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. ;)