23 June 2009
Word of the Evening: CHANGE
It's the moment of transition. A new change to the club. New faces. New blood. New Executive Committee. The highlight of the evening was none other than the Installation of SCTMC's EXCO Team of 2009/2010!!
Before I begin, a word of thanks to the 25 students from Xinjiang, China who attended our meeting for the first time. You have taken the very first step towards building professional speaking & leadership skills. The rest of the journey is in your hands now. Do speak to the EXCO team if you are keen to join in the fun with us!
Yap, it's the final meeting for the term 08/09. The day that the new vibrant team takes helm of SCTMC. Here we go...
SAA was Gina. Tan Boon Chuan takes spot as Timer. Amy Li as Ah Counter. Vithiya once again was responsible of the language usage as the Grammarian. General Evaluator was Barry Ong, the incoming Division C Governer from DHL Cyberjaya TMC.
Stand-in President, Grace Chong warmed the audience and wow, it was the longest introduction session we ever had! The evening was remarkable with an attendance of almost 40 people in the room!! Awesome.. Control was then handed over to the Toastmaster of the Evening, Lim Sze Yue.
This time around, no table topics session. Instead, it was the EXCO team on the spotlight. Area C2 Governer, Michael Chan was invited to uninstall SCTMC Executive Committee of 2008/2009. They (or rather we..hehe..) are now officially released from their duties. Barry Ong then proceeded to install the SCTMC Executive Committee of 2009/2010. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Grace Chong as the President!! Samuel Fo - VPE!! Allan Ma - VPM!! Muthu Kumar - VPPR!! Gina - Secretary!! Carmen Khoo - Treasurer!! and Vithiya as the SAA!!!
Humour session was led by Ms Foo Li Hwa with her quirky jokes once more! Haha..Great job there! We then had a break & fellowship session at around 730pm.
Meeting resumed. And suddenly, the lights went off!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MR JOSHUA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! Yap, another special event..we sang a birthday song for our outgoing President (FYI, his birthday was on the 25th of June). Sam led the team and presented a "mini cake" ;P and Kumar gave the birthday card to the surprised birthday BOY! XD XD
Time for assignment speeches!
Ong Siew Ming was first with her 2nd speech from the C&L Manual entitled, How to Get A Better Sleep? I asked her why this topic and she has this to say. "It's pretty simple. I want to share the steps to sleep for more than 10 hours AND I'm very good at sleeping." :D Well said.
Lucas Ng has finally got the train moving again! After a very loooonnnnnngggggg break from assignment speeches, there he was with his 2nd speech as well from the C&L manual. He shared with the audience on the topic Controlling Emotions and honestly, he was pretty good at it! Superb delivery from another superb speaker!! =)
And.. Fatoumata Dibba is back again! After missing her presence for some time, the champion speaker is back with her 6th speech entitled In The Changing Environment. Being a successful networker herself, she delivered an impactful speech with one thing in her mind. To share and guide the audience to financial freedom. An amazing speaker...
Gajendran was next. Our regular guest who is the VPE of Help TMC enlightened the audience with his speech, When Green is Good. It was clear and evident that the speaker had carried out heaps of research aligned with the objectives of his speech. Main point.. Green tea is a wonderful drink that brings a lot of goodness to our body, mind and soul. Take note, you all out there. Start including green tea in your diet!
Not enough?? Well, we have speaker number FIVE! Dorcas Aung from Ireka TMC is also back!! Wow.. it's just like a reunion night! Haha.. Yap, Dorcas delivered her 5th speech from the Story Telling Advanced Speech manual. Quoting "Rome was not built in a day, neither was a king made in a day", the title of her story was David the Chosen King. Another great delivery with her animated hand gestures and on the spot intonations. A fantastic speaker to watch and a splendid speech to listen to!!
*Two thumbs up to all speakers!!*
General Evaluator, Mr Barry Ong took over the stage for the General Evaluation session. Assignment speech evaluators were Samuel Fo for Ong Siew Ming, Muthu Kumar for Lucas Ng, YC Yap for Fatoumata Dibba, Michael Chan for Gajendran and Joshua George for Dorcas Aung. The roleplayers then delivered their reports followed by the General Evaluation from Mr Barry.
One more thing, I don't know if anyone of you realised, I was doing a speech as well! As the TME, I was fulfilling the objective of Project 5 - Introduce the Speaker from the Specialty Speeches manual. Thank you, Mr YC Yap for your written evaluation of my perfomance. I really appreciate it. Guys, how did I do?? One more speech to go for my ACB!! Haha..
President, Joshua George then gave his FINAL closing remarks as the President. He welcomed the change of leaders in the club and urged the new Executive Committee to bring the club to greater heights and produce more champion speakers in the coming term. I personally see the quality in many of our current members already and I hope to see Sam, Muthu Kumar, Allan Ma, Siew Ming, Maya, Gina, Bushra, Amy, and Boon Chuan among others, to be a regular in Toastmasters contest and shine along right up to the Division level!!
As for airtime, Mr Barry gave a short speech on leadership skills and it really got the audience motivated to raise the bar and do better in their life. Thanks, Mr Barry!!
Note: We had an extraordinary meeting that evening. We usually end at 9pm the latest, right? That night, we were wayy later than that! Haha..well, that's foreseeable with the special events and 6 SPEAKERS lined up, but the most important thing is all of us brought back with us another worthy learning experience, right? =) Make the best out of it!
Next meeting: 14 July 2009. 6.15pm. Venue: Stamford College, Jalan Barat.
Cheers to all!!
Signing off for the final time as VPPR,
LIM SZE YUE
(The pleasure's all yours now, Kumar! Hehe..=)
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
No Sparks?
9 June 2009
Word of the Evening: SPARKLING (ebullient, effervescent, scintillating, smart, witty, bright, brilliant, gleaming, glowing, radiant, shimmering, shining)
Did you just say no sparks? Absolutely wrong. Read the word of the evening again. Sparkling. A simple word isn't it? (don't know if you noticed, but sparkling is synonymous to ebullient! oops..there we go again!) And what better way to have a sparkling meeting than to have Lucas Ng as the TME! (haha..yes, some of you may know...we had a really good, sparkling time..Lucas can be heard "sparkling away" every time he speaks!!!) XD
The evening's SAA was Ong Siew Ming, calling the meeting to order at 6.45 pm. Bushra takes seat as Timer, Allan Ma handling the Ah Counter, Samuel Fo responsible for Table Topics, Muthu Kumar as Table Topics Evaluator, Vithiya taking Grammarian notes, and Grace Chong as the General Evaluator.
Fast forward.. Table Topics! Sam lived up to expectation and had another interesting twist to the session. Instead of drawing out papers, volunteers were to draw out items from a box! Hmm.. First to rise to the challenge was Wang De Xin who spoke on Online Games. Then it was Stephen Fernando whose lucky hands picked a packet of campbell soup. Of course, he has to talk about Campbell Soup! And it gets better from here... Amy Li then found herself a packet of Colgate plax staring at her.. Haha..yap, she had two minutes to share her story ... "Colgate plax is one item that you ought to have..it freshens your breath...etc etc" XD. The fourth participant, a first-timer Tan Boon Chuan from the Law School picked an item in green. A popular and one of the essential nutritious drink, 3-in-1 Milo!! We found out that the guy here doesn't really like Milo though.. :D Great job, Boon Chuan! Lastly, we had another first-timer, Gan Siaw Ching from the Secretarial Studies braving herself to the front, confidently until ... she saw the item in her hand. Her jaws dropped. Daia washing powder!! Ouch..even for me, this is gonna be tough but she did well, at moments flipping the tiny packet up and down seeking for more to speak on! Smart!!
Looking eager on the other end from my table was Muthu Kumar waiting impatiently for Lucas to finish his "sparkling" introduction of the Table Topics Evaluator. Then he rose and stepped up to the lectern. With a fierce look, he suddenly ... smiled, a big one.. =D and began sharing his opinion on the participants' performance earlier. Well done! A quality evaluation from the incoming VPPR of SCTMC.
Humour time! Open to the floor, Sam was "cheered" his way to the floor with a simple joke. Sze Yue (hehe..that's me..XD) then went out and shared another one. Stephen Fernando decided not to miss out on the fun and hurriedly churned out his famous KFC joke. Haha...heard that for like the tenth time already.. but the point is..ITS STILL FUNNY WHEN HE SAYS IT!! Gosh.. :P
And off we went for a short break...to savour 'the curry that was spilled' Hee... Delicious AND Sparkling!!
We continued to sparkle the night with an assignment speech by LIM SZE YUE with his 4th project from the Specialty Speeches manual. Objective - Read Out Loud. He delivered his speech extracted from a book entitled Drinking Coffee, Telling Stories and Making Money by Sim Quan Seng and Stephanie Sta Maria.
GRACE CHONG then took the stage with a short talk on The Education Program, briefing the audience on the basics of Toastmasters journey. It was timely as we had a few newcomers who I'm sure benefited and understood better on the achievements that they can look forward to. Grace conducted the session in a two-way communication style, throwing questions to the audience and receiving answers. This is when we had so much fun...almost everyone trying their best to "sparkle" in every sentence we used. First, it was Grace, then of course.. (kiasu XDXD) Lucas, then Sze Yue, Allan, Sam, Kumar, Vithiya... DANGER, Laughters everywhere!! Hahahha.. SAMUEL FO was then invited to give a demo Icebreaker speech and did a brilliant 4-minute speech, full of wit, vocal variety and appropriate body gestures. Whenever he stands in front of the audience, he seems to have the sparkle in his eyes. Cool, huh? :D
General Evaluator, Ms GRACE CHONG continued the ebullient mood with the General Evaluation session. ACB Joshua George was called upon to deliver his evaluation on Sze Yue's speech. To sum his evaluation, it wasn't one of the speaker's best performance. :( All roleplayers then delivered their report for the night, followed by the general evaluation of the meeting by Grace Chong. And oh by the way, Lucas' eyes were sparkling when Vithiya delivered her report. She lost count of the number of "sparkling" the energetic TME used. Sooo expected.
President wraps up the meeting, with a quick airtime slot by Sze Yue, as usual, reminding the audience of the meeting's report and the blog. "Those who are still not on my mailing list, please stay back for a moment. I need your sparkling email address" :D
That's it for 9 June 2009 meeting! What a spark it has been!! :D
Next meeting: 23 June 2009. Same time, save venue.
See you there!
Have a Cheerful and Lucky week ahead! Cheers!!
Prepared by,
LIM SZE YUE
VPPR
Word of the Evening: SPARKLING (ebullient, effervescent, scintillating, smart, witty, bright, brilliant, gleaming, glowing, radiant, shimmering, shining)
Did you just say no sparks? Absolutely wrong. Read the word of the evening again. Sparkling. A simple word isn't it? (don't know if you noticed, but sparkling is synonymous to ebullient! oops..there we go again!) And what better way to have a sparkling meeting than to have Lucas Ng as the TME! (haha..yes, some of you may know...we had a really good, sparkling time..Lucas can be heard "sparkling away" every time he speaks!!!) XD
The evening's SAA was Ong Siew Ming, calling the meeting to order at 6.45 pm. Bushra takes seat as Timer, Allan Ma handling the Ah Counter, Samuel Fo responsible for Table Topics, Muthu Kumar as Table Topics Evaluator, Vithiya taking Grammarian notes, and Grace Chong as the General Evaluator.
Fast forward.. Table Topics! Sam lived up to expectation and had another interesting twist to the session. Instead of drawing out papers, volunteers were to draw out items from a box! Hmm.. First to rise to the challenge was Wang De Xin who spoke on Online Games. Then it was Stephen Fernando whose lucky hands picked a packet of campbell soup. Of course, he has to talk about Campbell Soup! And it gets better from here... Amy Li then found herself a packet of Colgate plax staring at her.. Haha..yap, she had two minutes to share her story ... "Colgate plax is one item that you ought to have..it freshens your breath...etc etc" XD. The fourth participant, a first-timer Tan Boon Chuan from the Law School picked an item in green. A popular and one of the essential nutritious drink, 3-in-1 Milo!! We found out that the guy here doesn't really like Milo though.. :D Great job, Boon Chuan! Lastly, we had another first-timer, Gan Siaw Ching from the Secretarial Studies braving herself to the front, confidently until ... she saw the item in her hand. Her jaws dropped. Daia washing powder!! Ouch..even for me, this is gonna be tough but she did well, at moments flipping the tiny packet up and down seeking for more to speak on! Smart!!
Looking eager on the other end from my table was Muthu Kumar waiting impatiently for Lucas to finish his "sparkling" introduction of the Table Topics Evaluator. Then he rose and stepped up to the lectern. With a fierce look, he suddenly ... smiled, a big one.. =D and began sharing his opinion on the participants' performance earlier. Well done! A quality evaluation from the incoming VPPR of SCTMC.
Humour time! Open to the floor, Sam was "cheered" his way to the floor with a simple joke. Sze Yue (hehe..that's me..XD) then went out and shared another one. Stephen Fernando decided not to miss out on the fun and hurriedly churned out his famous KFC joke. Haha...heard that for like the tenth time already.. but the point is..ITS STILL FUNNY WHEN HE SAYS IT!! Gosh.. :P
And off we went for a short break...to savour 'the curry that was spilled' Hee... Delicious AND Sparkling!!
We continued to sparkle the night with an assignment speech by LIM SZE YUE with his 4th project from the Specialty Speeches manual. Objective - Read Out Loud. He delivered his speech extracted from a book entitled Drinking Coffee, Telling Stories and Making Money by Sim Quan Seng and Stephanie Sta Maria.
GRACE CHONG then took the stage with a short talk on The Education Program, briefing the audience on the basics of Toastmasters journey. It was timely as we had a few newcomers who I'm sure benefited and understood better on the achievements that they can look forward to. Grace conducted the session in a two-way communication style, throwing questions to the audience and receiving answers. This is when we had so much fun...almost everyone trying their best to "sparkle" in every sentence we used. First, it was Grace, then of course.. (kiasu XDXD) Lucas, then Sze Yue, Allan, Sam, Kumar, Vithiya... DANGER, Laughters everywhere!! Hahahha.. SAMUEL FO was then invited to give a demo Icebreaker speech and did a brilliant 4-minute speech, full of wit, vocal variety and appropriate body gestures. Whenever he stands in front of the audience, he seems to have the sparkle in his eyes. Cool, huh? :D
General Evaluator, Ms GRACE CHONG continued the ebullient mood with the General Evaluation session. ACB Joshua George was called upon to deliver his evaluation on Sze Yue's speech. To sum his evaluation, it wasn't one of the speaker's best performance. :( All roleplayers then delivered their report for the night, followed by the general evaluation of the meeting by Grace Chong. And oh by the way, Lucas' eyes were sparkling when Vithiya delivered her report. She lost count of the number of "sparkling" the energetic TME used. Sooo expected.
President wraps up the meeting, with a quick airtime slot by Sze Yue, as usual, reminding the audience of the meeting's report and the blog. "Those who are still not on my mailing list, please stay back for a moment. I need your sparkling email address" :D
That's it for 9 June 2009 meeting! What a spark it has been!! :D
Next meeting: 23 June 2009. Same time, save venue.
See you there!
Have a Cheerful and Lucky week ahead! Cheers!!
Prepared by,
LIM SZE YUE
VPPR
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