Anchorvale Toastmasters Club- 12th Chapter Meeting, 25th June 2011

It has been quite a while since we last gathered at our home turf.  As a team, we visited the Braddell Heights II Toastmasters Club on the 28th May, for a joint meeting.  The last time our members met up at the Anchorvale Boardroom was Saturday 21th May 2011.  That place had certainly lost its shines, without the bunch of linguistic warriors and oral ambassadors holding the fort.

Hey, we are back!   Trust me, we are not the same team as before.  Have you watched 'Kungfu Panda" ?  Well, we have had the 'PO' experience ~ we have been enlightened!  Ready to make some intellectual noise and to rock the Toastmasters' world.  In a month's time, we are going to announce and commission our new EXCO team. We have got 2 "ShiFu" veterans to spearhead us for the next 12 months.  It is really exciting to have John Sih and Jenny Au in our team!

Our 12th Chapter meeting was both a social bonanza and a sold-out performance.  We had the pleasure having distinguished guests, DTM Ng Cher Kim, CC Biman Roy, ACB/ CL Manoj Vasudevan and CC Kevin Tan gracing our event.

We began the meeting with the table topics segment.  A total of 8 courageous speakers took on their individual impromptu challenge.  It was so interesting to hear the quick-wits and eloquence of some good speakers.  We were especially impressed by the sporting spirit shown by our guest, Vereen. Though, it was her first time visiting a Toastmaster club, she took on the challenge and spoke about her belief on "Punctuality".

Our VPE, May Lee, started the prepared speech segment with her spell-binding project 10 topic, "I am not prepared".   Right after her mesmerising performance, Teo Kian Keong and Sathyamoorthi both displayed their oral excellence.

The evaluations on prepared speeches, Language Evaluation (by Kevin Tan) and General Evaluation (by Ng Cher Kim) kept all of us rooted to our chairs.  Time flew by.  It was time to annouce who our winners were;   Competent Communicator, May Lee, won the prepared speech ribbon.  John Sih was the best evaluator of the day, while we have a scenario of joint-winners for the table topics segment.  Distinguished Toastmaster, Ng Cher Kim and our VPM2, Steven Lee both emerged as the crowd's favourites.

We could envision our Anchorvale Toastmasters Club becoming successful.  Apart from having important qualities such as team cohesiveness, work efficacy, setting of clear goals, consistently achieving our milestones and increasing the strength & depth of our members.  We need PASSION to help us navigate through our uncharted territory.   Rome wasn't built in a day.  Likewise, we should set our sights further.  We believe!


Roger Yap
VPPR