HOW TO RECOGNISE A STROKE
From: Alan Subject: BLOOD CLOT----STROKE
How to Recognise a StrokE !!!!!!!! ?????
Some don't die, they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this .. .
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim
within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a
stroke .. . to tally . He said the trick was getting a stroke
recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient
medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters .. .. S.T.R.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' STEPS: STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMP LE SENTENCE
(Coherently) i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY O NE of these tasks,
call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke ------- Stick out Your Tongue
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person
to 'stick' out his tongue .. If the tongue is 'cr ooked',
if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an
indication of a stroke.
How to Recognise a StrokE !!!!!!!! ?????
Some don't die, they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this .. .
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim
within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a
stroke .. . to tally . He said the trick was getting a stroke
recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient
medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters .. .. S.T.R.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' STEPS: STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMP LE SENTENCE
(Coherently) i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY O NE of these tasks,
call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke ------- Stick out Your Tongue
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person
to 'stick' out his tongue .. If the tongue is 'cr ooked',
if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an
indication of a stroke.
160th meeting 11th Nov., 2008; A Success
This report should have been written by Huey Yee. But last minute she "threw the pen" at me.Like it or not I have to do it. I'll try my best to write down what happened at the meeting.
The meeting was attended by: The President, Hj Hashim, who played the role of an invocator. As usual Hj Hashim gave a very inspiring invocation entitled "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL". The gist of it, is that every success must experience failures and mistakes in life. Everyone should learn from their failures and when you fall down, you will get up and rebounce upward far greater than your drop-down. Anyway I will post the actual text in our BLOG so you can read it there.
The President was suppose to be the evaluator for Derrick Teh, but he did not turn up. Hopefully Derrick will attend the next meeting on 25th Nov. to do his Ice-breaker speech.
The VPE Siew Yin, also took up a dual role as Ah Counter as well as Table- Topic Master. She gave a very interesting topic to the five speakers led by Hj Naburi, then KL Loh, followed by our guests, Duncan and Kumaran and lastly Raymond Sii, the member who was MIA (missing in action) for some time. He was lost for words due to his long absence. But he made a courages comeback by delivering his first advance speech from the Professional Speaker Series. "Welcome back Raymond", and from now on, we will see more of you at our future meetings.
Congratulations to our guest Kumaran who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award. Both Duncan and Kumaran have decided to join our club. Congratulations to both of them for making the right decision in choosing our club. WELCOME Duncan and Kumaran.
As Ah Counter, Siew Yin had a field day ("night") in making money for the Club. Abu Bakar, the TME who did a very good job in conducting the meeting also had to pay the most fines of RM4.20 for having 42 speech crutches. So much so he had no small change for car park. As usual Hj Naburi, the next champion contributed RM2.30. I presume it's a record collection for the club and Song,the club treasurer, will be laughing his way to the bank. Unfortunately he was absent.
The evening was made hilarious by KL Loh's jokes with interjection from the members especially Hj Naburi with his letter from Osama to Bush with the message :
370H-SSV-O773H. To understand it you have to read the code upside down then you get the message.
The project speeches were all from the Advance series with Victor Wan's "Roasting" of Hj Naburi, who got carried away when he was doing the evaluation. Instead of evaluating Victor he went through the history of the club and definitely overshot his time allocations. Not only was Hj going overboard with time, but the other two speakers, Raymond Sii, and Wan Chee Wing and their evaluators, Huey Yee and Janice Ooi respectively, also overshot their time allocation. For the first time there was no Best Speaker and no Best Evaluator award given tonight.
The absence of our advisor, Francis Ng was greatly felt by the meeting especially to Victor Wan who was supposed to Roast him. This is one of the rare occassion that Francis did not come to the meeting as he is attending the District 51 Convention in Bali. Without Francis we still manage to run a successful meeting. Touche to the President, who was the earliest to arrive to arrange table and chairs and placing the banners and helping Paul to prepare the nasi lemak. He was the last to leave the meeting room to rearrange the table and chairs with the help of Paul, Duncan, E.K. Yeo and Hj Naburi. Normally, all these were done by Francis.
The birthday cake was also prepared by the President. Hj Naburi and Janice and Wan Chee Wing except for Alwin who left early, had their birthday song and blowing candles ceremony and Huey Yee helped to cut the cake for everyone.
Well done to all the role players. Abu Bakar, the TME,- a well run meeting. Cindy Foong, the Timer, even though with an injured hand after being attacked by snatch thieves a couple of nights before, Cindy still turn up to take up role. Thank you and kudos to Cindy. We pray that you will overcome the trauma soon and our sympathy to you Cindy.
Paul Tan was Grammarian and as usual gave his lengthy report and advice.
The General Evaluator was Chen Voon Hann who is no stranger to our club, our friend from MIA TMC, did a very good job in his duty and tried to bring us to the next level by suggesting that we ought to think seriously about practising open evaluation which is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Not to forget Tan Ben Hoe our cool IPP in his usual style was the Table Topic evaluator, appreciated by everyone.
All in all, it was a successful meeting and everyone had a good time. Our guest, Kumaran who came for the first time was very impressed with our performances decided to join as a member of our club together with Duncan.
Well done guys and gals. Keep it up.
Report by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
The meeting was attended by: The President, Hj Hashim, who played the role of an invocator. As usual Hj Hashim gave a very inspiring invocation entitled "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL". The gist of it, is that every success must experience failures and mistakes in life. Everyone should learn from their failures and when you fall down, you will get up and rebounce upward far greater than your drop-down. Anyway I will post the actual text in our BLOG so you can read it there.
The President was suppose to be the evaluator for Derrick Teh, but he did not turn up. Hopefully Derrick will attend the next meeting on 25th Nov. to do his Ice-breaker speech.
The VPE Siew Yin, also took up a dual role as Ah Counter as well as Table- Topic Master. She gave a very interesting topic to the five speakers led by Hj Naburi, then KL Loh, followed by our guests, Duncan and Kumaran and lastly Raymond Sii, the member who was MIA (missing in action) for some time. He was lost for words due to his long absence. But he made a courages comeback by delivering his first advance speech from the Professional Speaker Series. "Welcome back Raymond", and from now on, we will see more of you at our future meetings.
Congratulations to our guest Kumaran who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award. Both Duncan and Kumaran have decided to join our club. Congratulations to both of them for making the right decision in choosing our club. WELCOME Duncan and Kumaran.
As Ah Counter, Siew Yin had a field day ("night") in making money for the Club. Abu Bakar, the TME who did a very good job in conducting the meeting also had to pay the most fines of RM4.20 for having 42 speech crutches. So much so he had no small change for car park. As usual Hj Naburi, the next champion contributed RM2.30. I presume it's a record collection for the club and Song,the club treasurer, will be laughing his way to the bank. Unfortunately he was absent.
The evening was made hilarious by KL Loh's jokes with interjection from the members especially Hj Naburi with his letter from Osama to Bush with the message :
370H-SSV-O773H. To understand it you have to read the code upside down then you get the message.
The project speeches were all from the Advance series with Victor Wan's "Roasting" of Hj Naburi, who got carried away when he was doing the evaluation. Instead of evaluating Victor he went through the history of the club and definitely overshot his time allocations. Not only was Hj going overboard with time, but the other two speakers, Raymond Sii, and Wan Chee Wing and their evaluators, Huey Yee and Janice Ooi respectively, also overshot their time allocation. For the first time there was no Best Speaker and no Best Evaluator award given tonight.
The absence of our advisor, Francis Ng was greatly felt by the meeting especially to Victor Wan who was supposed to Roast him. This is one of the rare occassion that Francis did not come to the meeting as he is attending the District 51 Convention in Bali. Without Francis we still manage to run a successful meeting. Touche to the President, who was the earliest to arrive to arrange table and chairs and placing the banners and helping Paul to prepare the nasi lemak. He was the last to leave the meeting room to rearrange the table and chairs with the help of Paul, Duncan, E.K. Yeo and Hj Naburi. Normally, all these were done by Francis.
The birthday cake was also prepared by the President. Hj Naburi and Janice and Wan Chee Wing except for Alwin who left early, had their birthday song and blowing candles ceremony and Huey Yee helped to cut the cake for everyone.
Well done to all the role players. Abu Bakar, the TME,- a well run meeting. Cindy Foong, the Timer, even though with an injured hand after being attacked by snatch thieves a couple of nights before, Cindy still turn up to take up role. Thank you and kudos to Cindy. We pray that you will overcome the trauma soon and our sympathy to you Cindy.
Paul Tan was Grammarian and as usual gave his lengthy report and advice.
The General Evaluator was Chen Voon Hann who is no stranger to our club, our friend from MIA TMC, did a very good job in his duty and tried to bring us to the next level by suggesting that we ought to think seriously about practising open evaluation which is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Not to forget Tan Ben Hoe our cool IPP in his usual style was the Table Topic evaluator, appreciated by everyone.
All in all, it was a successful meeting and everyone had a good time. Our guest, Kumaran who came for the first time was very impressed with our performances decided to join as a member of our club together with Duncan.
Well done guys and gals. Keep it up.
Report by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
Presidential Invocation at the 160th meeting on 11th Nov., 2008
The President, Hj Hashim had to do the invocation since Khoshim Malim who was assigned to do it did not turn up. The attendance at this meeting was not up to expectation as only 13 members were present. We had 2 guests, Duncan and Kumaran who later signed up to be members and Chen Voon Hann from MIATMC was the General Evaluator and a guest speaker, Wan Chee Wing from Maxis who did advance speech.
Hj Hashim's invocation: "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL"
Have you ever failed or made a mistake? If your answer is "YES" then it's good for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you are not making mistakes, you're not risking enough.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance."
Remember the old poem that says:
Success is a fiure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are:
it may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you"re hardest hit;
it's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
(Unknown)
Hj Hashim's invocation: "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL"
Have you ever failed or made a mistake? If your answer is "YES" then it's good for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you are not making mistakes, you're not risking enough.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance."
Remember the old poem that says:
Success is a fiure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are:
it may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you"re hardest hit;
it's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
(Unknown)
THE POWER OF ...ENCOURAGEMENT, INSPIRATION, ESPRIT DE CORP ..........
Huey Yee..you are indeed an angel, the jewel of the club. You sure "Go The Extra Mile" to write such an enlightening report on the proceedings of our club meeting held the night before on 28th Oct., 2008. I was about to request you to do the write up and yet when I open the blog it's already there, a well written report...kudos to you dear Huey Yee. I would like to appoint you as the official reporter representing the Public Relations Committee which is in the process of being set up. I do hope you accept the appointment and we will discuss further about the proposed PR Committee.
I agree with you 110% that the meeting was really fired up and full of excitement with all the speakers in one way or another making beautiful and impressive speeches invoking inspirations, motivations, encouragements, enthusiasm, and all the positive superlatives and adjectives that you can think off.
Beginning with Paul Tan's Table Topics of mind boggling quotations which really makes your mind start to think hard that drove almost all the speakers to speak out of topics. Perhaps Paul can post all the 11 topics he had prepared into the blog so that we can share all those quotations for future table topic session.
Calista's speech about her superhero grandfather almost put everyone to tears. She told it poignantly with emotions and aptly quoted Napoleon Hill's "Whatever the mind can conceive you can achieve" to describe how the 81 year old grandfather overcame a serious stroke and survive until today. Congratulation calista. Keep it up.
From Sharon who idolise her father we learned how to overcome difficulties and problems in life.:
1. Stop what's not working
2. Start what is working
3. Continue what is working
This is a practical strategy to adopt when one is in the situation of "insanity" not knowing what to do. Many of us is in this life's situation of insanity that is doing the same thing day in day out (over and over and over again ) and expecting different results. Sharon gave us the answer to this. Kudos and Big Thank you Sharon.
The night was full of fun and laughter with the antics of Aziz's unique style of humour and Khoshim's inimitable way of conducting the meeting. Khoshim has proven that with enthusiasm, courage and wanting to be the best of oneself surprised the GE Rohijas that he can conduct the meeting with confidence and in fluent English. Congratulations to Khoshim and Aziz.
Haji Naburi's quotation was "Engage your Brain before you put your mouth into Gear." was well interpreted by Huey Yee.
The performance of our VPE Siew Yin as Acting President while our President Hj Hashim was playing golf in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, was sterling. She is rightfully a President in the making. Touche' Siew Yin. You briefly spoke about John R Wooden's article in the October issue of the Toastmaster's Magazine which I would like to highlight and share some of the important points which are practical and applicable to all of us especially in Toastmasters.
Who is he? John R Wooden is 97 year old who is the greatest basketball coach of the UCLA Basketball Team that won the U.S. National Championship 10 times unprecedentedly. He is Head Basketball Coach, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles.
His famous Quotations, "Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life..early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it."
His definition of SUCCESS, " SUCCESS is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
To him success is NOT the accumulation of material possessions or the achievement of a position of power or prestige.
He made use of what his father said to him."Never Try to be better than someone else. Learn from others."
Based on this definition he invented the PYRAMID OF SUCCESS (Refer pg 18 of Toastmasters Magazine Oct. issue)
WOODEN'S 12 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP:
1. Good values attract good people
2. Love is the most powerful Four-letter word
3. Call Yourself a Teacher
4. Emotion is your enemy
5. It takes 10 Hands To Make a Basket
6. Little Things Make Big Things Happen
7. Make Each Day Your Masterpiece
8. The Carrot is Mightier Than A Stick
9. Make Greatness Attainable By All
10. Seek Significant Change
11. Don't Look At The Scoreboard
12. Adversity is Your Asset
According to Wooden, one of the greatest motivating tools is a pat on the back. It doesn't have to be a physical pat - it could be a smile, a nod. Everyone likes to be complimented in one way or another.
So fellow Moneymasterians please take note of this. Whenever we take up roles as evaluators or Grammarian be generous with our compliments where deserved and don't forget to mention names to whom the compliments are directed to. Make the members who deserve them "FEEL GOOD" and make their day.
Another technique is LISTENING. A leader must listen to those under their supervision. Get ideas from them. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame.
CRITICISM must always be given in a gentle way, never harshly.
THREE RULES which he practised for his teams:
1. Never be late. Always be on time. It's very important. Whether to practice,
to the table, to the bus, to your classes.
2. You must never criticize a teammate. That's the leader's job. It's never
your job.
3. I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle
pull you from the court, put you on the bench and talk to you before I
would put you back in.
To him it is far more difficult to get to the TOP.
EFFECTIVE LEADERS are first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business."
How leaders should resolve conflict which is inevitable in any organisation.
Get both parties together and air everything out without trying to hold back anything - not be critical of either one, just try to listen to both sides and find out what might be the trouble. Sometimes the trouble is trivial nothing at all.
Make sure those you lead receive very little criticism, but when there has to be criticism, it must be done in a gentle way that will not be embarrassing, and definitely not in front of others. You may need to take them aside and talk it over, but never do so while you're mad. No yelling; it has to be done in a gentle fashion, and with a pat on the back is the best.
CLUB PRESIDENTS: Listen and Lead with Love.
Leaders must show that they really cared about their members as a person. He cared about their family. Each day: How's your mother? Did the job work out for your dad? Did your brother or sister get that position?
Every leader should do this. You should really care. If you are fooling them, they will catch on.
Leaders must have patience and faith in the people that they lead. They must believe in what they are doing, the proper thing, the right thing.
"We are all guilty at times of wanting things to happen a certain way but not doing everything we are capable of to help that become a reality. We just want it to. And that's not life. That shgouldn't be life"
"Excerpt from THE WOODEN WAY by Craig Harrison, DTM" Toastmasters Magazine Oct. 2008
I agree with you 110% that the meeting was really fired up and full of excitement with all the speakers in one way or another making beautiful and impressive speeches invoking inspirations, motivations, encouragements, enthusiasm, and all the positive superlatives and adjectives that you can think off.
Beginning with Paul Tan's Table Topics of mind boggling quotations which really makes your mind start to think hard that drove almost all the speakers to speak out of topics. Perhaps Paul can post all the 11 topics he had prepared into the blog so that we can share all those quotations for future table topic session.
Calista's speech about her superhero grandfather almost put everyone to tears. She told it poignantly with emotions and aptly quoted Napoleon Hill's "Whatever the mind can conceive you can achieve" to describe how the 81 year old grandfather overcame a serious stroke and survive until today. Congratulation calista. Keep it up.
From Sharon who idolise her father we learned how to overcome difficulties and problems in life.:
1. Stop what's not working
2. Start what is working
3. Continue what is working
This is a practical strategy to adopt when one is in the situation of "insanity" not knowing what to do. Many of us is in this life's situation of insanity that is doing the same thing day in day out (over and over and over again ) and expecting different results. Sharon gave us the answer to this. Kudos and Big Thank you Sharon.
The night was full of fun and laughter with the antics of Aziz's unique style of humour and Khoshim's inimitable way of conducting the meeting. Khoshim has proven that with enthusiasm, courage and wanting to be the best of oneself surprised the GE Rohijas that he can conduct the meeting with confidence and in fluent English. Congratulations to Khoshim and Aziz.
Haji Naburi's quotation was "Engage your Brain before you put your mouth into Gear." was well interpreted by Huey Yee.
The performance of our VPE Siew Yin as Acting President while our President Hj Hashim was playing golf in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, was sterling. She is rightfully a President in the making. Touche' Siew Yin. You briefly spoke about John R Wooden's article in the October issue of the Toastmaster's Magazine which I would like to highlight and share some of the important points which are practical and applicable to all of us especially in Toastmasters.
Who is he? John R Wooden is 97 year old who is the greatest basketball coach of the UCLA Basketball Team that won the U.S. National Championship 10 times unprecedentedly. He is Head Basketball Coach, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles.
His famous Quotations, "Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life..early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it."
His definition of SUCCESS, " SUCCESS is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
To him success is NOT the accumulation of material possessions or the achievement of a position of power or prestige.
He made use of what his father said to him."Never Try to be better than someone else. Learn from others."
Based on this definition he invented the PYRAMID OF SUCCESS (Refer pg 18 of Toastmasters Magazine Oct. issue)
WOODEN'S 12 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP:
1. Good values attract good people
2. Love is the most powerful Four-letter word
3. Call Yourself a Teacher
4. Emotion is your enemy
5. It takes 10 Hands To Make a Basket
6. Little Things Make Big Things Happen
7. Make Each Day Your Masterpiece
8. The Carrot is Mightier Than A Stick
9. Make Greatness Attainable By All
10. Seek Significant Change
11. Don't Look At The Scoreboard
12. Adversity is Your Asset
According to Wooden, one of the greatest motivating tools is a pat on the back. It doesn't have to be a physical pat - it could be a smile, a nod. Everyone likes to be complimented in one way or another.
So fellow Moneymasterians please take note of this. Whenever we take up roles as evaluators or Grammarian be generous with our compliments where deserved and don't forget to mention names to whom the compliments are directed to. Make the members who deserve them "FEEL GOOD" and make their day.
Another technique is LISTENING. A leader must listen to those under their supervision. Get ideas from them. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame.
CRITICISM must always be given in a gentle way, never harshly.
THREE RULES which he practised for his teams:
1. Never be late. Always be on time. It's very important. Whether to practice,
to the table, to the bus, to your classes.
2. You must never criticize a teammate. That's the leader's job. It's never
your job.
3. I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle
pull you from the court, put you on the bench and talk to you before I
would put you back in.
To him it is far more difficult to get to the TOP.
EFFECTIVE LEADERS are first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business."
How leaders should resolve conflict which is inevitable in any organisation.
Get both parties together and air everything out without trying to hold back anything - not be critical of either one, just try to listen to both sides and find out what might be the trouble. Sometimes the trouble is trivial nothing at all.
Make sure those you lead receive very little criticism, but when there has to be criticism, it must be done in a gentle way that will not be embarrassing, and definitely not in front of others. You may need to take them aside and talk it over, but never do so while you're mad. No yelling; it has to be done in a gentle fashion, and with a pat on the back is the best.
CLUB PRESIDENTS: Listen and Lead with Love.
Leaders must show that they really cared about their members as a person. He cared about their family. Each day: How's your mother? Did the job work out for your dad? Did your brother or sister get that position?
Every leader should do this. You should really care. If you are fooling them, they will catch on.
Leaders must have patience and faith in the people that they lead. They must believe in what they are doing, the proper thing, the right thing.
"We are all guilty at times of wanting things to happen a certain way but not doing everything we are capable of to help that become a reality. We just want it to. And that's not life. That shgouldn't be life"
"Excerpt from THE WOODEN WAY by Craig Harrison, DTM" Toastmasters Magazine Oct. 2008
Meeting #160 (28/10/08)
I felt a fire of excitement this evening when our precious members walked in one-by-one, as the meeting commenced. Reasons are…
1. the crowd is back after the puasa month,
2. we had a guest, a gwailo from the UK, Duncan (oh-la-la) and
3. we are so famous for our time keeping that as our GE, Rohijas put it, we stuck to the time and everyone enjoyed themselves.
It’s indeed also precious time as our VPE, Siew Yin got to play acting president as our precious President was in Indonesia on a golf tour. Wherever you are, Hj Hashim, I’m sure you’ve telepathy over your blessings for an awesome meeting.
I thoroughly enjoyed Khoshim playing our genial host tonight. Our TME can indeed speak English, just teasing. Thank you for being organized and effective in your role.
Hj Naburi’s message in his invocation…Engage your minds before putting words into your mouth.
Paul Tan’s table topics definitely offered us precious food for thought…
1. the oil of courtesy takes the friction out of our life.
2. wisdom is in knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
3. we loose the joy of living in the present if we worry too much of the future.
4. gentle words falls lightly but carries great weight.
5. we commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Kudos to Marcus Chee, Ben Hoe, Duncan, Gean Lau and Hj Naburi for speaking on the topic, around the topic and even out of topic. Actually, simply put, that’s the whole idea of table topics. So, fear not, young/new members, the only way to improve is to get up there and speak.
These days, we get to enjoy more meaty project speeches…speakers being able to share personal stories and audience being able to enjoy… some even make my eye teary.
I’m so honored to have heard Calista Chan speak with passion about her real life Superhero, her grandfather. The crafting of words (eg sunken and lifeless eyes), the edge in her voice, the flow of her story… it’s definitely speech material for International Speech Contest ya?
Sharon Siow spoke in praise of her father. I sat in awe as she spoke with respect and enthusiasm about her dad. Her speech’s precious value tonight for me…
1. stop what’s not working,
2. start what is working and
3. continue what is working
(good to reflect this in reference to becoming better communicators)
Bakar attempted his 5th project speech, the persuasive leader, The Power to Change. Point blank, thank you for sharing. It help me reflect on what’s happening around us and we have a choice not to play victim. Though we can’t change the world, we can change the world around us. So, point blank, your speech has lots of potential to be an even more powerful speech. Do consider doing it again.
It’s good to hear more advance speeches nowadays…our club has definitely matured compared to those days when only KL Loh was pursuing his advance goals. Kudos, Victor Wan, move along, move along to finish your special occasion speeches.
It’s an honor to have Rohijas to be our GE and thank you for your observations and points of how we can improve.
Some dates to take note of…
3rd Nov 2008…AFC TMc’s Speech Marathon meeting. our newly sponsored club, AFC TMC need our help and guidance to grow. Pls volunteer for roles. Actually, the members are very independent, we probably only need to sit next to them mentoring them on how to be more effective in the roles in the meeting.
22nd – 24th Nov 2008….SpeechCraft Program for a corporation in Shah Alam. Pls contact Francis to volunteer your precious time. It’s time to give back, members. (ps. Pls pick up the phone before he calls you himself).
13th Jan 2009… Our very own MMKL TMc’s International Speech and Table Topics Contests 2009. The Money Mastery-KL Challenge trophy is up for grabs and the chance to represent our esteemed club in the Area W1 contests and all the way to the States for the World Championship
(as Calista rightly put it…whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve). Pls contact Siew Yin to register as contestant and/or play roles.
That’s it, guys…till we meet again on 11th Nov 2008, have an awesome rest of the week.
Cheers,
Huey yee
1. the crowd is back after the puasa month,
2. we had a guest, a gwailo from the UK, Duncan (oh-la-la) and
3. we are so famous for our time keeping that as our GE, Rohijas put it, we stuck to the time and everyone enjoyed themselves.
It’s indeed also precious time as our VPE, Siew Yin got to play acting president as our precious President was in Indonesia on a golf tour. Wherever you are, Hj Hashim, I’m sure you’ve telepathy over your blessings for an awesome meeting.
I thoroughly enjoyed Khoshim playing our genial host tonight. Our TME can indeed speak English, just teasing. Thank you for being organized and effective in your role.
Hj Naburi’s message in his invocation…Engage your minds before putting words into your mouth.
Paul Tan’s table topics definitely offered us precious food for thought…
1. the oil of courtesy takes the friction out of our life.
2. wisdom is in knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
3. we loose the joy of living in the present if we worry too much of the future.
4. gentle words falls lightly but carries great weight.
5. we commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Kudos to Marcus Chee, Ben Hoe, Duncan, Gean Lau and Hj Naburi for speaking on the topic, around the topic and even out of topic. Actually, simply put, that’s the whole idea of table topics. So, fear not, young/new members, the only way to improve is to get up there and speak.
These days, we get to enjoy more meaty project speeches…speakers being able to share personal stories and audience being able to enjoy… some even make my eye teary.
I’m so honored to have heard Calista Chan speak with passion about her real life Superhero, her grandfather. The crafting of words (eg sunken and lifeless eyes), the edge in her voice, the flow of her story… it’s definitely speech material for International Speech Contest ya?
Sharon Siow spoke in praise of her father. I sat in awe as she spoke with respect and enthusiasm about her dad. Her speech’s precious value tonight for me…
1. stop what’s not working,
2. start what is working and
3. continue what is working
(good to reflect this in reference to becoming better communicators)
Bakar attempted his 5th project speech, the persuasive leader, The Power to Change. Point blank, thank you for sharing. It help me reflect on what’s happening around us and we have a choice not to play victim. Though we can’t change the world, we can change the world around us. So, point blank, your speech has lots of potential to be an even more powerful speech. Do consider doing it again.
It’s good to hear more advance speeches nowadays…our club has definitely matured compared to those days when only KL Loh was pursuing his advance goals. Kudos, Victor Wan, move along, move along to finish your special occasion speeches.
It’s an honor to have Rohijas to be our GE and thank you for your observations and points of how we can improve.
Some dates to take note of…
3rd Nov 2008…AFC TMc’s Speech Marathon meeting. our newly sponsored club, AFC TMC need our help and guidance to grow. Pls volunteer for roles. Actually, the members are very independent, we probably only need to sit next to them mentoring them on how to be more effective in the roles in the meeting.
22nd – 24th Nov 2008….SpeechCraft Program for a corporation in Shah Alam. Pls contact Francis to volunteer your precious time. It’s time to give back, members. (ps. Pls pick up the phone before he calls you himself).
13th Jan 2009… Our very own MMKL TMc’s International Speech and Table Topics Contests 2009. The Money Mastery-KL Challenge trophy is up for grabs and the chance to represent our esteemed club in the Area W1 contests and all the way to the States for the World Championship
(as Calista rightly put it…whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve). Pls contact Siew Yin to register as contestant and/or play roles.
That’s it, guys…till we meet again on 11th Nov 2008, have an awesome rest of the week.
Cheers,
Huey yee
BREAKING NEWS: SPEECHCRAFT IS IN THE MAKING C OME NOV 22ND, 23RD, AND 24TH
HARD WORKING members comprising the President, Hj Hashim, DTM Francis, VPE Siew Ying, VPPM E K Yeo, IPP Tan Ben Hoe, VPPR Hj Naburi, Janice Ooi and Marcus Chee had an urgent meeting at WIM's immediately after the Div W Contest yesterday, 25th Oct., 2008 to discuss with Ms Theresa representing K L Loh from Mechmar Bhd. about the all exciting SPEECHCRAFT project for some 25 top managers and executives of Mechmar Bhd and it's subsidiaries.
We need volunteers from Club members to play roles at the two and half day speechcraft workshop which will be held on Nov., 22nd., 23rd., and 24th tentatively at Mechmar's headquarters in Shah Alam.
It's going to be a great learning experience for both the role players and the participants. The chief coordinator or organising chair will be our President himself, Tuan Hj Hashim.
This is the first speechcraft project to be organised by our club, so come forward and be a volunteer role player and make it a big success.
For the information of members, if you want to qualify for your ACG (Advance Communicator Gold)award you have to play the role of Chief Coordinator or Organising Chair for such like project from the Leadership Series.
Let's keep up with the Esprit de Corp of the club and work together for the speechcraft project.
SEE YOU AT THE TOP!
HJ NABURI
VPPR
We need volunteers from Club members to play roles at the two and half day speechcraft workshop which will be held on Nov., 22nd., 23rd., and 24th tentatively at Mechmar's headquarters in Shah Alam.
It's going to be a great learning experience for both the role players and the participants. The chief coordinator or organising chair will be our President himself, Tuan Hj Hashim.
This is the first speechcraft project to be organised by our club, so come forward and be a volunteer role player and make it a big success.
For the information of members, if you want to qualify for your ACG (Advance Communicator Gold)award you have to play the role of Chief Coordinator or Organising Chair for such like project from the Leadership Series.
Let's keep up with the Esprit de Corp of the club and work together for the speechcraft project.
SEE YOU AT THE TOP!
HJ NABURI
VPPR
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