Meeting #430 Disconnect to Connect

It was an enchantress night on 12th March when we have our 430th club meeting. As usual everyone arrived earlier to enjoy the best "nasi lemak" in the town. This time we had the pleasure to invite our District Director of District 102, Dr. William Lau, DTM to join us in this meeting. Besides, there were up to 5 guests to join the meeting and 2 of them had decided to sign up the membership to join this family.

The meeting was called by ASAA, Rahman, PM 1 on 7.15pm where he had introduced all the ground rules and led the recital of the “Toastmaster’s Promise”. Next, our president, Chitirra, LD1 had her welcoming speech by introducing the theme of the day “Disconnect to Connect” and word of the day “Refreshing”. As a culture of our club, all people should stand a chance to speak and introduce ourselves whilst using the word “Refreshing” as much as possible.

Coming up, Dr. William Lau, DTM had given us an invocation speech. He talked about the power of humility which encouraged us to disconnect with ego and be humble and modest people. It was a very positive and inspiring speech to everyone. 7.45pm, it was time to introduce our role players of the day. KL Loh, ATMG, our Toastmaster of Evening, had introduced all the role players:

1. Chitirra (Ah-Counter)
2. Manish (Grammarian)
3. EK Yeo (Timer)
4. Aaron Chan (General Evaluator)

After that, Mike Chin started the Table Topics™ session. It was his first time to be the Table Topics™ Master which was a very good experience for him to learn and grow. This round there were 5 candidates who took their owned initiative to participate in the session. For some of them, it was their first time to be in this club and stand in front of everyone.

It came to the most exciting part which was the assigned project speech session. We had 3 speakers that were ready to give us their wonderful and miraculous speech. Our first speaker was Julie Leong, ACB, ALB with the title, Murder by Midnight. She was doing her Interpretative Reading, project no.4 and she was evaluated by CP Lau who just received his DTM one month ago. Our second speaker was Ron Yeap, ACB, CL with the title, How to Build a Great Determination with his project no.3 Make Them Laugh and his evaluator was Mathew Philippose, CC ALB.Ron had registered himself in at the very last minute yet he was still able to keep his level and most importantly, make us laugh! Last but not least was, Ken Chan, DTM with his title Lead by Storytelling, level 4 project no.1 and his evaluator was Hj. Hashim, DTM.

We started our evaluation and reporting after a short break. Aaron Chan, ACG, ALB had started his speech by explaining the purposes of this session. He invited Victor Ong, DTM to give his comments on those who participated in the Table Topics™ session. Next, it came to the individual speech evaluations where the panel evaluators had to give comments and ratings for their respectively assigned speakers. 

As usual, we had our open evaluation session, it was a session for everyone to speak out their points or comments to anyone. Then, it came to the reporting time, where all the role players had to present their own reports accordingly. Before the president announced the meeting adjourned, she announced few upcoming events and encouraged people to actively participate in those activities. This time we were slightly out of our time, the meeting ended at 10.15pm yet everyone had fun and wonderful moments with MMKL.

Best Table Topics Speaker: - DTM, Hj. Hashim
Best Assigned Speech:- DTM, Ken Chan
Best Assigned Speech Evaluation:- DTM, Hj. Hashim

Blog Writer: Mike Chin