It was yet another enjoyable evening with 19 attendees, including a visiting Toastmaster, Tricia Meers from St. Ives Toastmasters Club, Sydney, Australia and Area U1 Governor Shao Ning. Mani our resident guest, and guests Ranmalee and Matthew have joined us as members. Welcome to the fun loving club guys!
Our Sergeant-At-Arms, Thomas, called the meeting to order with a round of self-introductions which required everyone to speak about their all-time favourite movies.
The Toastmaster of the Evening, Rosie, introduced the program for the evening. She then called on the Language Evaluator, Tricia Meers, for the word of the evening. Tricia introduced the word “Procrastinate” giving examples on its uses followed by an explanation of the word.
The President, Suanny, then gave the opening speech asking members what is their toastmaster’s goal for the year. She highlighted the club’s achievement last year, as President’s Distinguish Club and the target achievement for this year. She then went on to the personal achievements that each and every member can achieve through the communication and the leadership paths. Lunchtime meetings have been introduced as make-up sessions for those members who missed our regular meetings. The next one will be at the Tourism Board.
The project speeches followed.
The first speaker, Neeraj, did his Project 2 (Organise Your Speech), and spoke about Tiger. He spoke about the unique characteristics and playfulness of the “Tiger” and how. due to poaching and demand for its parts, its population is dwindling.
The second speaker, Patricia, did her Project 8 (Get Comfortable with Visual Aids) speech. She spoke on “Understanding Fibonacci Numbers”. Her visual aid was a pineapple and she demonstrated how these numbers occur in nature.
The third speaker, Linda, did her Advanced Project 5 (The Media Speech) from the Public Relations manual, and spoke on “Age is just a number”. Her speech was about the trend of the young neglecting the aged instead of valuing their experience and potential contributions.
The fourth speaker, Suanny, also did the same project as Linda and spoke on “Be the change factor”. She spoke about narrowing the rich-poor gap by educating the children and bringing hope to families of low income.
Break time followed where everyone had the time to mingle and eat. Thank you to Linda for preparing the coffee, and sandwiches and to Savitri for the tasty homemade Indian finger food.
The project evaluations followed after the break. Alan gave feedback on Neeraj’s speech, Savitri evaluated Patricia’s speech, Shao Ning evaluated Linda’s and Vinata evaluated Suanny’s speech. As always, everyone learnt from the valuable feedback given.
Thomas led the Table Topics, and continued with the theme from the round of introductions about movies. Vinata, Mani, Tricia, Frederic and Elynn spoke on various randomly selected Oscar award winning movies. Mani’s speech gave fertile ground to Tricia who spring boarded on his theme and won herself the best table topics speaker award.
The Ah Counter role was taken on by Frederic, who recorded all the pause fillers heard during the evening. like the “er-ah”, “hmm”, “you know”,” okay”, “but ah”, etc. His feedback was most entertaining, especially in that French accent.
The Language Evaluator for the evening, Tricia, gave feedback on the speakers who used the word of the evening.
Time keeping was taken on by Wayne, who did an excellent job of keeping speakers within the allocated speaking time, throughout the evening.
At the closing of the evening’s meeting, the President, Suanny presented the Best Speaker ribbon to Linda, the Best Evaluator ribbon to Shao Ning, and the Best Table Topics ribbon to Tricia. It was another great evening!
For the next meeting, every member present will be presenting their humorous speech and will be given the opportunity to do a project evaluation.
Looking forward to our next meeting on Thursday 16th September.
~ Suanny and Thomas
Thursday 29 July marks our first lunch time meeting at the workplace. 6 members of Tanglin Toastmasters had a whale of a time, at the Standard Chartered posh meeting room.
The Toastmasters of the Day, Suanny opened the meeting and introduced the program.
The project speakers were Frederic and Patrick. Frederic did his project 3 speech – Get to the point, speech title “Be Wise, Early Rise” He listed five points we can do to help with our time management, which hinges on rising early. They are; having a light dinner before 7 pm, workout, don’t ignore the alarm clock but get out of bed, set goals that you want to achieve during the early rising hours and try it out for 30 days till it becomes a habit. It was convincingly presented and the audience was persuaded to try out the plan, even perhaps for one day.
Patrick did his project 4 speech – How to say it, speech title “10 lessons for life” He selected three points to expound on Hope, Persistence and Confidence. On the topic of Hope, he spoke about the Charity food fair which the bank will be running to give hope to the underprivileged. On the topic of Persistence, he gave examples how everyone especially sales people need to overcome objection and rejection and be persistent, serving the customers with concern. And for the topic on Confidence, it is a choice which needs to be practiced. Dare to Hope, put it into action. Be Persistent, and have the Confidence to challenge yourself by setting goals and milestones.
While the Evaluators were summarizing their thoughts, we did a Round Robin story around the room. It was a scary night, or was it a dream?
The Time keeper was Wee Lian and the Ah counter role was taken up by Suanny.
Linda evaluated Frederic’s speech – and Thomas evaluated Patrick’s speech. Both evaluators added insights on the good points of the speakers and provided valuable feedback.
The meeting ended within the 1 hour schedule. It was a successful meeting and – we look forward to more of “Bring the meeting to the members” A special thanks to Patrick who organised the meeting room with luxurious ambience and the lunch thereafter.
~ Suanny & Thomas
