Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club, Singapore (Sengkang): Anchorvale CC TMC - 100th Chapter Meeting on 25th February 2017

The Anchorvale Voyage

Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club was chartered on 2010 June. As we have swam the deepest depths of the oceans and scaled the steepest heights of the mountains, we have faced plenty of challenges and tasted ample of success.

This was no mean feat. The victories we have accomplished were largely due to YOU, our members, our leaders, our mentors, our friends. Old or current, whether you are with us now, or were members before. It is no different.

We are all stitched within the fabric of Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club.

How many people are aware that number 100 has its unique distinctiveness. To me personally, the number 100 relates closely to such a great accomplishment. Many students, parents or even businessmen understand the number 100 is a number which represents Completeness, Gutsiness, and Robustness.

As part of Anchorvale CC Toastmasters, I feel very honoured that I can be part of their 100^th Chapter meeting.

It was an epic full house where people came from various backgrounds such as students, professional, entrepreneurs or just folks looking for good fun.

The meeting was called to order by our Sergeant at Arms Wee Chee Sian, CC, ALB who invited everyone to share their experience with Anchorvale CC Toastmasters. The answers were fantastic as it turned into a contest with members all stating how long they have been with Anchorvale.

Sathiyamoorthi Chinnasamy, CC was our highly-accomplished Toastmaster of the Day and shared his fantastic journey with Anchorvale about how he has grown so much. Not the growth of the body but rather, the growth of life, leadership and friendship. Thereafter our dear President Norman Tan, CC, CL shared with us that Anchorvale CC Toastmasters is like an oil tanker whereby it’s strong, robust and tested throughout the years of time inception.

AMELIORATE, the word of the day. Rusman Lee, CTM, shared his first ever experience as Language Evaluator with the aim that everyone including himself can Ameliorate (improve) their public speaking skills to the next level.

Come into the next segment of prepared speeches. We were pleasantly surprised by our newly minted toastmaster member Gu Haidong, TM, who gave his Ice breaker speech. He happened to be working in the best company right now, which is Google. He shared about his experiences of taking a bold step to come out from his comfort-zone of Google, and to take a leap of faith for the new journey of career in life. Somehow I felt he had some resemblance with Bill Gates, could be his sweater I guess.

Our second prepared speech speaker Dino David, TM, shared a shocking story about a child which in the end turned out to be his own childhood story. He taught us to be delighted with life and turn our weaknesses into strengths.

The third speaker is very young in age yet he is a twinkle star in his speech, Benjamin Leow, ACB, CL. He shared the famous folktale of the wolf and pigs which in turn we find out his version of wolf is the wolf with the very good heart.

Last prepared speech is by our adorable mesmerising adopted Toastmaster, Debbie He Yitong, CC. She shared about her personal relationships with her grandmother, which made us realize, she’s not just a beauty queen from the outside but indeed she also has an angelic heart. To no surprise, she won everyone’s heart to and earned the title of best prepared speech speaker for Anchorvale CC Toastmasters 100^th Chapter Meeting.

During our break, we were enjoying the Anchor Birthday cake to celebrate the birthday of our Mentor Richard Tay, DTM and at the same time to celebrate our 100^th Chapter meeting.

Beautiful cake eh?

After a delighted birthday cake celebration, our toastmaster Vicky Frantz, TM presented us with the Anchorvale Voyage Video, which gave us an insight of our Anchorvale CC Toastmasters years of progress in a 10 minutes’ resplendent video clip. Awesome job Vicky!

Poor Club President

Everyone clapping for Mentor

Mentor Clapping for himself

Group Photo

Old Members - But not old by age. Some people here still young

Group Photo

Project Evaluations came right after the Anchorvale Toastmasters Video Voyage. Roger Yap, Valliappan Selvamani, Muthu Ganesh, Zulhafni Zulkeflee gave us their valuable feedback on how good are the prepared speakers and what are things they can make even better. Such an incredible learning experience listening to their tips and tricks. I am sure the speakers felt ameliorated after listening to the Project Evaluators.

Next, a very creative Table topics led by Zulhafni Zulkeflee, ACB allowed the audience to learn better about some of our senior Toastmasters members. The session was absolutely brilliant with several enthusiastic new faces, and won over by our ex-member and former champion Alvin Tan on the topic of Handbook the rival of Facebook, which made most of us switch over our Facebook apps to Handbook, until we were reminded that this is only table topics and not a real app which will take over Facebook.

The Language Evaluation was delivered by Rusman Lee, CTM. Rusman was happy to find out words of the day “Ameliorate” have been used by several Toastmasters. I am pretty sure everyone has ameliorated their communication skills.

Special thanks to all appointment holders and visiting Toastmasters and not to mention our Organizing Chairman of Vicky Frantz and Sathiyamoothi Chinnasamy, CC