Bountiful hearty greetings!
Anchorvale reached another commendable milestone as we gathered for
our remarkable 50th Chapter Meeting.
Coupled with our double victory at the recently held Area A2 International Speech
& Table Topics Contests on 8th March by our sparkling Salma Begum (International
Speech) and charismatic Club President Roger Yap, CC CL (Table Topics), club members were in celebratory mode!
To sum it up with one word, I would use RESILIENCE to describe this memorable afternoon.
A meaningful takeaway for everyone present. The followings are the reasons why.
With our usual venue at Anchorvale CC undergoing renovations, as well as last minute cancellations to alternative venues, our VPE Sathya, CC managed to get access to
Sengkang West Zone 'D' RC Centre and ultimately made this meeting possible.
Bravo to Sathya!
Next, our Club President, Roger
Yap’s opening address was about the recent
drought, the longest in Singapore’s history. He explained to us about plants
that can survive without water for up to four years! Simply amazing!
Interestingly, our prepared speeches all touched on the theme of grit.
Firstly, Kiran
about his challenges seeking a job from his hometown, to a city in India and
finally to Singapore. Rachel Heng on
her childhood love of reading and story characters leading to her present job
as an editor. Hwee Leng highlighted
the power of positive affirmations. Valliappan described his
bumpy vacation with his family that ultimately led to a wonderful holiday. Bernard Ng, CC CL introduced a different
version of the tortoise and hare story (albeit a humorous one) as he gave May Lee, CC a roasting. Finally, I
described prisoners who overcame adversities.
It was a real
treat to witness Salma’s rehearsal for the upcoming Division A Contest. Salma, we are all behind you!
We had a unique
evaluation this time with May Lee, CC presenting
an absolutely scintillating poetic reaction to Bernard’s speech, filled with rhymes and more rhymes.
The theme for our table topics was 'Milestone' to commemorate our 50th meeting. Our Table Topics Master, Joseph Chong provided an array of interesting topics, with 12 enthusiastic volunteers tackling his questions!
I find it
amazing, that even with the change of venue, we still had a turn out of more
than 30 folks with many first timers. From the many positive feedbacks, we made a great impression. Kudos to all our members! It is a team effort.
We would like to
thank all appointment holders.
Congratulations
to the Award Winners.
Best Prepared Speech: Chee Sian, TM
Best Project Evaluator: Norman Tan, TM
Best Table Topics Speaker: Vijaya
Looking forward
to seeing all of you at the Division A Contest on 12th of April at Temasek
Poly and our next Chapter Meeting on 19 April 2014.
Cheers!
Article by: Chee
Sian, TM
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