The Ebullient Toastmaster

28 April 2009

Word of the Evening: EBULLIENT

Yes, indeed. We had an EBULLIENT evening, thanks to our ebullient Toastmaster of the Evening, Mr Lucas Ng! This TME here had outrageously used the word ebullient in almost every sentence he speaks!! Talk about being zestfully enthusiastic.. :)

As usual, 6.15 p.m. was Fellowship session. Jacky Ang, the SAA called the meeting to order at 6.45 p.m. Mr President of SCTMC then took the stage with his welcoming note. And the Man of the Evening (XD), the ebullient TME, Lucas Ng kickstarted with a brief history of the Toastmasters International. The roleplayers then introduced themselves. We had Ong Siew Ming as the Timer, Lavanya as the Ah Counter, Muthu Kumar as the Table Topics Master, Amy Choo as the Table Topics Evaluator , Deborah Hoe (D Utama Advanced TMC) as the Grammarian, and finally, Rengamnathan (Ernst & Young TMC) as our General Evaluator.

Muthu Kumar had the first volunteer, Mr Joshua George speak on Mr Stephen Fernando's (PJ Hilton TMC) good qualities in a situation where it was the latter's marriage day! Interesting, interesting... Next, was Prince who shared with us on his dream job to be a surgeon because he wanted to save people's life. Ayman, a first-timer to the Toastmasters community made no error with his steady presentation on What is the One and Only Question You Would Ask Barack Obama? I won't tell you what he would've asked. Instead, I want to ask you. If you were given the opportunity, what would you have asked?? Ong Siew Ming came up as the fourth challenger and made us all laugh with her views on If You Have One Power to Change One Thing in the World, What Would it Be... She said, the college library. Full stop. Hahaha!! The One Million Dollar question was picked by Lavanya and she shared with us on how she would use her 1 million dollar in her hands.

Humour was open to the floor. We had Ms Amy Choo, Jee Aik (HELP TMC) and Mr Stephen Fernando giving their latest bits of laughters to everyone. Especially liked this one, Policeman: Miss, why did you beat the traffic light? Didn't you see it was red? Lady: Yes, I saw the red light, but I didn't see you!! XD

Ms Amy Choo then presented her evaluation on the Table Topics Speakers. It was an encouraging session and the speakers and audience enjoyed the session.

5-minute break!

ACB ANANDARAJA (Ernst & Young TMC) was first in the Assignment Speeches session. Break The Rules was the title of his speech from the 3rd project in the C&L manual. Before you guys go away with the wrong message, the speaker wasn't encouraging you to break the rules. Break the rules, to a certain extent only. Hehe.. So, keep in mind ya! XD

GOH AI YAT was next with her multimedia-aided presentation fulfilling the objective of the 6th speech in the C&L manual with her speech entitled Creating The Network. That is the foundation of networking so, ladies and gentlemen, you know what steps to take next time when you are in a social event!! Great speech!

JOSHUA GEORGE continued the wave of speeches with his 2nd project from the Advanced Manual, the Specialty Speeches. He gave a speech honouring the Best Student in the college before presenting the award to Sze Yue. Thanks lots!! Hehe..though it was a roleplay situation :( Note to those present, the qualities and achievements he mentioned was not true. Erm... on second thought, maybe some of them are true! Oops.. :P

LIM SZE YUE to wrap up the group of assigment speakers for the evening, with his 3rd project from the Special Occasion Speeches. This is funny. Right after accepting the award, he roasts the person who presented the award to him!! XD XD The objective was to poke fun of a person in a humourous way and he choses to "blast" the President of SCTMC, Mr Joshua George. That was so fun.. I mean how often do you get to do that?? Hahah!! But again, it was a roleplay situation - a farewell dinner for the President.

General Evaluator RENGAMNATHAN, ACS then took control and invited Jee Aik, Amy Choo, Rengamnathan and Stephen Fernando for the evaluation of the Assignment Speakers. The reports from other roleplayers were then presented followed by Mr Rengamnathan's General Evaluation of the evening's meeting.

Best Table Topics Speaker was Ms Ong Siew Ming. Best Assignment Speaker was Ms Goh Ai Yat and Best Evaluator was Ms Amy Choo. *Thumbs up!!*

Time's up. Meeting ended around 8.30 p.m. Time to head to the Lotus restaurant downstairs!! :D

Next date with you: 12 May 2009. Same time, same venue.

Have an Ebullient day, Cheers!!


Prepared by,
LIM SZE YUE
VPPR

Quote of the Evening: I'M SORRY I COULDN'T READ YOUR HANDWRITING, Mr Joshua, BUT DID YOU JUST CALL YOURSELF SEXY? by Sze Yue ^.^