Anchorvale TMC 64th Chapter Meeting on 24th January 2015

Short and sweet

This  was Anchorvale’s express chapter meeting! Although it was a two hour meeting instead of the usual three hours, we still managed to cover everything. (With just a bit of rush, of course) On that day, we had four splendid speakers who shared their speech with lots of confidence. In fact, Xavier did his first Icebreaker speech, where he shared about his life stories and his awesome experience while he travelled to Las Vegas during his school internship and the amazing skydiving he tried over there. (Not to mention he lost one of his shoes during the dive)

Julie Mae moved on to her Project 6 – ‘Vocal Variety’ while In Tiam shared on his Project 8 – ‘Get Comfortable with Visual Aids’. In Tiam showed us some unique presentation tips using the PowerPoint slides.  It was really fun listening to both of the speakers as they engage with the audience.   

Lastly was our club champion Riz who delivered his memorable Project 10 – ‘Inspire Your Audience’ with boldly with confidence especially when he inspired the audience that it is not the size of the fighter but the size of the fight inside the fighter. The highlight came when he got everyone to stand up and got us to motivate ourselves by speaking encouraging words to ourselves and each other.

After the four prepared speeches, was my favorite segment- table topics! Rasu chaired the table topics as he challenged the audience to imagine they are living in the past or future (depending on the topic they picked) as 10 brave volunteers racked their brains to give an impromptu speech.

Lastly is our evaluators’ turn to shine while they shared what they liked most and areas for improvement.  They are Rachel, Hareesh, CC, Norman, CC and Shu Zhen, ACS, ALB, when they provided their thoughtful evaluations to the respective speakers. Norman’s excellent comments and evaluation won him the best evaluator of the day.

So do join us for our next chapter meeting on 14th February 2015!

Special thanks to all appointment holders and visiting Toastmaster: Shu Zhen, ACS, ALB.

Best Prepared Speech: Riz, CCBest Project Evaluator: Norman Tan, CC
Best Table Topics: Deb

Written by: Xavier

Congratz on your CC!

Best evaluator!

Best Table Topics!

Anchorvale TMC 63rd Chapter Meeting on 10th January 2015

Happy New Year!

The first chapter meeting of the year was held last Saturday, 10^th January 2015. A simple round of introduction signaled the start of the meeting as everyone spoke briefly on the languages and dialects that they can speak. Different people can speak different languages and dialects, but there is one similarity – English. And everyone is here to improve their English speaking.

The meeting quickly moved on to the President’s opening speech as Sathya, CC enlightened us on how our idea will influence our words, which in turn influences our actions, then our habits, and finally our character. He even conducted a tiny experiment to explain his point. He placed a bunch of white flowers into a jar of blue dye and invited us to see what happened to the flower at the end of the meeting. We had a Language Evaluator that day – Muthu, CC, CL. He encouraged us to use the word of the day – ZEST.

The much anticipated prepared speech segment starts right after. As her ice breaker, Nisha shared with us her personal experience as a firefighter. Senthil then educated us on the benefits of spending just 20 minutes every day jogging, as he had improved his health condition through this activity. Ken told a suspenseful yet humorous story about monkey brain, surprising everyone with a twist at the end. Riz had everyone laughing as delivered a hilarious speech on the difference between the brain of man and woman. Finally, Leng Leng educated us on how to lead an awesome life by following the 3 As – Attitude, Awareness, and Authenticity. With that Leng Leng completed her Competent Communicator manual and is now to be known as Leng Leng, CC. J Congratulations!

Following the end of the prepared speech segment, a short refreshment break gave us the opportunity to mingle with the guests.

The end of the break marked the start of the project evaluation segment. Alice, Anila, Prasad, Salma, CC, CL and Roger, CC, CL all gave their insightful comments on the prepared speeches. Salma’s evaluation impressed everyone to win her the coveted best project evaluation.

Next came the interesting and adrenaline inducing table topics segment! Our table topics master, Deb, made this special by wrapping the topic slips with a piece of chocolate. The topics were suitably made to fit into the New Year theme. Richard, DTM eventually bagged the gold with his informative speech. However he decided to present it to a guest, Rainee instead.

It was the language evaluator’s turn to shine as he was jotting down impressive uses of language throughout the meeting. Muthu, CC, CL commended everyone for successfully using the word of the day repeatedly.

The meeting eventually ended with the President’s closing address.

Oh! Remember the flowers? They turned blue!

Interested in finding out more? Come join us on 24^th January 2015 for Anchorvale TMC’s 64^th Chapter Meeting.

Special thanks to all appointment holders for their contribution.

Best Project Evaluation: Salma, CC, CL

Best Table Topics: Richard, DTM

Written by: Chen Ken

Best Project Evaluation!

Best Table Topic!

Our guest, Rainee

Congratulations on ice breaking!

Leng Leng, CC