Welcome Welcome Welcome to AnchorvaleCC Toastmasters Club 219th Chapter meeting.
The Sergeant at arms kicked off the meeting with everyone introducing
themselves and sharing activities that we are working towards perfection or
doing our best.
Several members shared with us their interesting pursue of
their perfection and there were few golden nuggets captured.
1)
Enjoy the journey of working towards perfection,
not the destination.
2)
Do not enjoy the goal but enjoy the process of
getting to perfection.
3)
Practices more, not for perfection but for
progression.
Our lovely Madam Toastmasters of the Day took over the
meeting sharing with us the program agenda and role holders for today. Our
acting President, VPM Audrey Lim step forward and address us with her president
opening address. Inspiring speech by her with many words of wisdom, “Many
situation in business, personal life and work, don’t need to be perfect but can
be executed as long as it is good enough. Aim for excellence but don’t let
Perfect be the enemy of Good.
Next, our speaker segment featuring 3 prepared speech
speakers.
Our first speaker Prabha Jayaraman was doing her
Presentation mastery Level 1 Project 3 where her project objective was to
practice using her Vocal Variety and Body language to enhance her speech. Her
speech title “Feather in my Cap” and her story gave us a glimpse of her moving
to Singapore, some of her challenges and her affection with birds that leave a
memory of lifetime. In her closing speech, she left us a take home message that
life throw challenges at us, weather the storm and sunshine will shine at the
horizon.
Our second speaker, Hedy Neo working also her Presentation
mastery Level 1 Project 3, presented not only her speech but also a loaf of sourdough
bread. It was 101 on bread baking, from yeast to bread storage (No no to
keeping bread in fridge). How do you pronounce flour? Go google it.
(“Flau.uh”). Bread contains a high amount of sodium, so let avoid eating bread
everyday to prevent hypertension and heart attack. Hedy has so much love in
bread baking and I have no doubt in that.
Our third speaker, Constantine Koh working on his Strategic
Relationship Level 2 project 2 bring us along his journey of protege from first
day of work and his toastmasters experience. Several mentors were spotlighted
in his speech and he felt so valuable to be part of Anchorvale CC Toastmasters
Club member.
Thereafter, Doreen Neo took us on a roller coaster ride with
nail biting Table Topics segment. Salute to the many brave souls (Audrey, Hedy,
Akshaya – Sandhya’s daughter, Murugan, Daniel, Kim, Chee Sian) who took up the
challenges and shared very insightful thoughts on the table topic questions.
After break come the most valuable segment of Toastmasters
meeting, evualtion. Dylan, Nicholas and Imam shared their compliments on how
the speakers did well and suggested improvement for them. So much to take away
today for me.
Today Chapter meeting was treated with a special workshop
from Sarah Ong giving us insight about Personal Data Protection. If you have
been receiving too many marketing calls you missed the most important highlight
of the meeting. Additionally, I am filled with knowledge about my rights on my
personal data. Thank you Sarah for the informative workshop.
Lastly, it was the award presentation and closing speech.
Congratulations to Constantine Koh for taking the Best
Speaker award, Nicholas Tay for Best Evaluator award and Wee Chee Sian as Best
Table Topic Speaker. This afternoon was one of my most valuable time spend this
week.
