Huey Yee
2. Siva Das

Ballot Counters:
1. EK Yeo
2. Ginny Leng
3. Eileen Lau

Sergeant at Arms:
1. Wilson Ten
2. Francis Ng
3. Vince Kek

Last note to all, we will be posting the links to the Speech videos soon, so stay tuned!

Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009-2010

NEW TERM, NEW PEOPLE, NEW EXPECTATION

Fellow Toastmasters, distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, good evening. As you know, a new team of Exco members has been installed last Friday 10 July 2009. This means, the term of my team has expired.

Fellow toastmasters, I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every member of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club for having given me all your support and cooperation during my term as President. On behalf of your Exco, I would like to express our sincere and deepest appreciation for your contributions to the club. We are very proud of your dedication in toastmasters’ activities which have made Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club to achieve yet again the President's Distinguished Club for the 6th time in a row. You must be proud too because you have also made Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club as one of the most admired clubs in Area W1.

To my colleagues in the Exco, I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart, for whatever support you have given me during the past year. Together, we have achieved many things during the past one year for our club. So to Siew Yin, EK Yeo, Haji Naburi, Gean Lau, KH Song, a million thanks to all of you. Of course, not forgetting our IPP Ben Hoe and Advisor Francis Ng, who have always given your unselfish advice and guidance to me and to the Exco. To both of you, thank you for being an excellent mentor for all of us.

I also want to recognize a very good friend of mine. This man is also a very good friend to all of you. This is the man who had untiringly been buying the nasi lemak for all of us for our meeting every fortnightly. He is non other than our fellow Toastmaster Paul Tan.

Finally, it is time for us to move on to a NEW TERM and to hand the baton to the NEW PEOPLE with their NEW EXPECTATION. I would like to congratulate the members of the new Exco which is led by President Liew Siew Yin. This new dynamic team, I am sure, will take this club of ours to a new height in the next term. Our prayers and best wishes are always with you.

Thank you.

Haji Hashim Haji Adnan
Immediate Past President
14 July 2009

Posted by
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009- 2010

A New Term, a New Beginning, starts with the Installation Dinner!

10th of July marked the very first event of the new term 2009- 2010 for Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club. It was the joint installation dinner for Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club and MIA Toastmasters Club, held in a stylish restaurant called PADI House at Jalan P. Ramlee.

It was an important occasion for Toastmasters because this is an annual event where the baton will be passed from the last term club committee to the newly elected club committee. On this special night, the newly elected Exco-members for the term will get installed into their new roles and positions.

To our honour and pleasure, we had a few distinguished guests namely DTM Geoff Andrew, DTM Dominic Gerard Joseph, current Division W Governer DTM Soh Fong Wai, Past Division W Governer Azmi Shahrin and our current Area W1 Governer CC Syamala Murigiah, to join us on this lovely evening. We had full attendance of our club Exco on that night, though our Immediate Past President CC, CL Haji Hashim was absent with apologies due an important business trip that he had to make.

Organizing Chair CC, CL KH Song did a marvelous job in planning and setting up the whole event. Scrumptious food in a beautiful restaurant, what a perfect ambiance for a gathering amongst both old and new friends. In addition, thanks to Immediate Past President of MIA Toastmasters Club Kelvin, we got a great deal on the food and venue that night! Score!

During the installation ceremony chaired by our Area W1 Governor Syamala, each exco member of both club pledged to serve his or her club with utmost integrity and aspiration in his or her respective role.

Now I present to you, the official Exco of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (2009- 2010):
President Liew Siew Yin, CC, CL
Vice President of Education Yeo Eng Keng, CC, CL
Vice President of Membership Kok Sook Meng, CC
Vice President of Public Relations Gean Lau, CC
Secretary Abdul Aziz, CTM
Treasurer Julia Leong, TM
Sergeant-at-Arm Wilson Ten Kine Hong, TM

At the end of the ceremony, the president of each club presented their very first presidential speech to the club members. For our club, our new Mdm President, CC, CL Liew Siew Yin appealed to the new exco members to do their very best in serving the members in the club, and achieving the 10 DCP goals for 2009 - 2010, in order to live up the Division W motto - FORWARD, CHANGE, GROW.

After the ceremony, it was time for Table Topics - one of the widely favoured activities of Toastmasters. DTM Geoff Andrew, the Table Topics Master of the night, had conducted the 40 minutes session brilliantly. Firstly, he planned the topics around the idea of Money, quite apt for the occasion as we had both the money managers (MIA) and the money makers (Money Mastery) in the room, as he puts it. Secondly, the rule of the game is that after one volunteer from a club has spoken on a topic, a volunteer from the other club should follow and speak on the same topic. Back and forth, we had in total 8 Table Topics speakers that night, 4 from each club.
All the speakers spoke enthusiastically on their given topics. Guess that when it comes to money, we all have much to express, especially when you're a money manager, or a money maker =)

As for the winner, CONGRATULATIONS to DTM Dominic Gerard Joseph, who won the title of Best Table Topics speaker of the night with his humorous and clever speech on the title 'If you have $1 million, what would you do with it?'

Overall, it was a splendid night and I think the members and guests who were there would all agree with me when I say that. It was indeed an marvelous event to pump up our energy and kick start for the new 2009-2010 term!

As our Mdm president put it, it's time for us to move forward, grow and change! All the best to the new leadership and all the members of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club!

Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009 - 2010

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Yours truly,
Gean Lau
Vice President of Public Relations
2009- 2010

THE FINAL MEETING FOR THE TERM 2008-2009 #176

23rd June, 2009, 4th TUESDAY of June marked the end of the current term of 2008-2009 and Money Mastery - KL TMC recorded yet another well attended and successful meeting with the presence of two guests and the signing of one new member,TM Eileen Lau.
Well Eileen, welcome to the Club and you yourself had declared that you had attended two other TM clubs meetings and yet you chose Money Mastery-KL TMC to be a member. Congratulations to you and you have made the right choice.

The meeting started with the opening remarks by the acting President cum incoming President, VPE Liew Siew Yin who stood for the President Hj. Hashim who regrettably could not make it to the meeting due to unforeseen circumstances and conveyed his apology. So we missed out his words of wisdom. Perhaps he will make it up by giving an invocation speech in future meetings. Siew Yin welcomed Distinguished Toastmaster Low Yat Seow who honor us by being the General Evaluator for the evening. She also welcomed the presence of DTM Azmi Shahrin, the Immediate Past Division W Governor who came on behalf of DTM KK Chee, the Immediate Past District Governor to present a plaque and a certificate to our member, CTM, ALS Paul Tan, for being a President Distinguished Area W6 Governor for 2007-2008. Congratulations to Paul Tan who added another laurel to our club.

FIRST TIMERS:
TM Abdulrahaman from Nigeria for being the Time Keeper,
TM Alvin Wong for being the 'Ah' Counter. Both of you did an excellent job.
Tm Ginny Leng for delivering her Ice breaker speech, well done and congratulations.

As announced by the Club Advisor DTM Francis, the club has achieved THE PRESIDENT'S DISTINGUISHED CLUB AWARD with 10/10 DCP points for the 7th year running. The District will present a special award to the club in the coming semi annual convention to be held at Genting Highland in October. Please check out for the announcements in your email or contact Francis.

Come 1st July, 2009, the club is officially the home of the Lieutenant Governor Marketing for District 51 (Peninsula)in the person of DTM Francis Ng.

DTM Low Yat Seow, who was the District 51 PDG, and who mentored us during the early years of the formation of our club gave a very interesting 19 minutes talk on "Letting Go". For those who have gone through the process of becoming leaders in any organizations will understand and appreciate the real meaning of letting go. In my opinion this has something to do with human beings egoistic needs as expounded in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Those who studied management will know what I mean. In Toastmastering, it's true what was said by Yat Seow that you will only learn the core values of Toastmasters when you hold the leadership positions in Toastmasters Organization, which are Integrity, Dedication to Excellence, Service to the Member, and Respect for the Individual. While you are holding the post, you receive all the recognition and appreciations by people especially the members. When you become an " X " or" past" people tend to forget you. In plain language, "you are nobody". So we have to learn to " let go". I was the Charter President of our club way back in 2002. I felt great then but not anymore as I have learn to let go.....

ACB, CL, Chong Huey Yee was the right person to be the TME for the final meeting. As usual, true to her chilly padi title as awarded by the club, she kept everyone on their toes reminding everyone the theme of GO GREEN and CONSERVE (Word of the Day).
When she realized that the members were too obedient to her "orders", she jolted them into not conserving with their claps, and start paying more attention and be pro active with whats going on. She was well praised by DTM Low Yat Seow and DTM Azmi for job well done.

TM Julia Leong once again stole the show by delivering such energetic and dramatic speech #5. winning her the best speaker award for the evening. Congratulations Julia and definitely I am voting you the champion speaking in the making. Keep it up.

All in all it was a very interesting meeting enjoyed by everyone present. KUDOS MONEY MASTERY-KL TOASTMASTERS CLUB. KEEP UP THE GOOD SHOW!

Foot note:
This is my last posting in the blog as VPPR for 2008-2009 for the Club. CC Gean Lau,
the incoming VPPR will take over from now on. Thank you for your cooperation.

Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR

PRESIDENT'S WORDS OF WISDOM - MEETING 9TH JUNE

In addition to the report of the meeting blogged by Siew Yin which I find it very enlightening and well done, below I am posting the Presidential words of wisdom which he delivered at the meeting which he crafted cleverly around the word of the day..."FRUITFUL".....

SUCCEED FRUITFULLY

The majority of men fail because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to succeed fruitfully. If you can’t think of a new fruitful idea, find a way to make better use of an old one. “Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve” said Charles Caleb Colton.

Fellow Toastmasters, ladies and gentlemen, Don’t look for the answer to your problem; look for many answers, then choose the best one. There is always a way - then there is always a fruitful way. The more you truly desire something, the more you will try to find a better and fruitful way.

But what holds people back, ladies and gentlemen? ‘We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down – until, until, until. It always seems that there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we make a fruitful decision.

A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job, to have a fruitful live. Take the offensive. Cause something to happen. Don’t waste time defending your present position. Create a habit of taking the initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, find a better way, and make that way a fruitful way.

Thanks

Hj Hashim,
9 June 2009
Posted by: Hj Naburi
VPPR

SECOND LAST MEETING FOR THE TERM-#175 TUESDAY, 9 JUNE 2009

Wow! Another awesome meeting - a fruitful (word of the day) meeting. Thank you to all the members and guests.

The theme for the meeting was "Be Young at Heart", aptly chosen by TM Julia Leong as the TME. The theme was adopted by Huey Yee, ACB, CL in her invocation and DTM Francis Ng in the Table Topics session. "Join Toastmasters and you will always be young", that was Huey Yee's tagline in her invocation.

The President delivered his opening speech with deep powerful voice. He looked young and charming as always...

It was an eye opener for those who present in the meeting to witness DTM Francis (as the Table Topic Master) exercising his persuasive skills into coaxing a reluctant guest to attempt the Table Topics Session. The guest (Mr. Tan) was overwhelmed by the encouragement, persistence and support provided to him. Finally, he completed the Table Topics session within the allocated time! Great job to all!

FIRST TIMERS:
Congratulations to:
TM Ginny Leng for playing the role of "Ah" Counter
TM Julia Leong for playing the role of TME

TM KC englighted us on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He definitely put in a lot of effort and research for the speech. Keep up the good work. TM Atefeh taught us how to be happy. :) She effectively delivered her speech with her unique conversational style. TM Erica Soon who emerged as the Best Speaker mesmerised us with her love story, a modern fairy tale. Can't wait for her next love story...

Our General Evaluator from Premier Advanced Toastmasters Club and Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club, Chrristine Ngiam, ACS, CL was delighted to be invited and impressed with the flow of the meeting. She even offered some tips for improvement. Thank you Chrristine! Please visit us again in the future.

THIRD LAST MEETING FOR THE TERM-#174 TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009

Another successful and well attended meeting for the club. Total attendants: 24 with 5 guests present, including Toastmaster Rebecca all the way from Singapore, who obliged us to play the role of Grammarian at the last minute. Thank you Rebecca for being so sporting and you took 16 mins for delivering your thorough report on the meetings performance in the usage of the English language.

The theme for the meeting was "Happy Parents Day" which was well picked up by Tan Ben Hoe for his Table Topics session, though the topics crafted by Ben Hoe were very challenging for the TT speakers but they managed to talk around them. TM Abdulrahaman from Nigeria, our new member emerged as the most voted speaker for the session.

The President however had nothing much to comment on the theme of the meeting and decided to chose the word of the day..."deliberate" as his talking point in his Presidential address/message, as thus...

DELIBERATING ABOUT LIFE

Fellow toastmasters, ladies and gentlemen. As I was looking at the word of the day “DELIBERATE”, I thought it would be an opportune time for me to talk to you about life, to see how ready we are to face the reality of life.

If you look at life the wrong way there is always cause for alarm. It’s the same way a RM20 bill can look so big when it goes to charity and so small when it goes to groceries. What you see depends mainly on what you look for. Some people complain because roses have thorns. When you deliberate on it, you are thankful that thorns have roses.

To one person the world is desolate, dull and empty; to another the same world looks rich, interesting and full of meaning. How we position ourselves to see makes all the difference. You can never see the sunrise by looking to the west. The choice is up to deliberate.

Fellow Toastmasters, position yourself to receive, not resist. How you see things on the outside of you depends on how things are on the inside of you. Norman Vincent Peale said “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure.” Example, don’t pray for rain, if you are going to complain about the mud.

As you deliberate, you will see success, whereas others see only failures. Expect something good to happen. That expectation will energize your dreams and give you momentum. You’ll find that life responds to your outlook. We go where our vision is. Life, ladies and gentlemen, is mostly a matter of expectation.

Hj Hashim CC.CL
26 May, 2009

Very right indeed, Life is a matter of expectation. To be on the safe side, adhere to this principle of life: "I AM NOT BORN INTO THIS WORLD TO LIVE UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS, NEITHER WERE YOU BORN INTO THIS WORLD TO LIVE UP TO MINE." Something for everyone to ponder!

FIRST TIMERS:
Congratulations to:
TM Atefeh for playing the role of Asst. SAA..job well done.
TM Kelechi for playing the role of "Ah" Counter

TM Julia Leong once again mesmerised the audience for her speech on her yellow jet boat experience in New Zealand and she was voted the best project speaker. A champion speaker in the making,and may be even a writer, kudos to Julia and keep it up.

Our invited General Evaluator from MIA TMC, Johnny Yong, ACS, CL was very impressed with the meeting and the speakers and offered himself to be our guest in the future.

WELCOME to Ginny Leng who signed up to be our newest member and there was an indication from one of the guests that he may join our club soon.

The President announced that we have just received from TI the Talk-Up Toastmasters! ribbon for recruiting 5 members in the early part of the term.

Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

THIRD LAST MEETING FOR THE TERM-#174

"Our Attitude and not Aptitude that will Determine Our Altitude"

That's the theme for our Club meeting #173. This is what the President had to say about it:

ATTITUDE is a way of thinking, acting, or feeling and manner. Or a behavior of a person towards a situation or a cause. A person could change his attitude to positive or negative, depending on what has influence him/her. For example: as the work became more familiar, his attitude towards his work changed from dislike to great enthusiasm.

In life, we must have a positive attitude. With positive attitude, you will not fear failure. A life spent making mistakes is more useful than life spent doing nothing. To expect your life to be perfectly tailored to your specifications is to live a life of continual frustration.

What is the difference between champions and the average person? Tom Hopkins says "The single most important difference between champion achievers and the average people is their ability to handle rejection and failure through positive thinking"
S I Hayakawa said "Notice the difference between what happens when a man says "I failed 3 times" than what happens when he says "I am a failure". Failure is a situation, never a person with positive attitude.

Remember, a stumble is not a fall. In fact, a stumble may prevent a fall. Herman Melville wrote "He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great" Louise Boone said "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. If you learn from them, mistakes are very valuable. Cultivate this attitude and you will never be ashamed to try. William ward said "Failure is a delay, but not a defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end street."

Hj Hashim
May,12, 2009
Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

We had another very successful Club Meeting held on 12th May, 2009 After which we had our Annual General Meeting for the 7th year running. The attendance, as usual was good with many guests and two of the guests have indicated their intention to become members of the Club. One of them is Abdul Rahman from Nigeria.

Some of the highlights of the evening:

CONGRATULATIONS to Gean Lau, who completed her CC manual project speeches thus contributing the final 1/2 point for the DCP club program. Let's pet our backs for achieving 100% DCP points. That means our club has achieved the President's Distinguised Club Status by completing 10/10 points in the TI DCP Programs.
This was also highlighted by the VPE, Liew Siew Yin in her AGM report as thus:

To date, we have completed all the educational goals in the Distinguished Club Program, hence contributed 6 out of 10 points to the DCP performance indicators.

Names and the educational goals mentioned are not in any particular order.

Edu Goal 1 : 2 Competent Communicators (CCs) – CC Cindy Foong & CC Calista Chan

Edu Goal 2 : Additional 2 Competent Communicators (CCs) – CC Kok Sook Meng & CC Gean Lau

Edu Goal 3 : 1 Advanced Communicator (AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold) – ACB, CL Haji Naburi Idin

Edu Goal 4 : 1 Additional AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold – ACS, CL Marcus Chee

Edu Goal 5 : 1 CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM – CTM, ALS Paul Tan

Edu Goal 6 : 1 Additional CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM – CC, CL Haji Hashim Adnan

In addition, we have successfully conducted the Humorous, Evaluation, International and Table Topics contests. For the first time in our club, the International and Table Topics contests were conducted separately due to overwhelming response from the members.

We also have successfully organized a Speechcraft for Mechmar Corp.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE FIRST TIMERS:

Kok Sook Meng for being the Toastmaster of the Evening...well done
Atefeh for delivering her ice Breaker speech and won the best speaker for the evening
Hilary Kelechi for delivering his Ice Breaker speech and should tremendous improvement..Kudos
K. H. Song for volunteering at the eleventh hour as a General Evaluator and doing it for the first time...Well done.

Interesting statistics:

We started this year with 46 members in the register. Until the end of April 2009 we had 113 guests attending our meetings. Up to date we have 19 new members and lost 29 members for non-renewals of membership. Up to the AGM date we have 36 registered as active members. That means we have a net loss of 10 members before the term ends in June 2009. Congratulations to VPM E,K. Yeo for the job well done and to all members who helped to build up the club membership.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WHO ARE ELECTED TO THE INCOMING EXCO FOR THE TERM 2009-2010 WHICH BEGINS 1ST JULY 2009:

President: Liew Siew Yin, CC, CL

Vice-President Education: Yeo Eng Keng, CC, CL

Vice-President Membership: Kok Sook Meng, CC

Vice-President P. Relations: Gean Lau, CC

Secretary: Abdul Aziz Yop, CTM

Treasurer: Julia Leong, TM

Sergantt - At-Arms : Wilson Ten, TM

Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

ACT TO INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE

This is the theme for our club meeting #172 held on Tuesday 28th April, 2009. This is what the President had to say...

"To be inspired and motivated is not easy and to consistently doing it, is even more difficult. Whenever you are inspired, take a small step at a time so that you can stay motivated. After that small step, you will look back and be able to say "I'm still not where I want to be, but I'm not where I was"
Julia Carney said, "Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land" Author Louis L'Amour wrote "Victory is not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground and later win a lot more." Dale Carnegie said, "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

Never be discouraged when you make progress, no matter how slow or small. Instead, be inspired and stay motivated. The most important thing is to begin, even though the first step is the hardest. I believe that you should care just as much about the small things in your life as the big things. I agree with Vince Lombardi "Inches make champions" Take one small step right now. Don't ignore the small things. Remember, the kite flies because of it's tail. It's the little things that count.

Value the little things. One day you may look back and realise that they were the big things. I hope you are inspired and stay motivated in whatever you do, regardless how small it is.

Hj Hashim,
28th April, 2009
Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

CONGRATULATIONS TO Marcus Chee, ACB, CL for completing his ACS manual. So now Marcus is an Advance Communicator Silver (ACS)that fulfilled the requirement of 9 points in the Distinguished Club Program thus putting our club once again on the status of President's Distinguished Club for the sixth year running. Bravo and Kudos to all Toastmasters of Money Mastery. Keep up the good work comrades!

TM Hilary Kelechi (KC) did a splendid job as a first time Asst.SAA. He was also the best Table Topic Speaker for the evening. He has improved a lot in his speech and I am sure he will overcome his speech problem in no time soon. Looking forward for his Ice breaker speech in the next meeting.

Well done to Wilson Ten for delivering his ice-breaker speech. Congratulations to Atefeh (Ati) for being a good time keeper for the first time.

Our heartfelt thanks goes to Sandy Tan, CC, for being an appreciative and commendable General Evaluator for the meeting.

It was a very successful and fun filled meeting where we had 11 guests and 20 members
in attendance. We welcome the guests who had pledged to join the club.

SEE YOU AT OUR 7TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (#173) ON TUESDAY 12TH MAY 2009

P.s. My apology for the very late reporting in the blog as I have not been feeling well lately.

Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

THE SPEECH THAT WON FRANCIS NG DTM THE DISTRICT 51 LGM POST

At the Annual Convention of District 51 of Toastmasters International held recently in Kuching, Sarawak, Francis Ng DTM, our club Advisor was elected the Lieutenant Governor Marketing (Peninsula) for the term 2009-2010.
Before the election was carried on 17th April, 2009 each candidate was given two minutes to deliver their election speech. Francis Ng delivered the following speech that gave him his victory. Congratulations Francis., You made our club proud of you.

My fellow Toastmasters,

This election is not about the candidates. This election is not about me as an individual.
This election is about ALL of us - Toastmasters who share a common vision of empowering our members through better communication and leadership skills.

It is about the individual member who has many priorities in life – family, friends and work - and yet still makes the time to come to club meetings regularly, because he/she is seeking to achieve a dream to become a better speaker … a better leader … and ultimately … a better person.

And, it is about those clubs that are struggling to keep afloat and yet continue to march on because of the commitment, dedication and perseverance of their club Presidents and VPEs.

Yes, it is about ALL of us, who believe that we ARE making a positive and enduring contribution to making this world a better place, by helping our clubs to help our members to become better communicators and better leaders.

My fellow Toastmasters,

I truly believe in the mission of Toastmasters. With many of you I have sweated blood and tears in the service of Toastmasters.

Like all of you, I'm always guided by our 4 Core Values:
• Integrity
• Dedication to Excellence
• Service to the Member
• And, Respect for the Individual.

One day, we will all be called to stand up and make a difference.

For me, that day is TODAY - I'm answering this call to service by standing here.

Today, my friends, I ask YOU to answer this call with YOUR votes.

Vote Wisely, Vote for Service, Vote FRANCIS!

Posted by Hj Naburi, VPPR

KOK SOOK MENG COMPLETED HER CC MANUAL IN FIVE MONTHS, A RECORD BREAKER

Toastmaster Kok Sook Meng completed her 10th project speech from the Basic Communication Manual at the Club meeting #171 held on 14th April 2009, thus achieving her Competent Communicator educational award and thus contributing towards the club DCP points bringing towards achieving the President's Distinguished Club status. For the record I believe Sook Meng completed her basic manual within five months, by far the shortest record time in the club. Congratulations to Sook Meng and you are an inspiration to the new club members and a good role model. You have shown to the others, it's a matter of whether you want to do it or not. If you want you can and once you have started you never look back...you move forward until you achieve your target. Indeed you have "seize every opportunity and take chances" and that's the theme for the meeting, a historic ocassion for Sook Meng's life in her toastmastering journey. Well let's see what the President has to say about the theme.

TAKE CHANCES!

SEIZE EVERY OPPORTUNITY. TAKE CHANCES.

For many years "safety first has been the saying of the human race.....but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk, the blame and face the brunt of th storm,says Herbert Casson. If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one. Please remember fellow toastmasters that you can't get your head above water if you never stick your neck out.
If you never take risks, you will never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived. As Elizabeth Kenny said "It is better to be a lion for a day than sheep all your life" If you dare for nothing, you might as well hope for nothing. If you don't risk anything , you risk even more.
Whenever you see a successful person, I guarantee that person took risks and made courageous decisions. Become known for doing what people said couldn't be done. If you found yourself throughout life never scared, never embarrassed, never disappointed or hurt, it means you have never taken any risk.
You have an opportunity to improve yourself. If you want your life to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
Hj Hashim
14 April, 2009
Posted by: Hj Naburi
VPPR

Other members who presented their project speeches were:
TM Julia Leong who delivered her speech #3 - Get to the Point: titled Angels of My Life" a very inspiring dramatic story about her experience being a victim of Fire, which won her the best project speaker for the evening. Congratulations Julia.
Another inspiring speaker was TM Erica Soon with her delivery of speech # 5: Your Body Speaks: titled-"Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win.
TM Sharon Siow making a strong come back by delivering her speech #7: Research Your Topic - titled: "Lack of Sleep"

Our appreciation and thanks to ACB, CL Yau Chau Foong for his generous and encouraging comments as the General Evaluator of the meeting.
Congratulations to TM Atefeh for being the first time "Ah" Counter and Wilson Ten for first time ASAA

It was another good and successful meeting enjoyed by all. Kudos everyone and keep up the good work.

Posted by Hj Naburi
VPPR

NOW IS YOUR TIME-THEME FOR CLUB MEETING #170

THE PRESIDENT'S WORDS OF WISDOM
Now is your time.....there are two distinct times when a person is most likely to quit; after a mistake or a victory.
Ladies & gentlemen, once you are moving you can keep on moving. Does Michael Jordan stop shooting after making his first basket? Did John Grisham quit writing after his first best-seller? Successful people know that each victory buys an admission ticket to a more challenging opportunity. Now is your time....

One of the greatest benefits of success is the opportunity to do more. The more you do, the more you can do. Perhaps it is good thing that you haven't seen all your dreams come true. For when you get all you wish for, you will be miserable. To be forever reaching out, to remain unsatisfied is the key to momentum.

Fellow toastmasters, now is your time...the first step towards going somewhere significant is to decide that you are not going to saty where you are. When you have a victory, comfort and money will come but don't confuse comfort with happiness and money with success.

It's not what you get that makes you successful; rather, it is what you are continuing to do with what you've got that's a better yardstick. The person who is satisfied with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. So now is your time....I wish you the very best.

Hj Hashim Adnan
24 March, 2009
Posted by: Hj Naburi Idin

A NEW CC IS BORN IN OUR CLUB....

CONGRATULATIONS TO Calista Chan for delivering her 10th speech and thus completing the basic communication manual and achieved her Competent communicator award. Well done Calista and thank you for your great effort in contributing the 9th point to our DCP goals thus making the club achieved the PRESIDENT'S DISTINGUISHED CLUB Status. Hopefully by the next meeting which is due on 14th April, 2009, TM Kok Sook Meng will achieve her CC and thus contributing another point making the club achieve 100% DCP points. Kudos to all you wonderful toastmasters for your great performance and work.

NEW MEMBERS WERE INDUCTED

The induction of new members were officiated by Liew Siew Ying, the VPE, and we welcome the following into our family of Money Mastery KL Toastmasters and congratulations for being voted in as members to:
TM Julia Leong (Julia)
TM Hilary Kelechi Anabi (KC) from Nigeria.
TM Atefeh Sadat Ajaghi (Ate) from Iran.
TM Alvin Wong Thean Kiat (Alvin)
TM Wilson Ten Kine Hong (Wilson)

Special thanks and appreciation to DTM SK Ratnam,from extol TMC for being our General Evaluator for the meeting.

Everyone played their roles to the expectation of the members and kudos to CTM Aziz Youp who kept tickling everyone's funny bones throughout the meeting being the TME for the evening. To all the first time role players kudos and well done to all of you especially to Alvin Wong, as Ah counter and Hilary Kelechi as Time Keeper.

Our thanks and gratitude to CTM Paul Tan our nasi lemak caterer who made everyone happy and delighted enjoying the nasi lemak after his long absence.

Posted by: Hj Naburi Idin, ACB, CL.
VPPR

NEWS MAKER IN THE CLUB

At the coming District Annual Convention to be held in Kuching on April 17th to 19th, among the highlights of events will be the election of District Officers. One of the posts that will be for grabs is the Lt. Governor Marketing. Our Club Advisor DTM Francis Ng is vying for the post. He has all the qualifications and experiences to be elected to the post. For the record he is our charter secretary, past VPE, Past President, Past Area Governor (President's Distinguished), Past Division Governor (President's Distinguished), Immediate Past District 51 Public Relations Officer, the first member of the club to achieve the Distinguished Toastmaster Award. Currently he is the Division W Club Extension Chair. He was selected as our District's Area Governor and Division Governor Of The Year 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 respectively. As a recognition for his contribution and tireless effort to ensure our club maintain it's high standard and President's Distinguished Status, the club honored him to be the unofficial honorary adviser to the club. As members of Money-Mastery-KL TMC it is our obligations to help Francis in campaigning for his election for the post of District 51-Peninsula LGM (2009/2010) Remember our Club Motto "Friends Helping Friends To Succeed". Those members who has signed up to be delegates at the convention must continue to campaign for Francis until the voting day. Good Luck Francis. Your success is our success and you will add another notch to our club's achievements.

Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR

LATEST REPORT ON CLUB PERFORMANCE IN DCP GOALS

GOAL RECOGNITION
Achieve any five of 10 goals Distinguished Club
Achieve any seven of 10 goals Select Distinguished Club
Achieve any nine of 10 goals President Distinguished Club

Club 8141 - "Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club"
District: 51 Division: W Area: 1
Membership Base: 46
Membership to Date: 48
GOAL ACTUAL ACHIEVED
[1] CCs 2 1
[2] Additional CCs 2 0
[3] ACs 1 1 *
[4] Additional ACs 1 0
[5] CL, AL, or DTM 1 1 *
[6] Additional CLs, ALs, or DTMs 1 1 *
[7] New Members 4 4 *
[8] Additional New Members 4 13 *
[9] Officers Trained (both required)

June-August 4 7
and December-February 4 6 *
[10] Submitted on time (both required)

October or April Renewal 1 2
and Officer List 1 1 *

Total Goals Achieved To-Date: 7

We are SELECT DISTINGUISHED CLUB as of today, 24th March, 2009. The Latest point was contributed by Hj Naburi Idin who achieved ACB on 19th March, 2009. Congratulations! This is possible with the cooperation of our advisor DTM Francis Ng.
We need only 3 more points to be President's Distinguished. At tonight's meeting Calista Chan will deliver her 10th speech to complete her CC project speeches. Well done Calista who will add another point to our DCP goals. So those who have committed please do your part in order to keep the Club's record of President's Distinguished Club for the 7th consecutive year. Kudos and keep up the good work to all members of Money Mastery KL TMC.

Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR

Meeting #169 = 10th March, 2009

DWELL IN POSSIBILITY

That's the theme for our first meeting in March. It is appropriately coined by our TME Gean Lau especially under the present Economic Slowdown faced by all Malaysians as a result of Global Economic Downturn. As usual the President, Hj Hashim expounded his words of wisdom in tune with the theme of our meeting.

"To dwell in possibility is good, but to act when you see a possibility is more important. Seize the moment! Opportunities are coming to you everyday... that's the possibility...you must believe in it. Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past. Live for today. Don't let what you have within your grasp today be lost entirely because only the future intrigued you and the past disheartened you.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. When can you live if not now? All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. Ellen Metcalf said, "There are many people who are at the right place at the right time but do not know it" It is OK to take time to plan the possibility, but when the time of action has arrived, stop thinking and go for it.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now. Know the real value of today. I agree with Jonathan Swift when he said, " May you live all the days of your life" The future that you long and dream for begins today. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year"

The regrets that most people experience in life come from failing to act when having the opportunity. Albert Dunning said, "Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know that they have met them"

So ladies and gentlemen, dwell and act on those possibilities.

Delivered by Hj Hashim
and posted by Hj Naburi

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HOPE AND CHANGE - The Theme for Club Meeting #168

The President, Hj Hashim Adnan, CC, CL in his opening remark for the meeting held on 24th February, 2009 expounded his words of wisdom as follows:

HOPE AND CHANGE

Most People stop growing in life because they are unwilling to make changes but they have lots of hopes.

All mankind is divided into three classes:
(1) those who are unchangeable,
(2) those who are changeable and
(3) those who cause the change.
You cannot stand still and make changes only through hopes.
You must go forward and be open to those adjustments that improve you.
The most unhappy people are those who fear change.

It has been said many times: You can't make an omelet without breaking an egg.
Accomplishment automatically results in change.
One change makes way for the next, giving us the opportunity to grow and achieve our hopes. You must change to master change. Playing it safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world.

So open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. You are custom-built for change. You are not a rock.
AT any point, at any age, any of us, you and me, can change.

Delivered by Hj Hashim
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The meeting was called to order by TM Sanjay and did a very good job as ASAA for the evening. KH Song as TME for the meeting guided us very well through the agenda which presented five speakers who did their assignment speeches in an excellent manner. The best project speaker went to Calista Chan who need only to deliver two more speeches to complete her BASIC manual to gain her CC award. Congratulations Calista and keep up the good work.
Hj Naburi aptly gave a toast to EK Yeo, whom he knighted as the unsung hero of the club for going the extra miles for the club and making sure that the club keep to the already high standard set.
The club happily welcomed our four guests comprising of Natalie, KC, Ati and Alvin who indicated that they were happy with what they witnessed and declare their wish to join the Club. KC and Ati are both foreign students from Nigeria and Iran respectively.
The evaluation session was led by the General Evaluator DTM Lee Swee Seng from Premier Advanced TMc who gave high praise to the club and our sincere thanks and appreciation to him.

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RECENT EVENTS

Your writer was on strike, not really, but was not in the best of health and that means not in the proper state of mind to awaken the inner strength and to pluck the courage to tap on the key board of the laptop. So my humble apology to all.
Late postings.
Feb. 10th, 20009 - We had our Table Topics Contest and the Winners were:
1st. and champion Liew Siew Yin
First Runner Up: Hj Hashim Adnan
Second Runner Up: Marcus Chee

Liew Siew Yin represented our club at the W1 area Table Topics Contest held on 7th March, 2009 at the MIA venue in Brickfields. However the champion was Ms Fisher from KL Advanced TMc, Johnny from MIA TMc came second and Ra Delina from KPMG KL TMc came third.

Our K L Loh, the International Speech champion from our Club this year also came first runner-up at the W1 area contest held at the same time and place. The champion went to Raja Ahmad Muzamir of KPMG KL TMc. Karen Pang from MIA TMc was placed third.

The Division W International Speech and Table Topics Contests 2008-2009 will be held on Saturday, 28th March, 2009, at Sunway University College at 2:00 pm.
Anyone who wants to buy tickets for the contest may do so by contacting or informing the President, Hj Hashim Adnan.

All the speeches given by the contestants at both the International Speech Contest and the Table Topics Contest were recorded and posted into youtube by Victor Wan. Thanks to the initiative taken by Victor and job well done for it will be in youtube for eternity. All you have to do to access the speech is simply by typing the full name of the speakers at Google Search. So enjoy yourself. And congratulations to all the winners and to the brave members who took part in both the contests.

INCOMING AREA GOVERNOR FOR W1 was elected at the Area Council meeting held after the contest and she is Miss Syamala from Bangsar TMc.

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AAADD

People, this is so me, it is so not funny!

Pat

AAADD - KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway,

I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage,

I notice mail on the hall table,

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table,

Put the junk mail in the waste bin under the table,

And notice that the bin is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first.

But then I think,

Since I'm going to be near the post box

When I take out the rubbish anyway,

I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table,

And see that there is only one cheque left.

My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,

So I go to my desk where I find the cup of tea I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques,

But first I need to push the tea aside, so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The tea is getting cold, so I decide to put it in the kitchen to wash up.

As I head toward the kitchen with the tea,

A vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye -- they need water.

I put the tea on the worktop and

Discover my reading glasses that

I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I'd better put them back on my desk,

But first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the worktop,

Fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.

Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,

I'll be looking for the remote,

But I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,

So I decide to put it back in the sitting room where it belongs,

But first I'll water the flowers.

I go to pour some water in the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor;

So, I set the remote back on the table,

Get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to Remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

The car isn't washed

The bills aren't paid

There is a cold cup of tea sitting on the worktop

The flowers don't have enough water,

There is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

And I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,

I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day,

And I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,

And I'll try to get some help for it,

But first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favour: Forward this message to anyone you know,

Because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

Enrich Your Speech Content

A Five-Part Formula for Making a Content-Rich Speech

If you want to be known as a content-rich speaker, you will want to follow my PARTS Formula.

(By Craig Valentine, 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking)

P = Phrase

Have you ever seen a story or speech that was all over the place? Have you ever given one? Chances are this is because the speaker did not start creating the speech in the right place. You should start creating each story (or other anchor) by writing out your Foundational Phrase. This is the phrase upon which that entire story is built.

For example, I tell a story about a boss who tried to keep me with the company by offering me more money. The Foundational Phrase to that story is “Your Dream is not for sale.” This is the point my audience walks away remembering. If you want your audience to remember your point, then leave them with powerful Foundational Phrases for each anchor you use. Make sure these phrases are fewer than 10 words.

A – Anchor

Every point you make should be anchored by an illustration of some kind. I use 4 kinds of anchors in almost every speech I give. I call these my “4 As for For Anchors.” They are

1. Anecdote (a story)

2. Activity

3. Analogy

4. Acronym

You probably already know that the essence of public speaking is to “tell a story and make a point (i.e. Bill Gove).” However, in longer speeches, you should mix up your anchors and use activities, analogies, and acronyms along with your anecdotes. Just make sure every single point you make is illustrated with an anchor. When your audience remembers the anchor, they will not forget the point, especially if the point is made using a strong Foundational Phrase.

R = Reflection

It’s not good enough for our audience to listen to us. Our job is to get them to listen to themselves. Through our speech, they should think and realize how they will use the tools (processes, formulas, recipes, steps, etc.) to improve their own lives. To do this, we must get them to reflect rather than just listen. You can do this by asking questions before, during, and after your anchor. For example:

Before getting into the story I mentioned above, I ask, “What do you think is the number one thing that stands between most people and their dreams.”

During the story, I talk about how we sometimes let the good get in the way of the best. I then turn to my audience and ask, “When it comes to your goals and dreams, are you too good to be great?”

After the story, I ask my initial question again by stating, “So let me ask you now, what is the number one thing that stands between most people and their dreams?” Hopefully they have changed their perspective a bit because of the anchor.

Another example I use is in regards to imagination as I explain how I stepped on the world championship stage at least 1000 times in my mind before I ever got there physically. To get them to reflect on their lives, I ask my audiences, “What stage are you stepping on mentally at least 1000 times?” The key is to allow enough silence for them to be able to answer (in their own minds of course).

How are you currently getting your audiences to go beyond listening and to start reflecting?

T = Technique

If you want to have a long-lasting impact on your audience, then it is not enough to just give them theory. You must give them a way to turn that theory into a practice. For example, when I extol the benefits of using your imagination, I cannot simply just stop there. I must give them a technique for doing so. So I say to my audiences, “Write down your perfect day. Use all your senses, etc.” This gives them a way to turn the theory of imagination into something they can actually do.

When I talk to managers about innovation, I give them a process for using a WIP (Weekly Improvement Plan). Whenever the managers use the WIP, or my other audience members write down their perfect day, guess what? I am still speaking to them! What techniques (processes, tangible things to do) are you giving to your audiences?

S =Sale

Finally, it’s important to understand that when you are in speaking, you are in sales. We must learn to sell our messages and a great way to do this is to use “If…then” statements. For example, you might use the following:

“If you write down your perfect day, then you will find yourself moving towards your goals, dreams, and aspirations, even while you are sleeping.” [Opportunity for gain]

“If you don’t embrace this change, you will put your entire team at risk.” [Fear of loss]

Show them what they can get when they take an action, and show what they might end up with when they don’t.

Final thoughts:

This is the tip of the iceberg to the PARTS Formula. There are many dos and don’ts that go under each of these 5 keys. However, if you start reflecting on them now, then you will see areas you can immediately improve with your very next speech.

Coming next...

What is the definition of globalization?

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess

with an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French tunnel,

driving a German car

with a Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian who was drunk

on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)

followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,

on Japanese motorcycles;

treated by an American doctor,

using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by an American,

using Bill Gate's technology,

and you're probably reading this on your computer,

that uses Taiwanese chips,

and a Korean monitor,

assembled by Bangladeshi workers

in a Singapore plant,

transported by Indian lorry-drivers,

hijacked by Indonesians,

unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....

That, my friends, is Globalization

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