While waiting for New Year to come...

Here's some more photos taken during the Christmas meeting.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 !!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

ANOTHER



TO GO.


MAY THE NEW YEAR BRINGS A WHOLE NEW MEANING OF LIFE...


UM TMC.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

Dear All,

UM TMC would like to wish all a Merry Christmas!!!




Wishing that this holiday season lights up your heart and home with joy!

P/S: Make sure the music is 'ON'....


Sincerely from,

UM TMC.

Christmas Meeting Special

On the 18th December 2008, a Christmas meeting special was held at the MAICSA Meeting Room, The Boulevard Office, Midvalley. It was the joint meeting by 6 clubs :


1) MidValley Toastmasters Club
2) DHL Toastmasters Club
3) MAICSA Toastmasters Club
4) Ireka Toastmasters Club
5) MIA Toastmasters Club

and

6) Our UM TMC.

UM TMC was given the chance to organize the gift exchange session. Nyuk Jet and Rishi came to the venue as early as 6.00pm for the preparation of tagging gifts. In total, there were about 68 gifts received throughout the meeting and all the gifts were placed under the Christmas tree. As the meeting was on progress, the card numbers (in accordance to the total gifts received) were then distributed to the members to be chosen randomly. Thus, no one knows the gifts that he/she will be receiving. During the intermission, Jet and Rishi managed to re-arrange the gifts accordingly with some helping hands so that it would be easy to give it out. As soon as the intermission ended, they handed out the gifts quickly and succesfully.

Our President, CC Kimmy Foo, did her Advanced Communicator Manual No.3 - Story Telling with the title "The Cheerleader Who Couldn't Split". Her speech has made us forgotten all about the word of the day, as the word 'SPLIT' has dominated the meeting. Here SPLIT, there SPLIT, everywhere was the word - SPLIT. CC Kimmy Foo has been awarded as the Best Speaker of the Evening. Congrats Kimmy.

It was an exiciting joint meeting with 6 Toastmasters clubs, thanks to the main organizer - MAICSA Toastmasters Club. All the members had a smile and a gift in their hands at the end of the meeting.

UM TMC.

District 51 - 16th Annual Convention

Kuching Convention Special Package: Don't Miss It

District 51 16th Annual Convention
Venue: Crowne Plaza Riverside Hotel

Date: 17th - 19th April 2009

After a 3 year absence, the district convention is coming back to Kuching again. This time is going to be extra meaningful as we will witness the split of District 51 to District 51 and another new district will be born.

For those of you who have not signed up, is time to quickly consider the offer that is available now. If you sign up now before Dec 31st, you need to pay only RM400 (normal price: RM500). That is a whopping 20% saving.

To read more about this, please surf over to the district website at http://www.tmdistrict51.org
To help you save even more money, we have the new Tune hotel (from the company that gives you AirAsia) coming up in Kuching to provide you with a quality and affordable accommodation. This hotel is within a walking distance to the convention hotel.

Contact person: Albert George

Email: info@kuching2009.com




UM TMC.

UM Shifts Focus to Postgrad Studies

KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya (UM) is shifting its focus to postgraduate studies by increasing the number of places for such courses and reducing the intake of undergraduates.
New vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Ghauth Jasmon said the move was in line with the university’s efforts to boost its rankings in the Times Higher Education Supplement in the next two years.

“We want more and better postgraduates, and to reduce the number of undergraduates so that we can improve the quality of research.”UM has slipped down the ladder since 2006, when it went from 169 in 2005 to 192 in 2006. It was in 245th spot last year but rose slightly to 230th this year.

Prof Ghauth, who was appointed on Nov 10, said: “I’m working to attract first-class honours graduates to come and do research and improve the quality of research. “We also want more people to be involved in research; this will be the key performance index for measuring their academic performance.” Prof Ghauth said that first-class graduates would be offered postgraduate scholarships immediately.

Prof Ghauth also said he was bringing experts into niche areas which he wanted UM to develop, such as in medicine, engineering, business and economics. On the decline in the quality of UM graduates compared to its heyday, he said it was a national problem. “People mainly attribute it to poor communication skills, but one method employed by UM to alleviate the problem is to teach more subjects in English as well as conduct course work and assignments in English,” he said.

According to him, the poor ability to interact affected the marketability of graduates. Prof Ghauth said this could be remedied with community work which was a good training ground for leadership and social skills. “For example, if they do community work, we must give them marks for these. If they do work for their kampungs, that must be recognised.” He said this could be done by widening the choices of co-curricular activities. He also called on the student affairs division to come up with ideas for student participation outside the classroom.

— Bernama (18 Dec 2008)

Special Xmas Meeting at HELP University College

Dear Members,

There will be a Special Christmas Meeting by the HELP Toastmasters Club. The information as are the following:


Date : 20th December 2008 (Saturday)
Time : 9.30 am
Venue : HELP University College at Damansara

There will be a lots of food. All members are cordially invited to join the fun.


UM TMC.

Live On Air

Dear All,

Our District 51 Governor Joseph Gomez, DTM will be live on air in one of the local radio station here in Kuala Lumpur on 16th December 2008, Tuesday 11am to present information about Toastmasters and to discuss on some of the common mistakes that we make in regards to Public speaking and presentation and what can we do to correct them.It will be at BFM 89.9, Malaysia's First Business Radio Station. You can listen to it live online at....

http://www.bfm.com.my/assets/media/bfmfeed.html



UM TMC.

Christmas Meetings Special !!!

Dear all,

The season of Christmas is approaching fast. Thus, there will be two Christmas Meetings Special by Toastmasters Club as the following:

1.
Date : 17 December 2008 (Wednesday)
Time : 6.45 pm
Venue : Level 19th, Uptown 1, Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya.
Organized by : Deloitte Toastmasters Club

Please bring a present worth at least RM 10 for gift exchange session.


2.
Date : 18 December 2008 (Thursday)
Time : 6.30 pm
Venue : MAICSA Building, 3rd Floor, No. 57, MidValley Boulevard.
(beside Midvalley Megamall)
Main Organizer : MAICSA Toastmasters Club

Please bring a present worth at least RM 10 for gift exchange session and come dress in red and white.


For any enquiries or confirmation of attendance for the special meetings, please e-mail us at umtoastmaster@gmail.com before 15 December 2008 (Monday).

Hope to see you there.


UM TMC.

Current Membership Information

The following is the current membership fee information in accordance to foreign exchange ratings as all transactions payable to Toastmasters International is done in USD:

(a) New member fee (pay once only) - RM 75
(b) Six months renewal fee (payable to Toastmasters International) - RM 100
(c) Internal Club monthly fee - RM 10

Upon payment, new members will receive 2 manuals - the Competent Communication and Competent Leadership manuals. There will also be the monthly magazine sent to members directly from Toastmasters International. You will have to complete 10 speeches with different tasks to achieve the Competent Communicator Award before you move on to the Advanced Communication Manual (Advanced Communicator Bronze/Silver/Gold) as well as the Advanced Leadership Manual and upon completion, the Distinguised Toastmaster Award.

For more information, please contact us at umtoastmaster@gmail.com.

For current students of UM whose membership is being sponsored by your lecturers/faculties/scholarship donor etc. , kindly get in touch with the Vice-President of Membership.

UM TMC.

UM V-C Aims for Top 200

KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya’s (UM) new vice-chancellor has set a top 200 target in the Times Higher Education-QS (THE-QS) World University Rankings in two years’ time and top 100 in five years.

Prof Datuk Dr Ghauth Jasmon (pic) said he was confident that it was achievable.
“This year’s THE-QS rankings show that we are still the best in Malaysia while UM was the only public university to receive five stars in the Rating System for the Malaysian Higher Education Institutions (Setara),” he said in an interview at his office.

UM rose in the THE-QS World University Ranking, from 246 in 2007 to 230 this year.
“I have come here to ensure we remain the best and keep on rising in the rankings, but my biggest challenge now is to transform the university and take it to a higher level.”

Prof Ghauth, who was formerly Multimedia University (MMU) president, was appointed UM vice-chancellor on Nov 8, replacing Datuk Rafiah Salim whose contract had expired.
His plan is to ensure that UM has quality research, publications and staff. Bringing in first-class graduates is also top priority.

Prof Ghauth said the university was setting up a unit to meet with first-class honours degree graduates from all public and private universities to encourage them to lecture at UM.
Stressing entrepreneurship was a vital element, Prof Ghauth said he was creating a scheme for staff and students to market their business ideas.

At MMU, he said staff and students were allowed to own businesses and also received funding.
“We are also arranging a roadshow to top schools and matriculation centres where I will speak to prospective students about studying at UM. The personal touch is very important.
“I want to meet them to explain why an academic career can be rewarding and fulfilling,” he said, adding that he had done this at MMU.

Prof Ghauth, 52, said he did not apply for the job of the UM vice-chancellor, adding: “I got a call from the Higher Education Ministry to attend an interview and was asked what I would do if I was given the job. It was too big an offer to refuse.”

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be asked to come back as I had gone to the private sector.”Prof Ghauth had previously served at UM for 14 years. His last appointment was as deputy vice-chancellor (Development) in August 1995. Since starting his duties on Nov 11, he has been busy meeting the deans and directors.

(taken from Star Online, 2nd December 2008)