Anchorvale Toastmasters (24th
August)
Welcome to Anchorvale Toastmasters Club 40th Chapter
Meeting!
Let us begin.
Kian Kiong, CC, our Sergeant-At-Arms of the day, kicked-start the meeting with a topic that evoke everyone's
thoughts about their strengths, weaknesses and ambitions. Needless to say, in
the midst of everyone's sharing we have discovered that some of our fellow
toastmasters have given themselves many interesting and worthy ambitions to
accomplish in the club and surely, we
are all looking forward to watch them, not forgetting ourselves, capturing the
dream as we all continue to ride on the toastmasters journey together.
Just before
we move on, I would like to add that the ambience or rather the mood before the
meeting began was slightly different as compared to the past. You may wonder why
is this so? This outcome was based on the fact that the meeting was held at 9am
instead of the usual timing of 2pm. Fortunately, our Anchorvale toastmaster
leaders were experienced soldiers and being unfazed by a morning agenda, they engineered
the meeting towards a great start!
The Induction Ceremony
Valliapapan,
TM, did a splendid job in carrying
out the ceremony, where he presented three new members into the family of Anchorvale
Toastmasters Club. From here, we'll once
again welcome Anila, MaryAnn and Abilash to our club! It was a heartening
moment to see that the club is growing stronger in numbers and not to mention
the significant progress it has gone through since the beginning of the year.
Our Language Evaluator, Bernard Ng, TM
Since my
joining in Anchorvale Toastmaster Club as a member, I must say I'm always
dazzled by the ideas, speeches and the fantastic evaluations made by a Langauge
Evaluator every time he or she takes the podium. And that morning, Bernard had shown
all of us that he has truly embodied the spirit of a Language Evaluator and
produced a wondrous, aspiring and passionate performance. Kudos for explaining
to us the Power of Three that work wonders!
As the
morning presses on to accommodate a wealth of content, our speakers have
already begun their prepared speeches, wowing the audience one by one with their
captivating stories and performances. I would never forget the awesome
performance by our guest speaker Karen Woon, ACB, showing off her powerful
selling skills, enticing Bernard Ng, TM, to make an immediate purchase of the
BPA-free set of items!
Up next we
moved on to Table Topics session which made
unique and memorable by our very own Neo Wee Chong, TM, pulling off from the
conventional method of having the speaker to select a topic from bundles of
topic papers. It was a fantastic performance conducted by him, whereby the
fantastic visual aids produced by a projector and laptop as well as the
convenience of his iphone's applications
allowed speakers to pick at random his or her table topics. Kudos to Wee Chong!
And alas, the
results are out and congratulations to our winners!
Best Prepared Speech: Vereen Foo, TM
Best Table Topics Speaker: Siow Ling (Marine
Parade Toastmasters Club)
Best Project Evaluator: Yew Ru Bin, ACS, CL (Guest Speaker)
Last but not
least, congratulations to YMCA Toastmasters Club for attaining the Golden Gavel
from us!
Let us here
thank our guests who have participated and contributed throughout the meeting!
From YMCA Toastmasters Club:
Karen
Lynn
Todd
Rubin
General Evaluator:
Kevin, TM
Yours sincerely,
Joseph Chong, TM
