Meeting #383 -Father's Heart

The theme of day for the meeting this evening coincides with Father's Day celebration on 3^rd Sunday 18^th June 2017. Remember those old days, father was the sole bread winner of the family. He seldom expresses his bounteous love to the family. Deep in his heart, he will do the best for his loved ones. In our heart he is and he will always be a hero who shed no tears.

The venue of the meeting was set up with group of members lead by Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB and Serena Kong, ACB. The refreshment was served at 6:50 pm. Traffic was usually heavy during Muslim fasting month, most of our club members including distinguished guest General Evaluator Jerrie Yeap, CC, CL arrived to the venue on time. ASAA Kelvin Chong, ACB called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. The meeting begun with “A Toastmaster’s promise” recited by Toastmasters member for their commitment in the Toastmasters education program.

@7:18pm: Our Club President Ron Yeap, CC took over the control of the meeting with his welcome address. He greeted the distinguished guest Jerrie Yeap, CC, CL who came from Subang Toastmasters Club and the other guests. Then he invited the Grammarian Chitirra to introduce the word of the day “Bounteous”. He invited members and guests to introduce themselves and encouraged to use word of the day and theme of the day “Father’s Heart”. All the members and guests did well during self- introduction.

@7:38 pm: The Toastmaster of The Evening EK Yeo CC, CL briefed on the history of Toastmasters International and our club. He mentioned how TI (Toastmasters International) was founded and inspired millions of people across the 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 players for this meeting in the sequence- Grammarian-Chitirra, “Ah” Counter-Sivadas, CC. Timer- Serena Kong, ACB and our General Evaluator Jerrie Yeap CC, CL. All the role players introduced their roles and objectives for this evening.

@7:49 pm:  Our sweet and charming Table Topics™ Master Mandy Chan was invited to the stage. She prepared the topics related to theme of the day. Members and guests were encouraged to participate. She explained the objective of Table Topics™ and time limitation for each speaker. The purpose of Table Topics ™ session is to develop the impromptu speaking skills which includes opening, body and conclusion in their speech.

The order of Table Topics™ speakers were as follows:

1) Mathew Phillippose, CC, CL–“The one thing you can give to your father”

2) Manish Jha, CC – “Like father, like son”

3) Kelvin Chong, ACB – “3 words to describe your father”

4) Julia Leong, ACB, ALB – “The most important lesson your father ever taught you”

Lets give a big applause to all the four speakers. Here, we were asked to cast a vote for the best Table Topics speaker.

@8:00 pm: TME took over and proceeded with the assigned speeches from Competent Communication Manual and Advanced Communication Manual.

1^st Speaker- Shain Anand 

Speech Title- “Yes, it is real”

Speech evaluator- Manish Jha, CC

This is his project speech no.2 “Organise Your Speech” from Competent Communication Manual.

He shared with us the impact of climate change followed by the solutions to control before it destroys us.

2^nd speaker- Mathew Philippose CC, ALB, 

Speech Title- “From cocoon to butterfly”

Speech evaluator- Julia Leong, ACB, ALB

Mathew was attempting speech no. 10 from Competent Communication Manual “Inspire Your Audience” for the third time. His speech was related to his Toastmaster Journey which started 6 years ago. It was recommended by CP Lau, ACB, ALB with the support of his mentor Ken Chan, DTM and Late Club Advisor Francis Ng, DTM. A very touching and encouraging story of his personal experience.

3^rd Speaker- Ron Yeap, CC

Speech Title- “Will She Say, Yes?”

Speech evaluator- Ken Chan, DTM

Ron did well in dramatizing the speech on his plan to propose his wife Serena at Garden Restaurant. On that romantic night, the atmosphere was so intense and his heart beat was traveling like a roller coaster. It was a beautiful experience for him which he shared with us.

No vote was casted for the best speaker because two speakers have exceeded the allocated time limit.

@8:35 pm: 10 minutes break for refreshment.

@8:45 pm: ASAA Kelvin Chong called meeting to order after the break. Then he passed the control of the meeting to TME EK Yeo, CC, CL

@8:48 pm: General Evaluator Jerrie Yeap CC, CL was invited to chair the evaluation session. He led the session with his panel of evaluators and role players. He began by explaining the purpose of the evaluation followed by evaluation from Table Topics™ evaluator, three speech evaluators, role players’ reports and his general personal evaluation. Evaluation is the breakfast for the champions because a constructive and specific evaluation helps to improve speakers and make them better. Finally, we were asked to cast a vote for the best speech evaluator.

 @9:30 pm: Club President Ron Yeap, CC was called on the stage for the presidential closing address. He first thanked the TME who handled the meeting diligently. Then he presented the award for the best performers.

Finally, he summarized the entire meeting and asked the guests to share their thoughts about our today’s meeting. Members and guests were reminded:-

• The next club meeting will be on 29^th June 2017 (Thursday) instead of 27^th June 2017 (Tuesday) due to Public Holiday Hari Raya Aidilfitri
• New Club Officer installation along with our club's 15^th anniversary will be held on 22^nd July 2017 (Saturday).
• Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will be held on 25^th July 2017 (Tuesday)

The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 pm followed by group photo and cake cutting ceremony for  Father Day's/ Happy Birthday .

Sincerely, 

Thanks to the Team,

Manish Jha, CC

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club

Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017

P/S: 

Thank you so much to the whole team including writer -EK Yeo CC CL, editor, reviewer (Mathew P. CC ALB, Shain Anand) and critics to provide your timely sincere support and feedback to keep up the good work.

#382 - Holiday Season!

The holiday’s… It’s the holidays! We’ll spin around and sing a song! Yes! The week’s theme was Holiday Season! It’s now time for you to “wind down” and read this post! Ha! Ha! Yes! The word of the day was “wind down”. It means to gradually complete something or to relax after great excitement or worry

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The meeting began at 19.15pm with our Assistant SAA introducing the house rules, leading the Toastmasters’ promise and inviting the President to give his address. Ron Yeap, CC then took the lead and gave his charming opening speech. Upon inviting the Grammarian to introduce the word of the day, Ron then invited the guests to give a brief introduction of themselves, encouraging them to speak of the theme whilst using the word of the day. Everyone gave their bright thoughts about the holiday season.

Alas, it was time for our wonderful Toastmaster of the Evening to take stage. Manish Jha, CC, came well prepared with lots of info on the History of Toastmasters and the role player were called to introduce their roles.

Shain Anand was also the Grammarian for the day and Serena was the “Ah Counter”. The Timer was Mr. Sivadas from Friendship Toastmasters Club and last but not least the General Evalutor was the cheerful Toastmaster Seki Ng, ACB, ALB.  

We then arrived to one of the most interesting sessions in Toastmasters which was the Table Topics Session. Here’s where we challenge ourselves with impromptu speaking. The Table Topics Master was Toastmaster Chitirra who had an array of topics that went along with the theme. Many guests and members stood up to the challenge that night and shared their thoughts and memories according to the topic.

 

Upon that we moved on to the main section which was the prepared speeches. We had only two speakers for the night as we had to cut short our meeting for the Pathways briefing. The first speech was by Mathew with his title “A Ray of Hope”. What hope? He explained about the possibilities for people who suffer from Psoriasis. He showed pictures of the disorder while enlightening the crowd that truly there is a ray of hope for people who have it.

 

Next was Wendy with her 2^nd last speech. Check List. As a mum she’s had many things to do especially for her kids and so she’s always equipped with a check list and shared with us how it has benefited her multiple times. Indeed I agree with her. We then went for a short break and mingled around with the many guests who attended that week.

The next session was taken over by our General Evaluator, Seki Ng, ACB, ALB. He was an enthusiastic speaker and led the session with great excitement. The table topics evaluation was presented by May Ong, CC, ALB and then the individual speech evaluators gave their respective evaluation. After the 5 min open evaluation, the role players gave their respective reports.

 

Today’s meeting was special and cut short for a very key session we allocated time for. It was the Pathway Briefing session by Mr. Ramdas Nayer, DTM. The Pathway is the new education system for Toastmasters. The previous steps to reaching Distinguished Toastmasters have now changed where we combine both the communication and leadership manuals. Mr. Ramdas gave a detailed description of the new program and everyone was left excited and curious about this new education system.

 

We drew the meeting to an end with our usual awards presentation, some key announcements on events and happenings in Toastmasters and of course the closing address by our President.

We took a happy group photo and called it a night. 

Sincerely, 

Thanks to the Team,

Manish Jha, CC

Money Mastery –KL Toastmasters Club

Vice President Public Relations 2016/2017

P/S: 

Thank you so much to the whole team including writer -Chitirra, editor, reviewer and critics to provide your timely sincere support and feedback to keep up the good work.