October
is that ‘blessed’ time of year where people can be as spooky and terrifying as
they like in a spooky soiree or festivity, that
truly embodies the spirit of Halloween in the sense that it was so sweet it
gave me cavities! I came in a cosplay mask as Dracula in line with the theme of
the day “Halloween: Spooky Soiree”
to attend Money Mastery–KL Toastmasters Club Meeting. Take note that Dracula wasn’t just making a
social call; I was on a mission as the ASAA.
The Spooky
Soiree meeting took
two and half hours to get all the endings. TME Dato’ Dr Mary, PM3 helped to ensure
the meeting reconciled with each and everyone’s darker sides, and found the
confidence to cosplay, or even hunt for bones in the creepy yet inspiring marathon
speeches. There was nothing mean or cruel on any of the members’ routes; in
fact this may well be the most awesome meeting of the club.
@ 7:15pm
ASAA EK Yeo, CC, CL called the meeting to order. The meeting begun with the Toastmaster’s Promise recited by
Toastmasters members for their commitment in the Toastmasters educational
program.
@7:17pm: Our Club Mdm. President Chitirra, LD1
took over the control of the meeting. In her welcome address, she greeting our club
member and our distinguished guests, General Evaluator Ricky Soo, ACS, ALS, EC2
from MAD Toastmasters Club, Evaluator Samuel Selvaraju, DTM and an invited
creepy assigned speaker Victor Ong, DTM to present an unexpected creepy speech.
She then invited the Grammarian Chew Yee, CC to introduce the WOD “Creepy” and
went on to invite all members and guests to give a self-introduction and
encouraged them to use the WOD “Creepy” and theme of the day “Halloween: Spooky
Soiree” as much as they could. All members and guests did very well during this
segment of self- introduction.
@7:32pm: Our club member
Vijayakumar, CC, given his Invocation Speech and shared with us journey towards
DTM. He interpreted DTM as “D”
Determination to set up goal, “T” Time bar to achieve it and “M” Mentally challenge
to complete it.
@7:35pm:
The
Toastmaster of The Evening Dato’ Dr. Mary, PM3 with her creepy cosplay costume
as a good Witch, briefed on the history of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club.
Then she introduced the role players for this meeting in the sequence.
Grammarian: Chew Yee, CC
“Ah” Counter: Serena Kong, ACB, CL
Timer: Wendy Sim, CC
General
Evaluator: Ricky Soo, ACS, ALS, EC3
All the
role players introduced their roles and objectives for this evening. Then the TME proceeded with the assigned
speeches from Competent Communication Manual and Pathways.
1stSpeaker
- Victor Ong, DTM Speech Title - “My Favourite Food”
His speech
evaluator was Hj. Hashim, DTM
This was his project speech from the Competent Communication Manual: Project 8: Get Comfortable with Visual Aids
Victor
kicked off his speech sharing with us how Malaysia provides a variety of fusion
food. He shared with us how he loved to eat food making it creepy by adding a
few cockroaches to the dish. The taste, he said, was delicious and even good
for health. He anticipated that by Year 2070, the world will have a shortage of
food and that cockroaches will be the main source of protein. The speech became
even more creepy when he offered everyone a packet of cockroach crackers. He was indeed entertaining us with humour and
surprises.
2nd speaker-
Ken Chan, DTM Speech Title - “Power Presenting”. His speech evaluator was
Samuel Selvaraju, DTM
He was doing his speech from Pathways: Presentation Mastery Level 1: Project 2 – Evaluation and Feedback.
Ken
Chan demonstrated a variety of presentation style through body language, vocal
variety and his roving eye contact. He commented that a presentation was a
chance for one to impress others, such as a boss. Some of the key words during his
presentation was Ethos (credibility), Pathos (exhibit) and Logos (content). His
speech was inspiring, educational and entertaining.
3rd speaker-
CP Lau, ACG, ALB Speech Title - “President’s Distinguished Area G4”. His speech
evaluator was Ken Chan, DTM
He was presenting his speech under Project: High Performance Leadership (HPL) for him to achieve ACS, a journey toward DTM. CP Lau did mention that he joined Money Mastery-KL Toastmaster Club in June 2011. He took up the role as Area Governor G4 during the term 2013/2014 that is under Region 14, District 51, Division G, Area G4 which makes up 4 clubs which are Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club, Money & You Toastmasters Club, WIM Toastmasters Club and Air Products Toastmasters Club. HPL trains one to achieve or accomplish Service Leadership, Vision Values, Direction, Persuasion, Support, Development and Appreciation. He also shared with us the key word – “STAR” which refer to:
“S” – Stretch your limit
“T” –
Train your team
“A” – Ask
for result
“R” –
reach out
4th speaker-
Mike Chin, Speech Title - “Who Am I”. His speech evaluator was Olivia Chen, PM1
This first time speaker was doing his speech from Pathways: Dynamic Leadership Level 1: Project 1 – Ice Breaker
Mike Chin
shared with us his personal story. He is Johorean from a small town, Kulai enveloped
in an oil palm plantation. He is Hakka. He completed his studies in KL and continued
to work here. His hobbies included being a movie lover for action movies,
science fiction except horror and thrillers while badminton is his favourite
sport looking up to our national hero LCW.
5th speaker-
KT Chok, PM2, Speech Title - “Habit of The Rich”. His speech evaluator was Ron
Yeap, ACB, CL
He was giving his speech from Pathways: Presentation Mastery Level 3: Project 3 – Effective Projects, Inspire Your Audience
The key
message as shared by KT Chok was that the rich always paid themselves first by
starting with 10% and then progressively to 30% from your monthly income. He
also clearly expressed that this habit decided on one’s future.
@8:31pm: Break for refreshment for 10 minutes, where are
lot of chattering takes place and networking with new members.
@8:41pm: ASAA EK Yeo called the meeting to order and then he
passed the control of the meeting to TME.
@8:42pm TME invited Vice President of Membership KT
Chok, PM2 to induct new member Abdulrahman and his assigned mentor is Ron Yeap,
ACB, CL
@8:47pm: TME
Dato’ Dr. Mary, PM3 invited General Evaluator Ricky Soo, ACS, ALS, EC2 to chair the meeting. He led the session
with his panel of evaluators. He began
by explaining the purpose of the evaluation and carried on to give his
feedback.
Evaluation from the 5 evaluators.
1st Speech Evaluator Hj. Hashim DTM for Competent Communication Manual speaker, Victor Ong DTM.
Hj. Hashim’s comments were based on the 3E’s used: EXCEL by using simple and easy to understand
English. Crafting the speech by using cockroaches was a cleverly used plot. EXHIBIT speech through the use of visual aids
and using a packet of potato chips of cockroaches, was interesting. EXCELLENT performance with body language,
hand gestures and using the stage widely was good. All evaluations need to
encourage the speakers to do better.
Some suggestions were to use real cockroaches, staying behind the line during
speech delivery, and sharing some insights about these mean and creepy cockroaches.
2nd Speech Evaluator
Samuel Selvaraju, DTM for Pathways – Presentation Mastery Speaker Ken Chan,
DTM.
Samuel commented that Ken is an experienced speaker with a well-organised
speech structure. His voice is audible,
loud and clear, keeping the subject matter straight to the point with the key
words, “Ethos, Pathos and Logos”. The
Evaluator suggested that Ken show the audience one of the workshops where his
crowd attended and he impressed the audience.
3rd Speech Evaluator,
Ken Chan DTM for Project: High Performance Leadership (HPL) – Speaker CP Lau,
ACG, ALB.
Ken acknowledged that CP Lau had achieved his HPL by sharing
with us his journey in Toastmasters since 2011. He agreed that leadership is a
team effort and was pleased to be his mentor.
4th Speech
Evaluator Olivia Chen, PM1 for Pathways – Dynamic Leadership – Speaker Mike Chin.
Olivia commented that Mike shared his personal story with a
clear and audible voice, and a pleasant facial expression, often smiling. As an evaluator, she suggested to this first
time speaker to have more eye contact in order to engage with the audience, to
use the stage wisely, and to share more about his career and why he joined
Toastmasters.
5th Speech
evaluator Ron yeap, ACB, CL for Pathways – Presentation Mastery – Speaker KT Chok,
PM2.
Ron commented that KT had clearly shown the difference between
habit and destiny and why it was important for everyone to pay themselves
first. His aim of inspiring the audience was met! One suggestion was to engage
the audience by asking them questions such as when they would adopt the habit of
the rich.
The speech marathon Evaluation exercise was just completed! Everyone was so objective in their feedback
and the suggestions were from the heart.
As Toastmasters, we must aim to be better each time we present a speech. Many thanks to the Speech Evaluators.
Role Players’ reports
Members who were busy throughout the meeting were:
·
Grammarian
– Chew Yee, CC
·
Ah
Counter – Serena Kong, ACB, CL
·
Timer
– Wendy Sim, CC
General Evaluator Ricky Soo ACS, ALS, EC2 had summed up the
meeting and then passed the control to the TME.
@9:34pm:
Club President Chitirra, LD1 was called on the stage by the TME to do the presidential
closing address. She first thanked the TME Dato Dr Mary, who handled the
meeting diligently.
The gratifying part of every meeting is to share the joy when
the awards are presented to the best performance for the evening.
·
Best Speech
Evaluator- Hj. Hashim, DTM
·
Best
Project Speaker- Victor Ong, DTM
·
Best Spooky
Soiree cosplay costume – Dato’ Dr. Mary de Silva, PM3
·
Token of
appreciation to the GE- Ricky Soo, ACS, ALS, EC2
Before the end of the meeting, Mdm. President
Chitirra, LD1 summarized the entire meeting and asked the guests and members
to take a group photo. All those in
cosplay took centre stage to live up to the theme of Halloween. Everyone received candies too.
The
meeting was adjourned at 9:40pm. Indeed it was the most exciting meeting with
the speech marathons and speech evaluations.
We wait on for the next of such a meeting.
Thanks to blog writer EK Yeo, contributors,
and reviewers.
Sincerely
Dato Dr Mary de Silva, PM3
Money Mastery –KL
Toastmasters Club
VPPR (Vice President of
Public Relation 2018/2019)
30 October 2018
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