Press Release – Malacca Toastmasters Club Installation of Club Officers 2009-2010

Date: 2^nd August, 2009 (11:30am to 3:00pm) Place: Court Royale Chinese Restaurant, Tiara Melaka Golf and Country Resort

Today’s event:

The Installation of Malacca Toastmasters Club Executive Committee is a yearly occasion. The 2009-2010 term starts from 1^st July 2009 – 30^th June 2010. In Toastmasters Club, the club EXCO changes every year providing leadership and communication opportunity to fellow members. In the Installation Ceremony, last year officers were discharged, and the new officers were inducted.

Malacca Toastmasters Club is part of the Toastmasters International with its headquarters located in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA. Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization, and was established on October 22, 1924 by Ralph C. Smedley, who conceived, and developed the idea of helping others to speak more effectively. The organization now has over 235,000 members in 11,700clubs in 92 countries. Malacca Toastmasters Club is part of District 51 with over 300 clubs cover ing Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia.

At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. Malacca Toastmasters Club meets regularly giving everyone an opportunity to practice:

• Conducting meetings
• Giving Impromptu Speeches
• Presenting Prepared Speeches
• Offering Constructive Evaluation

In Toastmasters, members learn leadership skills by organizing and conducting meetings and by completing projects stated in the leadership manuals. Leadership projects address such skills as listening, planning, motivation, and team building and give members the opportunity to practice them. Just as Toastmasters learn to speak by speaking, they learn leadership by leading.

The success of individuals depends on communication. Individuals face an endless exchange of ideas, messages and information as they deal with one another. How well they connect and share their ideas with customers, clients, co-worker, family members, and friends can determine whether the individual succeed in life. Especially in the current economic crisis, good communication skills will give an added advantage to be employable in the job market.

Malacca Toastmasters Club meets on the 1^st and 3^rd Thursday of the month at Semabok Inn from 7:30 pm to 9:30pm. To learn more about Toastmaster, please contact Henry (012-6375476) or Melvin (019-6657288).

KL Advanced Toastmasters Club

Malacca Toastmasters Club was invited to KL Advanced Toastmasters Club on the 22nd of August 2009. The clubbing... err i mean meeting was held at Chung Ling's Alumni , near Amcorp mall, PJ.
As the club name stated, Advanced, the club was somehow different and advance from the norm..

i was sceptic about this club as the word "advanced" frightens me. Thinking of my level of public speaking compared to the word advance, i wasn't wrong. This club is way advance than me.

Here and some of the differences that i had seen.

1. First of all, KL Advance Toastmasters had the Table Topic Session started first. In MTC, we had the project speakers started first.
2. KLAT practices Open evaluation and self evaluation, apart from speaker's evaluator's evaluation. This actually let attendees a chance to give a brief evaluation and at the end, the speaker will either defend him/herself or admit the evaluations from the floor.
3. The table topic evaluator has 10 minutes to do evaluation, our club only has 2-3 minutes.
4. Each best speaker/evaluator/table topic speaker was given a certificate !
   

The quality of speakers the club produced astonish me. As my club president said, Joshua Ling How Gin mentioned, one of the club members, TM Salley Cheah turn from a silent and quiet girl to a totally different person. Her speaking skills improved by leaps and bounds !

Moreover, the members speaking skills were extremely good too.

During the meeting, i noticed a few unique members too.

Here as some of the notable unique club members of KL Advance Toastmasters Club.

ACG, CL Bill Sim
He's the club's president and was the past president of Malacca Toastmasters Club. He's a familiar face among my club "senior" members but he was quite new to me. A very nice guy who shared a bottle of red wine with us. His daughter was pretty.

ACB, CL Chase Lee
He's the club's Vice President of Education and his command of language and pronunciation was unreal and excellent. I was fascinated by his evaluation as a grammarian that i did not notice he was doing cha cha at the same time.

CC, Lorna Fisher
She's from UK but was brought up in Australia and now, is the Vice President of Membership of KL Advance Toastmasters Club. I hardly get to see a foreigner as a local club member. She was friendly and nice to have a chat with as her English has a mixture of Australian / British English.

TM, Salley Cheah
From a shy and quiet girl to a lively and exciting girl, Toastmasters sure changed her alot. She's pretty too :).

DTM, Sandrasegaran
The presence of this one man surprises me. He's "the" Toastmasters Leadership Institute Chairman of District 51. The sheer amount of shiny pins on his easily be mistaken as a golden vest. His face reminds me of a Bollywood actor.

CTM, CL Arvim Sriram
He's the Toastmaster of the Evening, despite his appearance, he did his role very professionally. He actually put me to shame. I am really impressed with him. He's one of my most favorite toastmaster from KL Advance Toastmasters Club.

The meeting ended at approximately 4pm. Before we ended of meeting, we had a group photo.

To KL with love.

August 200nineeeee.....

Recently, on the 20th of August, Malacca Toastmasters Club had it's Club level humorous speech and speech evaluation contest.

Among the guests were some lovely toastmasters from JB Toastmasters Club.

The contest was chaired by ATMB, Jeffery Lee.

We had alot of laughter in the humorous speech contest, and we had some good lessons from the evaluators as well.

The winner for speech evaluator was ACB, CL Goh Guat Mui and the 1st runner up was DTM, Audrey Lim.

The winner for Humorous speech was DTM, Audrey Lim. and the 1st runner up is TM, Ahmad Yusof.

Congratulations to the winners!!!

Though i did not win, i tried my best to evaluate Dr. Soe Win on his speech, "Health is Wealth".

After the contest, some of us.. err no, let me rephrase that, a bunch of us had Ikan Bakar at Ujong Pasir, Melaka

Here as some of the food served. (pictures taken from Adilin Arifin's FB)

Prawns

Fried Sotong

Some greens

Tonnes of Nasi Lemak

and IKAN BAKAR !

Here of some of the pictures from the food feast.

a Big Thank You to Adilin Arifin for the "unauthorized" pictures :)

The 1st meeting of August

Good day guys,

On the 6th of August, our club had another exciting meeting.

The beautiful and lovely, CC, Lena Foo was the Toastmaster of the Evening.

2 new members were inducted by me, a first timer for VPM !


They are :

TM Andrea Finta
and
TM Clarence

Congratulations !

However, i missed out appointing their mentor during the induction.

TM Andrea Finta's mentor is ACB, CL Jennifer Lee

and

TM Clarence's mentor is ATMB, Jefferey Lee

Moving on to the project speakers,

TM Pay Fong did her CC Project 3, The Value of Money. It was good and well done.

TM Ahmad did his CC Project 9 on No Pain No Gain. Well done too!

CC, CL Azizah told a folk tale of the ugly duckling . It was cute the way she played with vocal variety.

Congratulations to all project speakers !

Our club president CC, CL Joshua Ling presented information on the Distinguished Club Program.

It is a well presented presentation and useful information of the members and the guests.

The humor master was lead by DTM Shiv
we had some good laugh, however time is short, jokes were short and we moved on to the Table Topic session.

The Table Topic session for this meeting revolved around numbers where the members need to throw 5 dice, the total number will be the age of the person. Odd number is for male, and even for female.


It was very funny too .

We had a tough word of the day which is coerce

which means:

1 : to restrain or dominate by force- coerce the irreligious
2 : to compel to an act or choice -coerced into agreeing
3 : to achieve by force or threat- coerce compliance

It was quite hard as no one managed to use the word .

The meeting went on smoothly and was close by the me, "The VPM" after a short note on Smedley Award.

I set a target of 10 members and we are now soon to be 6 new members already :) 4 more to go, 3 more meetings to come. Can we do it, YES WE CAN ! * Fingers Crossed*

Have a nice day !

The Installation Lunch 09/10 on 2nd of August.

On the 2nd of August 2009, Malacca Toastmasters Club had its smashing hot 21'st Club Officers Installation lunch at Tiara Golf and Country Club , Melaka.

We had more than 30 people present, consisting guests, toastmasters from our club and beyond and the press.

Here are some of pics with some sweet captions.

Before the lunch

Pretty women, walking down the street.

Cool. Wireless!

"Nice tie u got there Henry"

Your kebaya looks awesome. I love it :D

I am "the" Area Governor.

Money Money Money, is so funny ! $$

The cameras are mine... all mine, muahaha.. *grin*

After the lunch
Yes boss, may i take your order?

Where's my dessert ?

The installation
"Wo wo.... summer wine"

wow, he's good !

Oh my god! The Artist Of Melaka! Paint me! Paint me!

Err. am i tooooo tall ?

Malacca Toastmasters Club's Officers for the term 09/10
from the right:

IP PRESIDENT : Goh Guat Mui, ACB,CL mail : gm_g_my@yahoo.com

PRESIDENT : Ling How Gin, CTM, CL mail : hgling8@yahoo.com

V.P EDUCATION : Jane Yeo, CL mail : jane@mamee.com.my

V.P MEMBERSHIP : Melvin Chan, CC mail : unrealweapon@gmail.com

V.P PUBLIC RELATIONS :Henry Goh,CC mail : henrygohchoonkeng@yahoo.com

TREASURER : Jenny Ng, TM mail : jenny_ngse@yahoo.com

SECRETARY : Sharon Chiang, TM mail : sharon.2005chiang@gmail.com

SERGEANT AT ARMS : Willaim Tay, TM mail : williamtay79@yahoo.com

Sold !

Barack Obama !

The Games
Superwoman !

Siti Nurhaliza singing while her dancer sprained his leg.

lets Cha Cha!

Wo wo ye ye,i love u more than i can say...


The Three "Muskteachers"


Your handwriting is good ! Hey, that watch is lovely.


No no no, u cannot have that last helping of dessert till your homework is done.


Countants !

The Farewell
Is a small world after all, is a small world after all.......

If you notice, DTM ET Lee (the one on the left) supplied the pictures.

At approximately 3pm, we ended our installation lunch. We had sooooo much fun and excitement, everyone had at least something to bring home, be it a gift or a full stomach.