It was a joint meeting with University
Malaya Toastmasters Club (UMTMC) on 19 Nov, 2012 (Monday).
"Holiday Mood" was the theme
of the meeting and "Sojourn" was the word of the day. Sojourn means
temporary stay.
DTM Francis Ng and I were there in
University Malaya (UM) at around 6:00pm. Although the meeting would start at 7:00pm,
we saw some of the Toastmasters had started to set up for the meeting room. We
felt enthusiasm in these young Toastmasters.
The President of UMTMC, TM Cheok Wei
Chin gave her opening speech. The university has just resumed after a one week
of holiday break. She shared with us how "difficult" for her, whom
was still very much in the holiday mood, to wake up for the lectures.
TM Fatima took over as the Table Topics
Master of the meeting. She had prepared topics which were related to the theme
of the day, holiday mood. The participants of the table topics session were as
below:-
1. Our club member, TM Mathew, spoke on the topic of "Festive
Miracle".
2. UMTMC member, ACB, CL Jing Yi, spoke about the festive that she
looks forward.
3. CC, CP Lau was given the topic "food delegacy on festive
seasons". he highlighted moon cakes on Mid Autumn Festival, 'Yee
Sang" during Chinese New Year.
4. UMTMC member, TM Wei Chin shared with us her "dream
holiday".
The meeting moved on to the project
speech session. Our enthusiastic TM, Mahadevan presented his third speech of
the CC manual, Get to the Point. His speech title was "How to have a Long,
Healthy and Happy Life". Mahadevan told us that he is currently 65 years
old and was diagnosed as a diabetic at the age of 50. However, he did not give
up. Instead, he was so determined to take care of his health and looked forward
to live up to 120 years. He shared with us how we should control our diet,
exercise and with the help of supplements in order for him to achieve his goal
- to live up to the age of 120 years.
The second speaker of the meeting was
our young TM Kyle Kuah. Kyle has chosen a very serious topic, about
"Capital Punishment" for his seventh speech in the CC manual -
Research Your Topic. He has done very well in researching about this topic. He
shared with us a lot of statistics on countries that support and object on
capital punishment. There are pros and cons about abolishing the capital
punishment. However, Kyle has managed to deliver such a serious topic in a very
interesting manner. He ended his speech with a humor. Someone said, "We
should forgive the prisoner, until they are hung". Well done, Kyle!
TM, Wei Chin from UMTMC presented her
eighth speech - Get Comfortable with Visual Aids of the CC manual. Her speech
title was "Smoking Hot! Not?
No!!!". Obviously, it was a topic to encourage people to stop smoking and
do not start smoking. This reminded me of our CC Ron Yeap, delivered the
similar topic during his eighth speech from the CC manual. Wei Chin used power
point slides throughout her speech. She shared with us very informative slides
on all statistics about smoking. We got to know from her presentation that the
US president, Barrack Obama used to smoke.
Our last speaker of the meeting was CC,
Ing Ting, presented her first speech from the Advanced Communication Series,
Storytelling. Her first project speech on the Storytelling series was - The
Folk Tale. The story title was "The Heroine". She told us a story of
a young girl from China by the name of Mulan, represented her father to be the
soldier.
After the break, the meeting proceeded to
the Speech Evaluation session. DTM Francis Ng was the General Evaluator of the
meeting. Our President, ACS, ALB Ken Chan was the Table Topics Evaluator. he
described the speaking style of every table topics participants. Ken;s
constructive suggestions for all speakers on how to improve and bring their
speaking skills to the next level was very much appreciated. Thank you Ken.
Below are the evaluators for the respective
speakers:-
1.
CC, Chen Long (member of UMTMC)
evaluated TM, Mahadevan
2.
ACB, CL Jing Yi (member of
UMTMC) evaluated TM, Kyle Kuah
3.
CC, CP Lau evaluated TM, Wei
Chin
4.
TM, Mathew evaluated CC, Ing
Ting
Our Mr. General Evaluator, DTM Francis Ng, also
provided his comments and constructive suggestions to speakers for their
improvements.
TM, Mathew was awarded The Best Table
Topics Speech award, TM, Wei Chin was awarded The Best Project Speech award and
CC, CP Lau was award The Best Project Speech Evaluation award.
Appreciation to our role players of the
meeting:-
·
ASAA - TM, Sara (member of
UMTMC)
·
TME - TM, Kelvin
·
Grammarian - TM, Agnes Tan
(member of UMTMC)
·
Ah Counter - TM, Sara
·
Time Keeper - TM, Agnes Tan
Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm.
Signing off,
CP Lau
Signing off,
CP Lau
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