The meeting
was forced to start 14 minutes late, but to everyone’s surprise, members and
guests were not deterred by the traffic condition ahead of them in attending a
Toastmasters meeting. A number of members and guests had shown up for the meeting.
After
Assistant Sergeant-At-Arms Mathew Philippose, TM called the meeting to order,
he led us through the recital of 'A Toastmaster's Promise'. The chair was handed to President
Ken Chan, ACS, ALB for his opening address. Ken invited the Grammarian to read
out the Theme of the Day and Word of the Day, which was ‘Year End Vacation’ and
‘concerted’. Every Toastmaster and guest who stood up to make self-introduction
had not short of using the Theme of the day as well as the Word of the Day. Ken
thought that ‘Year End Vacation’ is still early.
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| Ken Chan delivering his opening speech |
President
Ken Chan passed the control of the meeting to the Toastmaster Of the Evening,
Ron Yeap, CC. Ron greeted everyone who made it to the meeting. Ron explained
that Year End Vacation fever is approaching as the school holiday will start
soon. It is also the right timing to plan ahead if anyone will go for a Year
End Vacation. He also introduced to our guests the history of Toastmasters as
well as Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club.
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| Ron Yeap as Toastmaster of the Evening |
After the
formal opening of the meeting, we proceeded to the first exciting program of
the meeting, the Table Topics Session. Ron handled the control to the Table
Topics Master, Francis Ng, DTM. Francis used a different approach in conducting
the session. He framed a scenario to the audience, with “The year end vacation has
started, my wife and our two daughters and son went for an enjoyable vacation…”
Participants will have to continue the story and keep it evolving. We had
Mathew, Kelvin, Wendy, Anwar and Ken took part and gave their plots and views
of the topic.
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| Francis Ng as Table Topics Master |
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| Our guests were actively taking part in Table Topics session |
Moving on,
we had our new and committed member, Mahadevan, TM to deliver his 2nd
speech from Competent Communicator manual. His speech title was “The Power of
Our Sub-conscious Mind”. He gave an interesting example using sub-conscious
mind when he was searching for a parking lot. Whenever he reaches a
destination, someone will pull out from the parking lot.
We have Kyle
Kuah, TM as our 2nd speaker in delivering speech no. 6, Vocal Variety. Kyle
presented a fairy tale story “The Princess and the Pea”. The story went alive
from Kyle. He did not end his story in a normal manner, he commented the fairy
tales contained many out-of-logical plots, like why a king has to open the castle
door by his own, where are the servants!? How come the mighty fiery dragon can
get killed easily by the hero of the story?
The final
speech saw Mathew Philippose, TM delivering his 9th speech, Persuade
with Power. His speech title was “Love Your Neighbour”. Mathew pointed out some
people lack of caring towards others. Finally, he also offered the telephone
number of Bukit Aman so that we can seek immediate aid should needed.
The final
speech saw Mathew Philippose, TM delivering his 9th speech, Persuade
with Power. His speech title was “Love Your Neighbour”. Mathew pointed out some
people lack of caring towards others. Finally, he also offered the telephone
number of Bukit Aman so that we can seek immediate aid should needed. |
| A special talk given by Sarah Abedi |
The meeting
went to 15 mins break at 8.50pm. Members and visitors took the opportunity to
enjoy the refreshments.
Coming back
fresh after the break, the meeting proceeded with Evaluation session. CP Lau,
CC was our General Evaluator that led us through the Evaluation session. We
have EK Yeo, CC, CL as our Table Topics Evaluator. He managed to
pinpoint the strength and room of improvement to all the Table Topics Speakers. He
also complimented Wendy, who was our guest, on her willingness to take part.
First
Project Speech Evaluation started by Victor Wan, ACB, ALB on his evaluation to
Mahadevan. Victor enjoyed in Mahadevan’s topic, but also stressed that the
organization of the speech is important to help audience be focus on the topic
that he presented.
The next
Evaluation on Kyle Kuah was conducted by Francis Ng. Francis liked the way Kyle
presented a well-known fairy tale in a lively way. He also complemented Kyle
that he could leave the audience with some points to ponder.
The last
Evaluation was from Ken Chan to Mathew Philippose. Ken agreed with Mathew’s
topic that is to ‘Love Your suggested Mathew should give more
emphasis on why we should take action and start ‘Love Your Neighbour’.
Many hands
were raised and given more feedbacks by the audience to the speakers during the
Open Evaluation session.
The
Grammarian, Sarah shown us a good example of performing this role. She
highlighted on the excellent use of phrases, corrected the misuse of words and
grammer. Time Keeper’s report was delivered by Victor Wan; while Ah-Counters
report was delivered by Kelvin Chong, CC. General Evaluator CP Lau then summing up his report about the meeting.
When the
TME took over the chair, he was accompanied by the president to present the
awards to the best performers of the meeting. The results are as below;
Best Table Topics Speech award: Ken Chan, ACS,
ALB
Best Project Speech award: Mahadevan Arumugam,
TM
Best Project Speech Evaluation award: Francis
Ng, DTM
Finally,
the President took over the control to deliver his closing speech and made announcement
of some up-coming activities. The president had also presented the token of
appreciation to the 1st-time General Evaluator, CP Lau for his
effort. Not forgetting the token of appreciation to Sarah Abedi for accepting our invitation. We also welcome 2 new members joining the MMKLTMC family, En. Anwar and Ms. Angel.
The meeting ended fruitfully at 10.00pm. We took this opportunity to take a group photo for submission to Brands contest of Toastmasters International.
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| Toastmasters International!! We want to be heard!! |
Signing
off,
Ron Yeap
