Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): Happy Chinese New Year 2017

The festive times are always great for a reunion. Here, we got reunited for the 2^nd time in the month of January on 24^th, 2017. It was a lovely moment with a lovely theme- Chinese New Year, very relevant word of the day “Abundance”. We celebrated an abundance of prosperity and happiness together with club members and guests this evening. May your happiness and fortune be bountiful in the year of the Rooster. Happy Chinese New Year from us @ Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club.

We came early to fill out our tummy first before the meeting started. Here, I indicated the ASAA to begin the meeting at 7:15 pm. Guess why I, indicated? Hehehe.

@7:15pm: Our Assistant SAA ‘Carim’ called the meeting to order. Carim, is a new member but very enthusiastic. He made everything perfect on the part of the meeting arrangements and begun with “A Toastmaster’s promise” which is a ritual for the members to create a commitment from within us to get the best education from the Toastmasters educational program.

@7:18pm: Our Club president Competent Communicator, Ron Yeap, hopped on the stage to set the atmosphere warm and exciting to unleash the best speaking ability in all of us on this beautiful evening. In his welcome address, he welcomed the distinguished guests who came from outside of the Toastmasters and the other Toastmasters club. Also, he invited the Grammarian to introduce the word of the day “Abundance”. Later, he invited members and guests to introduce themselves and encouraged, while introducing themselves use word of the day and theme of the day as much as possible. We did very well on that.

@7:40pm:The Toastmaster of The Evening ,Competent Communicator (CC), Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) Mathew Philippose, briefed on the history of Toastmasters International and our club. He mentioned how TI (Toastmasters International) was founded and later inspired millions of people across the whole world to extend this Toastmasters family. He also explained the benefits of the Toastmaster educational program in our professional career and personal life. He introduced the role player for this meeting in the sequence,Grammarian-CP Lau, ACB ALB, “Ah” counter-Sivadas, CC, Timer- Manish Jha, CC and the most important person of this evening, the General Evaluator -Victor Ong, ACB CL. All the role players introduced their roles and objectives for the evening. Here, everything was set to have an exciting evening. I’m sure, you want to know what’s next, right? Hehehe

@7:52pm: Invocation speaker, Distinguish Toastmaster (DTM) Ken Chan came up to begin the meeting with a motivational speech. His speech title “WATTS”. He did a really good job breaking the ice on inspiring everyone to enjoy the further speeches.

@7:57pm: I saw our Table Topics™ master Kelvin Chong ACB walking towards the stage. I also saw that he was holding some gift packet in his hand to give the gifts to the speakers. He was in a traditional Chinese outfit. On this day, there were few other people including me in red color dress to support the theme of the day, Chinese New Year. Kelvin Chong explained the Table Topics™ purpose and the rules before all the Table Topics™ speeches. The purpose of Table Topics ™ session is to develop the speaking skills and thinking processes of a person simultaneously.

These are the table topics™ speakers:
1) Michael FG (from MIMPJ TMC), 2) Our guest (from INDIA)
3) Ida (Our Guest) and 4) Ji Sheng (our former member).

Ida, she came here with her colleague and they came to see our meeting in the presence of Division C Director K M Srinivas and Club growth Division C director Michael FG before they charter a new club in their own company. Congratulations to all of you.

@8:09pm:This was the time to listen some prepared speeches where speakers spent a lot of time to prepare their speeches. This session was for 27 mins. Indeed it was extremely interesting listening to them.

1^stSpeaker- Joel Silas, Speech Title- Friends and his speech evaluator was Serena Kong, ACB.

Joel was doing his 3^rd speech “Get to the Point” from competent communication manual. So far, he has done really nice speeches and growing with great enthusiasm. Today he came up with an interesting story from his experience. He described friends to be in three categories.

1. Friends for a reason 2. Friends for a season and 3. Friends for a lifetime.

Be careful and enjoy all the three types of friends in life but never give a 2^nd thought about a friend for a lifetime.

2^nd speaker- Yap Ooi Yee, Speech Title-My 1^st Wall Climbing experience and her speech evaluator was DTM, Hj. Hashim Adnan.

Ooi Yee was doing her 5^th speech from competent communication manual “Your body Speaks”. Her speech really teaches us all a lesson, Never Give Up. After all, once she decided to do a wall climbing experience with her husband. She climbed the wall and she won, however her husband reached first at the top. She won his heart. That’s the beautiful part of life, winning hearts. She showed all the body movements which require climbing a wall. We got some awesome tips.

3^rd Speaker Foo Fung Jiun, Speech Title- First Time Property Investment and his speech evaluator was DTM, Dr. Thilla Chelliah.

Fung Jiun- He was doing his speech #7 from the Competent Communication Manual “Research your Topic”. During his presentation, it was not just about his data from various sources. Also, he tried to bring our attention to the areas in KL, MY where there is low cost and high cost properties to invest in. This is called educate with fun. Good Job, Fung Jiun.

“The early you start investing, the early you will get the return”.

@8:36pm: This was the time for break + Lau Sang

@9:01: General Evaluator, Advanced Communicator Bronze, Competent Leader, Victor Ong was walking towards the stage to conduct the evaluation session. He led the session with his panel of evaluators. He begun by explaining the purpose of the evaluation followed by evaluation from all the four evaluators, role players’ reports and his general evaluation. Evaluation is the breakfast for the champions because a constructive and specific evaluation really matters to improve speakers and make them better in future than yesterday.

@9:39pm: Club president was called on the stage by the Toastmasters of The Evening to do the presidential closing address. He first thanked the TME who handled the meeting so well then awarded the best speakers for the evening.
Best Table Topics™ Speaker- Michael FG from MIMPG TMC,
Best Assignment Speech on this evening - Yap, Ooi Yee.
Best Evaluation - Hj. Hashim Adnan, DTM and
Also a Token of appreciation to the GE- Victor Ong, ACB CL

Finally, Mr. President, Ron Yeap, CC, summarized the entire meeting and asked the guests to share their thoughts about our today’s meeting.

Eventually at 9:45 pm: Mr. President waved his hand towards the audience and adjourned the meeting saying, good night, safe journey home, Happy Chinese New Year and happy holidays to you all. See you all in our next meeting on 14^th Feb. 2017 which is Valentine’s Day.