2nd Chapter Meeting 2010

THE TOASTMASTER MEETING
JANUARY 28, 2010
THE THAIPUSAM FESTIVAL



THE ICE BREAKERS
The three new members Tm Murugappan, Tm Chan Chin Phai and Tm Kek Kim Lan spoke from their hearts and won the hearts of the audiance.  Well done!  And welcome to the club.


THE MEETING

The night of "the thaipusam festival" challenged my ability on how much I know and understand about the hindu festival. For 18 years staying in Malaysia I believe that Thaipusam is just ( where we see hindu devotees piercing the part of their body ) a part of their rituals. As the toastmaster of the evening I am obliged to find out more about the festival. Since I joined toastmasters I have fostered the habit of finding a solution only then

I learn and grow with the help of the new technology and lots of information around. Now, I can say that I know more about the thaipusam festival.

THE FOOD

During the tea break I noticed that we have enough food for everyone until the VPE announced that he had none. I guess, the members and guests were contented that we have nice food and happy with the mee siam which was not too spicy and the kuih kurang manis.

Photo by E T Lee,DTM
Text by:
TM CARMELITA

1st chapter Meeting of 2010

Due to a series of natural phenomina ( you read newspapers and you know the world has a lot of earthquakes , tsuname , snow storms and what have you these days, Toastmasters have their fair share as well ), we have lost contact with the Reporter for this meeting.  We think there is no chance of recovering him until after the Chinese New Year avalanche.    Meantime  aspiring reporters with good memory of this meeting is required. Historical accounts are not well received. We need meeting highlights. Interested member please contact E T Lee at jbetlee@gmail.com or simply write on the comment section of this entry.

Christmas Meeting

"I am dreaming ..of a white Christmas..just like the one that I used to know...



We had a unforgettable Christmas meeting at Carmelita's house; to start the meeting, Carmelita as host welcome everyone to the 12th Chapter meeting in her house. Saravanan first time did the Invocation, a teacher of the 'Secret' book...(must read book for the new year). Mark took the role as Toastmaster of the Evening and he introduced Jey Shin as Table Topicmaster for the evening. We had only allotted 30 minutes for table topics session, members and guests were readily to 'speak on their feet' in the garden of Carmelita's house...



After the table topics session, President Kannan gave a very positive 'evaluation' on 'table topics' session; At the same time, he mentioned a few 'tips' on answering the table topic. Members, get ready for the Table Topic Contest that is coming up in March/April next year.



Later, members and guests enjoyed the session on exchange of gifts and food specially prepared by the host, Carmelita Baluyut.



It was the 'first' time that we had a Toastmasters Meeting in the 'open air'.



President thanked the members and guests especially the host, Carmelita and Mr. Pang for inviting us for this 'annual' Christmas meeting in Taman Perling.



Hohoho......Merry Christmas and happy holiday.

11th Chapter Meeting: Guests Night

10th Chapter meeting

10th Chapter Meeting cum Area A2 Governor's visit
26th November 2009

Photo by E T Lee, DTM

We welcome the Area A2 Governor, P. Andy, CC for the official visit our Club Meeting. We really appreciate his dedication to serve as the District Officer. Kudos Area Governor!

The SAA, Mark Anthony, CC called the meeting to start on time and he invited the President J. Kannan to deliver his opening address.

In President's opening address, he talked about "Success is a manifestation of thought and thoughts can become things. Therefore, everything that happened to me, I am responsible!" Wow, that was very philosophical and anyone who can spoke like that is definitely on his way to become a great motivational speaker!

The Toastmaster of the Evening, that is your truly, in accordance to the theme of the evening, "Laughter is the Best medicine"; he started the meeting by leading Toastmasters how to enjoy laughter by doing a few simple excercises.

Anyone can laugh without jokes, humor or comedy!

The Table Topicsmaster, Shegar, CC with his high energy personality conducted the Table Topics session with ease, his topics attracted fellow Toastmasters responded very quickly, I pondered why? (The secret: each fellow Toastmaster who spoke at the lactern received the brand new 2010 management diary from Shegar, who is the Group manager from the company with the tagline: 'life is great'!)

P/s. Word of the day was 'PONDER'

Everyone enjoyed the tea-break session because it was here that members and guests can 'mingled' around for better fellowship, this is the place we can expand our circle of friendship within the Toastmasters Club!

At the Prepared Speech session, we had 2 Prepared Speeches;

TM Tan Yu Min, the highly qualified accountant in the Club,whom presented her Project 7, entitled Corporate Fraud! Bosses, Beware! She cited the story of Balin Bank IN Singapore, 1995, in fact, how could the branch that were performing superbly well went bankrupt?Reason:Corporate Fraud!

The Second speaker who is another corporate high flyer presented the Motivational Speech in the Advance Communicator manual. Even his speech title chosen was a highly motivated one! His speech entitled: Breakingthrough the Glass Ceiling! He talked about goal setting and that "If your dream is not an impossible one, then it is not a dream..." Shouldn't we set the Impossible goals now for achieving a DTM?

Both speakers received the 'wows' from the floor! We love it!

Finally, as Toastmaster of the Evening, I felt very satisfied to receive feedback that the meeting was conducted interestingly and packed with positive energy!!
 

Text by Michael Chu, CC

9th Chapter meeting

9th Chapter meeting
Venue:  Grand paragon Hotel, Johor Bahru

TM Wei Yin receiving her Maiden Speech ribbon

It was a splendid 9th Chapter Meeting of Johor Bahru Toastmasters Club. Toastmaster Carmelita was the Sergeant at Arms and I had the honour of being the host of the evening.

The meeting kicked off with a very a inspiring speech delivered by our very own club president 2009/10, CC J. Kannan. This was followed by the award presentation of the Toastmaster of the year and President’s distinguish club by our division A governor Advanced Communicator, Silver Cindy Wong.

Competent Communicator Tan Eng Suan was selected as the Toastmaster of the year for division A.

There is only one Prepared Speech. It was delivered by our new member Toastmaster Wei Yin. TM Wei Yin was doing her Ice Breaker and after her speech we get to know about her better.

For the table topics session, Michael Chu.CC decided to do something different. The theme for the night was 'Inspiring & Motivating Life Experience'. The table topic questions for the entire evening were all related to this theme. Competent Communicator Shegar and Toastmaster Andrew Tan were voted for the best table topic speakers for the evening.

The meeting continued with the evaluation sessions. Competent Communicator Mark Antony evaluated Toastmaster Wei Yin. He commented on areas Wei Yin should work on to improve further and gave encouraging words to our speaker who was doing her first assignment speech “ the Ice Breaker”.

Language evaluator, Competent Communicator Tan Eng Suan gave his evaluation for the good and not so good usage of the English Language throughout the meeting. This was then followed by the report from the Ah Counter, Toastmaster Nadirah. General evaluator Toastmaster Andrew Tan then gave his evaluation for the day. The meeting continued with the awards presentation and closing speech by club president Competent Communicator Jay Kannan.

Overall, I really enjoyed our chapter meeting and am looking forward to the next session


 

Photo By E T Lee, DTM

Text By TM Prabakaran

2nd Joint Meeting with Sacred Heart Toastmasters Club

10th November 2009
Joint meeting with Scacred Heart Toastmasters Club
Venue: Sacred Heart Church at Taman Sri Tebrau, Johor Bahru


Photo by E T Lee, DTM


Following Text by J.Kannan CC, CL ( transcribed from Johor Bahru Toastmasters Googles Group)

Last night all the cowboys and cowgirls went wild at "Sacret Heart- JB Club joint meeting". The meeting was full of energy. I admired the tenacity of those present. They kept the energy high till end of the meeting. Thanks to VPE Michael for the effort put in. Creative Theme meetings always create lots of fun. Maybe we should think of some creative theme too.

Congrats to TM Eugene Paw for doing his P5. You have earned 1/2 CC title. You are just 5 projects away for your CC title. Keep the momentum going. Congrats to Praba for your P9. Inspire the audience.Your message, 90/10 principle was very relevant to the audience. I agree with you ,we normally got no control over 10% of what happens to us. 90% of the time we react to the 10%. How we react makes us success or failure.

Table Topics session was creatively conducted by TM Saravanan. Thought provoking questions. The questions made the members go back to the past and tell us what hapend at that time. First day in school, frist day at work and many more first day questions. Everyone participated actively.

I was fortunate to evaluate advance project 5 by Adriene Ong. It was good informative speech. I felt like I was in a Nurses Convention. The message was think before you give consent to recieve any medical service. Read before you sign above the dotted line.

TM Andrew Tan evaluated TM Eugene Paw's P5. He gave positive comments about the speech and encouraged him to move further and complete his CC title. Job well done, TM Andrew Tan.

Paparazzi ET Lee gave a detailed general evaluation in his own style.

The photos uploaded in the Blog will explain the meeting held last night.

All in all it was fruitful and fun filled evening.

See you all on Thursday. Lets make our meeting a fun filled and educational evening too.

Following Text by Michael Chu CC, ( transcribed from Johor Bahru Toastmasters Googles Group)

It was a funfilled evening...the unusual thing in a Toastmasters Meeting, we don't applause anything happened but we 'eeeeeee......hi'.

We were in the west west country...To look at pictures please click to http://jbtoastmasters.blogspot.com/

Thank you DTM ET Lee for all the professionale shots.

Congratulation to our fellow Toastmaster Eugene Paw for delivering his 'long over due' Project 5. I love his confident in delivery. Next is TM Praba who enthusiatically presented his P9, excellent...(we want him to pull the 'horse' a little before the P10 as we have to order the CC Badge from TI, U.S.A! So depending on the shipment, please hold your 'horse' TM Praba

Mr. President J Kannan gave an inspiring closing speech....overall, I enjoyed this Joint Meeting.

 Look out for December 17, one week before Christmas, as your VPE, I would like to arrage another Joint meeting in our Club meeting; The Theme will be 'SHARING THE WHITE CHRISTMAS!' hohohohoho....