Meeting #255, Tue, 14th August 2012

Acting President, CP Lau, CC

On Tuesday 14^th August 2012 was our club’s 1^st meeting of the month at Bangunan MCA, Lorong 8/1D Petaling Jaya.  We had a good turn up. Out meeting #255 began at about 7pm with the Sergeant-At-Arms, Kyle Kuah, TM calling the meeting to order. He led us in the first 5 promises of Toastmasters. He then handed over to the Acting President, CP Lau, CC. He invited the members to introduce themselves. The Acting President then introduced the Word of the Day, Perseverance, which is a strong persistence in course of action. He shared in his opening address of how through perseverance our club has been a President‘s Distinguished Club for the last 9 years.

Matthew Phillipose, TM first-time
Toastmaster of the Evening. Well done!

The Acting President then handed the meeting over to the Toastmaster of the Evening, Mathew Philippose. TM Mathew highlighted the theme of the day which was Heritage is our Legacy.

It was very interesting evening, in our humor session. Ron Yeap, TM put audience to laugh with a story on the bow and arrow. It was a day packed with of five prepared speeches. 

Kyle said Facebook is all we need

TM Kyle Kuah a young energetic student from Help University led the speeches by sharing on Facebook. Everyone may know Facebook but he led us to see the many faces that Facebook has so that we can make the full use of it.

Ron Yeap delivering Project Speech #6 of
the Competent Communication Manual on
Vocal Variety

TM Ron Yeap a project engineer in Data Center Specialist Company next took to the stage with topic on Project Management in a Nutshell. He pointed out that everyone has a project. He created a realization that a wedding, a house renovation or a family vacation is a project. Many a times these are delayed because we did not take into account certain point of view that may come along the way. It can be from the wife, or the mother or a friend. He stressed that it is important to take into account the unforeseen situation as we plan and have an oversight of how to manage.

CP Lau presenting Technical Presentation
from Advanced Communication Manual

The next interesting topic was Software Testing by on CP Lau, CC; he gave a step by step understanding of how software testing is done. He gave everyday life experiences how the software testing can be done in a simple way for example what happens after a product is scanned in the supermarket. CP Lau, CC had been in IT industry for the past 20 years gave such a detail power point presentation and he kept the audience glued.

Seasoned speaker Ken Chan, delivering
his speech with title 'Financials'

He was followed by another interesting topic on Financial. This topic was shared by a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and he too has been 20 years in the financial industry. He is none other than our President Ken Chan, ACS, ALB. He peeled out the details of financial statement one by one. Can one ask for anything more complete in a ten minute presentation and not forgetting with his witty humor and an unceasing broad smile?

Serena Kong, attempting speech in
Story Telling

Yes, who did we have after that it was our Serena Kong, CC who came with a story telling with the topic The Ugly Duckling. Who could have imagined in this true story the ugly duckling would be the person she trusted but ended up as a cheat.  Her story gave a the understanding that duck is only cute as long as it is not playing with the mud the moment a person does dirty tricks he becomes an ugly duckling that no one wants to come near.   

After the one and half hour thought provoking, informative and humorous session, all adjourned for break with food and fellowship. There was an interesting lay out of food from “nasi lemak” to all kinds of local delicacies from Pasar Ramadhan.

Once the break was over in about 15 minutes all sat down to hear the evaluators, it is said feedback is the breakfast for the champions so we had the following to feed us with their evaluations, Alwin Chuah, CTM, CL; Kelvin Chong, CC; KL Loh, ATMG; Tan Beng Hoe, CTM, CL; and Francis Ng, DTM.  This was followed by a detail report by Grammarian, CP Lau, CC; Ah-Counter, Serena Kong, CC and Time Keeper, Kelvin Chong, CC. And finally we had the General Evaluator, Dr William Lau, DTM. 

Dr. William Lau, honored to have him
as our General Evaluator

Dr William Lau began with appreciation for the changes in the meeting room that has been set up. He said since he last came some time ago there have been some commendable changes. This goes to show that the club takes the comment during the evaluation seriously. He swept clean every aspect of detail from the speeches and evaluations. It was really interesting.

When the control was passed back to the Toastmaster of the Evening, the president was called to give the appreciation award to the following persons. The Best Evaluation to Tan Ben Hoe, CTM, CL; the Best Project Speech to CP Lau, CC and our Appreciation award to Dr. William Lau, DTM. While the President winded up the meeting, he asked our guest of the evening, who is the first timer Mr. Jayden Chen to give his comments. He said he liked the meeting and felt it benefited him. He is looking forward to join the club.

August babies, Tan Ben Hoe and Kelvin Chong

The meeting adjourned at 10.10pm and we had a birthday celebration for the August babies, Tan Ben Hoe and Kelvin Chong.

by,
Mathew Philippose, TM