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 2nd 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.
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