Lights will guide the way, they say, to
Toastmasters, to Money Mastery-KL, to our 421st meeting themed
“Deepavali: Sparks of Colour”, the light has brought me here today. At sharp
7.15pm our enthusiastic Sergeant-At-Arms, Mike Chin called the meeting to
order, introduced the house rules, led us through the Toastmasters Promise and
invited the President to officiate the meeting.
Chitirra, LD1 took stage to welcome the guests
and called upon the Grammarian to introduce the word of the day “Alluring”.
Indeed some looked alluring in their Indian outfits to be in sync with the
theme of the evening. Everyone had the opportunity to speak by introducing
themselves and speak about their Deepavali memories being Malaysians.
The night began with an interesting invocation
by Shain Anand who explained further about how Deepavali is celebrated for
various reasons in various parts of India and how despite the differences its
one main purpose is that of the prevalence of light over darkness.
The floor was then passed to our alluring
Toastmaster of the Evening, Manish Jha, IP1 who was all prepped up for the
evening with his green Indian top and maroon Nehru collared vest. He briefly
guided us through the history of Toastmasters and our club and called upon the
role players to introduce themselves.
The Ah-Counter was managed by Wendy Sim; the
Grammarian was Vijaykumar, CC and our Timer was E K Yeo, CC, CL. To honour and
evaluate our meeting today we had Sue Ding, DTM a very experienced and
knowledgeable Toastmaster.
The first official session at any Toastmasters
meeting which is the Table Topics ™ session was kicked off by our Table Topics
™ Master, Yap Ooi Yee, CC. She had an array of interesting topics revolving around
the theme Deepavali and we had many participants off the floor taking up the
challenge to speak on their feet.
Having done that, we moved on to the key
section of our meeting which was the Assigned Speech session. To start, our
newest member Abdul Rahman attempted his Ice Breaker speech under his Pathway,
Presentation Mastery. His title “The Immigrant” was apt as he mentioned about
his journey here as a foreigner who loved Malaysia. A round of standing ovation,
as our protocol for first speeches, was in store for Rahman. The encouragement was
very much needed to give Rahman the motivation to move further.
Next up, we had our ever favourite Ken Chan,
DTM embark on his 2nd attempt at his Pathways Evaluation &
Feedback programme. This time he did his practice speech for his Division
contest entitled “Women”. His flair and charm sure kept the audience
entertained.
Finally, touching on the Advanced Speech
Manuals was Ron Yeap, ACB, CL doing his speech from the Humourous Speaking
Manual under the Project entitled “Warm Up Your Audience”. He spoke about
procrastination and the evils that come with it.
Alas, everyone adjourned for a short break to
enjoy the snacks and enhance the camaraderie through the little chit chats.
We returned for the Evaluation session led by
our General Evaluator, Sue Ding, DTM. The first session was the Table Topics ™
Evaluation by our prim and proper KT Chok, PM2. Following, we had the
evaluations for the project speeches. Hj. Hashim, DTM evaluated our new comer
Rahman. Chitirra, LD1 was nervous and excited at the same time to evaluate the
big boss Ken Chan, DTM and finally Ken Chan, DTM himself evaluated Ron Yeap,
ACB, CL.
We had a short open evaluation for all members
to give their opinions on the speeches and then we had the technical reports
from the role-players. Finally, Sue Ding, DTM gave her general evaluation on
the club that she enjoyed coming to and left us with some good feedback.
The TME wrapped the meeting up by calling upon
the President to give out the best awards for the night. Due to time
disqualifications there was no voting for the best project speaker. However,
the best Table Topics ™ speaker went to none other than our General Evaluator
herself, Sue Ding, DTM. The best Evaluator award as always was bagged by Hj.
Hashim, DTM.
The President drew the meeting to a close after
several key announcements and her closing address. Everyone adjourned after the
group photo and proceeded for the cake cutting session for the November babies
in MMKL, Manish, Vijay and Ken Chan.
The meeting indeed was lit and full of colour
and with the same level of hope that a light emits everyone went home looking
forward to the next meeting.
Thanks to blog writer Chitirra, contributors,
and reviewers.
Sincerely
Dato Dr Mary de Silva, PM3
Money Mastery –KL
Toastmasters Club
VPPR (Vice President of
Public Relation 2018/2019)
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