Club Meeting October 2012, D'Utama Advanced Toastmasters Club is named the Home Club of T.I.International Director

 Theme:  Rise of the CC’s

Word of the day : Encourage

Members/guest attendance:  20

Time started : 7.45pm/ended at 10.30pm

 

Meeting theme “Rise of the CC’s “as all of tonight’s speeches are from Basic communication manuals.

T.I.International Director DTM Joseph Gomez presented a ribbon from T.I. to our President Dinesh Kishnan,making Du Advanced Toastmasters Club his home club ,congratulations!

 

SAA Foong  called the meeting to order and mentioned of do’s and don’ts in meeting honorable guests introduced themselves among the guests were Ms Regina from Yamaha Musical school,GE from DKC TMC, Dinesh Kanna Acs, and our very own International Director T.I DTM Joseph Gomez .

 

President Dinesh Krishnan CC delivered  his presidential address  relating story of  a talking Parrot which was bided for $500 K in auction, it was later found out that actually the voice for bidding came from  the parrot so its human vs. parrot bidding,

Moral of story “don’t judge a book by its cover”

 

 

TME for the night   was our District 51 P.R.O ACB Lim Lay Kun 

 

 

Table topics –round robin story telling style - VPE Joyce Hue

Joyce started her story of driving on the high way in  an old car to

Rawang but lost her way ….this was continued by Dinesh, Cherry Ho , Regina,Sabrina , SK Khor Peter Siew,Johan ooi  Choi Kum Ying turning this into horror exciting unimaginable ghost story... 

 

Joyce Hue

Dinesh Krishnan

Cherry Ho



Guest Regina



Sabrina



Peter Siew



Johan Ooi




Chooi Kum Ying

 

 

Project Speech

1st speaker: Ice Breaker Speech _ “Princess Foodie”

Ms Sabrina Louis  (daughter of DTM Bernard Louis )attempting her maiden ice breaker speech .

 

 

2nd Speaker :TM Johan Ooi  Speech No 2   Organize your speech “Music to My ears’

 

 

3rd speaker:TM Chooi Kum Ying speech No 6 Vocal variety

 

 

4th Speaker - TM Kenyu Ho ( speech No 8) Visual Aids

Titled : Frame of the Minds”

 

 GE Dinesh Kannan..ACS AL

 

Evaluators SK KHor , Patric Lim, Foong Weng Tuck, Bernard Louis, and Low Yat Seow

 

 

 

D'Utama Toastmasters Club tradition:  A Standing ovation for Ice Breaker speech TM Sabrina congratulations!

 

 

Winner for Project Speech –TM Johan Ooi ‘s  Music to our Ears

 

 

Best Speech Evaluator- DTM Bernard Louis 

 

 

Next meeting-8th November 2012

Written by Foong Weng Tuck

13 September 2012 Meeting Theme “ One Malaysia one Toastmasters”

Meeting started at 7.40pm , some members and guests came in traditional costumes of Malaysia to celebrate Malaysia Day. The Word of the day was UNITY

Guests in attending; Rachel Tan from  Premier Advance TMC/ Tm Andrew Campbell from New Zealand/ Tm Leona from  DKC/ Ms Sabrina daughter of DTM Bernard Vincent Louis/TM Gee , MsTracy.

ASA Uncle Foong Called for Meeting

Presidential  invocation Speech by CC Dinesh

 

 

 

 

 

 

TME ACS Foong was full of smiles and was cheerful and bubbly throughout the session she kept the meeting alive with her finesse but she was stern when come to serious matter.  She mentioned that when in Thailand the Thai people never have ethnic differences. That should be the spirits of .theme One Malaysia One Toastmasters 

Toastmasters  was founded  in 1924  by Dr Ralph C Smedley and now we have toastmasters worldwide comprising of 130,000 clubs, in 106 countries, and 250,000 members.

 

Role Players

Language Evaluator Johan Ooi 

Ah counter Cherry ho.

Timer…Carmen ting

GE Dr Arul .general comments and proceeding of meeting.

 

General Evaluator Dr. Arul



 

Table Topic Session - DTM Yip WP  topics related to Malaysia Independence./Malaysia Day

 

 

 

 

Total of 6 volunteers including 2 guests Rachel & Andrew Campbell (From Australia) participated for table Topic. The rest of the members are Leona( KPMG TM Club), Dr Arul , Sk khor, and Kimmie Koh.

Andrew Campbell

Rachel

And the Winner  goes to ...  Leona Lamin

 

There were 3 speeches in this month's meeting:

 

Gigue Lim’s speech No.2

She offered pretty tips for travel packing. How to pack effectively for travels and adapting to places and weather conditions. For suitable clothing and shoes.

Kenyu Ho's Speech No.7

 

Title: It's time to make it Right

He identified the importance of develop both Right brain and left brain equally as our education system mainly focus on Left Brain development.

He was voted for the Best Speaker .

 

 

 

Dinesh ..Adv Speech No.1 communicating with ease

Dinesh with Nahela

His speech touched on techniques used to start a conversation with a stranger, and the different  level of conversation/to initiate a converstion with stranger with open ended questions. Skills used (1) Small talk...( 2)facts disclosure (3)opinion (4) personal feeling role player Nahela and Dinesh, injected humours ,and the comments from audience made the role players conversation interesting it was indeed a hilarous presentation!

Evaluators

 

Table Topic - by DTM Bernard Louis

Speech No.2-by Leona Lamin

Speech No.7-by SK Khor

Advance Speech No.1-by Dennis Wee

Dennis Wee was the winner for Best Evaluator

 

we welcome a new member - Sabrina

 

The Meeting was ended at 10.00pm next meeting is on 11OCT2012

Written by Foong Weng Tuck

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.

Our IPP GE Bernard Louis DTM led the session for evaluation, humorously mentioned that he should not have wore short pants today.

The evaluation sessions by all evaluators provided good positive feedbacks to all speakers of prepared speeches.

Open evaluation was carried and open to the floor to all present

Winners for Project Speech –TM Johan Ooi ‘s Ice breakers speech

 Best Speech Evaluator- DTM Tham Chee Wah for TM Cherry Ho’s Ice breaker Speech

It was fun filled meeting ,with good participations from all audience.

Next Meeting 13/9/2012