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
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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