A very warm welcome by our Area A1 Director “Fan Li” who was also the TMD and the Marine Parade Toastmasters Club President “Adam Ahmad” to Toastmasters members and Guests. The President mentioned having a second look at life by appreciating our family, friends, and even the small and simple thing in life like the roses by the sidewalk.
The 1st speaker was Krupa Shah, who broke the ice with her 1st ice breaker speech.
Krupa-19 was a girl who always complained about her life. She always wanted to have a perfect life. When covid-19 struck, after a while she finally found 5 new habits: Meditation, Forgiveness, Journaling, Learning new things and Self Challenge, which have completely changed her life better.
2nd speaker was Wee Chee Sian, he found his past photograph which reminded him of his naivety, arrogance, humiliation, as well his awakening. When Chee Sian tried to recall the mini-series of him in the past, he mentioned being mindful of our thoughts, for it will be determined what comes to you and what goes away from you.
3rd speaker was Ramanpreet, was sharing about the partition of India whereby India was divided into India and Pakistan in 1947. Learning from this past division, Ramanpreet encouraged us to love each other, and accept each other, and live peacefully.
4th speaker was Siva, his speech was about WFH (Working from Home).
His working from home activities soon became working from heaven as he enjoyed it, however, after a while, it turned to be working from hell due to juggling with various works including disturbance from the kids at home. He finally loves the balance between working from home for efficiency and working in the office to build a strong network with the team.
Table Topic was brought by our Table Topic Master, Venkat Voleti
Some of the enthralling nuggets of table topics are:
- Preference for switch on/off camera during zoom meeting session, whereby Kavin choose to have a hybrid as it depends on the situation.
- Formal or pajamas during zoom meeting, whereby Jelita chooses flexibility as it depends on the event.
- If team members’ children uncontrollably disturb the zoom meeting. Jenny Lim is ok with this, as children may have an urgent need to attend, while an office meeting can always be rescheduled
- Physical meeting or virtual meeting. Peter prefers virtual meetings, as he can meet up with as much as possible people from all over the world without any boundaries.
- On the topic of caught on zoom unmuted while mocking boss or colleagues, Bee Lim luckily never had this, and she reminds us to always be cautious and always be forgiving and positive mind to avoid this such situation.
- Impression on zoom meeting on 1st pandemic vs 2 years into the pandemic, Sky is enjoying the use of zoom and fully support its effectiveness.
Project Evaluation
The first Project evaluation of Siva, conducted by Prasad Bakre. He was mesmerized by Siva’s speech whereby Siva indeed is a magnificent speaker, with magnificent speech, and the ability to handle magnificent disruption.
The second Project evaluation of Krupa, by Valliappan. Krupa, was using good use of words such as the old Krupa19 and the current new Krupa21, architecture of the future. Krupa to relax a bit and smile, share more info about self, and follow by a good closing speech.
The third Project evaluation of Chee Sian, by Fan Li. Good opening words of naivety, arrogance, humiliation, and awakening. A good sample of the use of burger as the sample. Little improvement if can sharing the real picture Chee Sian’s younger version during this project and to use more on the body gesture for a better delivery impact.
The fourth Project evaluation of Ramanpreet by Salma. It was good research of speech, and good use of pictures to back it up. In the improvement part, try to cut down some parts and focus on a specific area to keep the speech delivery within the allowance time, and to balance the share between the slide and own speech instead, as the slide will take over most of the space while the speaker will be shown in a small window, by not sharing the slide all the time, she speaker video will be shown in a nice fit size of the screen.
Language Evaluator
Our language evaluator Hanifa Kahar, by profession is the Cross-Cultural Communication Coach and Consultant, was evaluating the good use of the Words of the Day “Magnificent”
- Consonance – commute, don’t commute, difficult to clock
- Use of Rhyme – Living a legacy
- Repetitions as an emphasis:
- lack of coordination, always demanding, always requesting what they want
- rub shoulders, rub tummy, rub whatever
- pleasant, unpleasant
- Contrasting words: no longer of my past, the architecture of my own future
- Triads: as simple as the roses by the sidewalk. Bothered, troubled, and disturbed
- Good vocab: challenge myself; ponder upon; embark on
- Metaphor: working in heaven, a hell of a noise, let your body language shine
General Evaluation by Gwen Ling
Good welcome and hospitable, greeted by Marc and Jenny from Anchorvale CC Toastmasters
Fan Li has done a very well done job by encouraging all the toastmasters to use the various colorful background, including the fancy use of fun color clothes, indeed she has achieved her goal to have an excellent yet fun a colorful meeting.
The closing address was conducted by Marc Wong, the President of Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club.
Here we go for the announcement for the winners:
Finally, the President of Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club, Marc Wong, and the Area A1 Director, Fan Li warmly closed the meeting and wished everyone to have a great weekend.
Blog written by Rusman H Lee, CTM, CL, DL5
