Thursday, October 16, 2008

Eleventh Meeting - Black Tie

Our eleventh meeting was held on 15 Oct 2008. The theme of this meeting was ‘Black Tie’. However, no one was wearing the black tie or even the yellow tie. One of our members was wearing the blue tie with black-coloured blazer. I guess those who came to our meeting would have known the mentioned member. Yes, it was our very smart looking Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Fun Mun Wah. Nonetheless, there was also a member who was wearing all black, even though at first he thought of wearing a yellow tie with smileys on it. But due to some unavoidable reasons, he did not wear the yellow tie.

The meeting was started at 5.29 pm with the President’s welcoming speech. CC Kimmy Foo told us that UM was chosen as the best university in Malaysia during the recent QS World University Rankings 2008. It was a good news for all of us. Next, it was the Table Topic Session by our President. The questions were more to current situations in Malaysia (non-political) and it actually made us to think. Most of our Table Topics Speakers were first timers and well done speakers. It was a good start. The Table Topics Evaluation was done by ACB Christine Ong and we learned a few new things from the evaluation.

After that, it was the main session – Project Speeches. The project speakers of the meeting were as the following:

CC Project #2 – Organize Your Talk by TM Nyuk Jet – “2 Minutes Friends”
CC Project #3 – Get to the Point by TM Pang – “Four Characters That Make You Fail in Life”

Nyuk Jet was advising us not to take instant noodles as it is bad for our health. There are no nutrients in it. So students, especially student, and yes students – Please reduce instant noodles as food intake. On the other hand, TM Pang explained on different characters of people that would make them fail. The point that caught all of us was – ‘Talk a lot but no actions’. Hmmm, if you noticed, we members are really talkative, but..hmmm…lets move on.

Our General Evaluator, ACB Christine Ong (from Mid Valley Toastmasters) took over the floor for the whole evaluation of the meeting. There were two of our Toastmasters guests all the way from Stamford College Toastmasters Club – CC Grace Chong and TM Joshua George. CC Grace Chong was the speech evaluator for TM Nyuk Jet and TM Joshua George was the speech evaluator for TM Pang. Thank you evaluators for your time and effort.

Great job on the role players TM Rebekah (Ah Counter), TM Rishi (Grammarian) and TM Bee Guan (Time Keeper). Not to forget our fully prepared TME, TM Fun. [In this meeting, the Grammarian has escaped from paying the Treasurer for the pause fillers. Hehe.]

As TM Fun said, it was the dessert time – Best Table Topics Speaker………drum roll…drum roll……


FAIZ!!

Congrats, Faiz!!! See you in the next meeting.

Oh, before I forget, Dear President, should we have a meeting with the theme “Smileys” where everyone should wear something with smileys on it?? Just imagine if we all wear a smileys T-shirt to the meeting, we would definitely look like.........You have guessed it.



TM Rishi
VPPR
UM TMC.

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