5th Chapter Meeting

10th September 2009
Grand Paragon Hotel

The 5th meeting of Johor Bahru Toastmasters Club started off with Toastmaster Saravanan as the Sergeant at Arms and Toastmaster Sankeree as Toastmaster of the Evening. Timer of the day was Toastmaster Abiramy. For table topics, Toastmaster Nadirah decided to do something different. She prepared for us a list of categories whereby speakers will have to describe something to the audience and let the audience guess the answer. Competent Communicator Tan Eng Suan was voted the best table topic speaker. He was given the topic “Singapore” and gave a humorously vivid description of the country, which many members found amusing and entertaining.
As for the prepared speeches, two speakers did their speeches. They were Toastmaster Prabakaran and Toastmaster Andrew Tan. TM Prabakaran did his 7th project, research your topic by presenting an interesting topic titled “Eat Less Rice”. He gave a detailed explanation of how rice is actually harmful to our health and what we should eat more in order to have a healthier diet. After his speech members were enlightened and became more aware of taking a more balanced meal. Toastmaster Andrew Tan on the other hand did his 9th project, persuade with power and gave a speech entitled “Grab Every Opportunity”. He shared with us his own experiences of how he came to be who he is by seizing every opportunity given to him. Through his willingness to take up extra responsibilities, he managed to progress further than his peers. He ended his speech by challenging the members to be bold and daring and rise up to the occasion when given the chance. The winner of the prepared speeches was Toastmaster Andrew Tan.
The meeting continued with the evaluation session. Advanced Communicator Silver Cindy Wong evaluated Toastmaster Prabakaran whereas Competent Communicator Jay Kannan evaluated Toastmaster Andrew Tan. Both evaluators gave uplifting comments for both speakers and pointed out areas for improvements for the speakers. Winner for the best evaluator award went to Competent Communicator Jay Kannan.
Language evaluator, Advanced Communicator Bronze John Foo gave his evaluation for the good and not so good language usage throughout the meeting. This was then followed by evaluation from the Ah counter, Competent Communicator Mark Anthony. General evaluator Toastmaster Michael Chu then gave his evaluation for the day. The meeting continued with the awards presentation and closing speech by club president Competent Communicator Jay Kannan. This was then followed by the annual general meeting for the term 2008/2009. Overall the meeting went well and members enjoyed it.

Text by TM Wai Jey Shin

Photo by TM Andrew Tan.