09th April was a
special night. We had our Toastmasters meeting at MM-KL TMC Disneyland waiting
for chimera moment to arrive. The meeting began
sharp at 7pm, chimerically without the presence of Mickey Mouse, Snow White,
Peter Pan, Twinkle-Bell, but was warmly welcomed by Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms, Jennifer Mah, TM. Even tough she is a new member, she demonstrated her leadership by taking up the role. Thumbs up to her! She
had reminded my first time, guided by Francis Ng, DTM with the script 
besides, food, speeches and
evaluation, what you’ll see is the demonstration of courage.
Our
members acquire the habit of courage through encouragement and support. If Disneyland could offer us Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland, so did we. We prepared the members, develop their
public speaking, listening, planning, time management skills and etc, open up a
new horizon in their career and human relationship. We are just like the
godmother fairy Cinderella putting her mantra “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo” putting all elements to grow a person to become
who they want to be.
Our meeting had divided
into 3 main sessions: Table Topics, Assigned Speeches and Evaluations. Our
experienced Table Topics Master, Francis Ng, DTM led the session by giving
interesting and chimerical topics to all
the volunteers. Some of the members were challenged to speak with imagination.
The table topics volunteer speakers were:
A) Mathew Philippose, CC
B) Jennifer Mah, TM
C) Ben Hoe, CTM, CL
D) Angel Lau, TM
E) Ng Ser Kwang (Guest)
F) Serena Kong, CC
All
of the speakers put themselves forward and faced their internal demon –FEAR,
spoken on their feet. Recalled on some of their speeches, Mathew told that one
of his fantasies was when he had the ability to fly. Jennifer chimerically
loved 7 dwarfs and experienced Ben Hoe highlighted that his home was his Disneyland.
At
8:00p.m., we had our assigned speech session. CP Lau, CC, the speaker of the night shared
with us on Cloud Computing. He told us a story about why the word
"cloud" was used cloud computing. He told us, the symbol of
"cloud" was used because it represents something complex but not
important. Well, is this true? You may Google it out. Non technical like most
of us, got to learn the types of cloud computing, the 3 important
characteristics of cloud; Software as a service, Platform as a service and
Infrastructure as a service. Of course, CP also shared with us the benefits of
cloud computing. One very important phrase he used, "Green Computing".
Ken
Chan, ACG, ALB persuaded and inspired the members to bring guests and share the
benefits to others with a short story tale. It was a boy that used to pick up a
star fish and threw it back to the sea. His action might seem insensible but his
action was an inspiration. The key message was: “He had just made the
difference to that particular star fish.”
It was a short and simple story, however, the story was perfectly
delivered to meet his speech objectives. Well done!
Mathew Philippose is the both
champions for Area G1 International Speech and Table Topics
Contests.
It was a gift to our club to have such a distinguished member, to represent Area G1, to contest in Division G with other Toastmasters. He would be
contesting on 20/04/2013 (Saturday), 8:45 a.m. at Monash University,
Sunway.
He practiced
his speech and all the members gave their support and gave their opinions in
terms of his speech delivery, stage marking and his vocal variety.
“Bibbidi bobbidi boo” General Evaluator,
Sam Leong, ACB, CL carried out the evaluation session by calling the evaluators to
give their reports. His team of evaluators were:
A) Table Topics Evaluater- EK Yeo, CC, CL
B) Speech Evaluator for CP
Lau, CC- Francis Ng, DTM
C) Speech Evaluator for Ken
Chan, ACG, ALB- Tan Ben Hoe, CTM, CL
D) Grammarian-
Mathew Philippose, CC
E) Ah- Counter- Angel Lau, TM
F) Timer- EK Yeo, CC, CL
In
general, for the Table Topics evaluation, Ek Yeo CC, CL touched on the body
language, vocal variety, and methods of how to present a 1 to 2-minute speech.
Francis
Ng, DTM, on the other hand, encouraged CP Lau, CC to make his speech to be less
technical and improved the power point slide presentation.
Ben
Hoe, CTM, CL congratulated Ken Chan, ACG, ALB that he had achieved his speech
objectives.
After
all the speech evaluations, the control was handed over to the Club President,
Ken Chan, ACG, ALB to do the closing. He encouraged the members to attend or
play a role in the Division G International Speech and Table Topics Contests.
He also highlighted that there could be a venue change for the coming meeting due to the national election. Members would be noted by circulated by email. Guests were also encouraged to call us for the meeting location.
He also highlighted that there could be a venue change for the coming meeting due to the national election. Members would be noted by circulated by email. Guests were also encouraged to call us for the meeting location.
The
meeting adjourned at 9:40p.m. and the club fellowship began.
