Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Malacca Toastmasters Club would like to wish all its members a blessed Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. :)

Malacca Toastmasters Club Happenings Part 2:

Toastmasters and Befrienders. 21 Nov 2010

Malacca Toastmasters Club is proud to announce that one of our members Goh Guat Mui,ACS took part as one of the speakers in a public forum Bridging the Communication Gap by organized by Befrienders Melaka.

AFC XMAS PARTY:Close to You 7th Dec 2010

Two attendees

Joshua Ling , ACB ,CL

Clarence Chua ,CC

Highlights:

It was held in Gita Bayu Resort, Balakong. It is a nice secluded private resort with an authentic Balinese touch surrounded by a forest reserve. The air is clean ,cooling ,refreshing and is a perfect escapade from the hustle bustle life.

There were many interesting interpretive reading speeches ranging from Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Marc Anthony to Abraham Lincoln.

There were few interesting roasting speeches by the Roastmaster.

Salsa dance performance.

Round robbin table topics

Wonderful buffet lunch.

The training was attended by many clubs around Klang valley.

GIta Bayu Resort

Martin Luther King speech is indeed powerful and difficult to deliver by ordinary men

Let's hear how Obama talks.

Marc Antony's eulogy speech

Group photo. Merry Christmas!!

2 New Competent Communicators and 1 Advance Communicator Silver for year 2010

Lai Kim Piew ,CC

Goh Guat Mui ,ACS

Clarence Chua ,CC

Congratulations! One step nearer to Distinguished Club!

The next semi annual convention 2011 will be in Melaka!!

21-23 Oct 2010. DOn't miss it.!!!

TLI 2 @ UTM Skudai.

The 2nd round of club officers training was held in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai.

The training focus on how to make club meetings more "ROCK" and a phenomenal experience for each TM member and guests.

Attended by:

Sharon Chiang CC

Melvin Chan CC, ALB

Clarence Chua CC

Joshua Ling ACB ,CL

For those officers who've missed this round, you can join the other Division TLI2

Alright, enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more Toasting activities!!

Malacca Toastmasters Club Happenings Part 1:

Malacca Toastmasters Club is a happening club.. don't you agree? That's why I've decided to launch the Malacca Toastmasters Club Happenings series which will keep the readers updated on what's going on in within the club in November 2010.

Let's move on to the Happening Part1 :

Joint Meeting with Friendship Toastmasters Club.

Date:13th Nov 2010

Venue: Hotel Puri

Attendees:

1. Melvin CC,ALB
2. William
3. Guat Mui ACS, CL
4. Ahmad ACB
5. Shima
6. Clarence
7. Azizah ACB, ALS
8. Joshua Ling ACB,CL
9. Jennifer ACB,CL
10. Lena Foo CC

We re-visited Hotel Puri again this year for this wonderful joint meeting with the Friendship Toastmasters Club (FTMC) . FTMC is an established club from Bukit Kiara Equestrian & Country Resort, Jalan Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur and currently lead by President Zaiton Zainal Abidin.

It was a big crowd this time in this Break free and Breakaway Program . (30+ people)

Many family members of the FTMC were present because it was more like a weekend club holiday trip to the historical Malacca City. That made the atmosphere of the meeting fun, warm and entertaining with performances and games.

FTMC also have a very interesting blog article on their Breakfree and Breakaway program experience. So , for those readers who would like to know their side of the story, kindly read here.

To join the FTMC Facebook group and keep in touch, click here:

Group photo

Taichi master vs high speed dodging master (too fast for the camera)

Tabletopics: Observe how our VPE Sharon CC handled the topic: Tell us about your first kiss.

For those who weren't there, you've really missed it!

Table topics: Observe how William tackled another interesting table topic : Tell us about your first love experience. It's another secret that only the audience in Puri Hotel will know.

Well, that's all for Part 1 . Stay tune for the next update real soon. Happy Toastmastering!

Close To You Xmas Joint Meeting

Hello fellow Toastmasters,

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm proud to announce that there will be another special joint meeting with the Asian Football Confederation Toastmasters Club (AFC) on the 7th of December 2010.

Schedule:

10am Showcase of specialty speech

11.45am Round robbin topics and Open Evaluation

12.30pm Lunch

2pm Party time

1. Professional dance

2. Song performance

3. Karaoke

4.30-5pm End

Food , drinks and party packs provided. This will be a another very exciting event outside of Malacca.

Limited seats only. So, faster grab your seats!!

Transportation will be arranged. If you're interested, kindly register to me ( CLarence) by 21 Nov 2010.

Malacca Toastmasters Deepavali Special

Hello everyone!

It's the eve of Deepavali and Malacca Toastmasters Club had our festival of lights meeting a few hours ago. It was superb and fantastic. So, for those who missed it, yeah you really missed it. Most of the members who attended were dressed in purple or wearing traditional Indian costumes.

This are our winners of the best dressed awards :

Best solo outfit

Best non-Deepavali outfit

Best double team dress

Best dress nominee

Best group photo

For the Table Topics, here 's some freebies for thought:

Imagine if you were assigned to this topics , what would you say on the cuff? ;)

This were the answers at that point of time.

Do you believe in love at first sight? =Clarence= " oh yes ;) Love on first sight happened between men , women and a chicken steak"

Which one come first, the chick or the egg? =guest = " they are by products of the God Factory"

Is fashion show a benefit/ harmful? =Jennifer ,ACB= " beneficial for women looking for potential * ehem"

Money or love? =William= "both" if you already have money, you would want love. Vice versa.

If parents can choose their children's gender, what will it be? =Melvin,CC,ALB= "boy..why? ask him."

Lastly, if you were appointed as the Chief of the Executive committee for Semi Annual Convention in Melaka next year, what is your plan? =Ahmad,ACB= What? ask him when you meet him"

To end the post for tonight, I would like to say a few words from Humour Master Mak Chee Kin, ACB which was "quoted" from Confucious.

" A lion would never betray it's wife but a tiger would"

Why? Ask him. Have a blessed Deepavali.

Happy Deepavali, a short poem from the President.

In the dark, there is light. 

In the light, there is people.

Within people, there is laughter.

Within laughter, there is joy.

When there are joy ,people, laughter and light.

That's when the festive begin.

As the festive begin, here comes the drinks.
Here comes the drinks and food, i add.

When everyone's in the mood, there's dance performance.

To some, it's a new year. 

To some, it's a holiday.

To me, it's a time where we gather as family.

We forget the bitter.

We forgive the wrong.

We cherish the moment.

We enjoy the company.

We share the warm.

We remember the forgotten.

We call the lost

and

I thank god because i am still alive to say

Happy Deepavali.

अजगर

Interview With William Lee on the recent Humorous Speech Contest

Hello fellow Toastmasters,

Our club has just sent a few members to represent Malacca Toastmasters Club to the area level Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest last Sunday (5 Sept 10) in Merlimau Polytechnic. I managed to have a quick chat with one of the members William about his experience in the Area Level contest.

William is our youngest member in the Malacca Toastmasters family. 2 months old. He's working in a very reputable fast moving consumable goods company (FMCG) in Malacca and a very enthusiastic and determined Toastmaster member. Here's some write up and short interview from one of our club representative, William Lee.

Clarence : Being the newest Malacca Toastmasters member, can you describe what have you learned in Toastmasters Club Humorous Speech Contest in such a short period of time?

William: Being the first time as contestant and representing club in Humorous Contest, I feel nervous and huge responsibilities on my shoulder. The feeling is totally different from the contest among club members because we know each other and I joined the contest for fun. Although I had lost the contest, I enjoyed myself watching other contestant from other club and meeting new friends. I had made a promised to myself to further improve my public speaking skills and be back to the contest near years. My wish from now is to be the top ten contestants in Division Contest. Even if it takes years, I want to complete the wish.

Clarence: Apart from learning public speaking and leadership skills, Toastmasters is also about having fun and getting to know other people right?Can you share some experience together with other club members after the contest ?

William: After the contest finished, I had lunch at Bukit Baru food court with Joshua, Melvin and Eng Suan. We get to know each other better especially my new friend from JB, Eng Suan. We shared lots things regarding Toastmasters and personal life. After so many years ordering Barley “Kosong”, Joshua just realized that his always have 2 straws in his cup because that is one of the ways to differentiate between Barley and Barley “Kosong”. “Kosong” mean no sugar. It more cost effective to put two straws at Barley “Kosong” because majority of customer drink normal Barley.

Clarence: OOh.. i didn't notice about the way to differentiate Barley kosong either. @_@

At night, I think it also my virgin experience for “Buka Puasa” together with my Muslim friends at Zen Café Dataran Pahlawan. I, Melvin, Joshua, Eng Suan were joined Azizah, Adilin and Nadhirah. They waited impatiently for the “Buka Puasa” time. We took lots of pictures of ourselves and the foods. We got 10% discount from the owner of Zen Café (RM 18 savings). Thank you Miss Han for the generosity, we also got free “Air Sirap”. Miss Han is the owner of of Zen Café and Secret Recipes outlet at Melaka Raya, Mahkota Parade, Tesco Peringgit, Tesco Cheng and Jusco Air Keroh. I would like to propose Zen Café and Secret Recipe as our F&B partner so that we can get discount whenever show our Toastmaster Card. If everyone agrees, I will talk to Miss Han, we all love discounts and savings.

Clarence: Laughs* thanks alot William. Another reason to be a Toastmaster member : Some attractive discounts in Zen Cafe . Hope that proposal works.:P Thank you for your time.

Well, thats all the updates for our Malacca Toastmasters Club activity, folks. Stay tuned. ;)

Selamat Hari Raya

Malacca Toastmaster's Club wishes all its Muslim members Selamat Hari Raya. :)

Upcoming Toastmaster's meeting:

In conjunction with the Hari Raya celebration, Melaka Toastmasters Club is proudly organizing a Hari Raya themed meeting next week. So dear members, come on and join the Raya fun this coming Thursday. It will be hosted by a very seasoned , interesting and articulate Toastmaster member. Wanna know who? Be there yourself.

Feel welcomed to bring guests for it's a once a year event not to be missed! Learn and have fun.

And as usual , limited seats only! :)

Date:16 Sept 2010

Time: 7.30pm -10pm

Venue:-Semabok Inn

Malacca Toastmasters Club Installation Night @ Seafearers Klebang

Hello dear readers,

Another exciting updates from the Malacca Toastmasters Club. We have just organized the Malacca Toastmasters Club Installation Night at Seafearer's Klebang Beach last Saturday 21- Aug 2010. The theme for the night: Hawaiian Night ;)

The restaurant is facing the Straits of Malacca. It has a very wonderful evening view with the soothing sea breeze.

Group photo

The installation ceremony where the club committee members placed their oath and commitment to run the club for this new term.

Our Hawaiian member William.

Group photos before the dinner

The installation night went very well. We had many good jokes and table topics for entertainment. The battle between the European and the English seafarers to settle down in the sacred land of Hawaii. A very close and exciting battle I would say.

We had singing Hula guy as well. Oh yes, not to forget the coconut milk and the priest's instrument joke. Only those who attend will know. *grin* Overall, I believe everyone had a really good time.

Thanks to everyone for contributing to the success of the Installation Night.

Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest

The Malacca Toastmasters Humorous and Speech Evaluation contest was held on Thursday night at 19th Aug 2010 at Semabok Inn, Melaka.

One of the main purpose of this contest is to provide a platform for new and existing Toastmasters members to discover and polish their public speaking skills in a humorous and analytical way. There are two parts.

1. Contestants are required to deliver a crafted humorous speech for 6 minutes

2. Contestants are required to evaluate a test speaker.

Contestants

Humorous Speech Speech Evaluation

Melvin Chan Captain Khalid

Shivcharan Kaur Goh Guat Mui

William Lee Shivcharan Kaur

Contest Officials

Organizing Chairperson : Sharon Chiang Time Keeper : Joshua Ling

Contest Chairperson : Jenny Ng Tally Counter : Andrea Finta

Chief Judge : Mak Chee Kin SAA : Ruby Yong

Official Photographer : Clarence Chua Certificates : Joshua Ling

The lovely Ruby Yong ,CC introducing the speech evaluation contestants.

Results:

Humorous Speech:

Champion: William Lee

1st runner up:Melvin Chan

Speech Evaluation:

Champion: Captain Khalid

Ist runner up: Goh Guat Mui

The champions brandishing their trophies. From left: Melvin, William , Guat Mui and Capt K.

The people behind the stage. Time keepers, judges etc.

Kamala and Mr President posing. I like the smile, Kamala.:)

Time's up ..get ready to wrap the speech up. ;)

Well, it was really a fun night. The speeches were simply hilarious. Not stop laughter better than Comedy Central.

Want to join the fun? Do you want to learn to speak articulately in front of your friends? Or how about the opportunity to meet new friends?

Come and visit us at Semabok Inn @7.30pm 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. Limited seats only. Visit our Facebook page here.

Message from district 51 division A

Here's an interesting article from a renowned Toastmaster Blog in District 51 Division A.

I stumbled upon it in one of our senior Toastmasters member Facebook status update. Interesting post. Read on.

Read here!!

important announcement:

Hello dear readers,

The blogger was recently overwhelmed by life. Hence , no updates. But, the good news is..he is back. With more hot and sizzling announcements!

Announcement #1:

We have the new a new exco team for Malacca Toastmasters Club for 2010-2011 term. The new club will be lead by Melvin Chan CC,CL.

President Melvin Kok Leng Chan, CC, CL

IPP : Joshua Ling How Gin ,ACB,CL
Vice President Education Sharon Lay Kuan Chiang, CC
Vice President Membership Foo Lena, CC
Vice President Public Relations Clarence Chua Kim Soon , TM
Secretary Jenny Ng Siew Eng, CC
Treasurer Kim Piew Lai ,TM
Sergeant at Arms Ruby Wee Lim Yong, CC

Announcement #2:

Malacca Toastmasters Club is awarded "President's Distinguished Club!" " What's that?" Some might ask. Read here. In a nutshell, President's Distinguished Club is an award for Toastmasters Club which have achieve goals in membership growth, significant progressing education achievement among members and good club governance. :)

Announcement #3:

All 7 club officers attended the Club Officer Training COT held in Merlimau Polytechnic. The experience was simply superb. Don't worry. We will hear from a few of our officers who attended the COT and what were their experience like.

Announcement #4:

We have 2 new CC's for this club. *Drum rolls*

Let's congratulate Jenny Ng ,CC and Dr Soe Win ,CC.

Awesome. We'll interview them ..don't worry.

Announcement #5:

The upcoming club meeting is on 15th July , Thursday night. And we're having a few excellent project speakers who will deliver their speech that night. I have a few questions for you.

1. Do you want to learn communication and leadership skills?

2. Do you want to learn public speaking?

3. Do you want to network with other people?

4. Do you have this butterflies in your stomach every time you attempt to speak in public?

If you do ,come and visit us there in Semabok Inn. 7.30pm.We can help you. So,see you there.

Ah yes..pictures. Soon. stay tune. :)

Asian Football Confederation Joint meeting.

The joy of Toastmastering..the opportunity to make friends with all walks of life..the opportunity to learn and exchange cultures.. the opportunity to share and the best of all.. have fun together.

This was exactly how I felt when I attended the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Joint Meeting in Hotel Puri located along the historical Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. Who are these AFC guys anyway? Imagine watching a football match between Thailand and Malaysia. Imagine seeing all the players scattered around the field, chasing the ball. The referee running around ,observing the player while blowing the whistles when there's any fouls committed. The game was spectacular and the crescendo of the crowd was overwhelming.

But dear readers, think again..who brought this match together? Who arranged the venue of the match? Who decides which country will play against with? Who organized the training for the grassroots? Who provided the facilities for the team? Who settled all the international legal stuff? These are the men behind the scene of the Asian Football. AFC. It's our pleasure meeting them.

The joint meeting was an out of the ordinary. It's a night without protocol. Where anything goes.

There was no project speeches.No table topics. No evaluators.
But, there's performances and games to keep us entertained. People setting themselves loose. Oh my God. If you're not there, you've really missed the chance of your life time!. A few AFC club members sang a songs from their homeland. This was accompanied by the sounds of guitars and violin was mesmerizing and gentle to the ears , reminiscing their homeland.

Apart from that, there were interesting activities such as yoga exercises lead by two beautiful ladies. :P A professional yoga instructor and her "assistant" to be exact. Thank you very much. All the singles and married couples will thank you for sharing the "secrets" to create a spark which has died out on intimacy. That was a hell of a move :P Everyone laughed non stopped.

Here's some photo shots of the moments there:

But we have our own imported AFC member from Philipines. It's an awesome jamming session not to be missed. Awesome and talented guitarist and piano player. We had some non paid sessions after the meeting watching him play around with his talented fingers on the grand piano.

"ill be leaving ..on a jet play.. I dont know when I'll be back again in C? :P

Listening attentively due to the very interesting and entertaining programs lined up for the night.

Henry Goh busy taking some pictures. :)

We learned magic as well. Can you balance out 10 nails on one nail?

Group photo

Overall, it was a very enjoyable session. It's not a very often opportunity to get together and learn in a very fun and extra ordinary ambiance in Puri Hotel. The knowledge and experience gathered during that time was priceless. I'll keep you posted for any future joint meetings. Have fun and learn. Signing off.

p/s: For more pictures, visit our Malacca Toastmaster's Facebook Page.

Mother's Day and Labour Day Meeting

Last Thursday's meeting in Semabok Inn centers two important themes of the month. May-Day and Mother's Day.

May Day is also known as Labour's Day and International Workers Day.

Well the Toastmaster's of the evening (TOE) was no other than the wise and senior member of the club DTM Shiv. Thanks to her, the whole meeting was entertaining and informative, with the carefully selected speakers and role players.

Project speakers:

TM Jenny Ng Over The Hill

TM Dr Soe Win Conflict

CC Mak Chee Kin A Sales Training Talk

Hei, and you know what..there's really a great deal of info that i learned from all the 3 speeches. For those who didn't manage to attend last Thursday, you really missed a lot!

Some photo shots :

ACB Azizah reading the project speech criteria for Mak while ACB Jeffery is so engrossed in writing his evaluation.

DTM Shiv..So happy listening to one of the speeches.

CC Mak seen walking into the middle of the room before he started to "SELL" his talk. Very inspiring and motivating. After his speech , everyone was so fired up to sell something. :P He has successfully applied one of the fundamental sales principle in the speech which is..."SELLING is a transfer of feeling". Those who attended would definitely understand that feeling. The passion..yeah.

What is Mother's Day and May-day all about..

TM Jenny confidently telling the audience that age of 55 years old is still toooo young to retire..the message is work while you still can.Very inspiring even for youngsters like me. :)

Dr Soe Win's speech was also brilliant. He was very persuasive in convincing the audience on how to handle conflict through his vast working experience as a Captain. But, really sorry about the absence of photos. Apparently he was quite excited with his movements until I fail to capture a still shot. :P Apologies.

Well , what was written here was just a tip of the iceberg. I'm sure all the guest learned many important and interesting points which empowers them personally and improve their confidence to speak. Curious to know what are they? Join us at the next meeting. Cheers!