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Friday 17 September 2021

Recap of 181st Chapter meeting - 28th Aug 2021


Our Club President Marc Wong, warmly greeted us whether we have ever watched “The Pursuit of Happiness” movie?



The movie theme is about Patience and Perseverance will overcome Mountains.

At the start of the movie the main actor, Will Smith was not having the life he wanted to have. He learned from one of the wealthy men who drove a nice Ferrari, being a stockbroker can lead to the betterment of life. Hence he started to envision himself that he wanted to be a stockbroker, especially to provide a better life for his son. Through the ups and downs and the patience and perseverance, Will had finally achieved the success he wanted to have.

Our President Marc, compared the similarity in Toastmasters, whereby there will be ups and downs for the pursuit to be a better speaker, however with Patience and Perseverance, we will be able to overcome the mountain we face, to achieve the success we want.


Our Language Evaluator Terence Nunis introduced the word of the day as “Purloin” (to steal or to take from others)


The first speaker was Durga Prasad, whose speech title was “My Communication style”

He shared the various type of coffee, such as Indian Brew Coffee, Latte, or Yuanyang, to represent the various type of communication styles such as Direct, Initiative, Supportive, and Analytical. 

Durga encouraged us to adjust our communication style to suit our audience's communication style, to have a better acknowledgment from our various audiences.


The second Speaker was Santwana, with her speech title “Different types of learning and teaching skills”.

 

She shared everyone has a different type of learning:

The Audio learner: they may not like to write

The Visual learner: they may not learn well with audio instruction, hence gave some visual info instead.

The Reading / Writing: they like to read and revise over and over again.

Kinesthetic: It was a mix of audio, visual, and write-up.


The third speaker was Doreen. Her opening speech talked about how to make a memorable childhood memory, either the good and the bad. Doreen shared how she had learned that gifts should always be given to someone without any strings attached.


The next event was the most fantastic one, and you are right, it was the Table Topic. The Table topics was conducted by Valliappan. There were various speakers including various youngsters who were so enthusiastic and courageous to do their table topic speech.


Johnny started the evaluation for Santwana’s speech. He assessed the great use of the various style of learning. Johnny shared it’s great if Santwana can share her learning style hence we can get a better understanding of her learning style instead of sharing the other people learning style.

The second evaluator was Sharif and he was evaluating Durga's speech. He shared Durga was using great use of the eyes-grabber opening. Sharif advised Durga to enhance the speech to even better level by having more structured order for the speech.

The third evaluator was Annabelle, and she was evaluating Doreen’s speech.

She mentioned Doreen has great use of body language and great use of vocal variety. A little improvement suggested was to avoid the virtual background and ensure Doreen ’s appearance would be clearer and not shaded out by the virtual background.


Jenny shared with us the best nugget of 5 moments of truth to be a Leader



To be a Leader needs a lot of hard work and diligence, be it in the workplace, social, and various other situations.

Sample of great Leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Lee Kwan Yeow, Martin Luther King

Toastmasters' core values: integrity, respect, service, and excellence

 


The next session was the Language Evaluation, whereby Terence shared about the good use of words “Purloin”

 


He mentioned the good use of language:

Alliteration: startled, stunt, and speechless.

Idiom: patience is a virtue

Phrases: Delayed gratification

Epiphora: Well crafted, well developed

Anaphora: Interesting

Terence summarised his language evaluation with million dollars advice “Say enough that makes people understand, rather than saying so much and people don’t understand”.

Eliminate the pause fillers, pause when it’s needed, and slow down to let the audience grasp your message.


Sivakumar presented his Ah counter report.


The meeting was closed by our President Marc Wong, with his thankfulness for all appointment holders for their great jobs.

Marc proceeded with the awards presentation for the day:

Best speaker of the day: Doreen Neo

Best Evaluator: Annebelle De Arroz

Best Table Topic: Aryan Voleti, Rusman Hadijanto Lee, Marc Wong, Cindy Ong


The blog is written by Rusman Hadijanto Lee, CTM, CL, DL5