It was a
chilly Saturday afternoon. Our Sergeant-at-Arms Valliappan launched the meeting with an Ice Breaker Question – ‘Selfie
Culture’. The atmosphere turned warm when each speaker introduced themselves
and most of them agreed that the "Selfie Culture is good, but too much of
anything is not good."
Next, Club President Sathya gave his
opening address - "How did he KISS the Ugly Frog in his life".
Subsequently, our imaginative Language Evaluator, Zulhafni,
introduced the "Words of the day." There was a small twist. Speakers were
told to use synonyms of the following words: GOOD/BAD/HARD. This is because he
felt these words are generally over used.
We moved on to prepared speeches. There
were five exciting speakers waiting to enlighten the audience. The first
speaker was Vinay, he delivered his maiden speech -
"Boath to Bath". He narrated his life journey from Boath to Bath and
finally to Toastmasters. There were surprises in every word he displayed in his
slides. The next speaker was Jackie, as he delivered a very informative and interesting
speech on ‘Smart Phones,’ now we know who to approach when we want to buy new
smart phones.
The third speaker was Rasu,
his topic was “Power of Language,’’ he vividly described how he learnt two
languages when he travelled from his home town to a distant state. He concluded
with a quote “ If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to
his head. If you talk to him in his language, it goes to his heart.” Our next
speaker was Julie Mae, her speech topic was "What's in the
T?" She did substantial research and showed vivid images for her speech.
It was an eye opener for most of us.
The final speaker was Peter from
Toa Payoh TMC, he showed us ways we could beat the stress, by giving us
the ‘Stress Buster.’ By showing us statistics from various research papers, he said
that ‘Gratitude’ will bust the stress. All the speakers were equally
impressive, Rasu and Julie Mae were voted as the best prepared
speakers for the meeting and kudos to them.
After a refreshment break, we
celebrated Birthdays of our May babies, Rasu and Valliappan, and then
the project evaluation segment began.
Alice, Rachel, Deb, Rebecca and Muthu gave their
respective evaluations of the prepared speeches, Speakers appreciated the
valuable feedback from the evaluators. Muthu's evalution scored
him the best evaluator's Ribbon.
Ricky, our table topics master, wanted to
increase the members' brain cells by twisting the Table Topics. Each
participant would draw a topic and first line of the speech should be the
topic, i.e once upon on a time. There were nine brave speakers on this
segment, Deepti's "This is the day" speech won her
the Ribbon.
Everyone was eagerly waiting for the
Language Evaluation cum Ah-counter report from our incoming President Zulhafni.
His evaluation was impeccable with specific suggestions to each speaker. The
audience was especially thrilled with his unique ah-counter report. Another
great meticulous evaluation.
However, all good things must end. The
meeting ended with awards presentation and an update of the Revitalized
Education Program from our past Area Governor Rebecca Chan. This was
yet another scintillating meeting and I hope everyone enjoyed the
wonderful Saturday afternoon.
Congratulations to everyone, we are
just inches away from President's Distinguished Club again. Keep up the good
work. Special thanks to all appointment holders and visiting guests: Peter Goh (Toa Payoh Central CC TMC), Rebecca Chan, ACS/ALB (Fort Canning
TMC).
Best Prepared Speech: Rasu and Julie Mae
Best Project Evaulation: Muthu, CC, CL
Best Table Topics: Deepti
Written By: Sathya CC
The President doing his thing
Our entertaining Toastmaster of the Day - Yue Qi
Very Happy
Birthday Boys
Sharing is Caring. Julie Mae and Rasu win the Best Prepared Speech Ribbon
As usual, Muthu gives another astute evaluation
New Member Deepti impresses as she delivers the Best Table Topic
Special Bonus - Some of our members at the BIG Conference
