Christmas is
one of the most magical time of the year in sunny Singapore.
Orchard road
lights up, sale in almost every corner, Norman d' Chairman getting a huge
bonus!
These are
true signs that Christmas is just a few days away.
The chapter
meeting started off with a quick round of introduction thanks to Dino our SAA.
Thereafter everyone were asked to share their most memorable Christmas
experience. Rusman took the stage to deliver a fantastic opening in his TMD
role. Thereafter, our dear President Norman Tan shared to everyone his acronymically
bittersweet feeling on the festive season as – CRAZED
(cranky-regret-anxious-zorry-enlivened-divine). Zorry!?! .... really Norman?
SPIRITED –
the word of the day. Muthu Ganesh, CC, CL, was our language evaluator for this
chapter meeting. He is present to pick out the beautiful language that we used
throughout the meeting. He is
present to encourage everyone to utilized verbal ornamentation such as rhetoric,
triads, idioms and analogy.
What an
exciting day we had lined up. 6 prepared speeches, 5 from the Competent
Communicator Manual and 1 speech from Advanced Manual. Gu Weite organized her
P2 speech with pizzazz, sharing the 3 knows of speaking. Angela Cai then encourage
everyone how to get a stronger will power to achieve the things you want. Vicky
Frantz then share how to decode life secret by living it without regrets. Then
Kelvin shock us by telling us the amount of food waste generated in Singapore has
increased by about 45 per cent over the past 10 years. Yuan Yuan jubilantly
advocate in his speech to live a joyful life. Last but not least, we have Sathiya
the superb speaker, who proved to everyone his magniloquence by whipping up a
laughter-filled speech about healthy lifestyle. His effort eventually won him
the best prepared speech speaker award. Good job! It was an oratorical delight
that made the Saturday afternoon absolutely awesome!
As this
chapter meeting is a Christmas special, our refreshments were also special. Our
club mentor, Jenny, DTM brought a sumptuous roasted chicken for the occasion,
celebrating the birthday of our December babies at the same time. To balance
our diet, she prepared a delicious fruit salad as well, thanks Jenny you’re
awesome! please share the recipe please!
The project
evaluations segment came right after our refreshment break. Chee Sian, Celine
Goh, Joe Wan, Norman Tan, Richard Tay and Jenny Au gave their opinions on the
respective prepared speech speakers. Even for the rest of us, their evaluations
educated us on how to make our future speeches better.
Finally, it
was time for the exciting but nerve-wracking Christmassy table topics! Salma introduced 12 yuletide table
topics, first blood was the bald dude with the white beard. The interesting mix
of cause and effect resulted in surprisingly hilarious speeches from many of
our speakers. Some even speak twice it was that good :D !
All good
things come to an end. Muthu delivered his language evaluator’s report, our
benevolent guest from NTU Alumni TMC, William Tang, DTM, gave us his tender
loving brutally honest monologue regarding how our meeting was held through his
general evaluator’s report.
Special
thanks to all appointment holders and visiting Toastmasters: Kelvin Leong TM,
Zheng Yuan Yuan TM, Joe Wan ACB/ALB, Celine Goh CC/ALB, and William Tang, DTM.
That’s it
from us for the year 2016. Come join us in 2017 and we will make sure it will
be worth your time!
Best
Prepared Speech: Sathiyamoorthi, CC
Best Project
Evaluator: Jenny Au, DTM
Best Table
Topics: Mr. Nick Claus
