Anchorvale Toastmasters Club - Humorous & Evaluation Speech Club Contest

It was time for one of the highlights of the year for Anchorvale Toastmasters! The Humorous Speech and Evaluation Speech Club Contest had finally com and we had a full house to cheer on the brave contestants who took on the exciting task of making the audience laugh where we had a club record number of participants!

Humorous Contest

Up came Thomas, our first performer who got the ball rolling with his tale of life at his workplace. Next was Norman who did a hilarious impersonation of various different accents. Followed by Zulhafni who amused the crowd with his various experiences of trying to be funny, though with us, he didn’t have to try, as the champion was entertaining throughout his speech.

Whether it was Wee Chong taking us on his Toastmaster journey or Bernard relaying his dating experiences, the audience loved it all. Personally, as the last speaker for the humorous contest, I thought I would find it hard to pay attention to the earlier contestants but their delightful stories were enough to calm my jumbled nerves. Not to be outdone, Sreeman and Sathya both described sad but funny tales about being called an uncle and a grandfather respectively, though they most definitely do not look like one.

Evaluation Contest

The next segment of the evening was the Evaluation Contest, and we were treated to an inspirational story about the people who impact our lives from our gracious test speaker, Divyesh hailing from Temasek Polytechnic Toastmasters Club. Then each of our evaluators came up with their own unique approach for their evaluations and enlightened the crowd with their critiques.

As the contest progressed, the mood was very much friendly and there was no over competiveness amongst the contestants. Everyone was supportive and feeling excited about the results. When the Chief Judge, Jared from Temasek Poly walked in with the results, there was a loud cheer and we had our top 3 performers.

Humorous Contest:

1) Muhammad Zulhafni

2) Bernard Ng

3) Salma Begum

Evaluation Contest:

1) Muhammad Zulhafni

2) Norman Tan

3) Bernard Ng

Congratulations must be given to all the contestants, it was indeed a tight race.

Acknowledgements

We must reserve special thanks to the organizing committee.

Firstly, May Lee our outstanding Organizing Chairperson who went all out for this event, our incredible sergeant at arms, Sanjay, Leng Leng, Valiappan and Yvonne. The men who fed us with mouth-watering food, Suresh and Thomas. Our cool VPE, Sathya who helped with logistics. Our excellent VPM, Valiappan who treated our guests like royalty and even had a new member registered, Anila. Kudos to you and we look forward to your ice breaker speech. :D And finally, our President Roger who continues to display great leadership qualities.

We would also like to thank our visiting Toastmasters and special guests who performed their roles to great effect. It was very heartening to see some familiar faces visit our club again.

We hope you all enjoyed Anchorvale’s Humorous Speech and Evaluation Speech Contests. I certainly did and I look forward to seeing you at our next chapter meeting on the 24^th of August! 

Do check out our FB Page at (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anchorvale-CC-Toastmasters/430214003687755?fref=ts) and look at more photos from our previous meeting!

Article Contributed by: Salma Begum, Anchorvale Toastmasters

We look forward to welcoming you again at Anchorvale Toastmasters!