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