It was a hazy evening. I came to the club around
6:25pm with handful of club signature food–Nasi Lemak, fried chickens, omelette
eggs, bundle of bananas, curry puffs and fried spring rolls. Thanks to
Chitirra, LD1 for her thoughtful food ordering arrangement from the
nearby store. Upon arrival, the meeting room was ready set up by Rey Thean,
Mathew, EC1 and Ron Yeap, ACS, CL. Kudos for their initiative and commitment to
come early to prepare the meeting setup before the arrival of members and
guests.
A minute later, the members and guests came
in. The guests were greeted with warmest welcome by all the members and
compliment with light refreshment before the meeting.
At 7:15 pm, the Assistant Sergeant-At Arms (ASAA),
Rey Thean called the meeting to order. She reminded members and guests of the
meeting house rules before inviting members of the Toastmasters to recite
Toastmasters’ promise.
Next, Rey Thean, passed her control to Club
President KL Loh, ATMG for his president’s address. He welcomed our members,
guests and General Evaluator Seki Ng, DTM. He gave a motivated and inspired
speech revolving “Facing our challenges”. Grammarian Abdulrahman, PM2 was
invited to share with us about the word of the day “Courage”.
Immediately, KL Loh, ATMG, invited members and guests to have a short
45-second self-introduction and encouraged them to use theme of the day and
word of the day within the time limitation.
After that, Manish Jha, IP1, the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) took
over the control from the President. He shared with us
the history of Toastmasters as well as our club history. He introduced the role
players and invited them to share with us their roles for the meeting in the
following sequence:
A) Ah-Counter
– CS Ong
B) Grammarian
– Abdulrahman, PM2
C) Timer –
Wendy Sim, CC
D) General
Evaluator (GE) – Seki Ng, DTM |
| 1. Humor Master cum Ah-counter: CS Ong 2. Table Topics™Evaluator:KT Chok, PM4 3. Timer: Wendy Sim, CC 4. Toastmaster of the evening: Manish Jha, IP1 5. Grammarian: Abdulrahman, PM2, 6. Table Topics™Master: EK Yeo, CC, CL 7. General Evaluator: Seki Ng, DTM |
CS Ong was invited and took over the control from the TME and share with us his stories. A man, at the age of middle like him would look at the mirror more often to count how many wrinkles in his face and applied skin care products to look young. He twisted the story and told us one day he met a pretty blonde who look exactly like his secondary school mate who he admired secretly. To his surprised there was no signed of aging on her. Thinking of the lady luck was on him, he exchanged his conversation with her in cheerful and joyful manner. He was so delighted both of them were studied in the same school. Then she gave him the punch line “Which subject you teach?”.
Your truly was the Table Topics Master™ in the meeting. Table Topics™ is an impromptu speech, which you can speak within the topic or out of the topic as long as your speech contains the opening, body and conclusion. Each participant will be given a topic to speak within a time limit , with the minimum of 1 minute and not more than 2 minutes 30 seconds. At 1 minute the green light will be on and stay for 30 seconds.
The
table topics for the participants were:-
1) Rey Thean – Do you believe that your
dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them?
2) Hai Liang – Do you think challenges are
an opportunity to test yourself for you rise to next level?
3) Undaleeb – What are the new things you
want to learn to challenge yourself?
4) Alex Chong – Courage is doing what you
are afraid to do, do you agree?
All
the Table Topics™ speakers came to the stage with confidence and delivered their
speeches fluently without any hesitation.
For the assigned speeches, here is my summary:
Speaker 1:
CP Lau, DTM
Title:
Golden Questions
|
His delivered the speech with the punch lines:
Opening -“What is your problems”
Closing- “What went well”, “How can we do
better”
|
Speaker 2:
Mathew Phillippose, EC1
Title:
Moving The Steering Wheel
|
He shared with us how he applied his
supportive style of communication, delegated the work to subordinates,
complete his mission in peace of mind.
|
Speaker 3:
Ron Yeap, ACS, CL
Title:
Health Benefits of Vinegar
|
His shared with us the benefits of drinking
vinegar will reduce the blood sugar, cholesterol and high blood pressure.
|
Speaker 4:
Julia Leong, ACS, ALB
Title:
A Change in Time Saves Lives
|
She talked about 2 frogs were being cooked in
2 different pots. The first frog was put in a cool water pot. It would be
boiled gradually. The 2second frog was put in half boiled water pot.
The moral of her story was that the first
frog was at the comfort zone failed to jump up from the pot once the water
was boiled. The second frog sense the
danger once it legs touched on the boiled water, it quickly jumped out from
the pot. Life will be saved with quick decision at the time change of
environment.
|
Meeting 445 was a special meeting. We hold an extra business meeting to elect Wendy Sim, CC to take up the SAA role for the term 2019/2020. Circular of members voted via WhatApps to nominate Wendy Sim, CC to take up the role as SAA due to the resignation of Phang Chew Yee, CC. Since there was no other nominee proposed, the Acting Secretary, our Club Advisor, CP Lau, DTM cast one vote and confirmed Wendy Sim, CC was appointed as SAA for the term 2019/2020.
The meeting had a break of 5 minutes and then call to order by ASAA Rey Thean. She passed
her control to TME Manish Jha, IP1. TME invited GE Seki Ng, DTM to chair the
meeting.
KT
Chok, PM4, was impressed by all the Table Topics™ speakers, who had the courage to speak in front of the audience and delivered their speeches with full confidence. Although the Table
Topics™ was a bit lengthy, there were no hiccups for them to take up the challenges.
After that, we listened to the speech evaluators to give feedback to the speakers.
The GE called the Ah-counter, Grammarian and Timer to give their reports. Finally, the GE gave his opinions on the club meeting performance. GE was impressed with the displayed ribbons of the club, the energetic of the members and guests especially during the Table Topics™ Session.
He
recommended the Table Topics™ question wording should be limited to 7 words. Due to time limitation, he
also suggested that Table Topics™ Evaluator to summarize each speaker based on :
** One point what they did well,
** One point for the improvement,
** One point for encouragement.
Lastly,
he also suggested if possible to add a standing fan, he felt hot as well as for
those people sat near to the door entrance.
Now, the meeting reached its climax. TME
invited the President to give away the certificates the winners as below:-
Best Table
Topics™ Speaker – Hai Liang
Best Project Speech Evaluator – KL Loh, ATMG
Best
Project Speech – Mathew Philippose, EC1
Before
the closing of the curtain, the Club President KL Loh, ATMG presented token of
appreciation to GE Seki Ng, DTM who spent his valuable time to help the club by
giving his feedback and constructive recommendation.
The
Club President appreciated our members for the 1st time to take up the role who was CS Ong as Ah- Counter & Humor Master, Abdulrahman as Grammarian and Rey Thean as ASAA. He
also gave a special thanks to our guests Hai Liang, Alex Chong and Undaleed for
their feedback.
Just a reminder to all before signing off, come to attend our next meeting, where we will have our 2019/2020 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests on 08.10.2019. Stay tune with our announcement in WhatsApp, Facebook.
Blog Writer: EK Yeo, CC, CL
Regards,
MM-KL EXCO
2019/2020
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