Time passes very fast and what is your reminiscence of the
month of December? Yes, Jingle Bells and Santa Clause! Christmas day is coming
soon.
As usual for every club meeting, the venue before the start
of the meeting was arranged by whoever comes early. Ron Yeap, Mandy Chan,
Olivia, Crystal, EK Yeo, and our member Vijay arrived early to the venue. Our
birthday girl today, Shelly Sim, who was a first time role player as an ASAA
called the meeting to order at 7.15 pm. The meeting begun with “A Toasmaster’s Promise”
recited by all Toastmasters’ members for their commitment to Toastmasters.
The theme of the meeting was “Blast to the Past”
and the word of the day was“reminiscent”.
Our Club President, Wendy Sim, took over the control of the meeting with
her welcome address. She greeted the distinguished guest Maria Mutahi, CC, who
came from Kenya Toastmasters Club as General Evaluator and the other guests. Then she invited the
Grammarian, Shain, to introduce the word of the day “Reminiscent”. She
invited members and guests to introduce themselves and encouraged all to use
word of the day and speak in line with the theme of the day, “Blast to the Past”.
All the members and guests did well during the self- introduction.Today’s club
meeting was a lively one because we had guests from Japan and Russia as well.
After the introduction session, the floor was passed on to Ron Yeap,
ACB, CL who played the role as the Invocation Speaker
Today’s Toastmaster of the Evening is our sweet Mandy Chan who briefed on
the history of Toastmasters International and our club. She introduced the role players for this
meeting in the sequence of Grammarian-Shain, “Ah” Counter- Olivia Chen and
Timer-Shelly who played 2 roles in this meeting. All the role players introduced
their roles and objectives for this evening.
The exciting session of Table TopicsTM took
place and our President played the role of Table TopicsTM Master.
She prepared the topics related to theme of the day. Members and guests were
encouraged to participate. She explained the objective of Table Topics TM
andthe time limitation for each speaker. The purpose of the Table TopicsTM
session is to develop the impromptu speaking skills which includes opening,
body and conclusion in their speech.
The order of the Table TopicsTM speakers were as follows:
- Vijay
- K L Loh, ATMG
- Guest - Jasmine
- Guest - Jia Ming
- Guest - Xavier
- Guest - Alex from Russia
Let’s give a big applause to all the 6 speakers. Here, we were asked to
cast a vote for the best Table Topics TM speaker.
After the Table TopicsTM,
the TME took over and proceeded with the assigned speeches from Pathways and the
Competent Communication Manual.
1st Speaker – Daniel Tham
Speech Title – I Have A Dream
Speech Evaluator – CP Lau , ACB, ALB
This is his Pathway of Dynamic
Leadership Level 1 – Project 1 Ice Breaker
He shared with us his childhood life, where he was educated, about his
career and his dream.
2nd Speaker – Crystal Chen
Speech Title – My Dream
Speech Evaluator – Manish Jha, CC
This is her Pathway of Effective
Coaching Level 1 – Project 1 Ice Breaker
Cyrstal has a big dream since childhood. She told us her story about how
active she was in school club and organized a drama during her schooling days.
3rd
Speaker – Chitirra
Speech
Title – Think, Think, Think
Speech
evaluator – Ron Yeap, ACB, CL
This is
her Project 6 which required vocal variety.
Chitirra
spoke about ways in which we can enhance our thinking skills for the better.
4th
Speaker – Yap Ooi Yee
Speech
Title – Do You Love Your Loved Ones?
Speech Evaluator
– HjHashim , DTM
This is
her Project 10 which required her to
inspire the audience.
Ooi Yee
inspired us with the struggles faced by families when they lack proper
insurance coverage.
All the
four speakers qualified to be voted for and congratulations to Ooi Yee who
completed her CC which took her a 2-year journey to complete.
After
the assigned speech session, we took a 10-minute break for refreshment.
ASAA
Shelly Sim called meeting to order after the break. Then, she passed the
control of the meeting to the TME Mandy Chan.
It was time
for the induction of our newest member. Yap Ooi Yee invited our new member KT
Chok to come on the stage and recite the rules as a member of the club. Welcome
KT Chok and we are waiting for your speech soon.
General
Evaluator,Maria Mutahi, CC was invited to chair the evaluation session. She led
the session with her panel of evaluators and role players. She began by
explaining the purpose of the evaluation followed by the evaluation from the Table
Topics TM evaluator, 4 speech evaluators, role players’ reports and
her personal general evaluation. Evaluation is the breakfast for 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.
The time
came for the Awards Presentation and the best Table TopicTM,
assigned speech and evaluation speaker for the night were:
1.
Table
Topics TM– Vijay Kumar, CC
2.
Assigned
speech – Yap Ooi Yee
3.
Evaluator
–Hj.Hashim, DTM
The
President Wendy Sim, CC was called onto the stage for the presidential closing
address. She first thanked the TME who handled the meeting diligently. Then she
presented the award for the best performers.
The
meeting was adjourned at 9.45pm followed by a group photo and cake cutting
ceremony for Shelly Sim and Xavier, the two December babies.
Indeed
it was a fun filled meeting and someday when we take a blast to the past to reminisce
this meeting it will surely be a sweet memory.
Blog writer: Olivia Chen
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