Sunday, March 14, 2010

A memorable Joint Meeting

Dear members and friends,

We had an enriched joint meeting last Thursday! Thanks to the Presidents and members of
MAS Cempaka
MAS Melor
MAS Mawar, and
D'Utama Advanced

The meeting started at 7.30pm and the ASA, DTM Bernard Louis welcomed everyone in attendance. It is our privilege to have the District 51 Governor, DTM Ritchie Chong to be with us throughout the meeting. The Toastmasters Leadership Institute Chairman, DTM Sandrasegaran was the General Evaluator as well as an assignment speaker.

The President of MAS Mawar, ACB Emil Anthony was the invocator. After the presidential address by Uncle Foong, the Table Topics Master, CC Tan Liu Hun (from MAS) took the floor. She has made all the "volunteers" to speak on various topics surrounded around the Toastmasters experience.

Before the 20 minutes break, there was a birthday celebration for the following birthday boys and girls whose birthday fall on January, February & March together with other members from MAS clubs :
January
Pearly Yap

February
Amy Wan
Kenneth Shee
Regina Tan

March
SK Khor
LeAnn Tang
Peter Siew
We had 5 speakers attempting various assignment after the break. 3 of them were attempting their assignment from Basic Communication & Leadership Manual i.e. SK Khor - assignment #7 Research Your Topic (title: Creating A Safer Online Family), DTM Sandrasegaran - assignment #2 Organize Your Speech (title: Fear) and Caroline Lai - assignment #1 The Ice Breaker (title: Hi! I am Caroline).

We then had ACB Jamila Khan attempting her assignment #5 Bringing History to Life from Storytelling advanced manual, with the speech title: Going Down Memory Lane. This was followed by ACS Nancy Liew who was doing her assignment #1 The Entertaining Speech from the Entertaining Speeches advanced manual, with speech title: My First Parasailing Experience.

The speakers and members in attendance has benefited tremendously from the evaluation given by various evaluators and role players.

District 51 Governor, DTM Ritchie Chong has presented a token of appreciation to our club on the guidance given to MAS clubs since it is chartered.

Uncle Foong was receiving the token of appreciation from District Governor, DTM Ritchie Chong

ASA DTM Bernard Louis welcoming all the guests and members

DTM Low Yat Seow was evaluating ACB Jamila Khan


District 51 Governor, DTM Ritchie Chong shared a few words of appreciation


DTM Peter Siew was evaluating DTM Sandrasegaram

ACB Emil Anthony was evaluating SK Khor

Table Topics Evaluator, DTM Tham Chee Wah

Nancy Liew was speaking about her first parasailing experience

ACB Jamila Khan narrated her experience

Caroline Lai with her speech "Hi! I am Caroline."

Birthday boys and gal in presence: (from left) Dorothy Miow, Peter Siew, SK Khor

ACS Victor Ong "is certainly not a shy person"

Courageous Caroline...despite being new!

Siew Peng during Table Topics Session

Table Topics Master, CC Tan Liu Hun

Uncle Foong during Presidential Address

We had an enrich meeting! We look forward for the next!