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....

8th Chapter Meeting

8th Chapter meeting at Paragon Hotel , Johor Bahru, Theme: Deepavali. 22nd October 2009

After I took a long vacation from attending the Toastmaster chapter meetings, I went to the meeting on 22/10/2009. Only 16 people including 3guests attended the meeting. Even though the turn out were quite disappointing, I still felt some positive ambiance.




I saw a different atmosphere in the meeting unlike usual and I was pleased with it. I realized that the Deepavali ambiances were created. This was possible due to the committed Toastmasters whom had put so much efforts in order create this atmosphere. I would like to express my gratitude to our president J. Kannan and SK Shegar for developing the Deepavali feeling in the air by decorating the meeting room. In addition, I would also like to thank all to J. Kannan, SK Shegar, Shankaree, and Praba whom brought the Indian delicacies to be enjoyed by all the fellow Toastmasters.



Moreover, Deepavali mood would not be created if there were decorations and delicacies only. TME Abiramy is also one the factor to boost the Deepavali festive mood during the meeting by her being the Toastmaster of the evening and gave brief explanations about what is Deepavali is all about. Moreover, The Language Evaluator CC Lee had also took all of in a Deepavali mood by choosing the best possible word accordingly which is “CELEBRATE”.



The meeting took place with three Toastmasters presenting their speeches. Toastmaster Rusmariani was the first to give the speech. She did her Project 2 and her topic was “Just Do It”. The second speaker was Toastmaster Saravanan with his topic “Body Is Crying For Water”. Whereas our own Toastmaster President, Toastmaster J. Kannan did the Advanced Project named “Me And My Mr.Ego”. It was indeed hilarious as he started his speech with babies and ended with Mr. Carlsberg along with Mrs. Murukku.



All in all, every speech made an impact or at least made the fellow Toastmasters to learn new speech techniques and improve our speech techniques. As we depart our concentration from the speaker to the other events held in the meetings such as table topics, evaluator’s evaluation etc, I also felt that there is a need to give appraisal to those people involved.



For an instance, I found that the Table Topics that were conducted by Toastmaster

Marc Anthony was indeed in conjunction with the Deepavali ambiance. In addition, I would like to acknowledge his efforts of printing several pictures for the Table Topics even though to some extent, they confused some of the fellow Toastmasters and guests. Some of the confusions that had been experienced by them were “Oil Lamp” was mistakenly seen as “Aladdin lamp”, “Open House” was mistakenly seen as “Night Market”, and a woman wearing “saree” was mistakenly interpreted and got into men traditional costumes. In my opinion, despite all the confusions, everyone had learnt something new about the Indian tradition. For that, on behalf of the club, I thank Marc Anthony for his ideas and efforts.



Moreover, all Indians Toastmasters attempted wearing traditional clothes should be appraised. Nevertheless, another mystification took into place when Toastmaster Andrew Tan wore the traditional Chinese shirt on the day. Haha.. Everyone started to take a hiding glimpse on him and wondering whether it wast Chinese New Year or Deepavali, I guess. Some other Toastmasters including guests came with a Western outlook for the meeting. Another secrete glimpse were on them, I presume. Maybe they thought it’s a New Year or Christmas celebration. Haha…Subsequently, someone just said it out loud, after all we are One Malaysia no matter what we wear for the celebration. I believe the person is the extreme supporter of One Malaysia acronym.



Last but not least, the Toastmasters loved to thank J. Kannan, SK Shegar, Saravanan, Shankaree, Prada and Abiramy for bringing Indian cookies for all to enjoy. As the cookies were so delicious, some of the Toastmasters even kidnapped the cookies with permission from the cookies owners. Haha..



I think some of the Toastmasters want more meetings as SK Shegar, Andrew Tan, John Foo, ET Lee and Lee Chee Shen continued their own table topics while having dinner together outside after the official Toastmaster meeting. To summarize, the meeting were well organized but we must still look for more improvements for the coming Toastmasters meetings.

Photo by E T Lee, DTM
Text by TM Shegar

Come to our next meeting on 22nd October, 2009

Happy Diwali,
May this festival of lights bring you much peace, joy and happiness .

Make a date with us
COME to our next Chapter meeting

8th Chapter Meeting of 2009/2010 -

Thursday, 22nd October 2009

Meeting’s Theme: Deepavali – Festival of Light

Venue : THE GRAND PARAGON HOTEL, JOHOR BAHRU

Meeting starts at 7.pm Fellowship starts at 6.30 pm

Dress code: anything you would wear to a Diwali open house.

All are welcome.

Guest fee Rm 20.00.

Just call our vice president of public relations E T Lee, DTM at 012 7115063 to get invited.

Text By E T Lee, DTM

Video by TM Abiramy Thenammai