7th January 2010 Meeting.

Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year !!

7th January's meeting will be a special meeting. All club members are encouraged to bring a guest or more for the meeting.

There will be 2 themes for this meeting.

1st Theme is " BLIng Me gueStS " BLISS (bring me guests)

2nd Theme is New Year , which everyone need to wear something with the price tag still attached or sticked to.

Here are the details.

TOE : Melvin

Speakers: Siew Weng Yue, Jenny Ng, Shiv , Azizah

Project Evaluators: KP lai, Jeffery,Jennifer, Tirath

Role Players:

HM : Converted to New Year Resolution Sharing Session.

GE : Ahmad

TTM : Ruby Yong

TTE : Clarence Chua

Language Evaluator : Joshua Ling How Gin

Ah Counter :William

Time Keeper : Sharon Chiang.

Note: There will be no invocation.

Brand New Competent Communicator

Congratulations to

CC, Ahmad Bin Yusof

for completing his 10th CC project on 5th November 2009.

From today onwards, he will be known as an archiver who surpasses his own weaknesses and gaining new abilities and knowledge along the way, best know as Competent Communicator.

Congratulations once again to CC Ahmad bin Yusof!

The District 51, Division A Humorous and Evaluation Contest.

Recently i was invited to the District 51, Division A Humorous and Evaluation Contest but unfortunately I left my ticket at home. Luckily for me, the "guard" has dozed off, which enabled me to sneak passed him and got myself a free seating.

zzzz...

Yeah.. i was happy, yet i have a very important mission.

The Contest was broken into 2 pieces.. erm i mean 2 sessions.

The first session is the humorous speech contest. The humorous contest consisted of 6 contestants, Mariana Pascal, Ahmad Yusof, Andrew Tan, Ariff, J.Kannan and TM Kumar.

I would say it's Deja Vu .This genre of the speech presented by each speaker in order of this contest with area A1 contest was entirely the same. It's scary.

In my Area A1 Humorous speech contest, the first speaker was a foreigner, Stefan Becker.

In this contest, the first speaker was Marinna Pascal, a Canadian.

Fair. Chances of them getting first slot is slim.

Since both are foreigners who have either gotten PR or Work Permit in Malaysia, it does make sense for them to talk something about Malaysia culture.

Stefan spoken about Malaysia way of life, and Marinna spoken about Manglish. Indirectly, they are talking about our culture.

Fair again, however it get really scary after this.

The rest of the speakers talked about relationship either between man and woman, or individual gender.

2 contest, 2 almost different set of speakers, but entirely same genre of topics.

WOW !

Malaysia, Relationship, Relationship, Relationship, Relationship, Relationship, Relationship....

Anyway, here are the winners:

Here are the winners:

1st Place

Marianna Pascal

1st Runner Up

Ariff

2nd Runner UP

Ahamd Yusof

CONGRATULATIONS!

Now the second session is the speech evaluation contest. In this session, a test speaker will give a speech. The contestants will give an evaluation to this speaker.

They are 7 contestants in this category.

Getting 7 different evaluations from 7 different evaluators is scary.

The contest started off with the test speaker giving a speech.

The test speaker is:

I don't really remember her name. --'

Anyway the evaluators are Guat Mui, TM Kumar, J. Kannan, Ariff, Tey Bin Yuen, Marinna Pascal, and ... and.. (i don't know her name) ..--'

Anyway.. here are the winners:

1st Place

J. Kannan

1st Runner Up

Tey Bin Yuen

2nd Runner Up

Marianna Pascal

The winners of the contest :

Ahmad Yusof, Marinna Pascal, J Kannan, Bin Yuen, Ariff

Before it all ends , we took a group picture.

Next stop , Genting Convention !

1st October 2009 Meeting

Toastmaster of the Evening:

Melvin Chan, CC

Project Speakers

TM Clarence Tay Ev: Guat Mui, ACB, CL

Leong Soon Seng ,CTM

Role Players

Invocation : Lena Foo, CC

HM : Jennifer Lee, ACB, CL

TTM : Jane, CL

TTE : Audrey DTM

GE : Ruby,CC

LE : Andrea Finta, TM

Time Keeper: KP Lai, TM

Ah Counter: Jeffrey Lee, ATMB

For Guests :

• Please wear formal attire with a neck tie if possible or smart casual.
• Please switch off or put any sound edmitting devices to silent mode.
• No Flash photography is allow during the meeting.

Announcements

Dear readers.

It has been some time since there's any entry here :)

Here are some announcements.

The next meeting will be on September 17, 2009 , same place, same time.

The Toastmaster of the Evening will be Jennifer Lee with her role players :

Invocator: Kamala Nair

GE: Ruby Yong

LE : Kamala Nair

TTM: Andrea Finta

TTE: Jane Yeo

HM: Melvin chan

Timer: Leong Soon Seng

AAH counter:

Speakers: Evaluators

Azizah ACB#7 Goh Guat Mui

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Area A1 Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation contest will be held on 3rd of October 2009, Saturday.

Here are the details:

Venue : Sumber Edaran (M) Sdn Bhd, 2nd Floor, Plaza Melaka (near Gajah Berang). Click here for map, the place is just beside Popular Book Store.

Time : 1.30-5.00pm

Gate Fee : RM70 per club / Guest RM10 per person

Please call Toastmaster Azizah Abu Hassan, 019- 358-2477 for directions, in case you are wandering helplessly around the streets of Malacca town.

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Although our club to date has 1 DCP goal from 5 new members, we are still short of 1 more new member for the Smedley Award due to the fact that the fifth member was a transferred member from another club.

Therefore, please do bring friends and join our club. Smedley Award campaign ends this 30th September 2009.

Toastmasters International will gladly mail us the Smedley Award Ribbon for the fifth member.