Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club, Singapore (Sengkang): September 2013

Saturday 7 September 2013

Anchorvale Toastmasters Chapter Meeting (24th August)

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!