TM Education Meeting @ Edaran Sumber

Hei there! As mentioned by Melvin earlier, we had an education meeting last Thursday..a special one indeed.

Here are some quickie updates:

Location: Sumber Learning Center (1st Floot)

It was 730pm. Everyone waited downstairs at Popular bookstore.The door way leading to Edaran Sumber learning center was still locked. Melvin, KP Lai , Azizah and myself anxiously waited for Mak to open the pad lock.

Rumors spread like H1N1. Some said the venue was changed last minute through a message from the Blackberry. Some said the meeting was cancelled. Some said the other members couldn't find the place. Anyway we were happily discussing about where the next meeting will be...DURIAN FARM!! While waiting Mr President Joshua to do his side parking opposite the center.

Mak finally arrived. He was a bit late due to some unforeseen circumstances. We started at 810pm slightly behind schedule. OMG..

The TOE was Toastmaster (TM) Jenny Ng.. her first time. And she even brought her lovely daughter as a guest.... to support her .COOL!!!!!

There were 2 guests that night.

Anyway, there 's four interesting and memorable Project Speeches specially lined up on that Thursday night.

1.Money Is Very Important by TM Shima Ismail. Evaluated by TM Clarence (that's me)

Highlights:

Very interesting and entertaining speech by her. Her opening was superb!! She grabbed the whole floors attention by flashing MONEY!!!!! bundles of new crispy RM50 banknotes.. OMG.

2.How to build confidence confidently by TM KP Lai Evaluated by CL Jane Yeo

Highlights:

His 3 steps to build confidence was brilliant. It will definitely make any William Hung transform to be as confident as Austin Powers in the Spy Who Shagged Me!! :P

3.Who am I? ? by TM Sharon Chiang Evaluated by CC Ahmad Yusof.

Highlights:

No, it was not about Jacky Chan. It was about something greater..Sharon provoked the audience to think about who was she really talking about in a very unexpected twist. The speech also marked her accomplishment as a Competent Communicator (CC). Well done , Sharon. You were AWESOME!!!!

4.Finding New Members For Your Club by CC Melvin Chan.

Highlights:

Melvin successfully delivered a 15 minute speech on how to build a strong and healthy Toastmaster's club. He blended all his wits and detailed info in it to deliver the maximum impact ...BANG! Right into the head. A speeched not to be missed. Humorous and informative.

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The General Evaluation took placed. The general evaluator is none other than our beautiful CC Ruby Yong. Her task is to evaluate the meeting in general.

Later,the project evaluators presented their evaluation of their respected project speeches.

Mak presented the Time keeper report for the speech timings.

Azizah who sat on one corner listening intently to all the verbal crutches like " ah ah ,ers, so ," and etc during the whole session presented her report.

The Mr President Joshua Ling congratulated all those new achievers.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

The meeting ended at 930pm ...just on time .

The END.

p/s: The club members adjourned to Bollywood restaurant for supper. :)

The Happenings.

They have been 2 meetings since the last entry.

I have been very busy with work and some other personal stuff.

However, the show must goes on.

I wont blog in detail what happened meetings ago, i will just let you know the updates of the club.

We have few members who actually achieved their new level educational awards. 

They are,

1. Ahmad Yusof,  ACB.
2. Sharon Chiang, CC.
3. Melvin Chan, CC, CL
4. Joshua Ling, ACB, CL
5. Azizah Abu Hassan , ACB, CL

Congratulations to all achievers!!!

The first missing meeting entry, TOE was Ruby Yong. 

The 2nd meeting was an educational session held @ Edaran Sumber, TOE was Jenny Ng.

With that, back to office work.. T_T

April Fool - Marshaled

When the gorgeous, bootilicious, super hot, beautiful , charming and sexy vixen, Lena Foo is the TOE, there's always many many Guests.

i am sure you know why...  no need for me the repeat. * It's getting hot here * :p

There was a meeting on 1st of April, and that's not April Fool. Fool or not Fool, you are a fool for not coming on April Fool.

Few days and few hours before the meeting, Lena had problems getting the Agenda done, she was resourceful by calling and making sure the roles are all taken up by either replacements or non replacement.

Before the meeting, we had a few surprises.

Robert Ong , a ex-Toastmaster of our club arrived out of the blue moon. 
Kamala Nair, ACS, CL, oh i missed her so much , too arrived out of the blue moon. 
She was MIA for sometime.


We even had a few guests,

1. Dr Adnan
2. Dr Yusof
3. Franko
4. Ester
5. Raymond
6. Lugzan

The meeting started slightly late because we just realized a few importing things, the Role Cards, The Role Player Folders and even the Attendance book was not ready... sigh.. Jenny and I had to spend a few minutes sorting up the stuff.

Normally, SAA was to be blamed, however, due to a series of unfortunate events, the SAA has some personal matter to catch up on... There goes the SAA...

Lena started the meeting with her sexy and charming voice... just like a Siren, the mystical being, memorizing everyone with her voice.

Sooner than i realized that i the time is passing by like the F1 driven by Kimi Raikkonen, project speeches had started.

We had 3 speakers,

1. Dr Soe Win evaluated by Henry Goh, CC
2. Sharon Chiang, evaluated by Jane Yeo, CL
3. Azizah Abu Hassan evaluated by Kamala Nair, ACS, CL

Dr Soe Win, TM shared his adventure on sea with us, the sea monster threatening to drown the ship, being a sailor on the ship, he survived the onslaught and was alive to share with us the new adventures of 

Dr Soe Win~ The Modern Sinbad.

Sharon Chiang, TM shared with us how inexpensive toastmasters is, is only freaking RM 1.30 per day !!!

Even Jusco JJ Day also kalah....lol

Azizah Abu Hassan, ACB CL started her speech by imitating chicken Rooster's "Cocka-doodle-doo" !!!

and she moved on to describe her crocodile hunter's trip. 

After the project speeches, it was time for some humor, DTM Shivcharan Kaur was there to humor us with some jokes on relationship... We had a good laugh.

She did a 7 minutes speech project and was followed up by the Table topic Session.

Lai Kim Piew, TM  marshaled the whole session flawlessly. 

We had 5ive table topic speakers and they were given some short stories on crazy ideas or scenarios. 

It was really funny. Haha, now laugh....

General Evaluation was next and Ruby, CC was there to marshaled the whole general evaluation. 

Project Evaluators was first, 

Table Topic Evaluators was next, ME, and i did a speedy evaluation for 5 speakers in a record time of 55 seconds, beat that Raikkonen !!!

Grammarian was marshaled  by Joshua Ling How Gin, ACB, CL.

Time keeper marshaled by Jenny Ng, TM.

Mak Chee Kin, CC, CL was the Ah Countant and my name was not mentioned which means i was perfect? Not quite, he did not noticed my opening gambit when i was the SAA.


The meeting ended slightly later than usual and the the club EXCOs had the last meeting before everyone call it a night. 

The End

Value has no value if the value was valued.

Just recently, on the 18th of March, we had another Toastmasters Session with 3 Guests.

Mak Chee Kin, CC , CL was the Toastmaster of the Day and we had 3 project speeches.

They are:

Lai Kim Piew , TM - Tai Chi
Ahmad Yusof, CC - GAUT
Shivcharan Kaur, DTM - Motivational Speech

They did a fantastic job and their speeches was captivating and fun to hear too.

I on the other hand, was not feeling very well as i have phlegm crawling at the back of my throat.

Talking was very difficult for me.

Henry Goh, CC did the most remarkable thing, he did a humorous session without any notes! WOW!

~Congratulations Henry, you have improved!~

Shima Ismail TM, was the Table Topic Master of the day. She gave some of the best and most mind blogging topics, a few of them have problem with the topics.

After that was my turn, as the General Evaluator. As usual, i do not do any evaluation on my own, i have role players to help me with. They are:

Ling How Gin, ACB, CL, Lena Foo, CC, and Jennifer Lee, ACB,CL as Project Evaluators.
Goh Guat Mui ACB, CL did the Table Topics Evaluation.
Jeffery Lee,ATMB did the Language Evaluation.
William, TM did the Timer's Evaluation.
Sharon Chiang, TM as the Ah Countant

Congratulations to all for making this meeting a successful meeting.

~The End~

If i were given 1 whole day to live. What will i do ?

Lets analyze the topic. Seriously.

What's the reason i was given a whole day to live, after some thoughts, there are only a few...

there are:

• Final last stage in fighting a cancer- Most probably lying in bed, groaning in pain....
• Committed some crime, about to be executed in 24 hours. Most probably behind bars in jail....
• Hostage for ransom in 24 hours, no money no life. Most likely under watchful eye of whoever they were.
• End of the world in 24 hours. Probably everyone has the same 24 hours.

Given the possibilities that i was given 24 hours, i would probably break all rules, law, regulations known to humanity, if my movements were restricted, all i can do is sleep for the next 24 hours.

Anyway, the Area A1 Contest was held in ALAM on the 13th of March 2010.

2 representatives from 3 clubs, namely,

1. ALAM Toastmasters Club,
2. Farmosa Toastmasters Club
3. Malacca Toastmasters Club

bravely battered against each other, fighting for survival.

On the day of the contest itself, which was supposed to start @ 2pm sharp, delayed all the way to 2:45pm.

The delay was well explainable due to a road accident along the way to the venue.

Some idiots managed to crash into each other in a traditional head on collision.

Anyway, the delay was necessary to await for a contestant to arrive. He was the first contestant too.

I was fetched by my club members in a car pool.

Thank you Siew Weng Yue:)

Because i am not the Organizing chairman nor the Contest Chairman,

i have no idea what happened behind the curtains, but i do know the role players.

Organizing Chair : Sharon Chiang, TM

Contest Chair : Jeffrey Lee, ACB

TOE : Capt.Khalid Hashmi, ACS

Tally Counter : Abdul Hadi / Geetha

Timer : Jason / Mahadevan

Chief Judge : Melvin Chan, CC < - me :p

Certificates : Joshua Ling

The Contestants for International Speech

Marcus Chee

Kayode

Joshua

Tirath

Pretty Philip

Shahirah Abdul Rahman

The Contestants for Table Topics

Kayode

Siew Weng Yue

Tirath Singh

Dineshwary Krishnan

Shahirah Abdul Rahman

@ 2:45pm, The contest started. There was no complains, disqualifications, or objection during the contest. Good.

There was only a slight disturbance when someone tried to break through the locked door. :I

The contests ended @ 4:30pm and certificates were given out. Soon, the contest chairman, announced the winners and they were :

International Speech

Champion :Marcus Chee

1st Runner Up :Joshua Ling

2nd Runner Up :Pretty Philip

Table Topics

Champion :Siew Weng Yue

1st Runner Up :Dineswary Krishnan

2nd Runner Up :Shahirah Abd Rahman

Congratulations to all of them, for those who did not win, you were already a winner when you were up front giving a speech!!

The Champion and the 1st Runner Up will be going to Division A Contest which will be held @ Johor Bahru !

Area A1 Governor, Azizah Abu Hassan, ACB, CL gave the closing speech and the contest ended with some final words from the TOE.

After the Contest, ALAM gave all presence a fantastic evening treat of ALAM's best canteen food and we parted our way soon after.

Before i end this, i would like to congratulate to 2 of our club members,

Joshua Ling and Siew Weng Yue for making the club proud by winning and representing the club to Division A Contest.

Congratulations !

and

Special Thanks to

Area A1 Governor.

Azizah Abu Hassan, ACB, CL

~The End~