Counting down to the final 3
meetings of the term, we started the meeting with the theme of the day, I
smile, you smile which warmed up the atmosphere in the meeting room.
Ek Yeo, who was our Assistant
Sergeant At Arms, called the meeting to order by leading us to recite the
Toastmaster’s Promises.
It was a special day for our
Madam President, Chitirra, LD1 who then took over the stage and gave her
presidential opening address. With the theme of the day, I Smile, You Smile,
she warmed the room with a wide smile on her face while sharing how happy she
felt spending time with us at Toastmaster on her birthday. She then proceeded
to invite our grammarian, Shain Anand to introduce the word of the day,
Pleasure. A few guest joined us with a round of self-introduction, where we got
to know each other better and gave each of us the opportunity to speak and
share our thoughts on the word of the day as well as theme of the day.
Malaysia is a multicultural
country where we celebrate a variety of unique festivals together. Being in the
Ramadan month, we had a wonderful “buka puasa” or fast breaking session with
our Muslim members by bringing forward our usual break time and enjoying the
signature nasi lemak and bananas while we had a wonderful time bonding with
each other.
The meeting resumed when our
Toastmaster of the Evening, Manish Jha, IP1, invited Matthew Philippose, CC,
ALB, on stage. Matthew blew our mind with his uplifting invocation speech.
Manish then took over the floor to brief our guest and reminded us of the
history of Toastmaster International and how the leadership system has brought
us to become one of the most successful non profit organizations.
We have our members and a special
guest from Toastmaster TTDI, ACS, ALB, Shari Wiemer, whom took up the following
roles during the meeting:-
- General Evaluator – Shari Wiemer, ACS, ALB
- Ah Counter – VijayKumar,CC
- Grammarian – Shain Ahnand
- Timer – Wendy Sim, CC
Thank you for demonstrating how a
great team work can be done. Your contributions had made the meeting run
smoothly.
Next, came the adrenaline ride of
the meeting, where we had the fun and exciting Table Topics session, nicely led
by our president, LD1, Chitirra. In addition to introducing the purpose,
objective and rules of the session to us, she gave our brave speakers a Ferrero
Rocher chocolate as a reward on their courage to challenge the impromptu
speeches on stage! Kudos to all 5 speakers, Paul Tan, KT Chok, Jocelyn, Danis
and CS Ong, whom raised up to the challenge!
And Congratulations to CS Ong,
our newly joined Toastmaster member for being voted as the Best Table Topics
Speech award! His speech was very well delivered with confidence!
Moving on to the
highlight of the meeting, our Assigned Speech Session, where we have our first
speaker of the day, DTM, CP Lau, delivering his speech title, Golden Questions.
It was nothing but a fruitful and eye opening experience to see a seasoned DTM
dancing across the stage with his well delivered speech! The 2 golden questions
which we all can learn to apply in our daily life for a more productive results
are, What went well, and How can we do better. Thank you for sharing with us
these golden questions CP Lau! Up next, our second and last speaker of the day
was yet another
outstanding speaker, ACB, ALB,
Julia Leong who had presented to us how her solar hot water system can help to
save the environment. A very convincing presentation! Some of us were even
interested to find out more about the product after the speech!
It was then time for a short 5
minutes break for our members and the guest before moving into our Evaluation
and Reports Session.
Our General Evaluator
Shari Wiemer, ACS, ALB, led us through the evaluation and report session
enthusiastically and she shared with us some of the techniques practiced by her
when evaluating a speech. She introduced the Pie concept, where we could point
out 2 good points from a speech and 2 suggestions for improvement follow by an
encouraging remark to motivate and inspire the speaker to do better! Thank you
Shari! She then invited our Table Topics Evaluator of the day, ATMG, KL Loh to
share with us his evaluation on our 5 brave speakers. KL did an excellent
evaluation and provided constructive feedback to each of the speakers! Next,
Rey Thean gave her first evaluation on DTM CP Lau’s Speech, great job on
integrating the golden questions into the evaluation! The floor was then passed
to CC, ALB,Mathew Philipose for the evaluation of ACB, ALB, Julia Leong’s
speech swiftly.
There was a special
evaluation session by CC,CL, Shaun Koshy, who evaluated Rey’s evaluation. It
was an eye opening session seeing how nicely the evaluation was given! After a
short period of open evaluation, each technical role player presented their
report to the general evaluator.
Towards the end of the meeting,
the President presented the award to our best table topic speaker CS Ong and
also presented a token of appreciation to our general evaluator, Shari Wiemer.
Toastmaster is a platform for us
to practice our public speaking skills, polish our communications skills and
enhance our leadership skills! Here we all grow at our pace to one day bloom
into our fullest potential!
Blog Writer - Rey Thean.
See you all on 11th June 2019.
Regards,
MM-KL
EXCO
2018/2019
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