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
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