The Installation of Club EXCO 2015/2016

The installation of 15^th EXCO of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters (MM-KL) club was held on Saturday 13^th of June 2015. It was held at very exceptional venue. Truly the place can be said to give anyone the top of the world experience. The place itself was called The Main Place and interesting name for a building which houses a mall and condominiums.  It was at the Penthouse of this building the installation of the 13^th EXCO of the MM-KL Toastmasters club is going to take place. This was made possible by one of our members Kelvin Chong, CC who sponsored us to use the place.

 

A view from this place was breath taking. One could have a bird’s eye view of the whole capital city.

Kevin Khoo, CC and his team comprising of Ji Sheng, Kimberly (Ji Sheng’s sister), Wendy and Serena had been making all the preparations for this grand day. In fact they had been there from the early hours of the noon. 

 

All those who came were ushered to an open space which was adjacent to this Penthouse.   

 

TME: Ken Chan, DTM & Installation Officer: Lakhmichand, DTM

As the clock struck 6.30pm we saw members and guest streaming in. The Past Presidents Ben Hoe and CP Lau and Victor Wan were also present.

In a few moments all were ready to see the grand ceremony of the ushering in of a new team to lead Money mastery-KL Toastmasters to another height.  It was bright sky with dark shadows glooming around. The brave front that the toastmasters put forward soon drove away the dark clouds to the cool breeze. Then, darkness set in at about 7pm. One could see the lights of the town lighted up like stars in the sky but it was illuminating all around the valley of this Penthouse.

 

As the clock ticked the organiser of the event Kevin Khoo, CC welcomed the guest and the Toastmaster of the evening (TME) Ken Chan, DTM took over the command of the meeting. 

 

Lakhmichand, DTM reminded us on the formation of the club

With his humorous gestures he handed over the meeting to the officiating Officer for the day Lakhmichand, DTM,(also known as Lucky, DTM). Lucky, DTM very professionally got the outgoing EXCO to stand in a row at one extreme end was the President Serena Kong, ACB and followed by the rest of the EXCO. As the EXCO 2014/2015 was relieved of their duties for the ending term, the new EXCO was called in. It are sight to behold, as the line-up of the outgoing EXCO and incoming EXCO took their places in their full suite commemorating the grand event.

Lucky DTM lead each EXCO member starting from SAA to a swearing in ceremony. 

Each member of the EXCO pledge their commitments to lead the club in various aspects they were sworn in. 

The table below is the EXCO positions and the outgoing EXCO and incoming EXCO.

 

EXCO POSITIONS	Outgoing EXCO 2014/2015	Incoming EXCO 2015/2016
President	Serena Kong	Mathew Philippose
Vice President Education	Mathew Philippose	Ron Yeap
Vice President of Membership	Ron Yeap	Ng Ser Kwang
Vice President of Public Relations	Ng Ser Kwang	Wendy Sim
Secretary	Kevin Khoo	Vijayakumar
Treasurer	EK Yeo	EK Yeo
SAA	Hans Tan	Chong Ji Sheng

 

Great View, Sweet Moment & Brand New EXCO Team

It was a proud moment with distinguished guests and club members present at the meeting. Division G Governor Tuan Haji Hashim, Area G4 Governor Jacy Wee and In coming Division C Director Selina Chong, DTM, incoming Division C Area Director Micheal Wong, ACB, CL, were present. Other special guests were Geoff Andrews, DTM who was one of the key persons in the club charter along with incoming Assistant Division Program Quality Director, Dr. Steven Khaw, CC, CL and incoming Area T2 Director, Dr Thilla, ACS, ALB.

As soon as the installation was over everyone adjourned to a sumptuous steamboat dinner. Among other things were noodles and fried rice with satay and fruits. Everyone was busy enjoying the food to their satisfactions, with much noise of chattering, under the cool clear sky. 

 

As all were feeling satisfied with a good meal the TME drew the attention of everyone to the next part of the program. TME passed the time over to the organising chair Kevin Khoo, CC, who got Ron Yeap and his team of Wendy Sim and Tracy to a number of games that put all in excitement and laughter.

It was the award presentation ceremony.Organising Chair, Kevin Khoo gave his appreciation to his team.

Appreciation to Kelvin Chong for sponsoring us the venue

President Serena Kong gave away appreciation awards, Following were the awards given out:

More than 10 years membership in the club:

Ben Hoe & EK Yeo

Best Toastmasters of the year:

Outstanding EXCO in the year:

New Member Good Spirit in the year:

Appreciation to Organising Chair, Kevin Khoo, CC

The grand event ended with the cake cutting ceremony of the birthday of Tn. Haji Hashim who had turned 70. All sang and celebrated together with him a memorable birthday. The meeting soon dispersed with much joy and contentment.

Prepared by,
Mathew Philippose
Club President 2015/2016

2015/2016 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest Results:

Humorous Speech:

1st Place: Ken Chan

2nd Place: Kelvin Chong

3rd Place: Vijayakumar

Evaluation Speech:

1st Place: Ken Chan

2nd Place: Ron Yeap

3rd Place: Kevin Khoo

Congratulations to Ken, double championship!

As we are now under Division C, Area C1, we will only have 1 representative to represent our club to Area Contests. Kelvin Chong & Ron, both you will be placed as our club standby if Ken can't make it on 27 September 2015, Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC). AD Michael Wong will advice the contests time in the near future. Let's mark down 27 September and give our support to our club representative Ken in Area Contests.

Summaried by, 

Serena Kong

Organising Chair

Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests

90th Anniversary of Toastmasters International

This year is the 90th anniversary of Toastmasters International. Below is a video clip that describes Toastmasters International, on why it is held at the basement of YMCA at Santa Anna California.

This gives you an overall picture/ perception of how Toastmasters International was started and how it progressed to today's world wide organization.

90th Anniversary of Toastmasters International

Thanks to All members of Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club

Received this ribbon from Toastmasters International, marked another remarkable achievement of our club. Well done Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters, we have made it for another year.

This is not only a job of one person, this is not only the contribution from one person, this is a GROUP SUCCESS! All of us have contributed tremendously to this achievement.

Together we STRETCH THE LIMIT, ACHIEVING STAR PERFORMANCE, Together we RISE, Together we will LEARN and GROW, Together we will ACHIEVE MORE!

 

Club Meeting #308 - 26 August 2014

It was a happening month in August 2014 for Toastmasters. For the very first time, Toastmasters International Convention was held outside of America, and we, Malaysian were very honored that Malaysia was the host for this historical event!

Our capital, Kuala Lumpur was in the limelight that there were thousands of Toastmasters visited our country from all over the world.

Yes, "In The Limelight" was the theme of our meeting #308, on 26 August, 3 days after the Toastmasters International Convention. It was definitely a "momentous" occasion and it was a proud moment for all of us from the District 51. "Momentous" was the Word of the Day for our meeting.

Our Toastmaster of the Evening, Mathew Philippose, CC shared with us the many momentous moment that our country was in the limelight, in terms of our achievement in sports, economic achievement, academic achievements and many more. Thanks to Mathew for such wonderful sharing.

We have Rueben, ACB, CL from Satu Hati Toastmasters Club, joined us and was the Table Topics Evaluator for the meeting. Rueben was not alone. There was a team from OCBC Toastmasters Club also visited us. Allysia Wong, CC, CL, the Immediate Past President of OCBC Toastmasters Club, current W6 Governor as our General Evaluator, Rachel Ng, CC, CL was the Table Topics Master and Pua Yin Yin, ACB, CL President of OCBC Toastmasters Club took up a role as one of the speech evaluator. 

A round of applause to our fellow Toastmasters! Thank you and welcome to Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club. Not forgetting, we have Judy Foong, TM from IBM Malaysia Toastmasters Club visited us.

One of our members, Vijaykumar, TM delivered his speech #5 from the CC manual. He shared with us about his "singlehood" and why he is still "single" at his age now. It was a humorous speech wit lots of humor, funny stories. We are very proud of you Vijaykumar as we witnessed your tremendous improvement in you, especially on you body language as well as your vocal variety.

The second speech was delivered by our fellow member, Ng Ser Kwang, TM. He shared with us on how do we invest into property on his 8th project speech in the CC manual. The objective of the speech was to get comfortable with visual aids. There were a few areas of improvements that not only the speech evaluator provided, but also from some of our members during the open evaluation session. We believe Ser Kwang would have gain some tips of making a better power point presentation in the near future.

It was a night that we did not just have our ordinary meeting, we have great fellowship with Toastmasters from various clubs. One of the highlights of our meeting was the visit of our Area G4 Governor, Jacy Wee, CC, ALB from Money and You KL Toastmasters. Her visit by sharing her feeling after attending the Toastmasters International Convention has definitely injected a booster and inspired our members. Give it a thought, what is the reason that some of the Toastmasters can be 20 or 30 years long, and continue to move forward in the journey...

Club Meeting #307 - 12 August 2014

This was the "first" official meeting of our club since the start of the new term in July. In the month of July, we have had our Club Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests as well as our Club Officers Installation Night respectively.

The meeting was a very good one as we have Victor Loh, ACB from Satu Hati Toastmasters Club as our General Evaluator, Victor Ong, DTM from many clubs, delivered a speech. 2 of our senior members, Hj. Hashim Adnan, CC, ALB and Ken Chan, DTM shared with us their preparation embarking on a High Performance Leadership Project, respectively during their services as Area Governor as well as Division Governor.

Our theme of meeting was "International Youth Day" which fell exactly on our meeting date, 12 August 2014. Thanks to our Madam President, Serena Kong, ACB and our Toastmaster of the Evening, Kevin Khoo, CC shared with us on information about International Youth Day.

   

The Word of the Day is "Serendipity", which means

1. Pleasant surprise, unexpected and sudden blessing.
2. Phenomenon of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
3. Something interesting or pleasant happening by chance /coincidence.

 Our member Jennifer Mah, TM was the Table Topics Master of this meeting.

Our first project speech was delivered by our Madam President, repeating her CC manual, gave us her "second" ice breaker speech. She talked about Sabah Girl. Her life, experience and culture shock between Sabah and KL impressed us. Well done Serena, you deserved a standing ovation from the audience.

The second speech was delivered by Victor Ong, DTM, repeating his CC manual (uncountable times), gave us her 4th speech, titled "Love is an Illusion". Victor demonstrated beautifully how he used rhetorical devices in his speech. Thanks to Victor for such a beautiful, lovely speech.

Hj. Hashim Adnan, CC, ALB and Ken Chan, DTM had also delivered their speeches respectively HPL projects. Theu have shared their visions and mission on how to achieved President Distinguished Area (for G3) and President Distinguished Division for Division G.

Our GE took over the session after the break and led the evaluation team to provide their analytical comments and constructive suggestions on each and every speech delivered.