D'Utama Advanced Toastmasters Club: OLYMPICS 2012, Theme of the day for 9 August Meeting

Theme:Olympics 2012

Word of the day : Glory
Members/guest attendance: 27
Time started: 7.43pm/ended at 10.40pm

Meeting chose the theme “OLYMPICS” to coincide with the current Olympics 2012 event held in London 2012.All members /guests are to come informally and dress in their respective sports shirts/sports gears, it is also the first time that sports wears/sport gears are seen in the meeting.

SAA Jeff Poon with his red Fila shirt in a vibrant mood ,called the meeting to order , honorable guests introduced themselves among the guests were 1^st timer Amir ,Tm Leona, TM Nahela from DKC TMC, Ms Ivy Tan Area Governor from Sabah and Area Q Governor Lee Tong Foong,District Public Relations Officer Lim Lay Kun ACB, ALS

President Dinesh Krishnan CC delivered his presidential address and announced and congratulate the winners for Humorous speech and Speech Evaluation contest held on 8^th August2012 ;
they are Yip Wah Pung DTM, for humourous speech and Bernard Louis DTM for speech evaluation

TME for the night was our charming and eloquent TM Chooi Kum Ying who was also TME for a second time, she welcome all present to meeting and introduced history of Toastmasters International to audience, and its mission ,she further introduced Role players; explain the agenda details

Battle of WITS by Dinesh Krishnan

Topics: Is Malaysia ready to host Olympics Games?

Six speakers involved ,3 speakers for and 3 speakers against the selected the topics; each speaker was given 2 mins.this turned out to be a hilarious session with speakers churning out their wild thoughts and amused the audience.

Lee T.Foong

Kimme Goh

Leona

Johan(New Member)

Joyce Hue

Alan Wong - Guest

Evaluator for Battle of the Wits, DTM Peter Siew explained in details of how the Battle of the Wits should be handled., speakers must be witty and skillfully speaking for or against the Topic given.Wits (power to reason)is the key word in this session.

Winner for Battle of the Wits -Best Speaker- Guest Alan Wong–

Project Speeches

Ice breaker Cherry HO speech title “My name is Cherry Ho” relooked at her life differently after working so hard scarifying personal times, she now spends more time for her life and manage a good balanced life style .enjoying her hobby in photography and travelling to Taiwan/Korea.

2^nd Project Speech by ice breaker TM Johan Ooi

Title: “My Name is Johan,” Johan is witty and humorous ,quoting his name Johan means champion He job is to plan and plans and organises events/seminars and Facebook on line application /loves to run and hope to do a half or full Marathon someday he is a highly motivated soul.

Ice breaker speech by Kimme Goh ACB

Speech titled “the Square”
She mentioned she has a square face, and told of her earlier education and childhood days, explained that square is actually a resource to reach the goals and is a multiplier effect.

2^nd CC manual speech by TM Carmen Teng

Titled: “candles”

Carmen told of an incident when she urgently needed to buy candles to celebrate Mid autumn festival party but was unable to, due to finishing work late .She accidentally met a stranger who helped her to get the candles needed at no costs. She was so grateful to him but unable to contact the stranger again .She still keeps her candle until today. For remembrance.

2nd CC Manuals Speech by TM Jeff Foong

Titled “How to cook curry chicken”

This young part time chef shared his secret recipes on how to cook a good curry chicken dish, with the audience .recipes, ingredients inclusive it was indeed a difficult topic to deliver.