Wow! A great start to a New Year! 5 projects speeches ranging from the Ice Breaker project to an Advanced project.
The SAA for the evening, Suanny, facilitated the self-introductions and each related something interesting that happened that day.
The TME Matthew then introduced the order of the program for the evening. He then invited the President Vinata to give her opening address.
Vinata updated the club on the DCP goals achieved and we are glad to know that we already have 7 DCP points. Achieveing the President’s Distinguished Club award for this year is almost in the bag.
The Language Evaluator Seng Chuan, then came forward and introduced the word for the evening. He challenged us not to use the word ”Access” as a verb but as a noun, or “Accessible” as an adjective.
The project speeches followed.
1. P1 “Oh me, Oh My, Oh May” and you may have guessed it, the speaker is May, who eloquently gave her Ice Breaker speech about herself. It was humorous how May finally settled with her name.
2. P8 “How to get rid of negative thoughts” Bibhuti gave us 3 tips. Tip 1: Focus on what you want; our mind is like a magnet. Tip 2: Align yourself with positive people; poeple who can encourage and empower us. Tip 3: Use your past selectively and effectively; our future is unlimited, so let our past go, so we can grow. It’s like you can’t be looking in the rear mirror all the time, else accidents will happen. So “Smile” and change the negative to positive.
3. P9 “304 days” Hoa persuaded the audience to spend more time as a family, especially with your children as values such as love, care are enforced during conversation and interaction.
4. P9 “Save the BBC” Matthew highlighted the prominent pioneers of Singapore who were burried in Bukit Brown Cemetery. There is an impending road that will be built, cutting through the cemetery and those tombs affected will be lost forever, together with our history. We are persuaded enough to organise a visit to the BBC!
5. AP1 Humorously Speaking Mannual, Warm up the Audience. “Laughter is the best medicine” Emma warmed up the audience with her personal humorous stories such as her acting saga when her wig fell off and numerous other personal experiences. With a moral that life is unpredictable, sometimes the odd circumstances comes into play, laughter is the best medicine.
The evaluators Vinata, Savitri, Bibhuti, Seng Chuan and Suanny gave constructive feedback which benefited the speakers and also the audience.
The Table Topics Master. Hoa, choose Chinese New Year as the theme for the topics. The topics speakers were Zeeshan (holidays), Emma (ang pow) and Seng Chuan (colours).
The evening rounded off with the presentation of the awards. The best project speaker ribbon went to May, and the best evaluator and table topics speaker ribbons went by Seng Chuan.
President Vinata closed with a short address.
Our next meeting will be on 16 February. We expect to hold our club’s International Speech and Table Topics contest then.
Our joint Christmas meeting was a raving success with the warm fellowship of old friends and new. A total of 27 Toastmasters from 4 area U3 clubs and guests had a blast of a time.
SAA for the evening, Jeyan, welcomed all with a round of self-introductions and each spoke on their favourite TV programme. It appears that most of us hardly have the time to watch TV.
TME Wayne, introduced the order for the evening and invited VPE Matthew to give the opening address. It’s the time of the year when we can slow down and reflect on the year’s events. He shared with us lessons he learnt from a simple yet contented Pulau Ubin villager he met. Likewise we too should be contented with what we have and take time to smell the roses.
LE Annie’s word-of-the-evening was JOY and she showed us the various ways we could use it, giving us several examples.
The project speeches followed.
Linda did project AP1 The Briefing from Speeches by Management Manual. She briefed the audience with statistics and the variety of programme courses available to convince all “Why choose NUS MBA”.
Christian did project AP4 Make Them Laugh from Humorous Speeches Manual. With his cool way of audience interaction, he warmed up the audience and had everyone laughing before convincingly getting everyone to agree, that we all want to have “Super Powers”. However with a twist to the various examples such as having super pitch, super memory, he alerted us to the dangers of having such powers.
After the long break, as we had many people to network with and tons of food to eat, the project evaluators Stuart and Savitri gave invaluable feedback beneficial to the speakers as well as the audience.
The special segment, Christmas games, was conducted by Matthew, thanks to Vinata for the suggestions. Groups of 3 to 4 people came forward and acted out the emotions mentioned. Those who mastered the project “Your Body Speaks” with the most convincing pose, won the prize of a chocolate.
The Ah Counter, Dennis Lee, gave his report on what could have been improved and what good pause fillers such as impactful pauses at the right moment, were heard throughout the evening.
The Timer, Ling Ling, did a great job as a first timer.
The Language Evaluator, Tan Annie, gave a fantastic feedback on the some of the interesting use of words, proper pronunciations of certain words and mentioned the people who used of word-of-the-evening.
Matthew closed the meeting with a round of thanks to everyone who came and contributed to the entertaining evening.
Each went away with a copy of the group photo thanks to Dover TMC, some loved the sculptured balloons Linda made and took them home, a gift exchange brought smiles to all, a candy walking stick sweetened the last vestiges of the evening and lots of memories that will linger on.
Our Division U Governor, Steven Choon ACS,ALB gave the welcome address and encouraged the Area Governors and the clubs to spur on in their Toastmasters journies. We have a good headstart but need to draw lessons from our failures and build on our successes to soar to even greater heights by the end of this term 2011/2012.
TheToastmaster-of-the-Day, Suanny Gouw introduced the order of the meeting.
The prepared speeches followed with 5 CCs and 5 Advanced Project speeches.
- P9 Aileen Tan from ITMA with “A Call to Support EH” spoke on climate change and persuaded us to support Earth Hour. Her evaluator was Nigel Wong CC from IFPAS.
- P9 Amy Leung from Kowloon-Singapore asked “Waste – Do We Matter?” She highlighted the huge amount of trash that we in Singapore, dump, and persuaded us to Reduce, Reuse and Recyle. Her evaluator was Steven Choon ACS,ALB Division U Governor.
- P9 Jonathan Phua from Dover gave us pointers on “How to get ahead in Life”. He persuaded us to FOCUS on the 1% that gives the highest return. His evaluator was Lawrence Quek DTM from Whampoa CC.
- P10 Dennis Lee from Dover told us the importance of “Feedback” How feedback from commanding officers and during his toastmaster speech evaluations, has made him a better person. His evaluator was Mohammad Saddiq ACS, ALB from Nee Soon East.
- P10 Thomas Paul from Tanglin inspired us to view long term goals by using visual reminders, of where and what we are aiming for in order not to be “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”.His evaluator was Mohammad Taufiq CC, ALB.
- AP5 Special Occasions Speeches – Accepting an Award. Ramana Boyanni CC. CL from Kowloon-Singapore was accepting the President’s Distinguish Award and gave a speech to thank “The Team Work” His evaluator was Savitri Iyer DTM from Tanglin.
- AP5 Speaking to Inform – A Fact Finding Report. Sudhan Purushothuman
CC from Leng Kee lectured us on “The Science Behind Aircraft Flight”. His evaluator was Gerald Ong ACG, ALS from Hong Kah North. - AP4 Special Occasion Speeches – Presenting the Award. Victor Ng CC from IFPAS was presenting the Financial Advisor of the Year award with his speech titled “ The Amazing One!” His evalutor was Patricia Lum DTM from Punggol.
- AP4 Humorously Speaking – Keep Them Laughing. Bala Muthukrishnan CC from Leng Kee kept us in stitches when he narrated his experience of using the toilet in a “Third World” country. Well, we will not mention the country. His evaluator was Venkataraman RamPrassad ACS, ALB from ITMA.
- AP Speaking to Inform – The Abstract Concept. Anthonius Triono Pranoto ACB from Kowloon-Singapore gave us a concept used for “How to Choose Your Own Boss”. His evaluator was Walter Lee ACB,ALB from Buona Vista.
The break was a great time for networking and recharging. The refreshments was specially selected by Taufiq and received good feedback and praise from the attendees.
Evaluations of the Prepared Speeches followed after the break with everyone learning from the invaluable feedback.
The last session of the Achiever’s day was the bonus workshop on Table Topics Evaluations conducted by Gerald Ong ACG, ALB.
The winners of the Best CC Project Speaker was Jonathan Phua, Best AP Speaker was Bala Muthukrishnan CC and Best Evaluator was Mohammad Saddiq ACS, ALB
Lt Governor Education & Training, Patrick Oei DTM presented the CC pins and AC pins with the new logo to members who completed or were due to complete their projects by end December 2011. It was definitely the icing on the cake.
Area U1 and U3 Governors would like to thank all for being there and participating in the event and most importantly Steven Choon ACS,ALB for his guidance and leadership.
You can view the photos on division U’s website
