Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club just finished their 400th
meeting in our Toastmasters’ history of 15 years. This was our 401st
meeting to show our roaring sea spirit in every conduct of this meeting. ASAA
of the evening, Yap Ooi Yee, CC, took the control at 7:16pm with only a one
minute delay from the scheduled time. She assured everything was in order to
kick start the meeting. “Raise your hand if you have not received the voting
slip? The voting slip is to vote for the best speakers. Another very important
point, toilet is not working temporarily on our floor and downstairs is already
being occupied today hahaha.” This was not humour but a reality. Believe it or
not the whole evening went on very smoothly. She recited the Toastmaster’s
promises with us and handed the floor to our acting-president, Chitirra.
Our acting-president intrepidly addressed the meeting and
asked, kindly introduce yourself and use the word of the day ‘Intrepid’ and the
theme of the day ‘My Spirit is A Roaring Sea’. It is our club culture to let
everyone speak at least once throughout the meeting. She then passed the floor
to the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME), Shain Anand who then introduced the Humour
Master, Distinguish Toastmaster (DTM), Ken Chan.
Ken chan is a professional speaker and mentor. Sometimes he
comes with his inspiring speech but today he decided to begin this evening with
some humour. We laughed like wild emojis. We got excited to move on.
Our TME
then took the stage again. For your kind information, Shain is also our VPPR of
this term 2017/18 and a wonderful Toastmaster and friend. He came up with his attitude
like a roaring sea. He briefed all on the history of Toastmasters International
and our club, especially for the guests. Yes, most of the time we have some
guests in our meeting. One of the guest today also accepted to sign up in the
same evening. Shain
then proceeded to introduce the role players, the Grammarian, Ah’ counter, Time
keeper and General Evaluator for the night, Distinguished Toastmaster Dr. Devi Menon
who comes from Sai Toastmasters Club.
Now as the excitement was soaring high,
our Table Topics ™ Master Dato Dr. Mary De Silva was called on to the stage.
Table Topics ™ session is a frightening yet fun filling session. We actually
have no idea what topic is about to be received and what we will speak. She
came up prepared with very inspiring and beautiful topics. We found 4 intrepid
speakers. Shin (Guest), Joel, myself (Manish) and Victor Ong , DTM (From Liquid
Gold TMC). Everyone spoke well. Do you know why? Because the topics were amazing?
Drop by on any 2nd, 4th and 5th Tuesday of the
month in the evenings at 7.15pm if you want to participate in our fun filling
session. This evening our time keeper Yap Ooi Yee,CC displayed the green signal
to the TME to proceed with the prepared project speeches as the time was up for
Table Topics ™. Now the 1st speaker of the day Ken Chan, DTM came up
with his speech entitled ‘Negotiate to Win’. This speech was as per the Competent
Communication manual speech #8, Get Comfortable with Visual Aids. Negotiation
is very important in our life no matter what you do, but in business it creates
great impact if you can negotiate well. I hope you know what I mean. It was
completely worth it watching his negotiation techniques as he is the subject
matter expert.
The 2nd Speaker of the day was Joel Silas with
his speech entitled, ‘Power, Influence & Politics’. He is a very good
learner. He proved it too. He proved that practice can make anyone perfect.
Keep up the hunger of learning Joel! I was privileged to be his speech
evaluator. It means I was more observant. Hahaha. He was doing his speech from the
Competent Communication Manual, speech #9 which was “Persuade With Power”. He
did very well and persuaded the whole audience to earn the power, use it wisely
and serve yourself and the community. That will make not only you proud but
also the whole nation and the whole world.
The 3rd speaker is none other than CP Lau, ACB,
ALB. He is an entrepreneur by his profession in IT and in other Industries as
well. He is a very good communicator and speaker. He was a speaking from the Advanced Manual
called “Speaking to Inform” which required him to give a speech on an abstract
concept. His speech title was ‘Are you happy? ’ Interesting right? He tried to
get to know the audience and see how happy they were. He also talked about what
real happiness is. H mesmerised and captivated us throughout his speech. Thanks
CP for the lovely piece.
The 4th and final speaker of the day was our brand
new member “Xavier Gomez”. He was doing his Ice Breaker speech from the “Leadership
Development” path, Level-1. He came with his speech title “The Owner of The New
house”. We were very curious about what he was going to talk about. This was suspense
until he made it clear that his name Xavier has a meaning called “The Owner of
The New House”. As there is a saying, everyone has a story to share, Xavier
found the perfect story to share about his life. He talked about his initial
life, love life and career. It was amazing to know Xavier. Keep it up!
Do you want a break? Let’s break for 10 mins.
Despite knowing that our Toilet was not operational that
night, everyone served their tummies non-stop with the wonderful dinner. We were
still eating then our time keeper rang the bell, “Guys, times up. Please get
back. You can even eat after the meeting”.
The ball was now in the General Evaluator, Dr. Devi Menon’s,
DTM court. She is a wonderful Toastmaster, a friend and an amazing evaluator.
She bravely followed the agenda. She called out Table Topic’s Evaluator, Kevin
Khoo,CC. Kevin was brilliant, another fantastic speaker and evaluator. He was
attentively listening to all the 4 speakers and highlighted in his evaluation,
the speakers’ strengths and area of improvements. He encouraged and gave an
utmost valuable feedback. We felt accomplished.
Now it was the project speech evaluators’ turn. Firstly,
Dato’ Dr. Mary De Silva called to evaluate speaker Ken Chan’s, DTM speech
“Negotiate to Win” as she was doing her evaluation project from pathways
(“Presentation Mastery”). There was another evaluator to evaluate Dr. Mary’s
evaluation who was Victor Ong, DTM from Liquid Gold Toastmasters Club. Both of
them gave wonderful insights to Ken to improve further in his speech and
praised his strengths. Dato Dr, Mary De Silva also got some pointers to do a
better evaluation next time from Victor Ong,DTM.
Next, I was doing my best evaluation to evaluate Joel’s
speech ‘Power, Influence & Politics’. I did my best and I was doing my
project on evaluation from my path ‘Innovative Planning’. Therefore, I also got
an evaluator to evaluate my evaluation. I particularly liked this part of the
meeting on the evaluation of the evaluators. We tried our best to learn from
each other.
Following after us Mathew Philippose, CC, ALB appeared on
stage and the way he soared with the spirit in his evaluation, he won the best
evaluation of the evening. He is also a professional speaker and mentor.
We called out our final speech evaluator Ron Yeap, ACB, CL.
He is our Immediate Past President. He was attentive in listening to Xavier’s
speech. An evaluator’s job is to comment on how the speaker has done well. An
evaluator should acknowledge and provide a constructive feedback so that the
speaker will be able to perform much better in their next speech. He did exactly
that. Along with the speaker Xavier, we all felt once again accomplished.
Finally General Evaluator Dr. Devi Menon, DTM, was most
observant and completely in charge when she told us as a whole club on what we
are good at and what needs to be improved. An amazing evening it was with this
bunch of enthusiastic, friendly and supportive people. This kind of environment
can most definitely bring out the best in you.
Here, our Toastmaster of the Evening was enjoying the entire
show and then took charge of the show again and called our club president Wendy
Sim, CC to acknowledge the best performers of the evening. Yes, we do it in
every meeting.
The Best Table Topics ™ Speaker goes toooooo , Joel Silas,
The Best Project Speech goes toooo ,Joel’s mentor Ken Chan,
DTM.
The Best Project Speech Evaluation goes tooooo: Mathew
Phillippose, CC, ALB.
What are you thinking now? That’s it! The club president gave
her closing address, summarised the whole meeting and adjourned the meeting.
See you all again on 13th Feb 2018.
Blog Writer: Manish Jha, CC
Note:
ASAA- Assistant Sergent At Arms.
CC- Competent Communication speaking manual.
ACB ALB- Advanced Communicator Bronze, Advanced Leader Bronze.
DTM- Distinguished Toastmaster.
TME- Toastmaster of the Evening.
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