Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): 11.06.2019, Meeting No #437- Aidilfitri: Heart To Heart

Hari Raya Aidilfitri, marks the end of Ramadan and is considered the festival of gratitude to God and an occasion celebrated with families and loved ones. It is also the time of feasts, homecoming, contemplation, forgiveness and reconciliation. So, the MMKL family decided to celebrate the same in our Aidilfitri - Heart to Heart themed meeting. Members were asked to come in traditional Hari Raya attire. The room was filled with colourful outfits to suit the theme of the day.

CS Ong, the ASAA for the evening started the meeting with the Toastmaster’s promise and the stage was handed over to the club President Chitirra. She gave welcomed the guests and invited the Grammarian to introduce the Word of the Day “Gratitude” which means the quality of being thankful

Up next, our incoming President for next term, KL Loh ATMG came on to the stage for the Invocation speech.

The Toastmaster of the evening was Ron Yeap ACB, CL. He also came in the traditional Baju Melayu attire and started the session with a brief history of Toastmasters. After that he introduced the role players. The General Evaluator(GE) for the meeting was Vasudevan ACB, ALB. Slowly, we were moving into the core of the Toastmasters meeting.

The first session was Table Topics session which was controlled by Wendy Sim CC, as the Table Topics Master. She invited volunteers for the session by offering green Raya packets containing money. Following were the Table Topics Contestants:

1. Jocelyn

2. Abdul Rahman

3. Chew Yee

4. Paul Tan

Up next was the assigned speech session. We had 3 speakers on the night.

First speaker was Ken Chan, who was delivering Level 1: Project 3 Researching and Presenting speech and his speech title was MBTI. MBTI means Myers–Briggs Type Indicator which is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions.

Second Speaker was Vijaykumar, who was delivering his Ice Breaker speech from the path Presentation Mastery. His speech title was My life. He spoke about his journey of 60 years in his life.

Final speaker was Rajendra,who was delivering Level 1 Project 2 Researching and Presenting project. His speech was titled An Unusual Experience. He spoke about stress in his life and how he overcome those.

After the speech session, our VPM KT Chok,took over the stage to induct 2 new members into the club Jocelyn & CS Ong. A break was observed for 10 minutes.

Post break, GE Vasudevan took over the stage for the evaluation session. He explained the session and introduced his panel of evaluators and role players for the reports.

1. Table Topics Evaluator: Ng Swee Lyn, ACB, ALB

2. Speech Evaluator for Ken Chan: EK Yeo, CC, CL

3. Speech Evaluator for Vijaykumar: Haji Hashim DTM

4. Speech Evaluator for Rajendra: Shain Anand

5. Ah-counter : Chew Yee, CC

6. Grammarian: Abdul Rahman, PM1

7. Timer: Cetani Chen, ACS, ALB

8. Silent Evaluator for Shain: Uma Vasudevan, CC, CL