Meeting no: 163

Theme : Life is Beautiful

Word of the day : Chuckle

Toastmasters Members and Guests

Another entertaining and fun filled meeting was held in University Malaya Toastmasters 

Club. 

Meeting room was packed with the members and guests. Our guests included experienced toastmaster DTM Victor Ong as a project speaker, ALB, ACS CP Lau as a GE of meeting and TM Esten from Friendship Toastmasters Club. She played the role of Table Topics Master.

Meeting Started with new members induction.
Club President Nur Shafinas and new members' during Induction Ceremony.

Toastmaster of the Day CL, ACS Heng Jing Yi

Four club members delivered their project speeches.

We learned a bit more about our new member Steven as he spoke about his life events. new member delivered his Project speech 1 Icebreaker, Titled "The Special Me".

Standing ovation to a Speaker....

TM Yee Yuan delivered an interesting speech on "What life is?"

Project Speaker TM Nicholas, was delivering his informative Project 8 (Getting Comfortable with Visual Aids) on "Daydream"

DTM Victor Ong did his Project Speech no 7 on "The Paper and Leaves". He delivered hilarious speech and added a fun twist to the old topic of smoking. Audiences enjoyed his speech and appreciated his efforts. 

Evaluation session began...

Experienced General Evaluator, ALB, ACS CP Lau, delivered a meticulous, concise evaluation on all aspects of the club meeting. He gave some direction and useful advice on the future of our club. Thank you

 Presenting awards to winners....

Best Table Topics Speaker TM Jacky Wong

Best Speaker DTM Victor Ong

Best Evaluator ACB Sara 

Presenting Awards of Appreciation to Guests.

Presenting Awards of Appreciation to Guest TM Esten

Prize of  Appreciation to our Guest General Evaluator ALB, ACS,CP Lau

Awards of Appreciation given to Guest Speaker DTM Victor Ong

AT the end of meeting Guests were giving their feedback...

 

Our generous guest DTM Victor Ong brought a beautiful gift of Toastmasters Appreciation Ribbons.

Thank You So much!!

Happy crowed gather together for the memorable group at the end of successful toastmasters meeting.

Thank you every one for making this meeting a big success 

Look forward to seeing everyone at the next Club Meeting!

Meeting no: 162

Theme : Unity Is Strength

Word of the day : Wholeness

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful thing can be achieved."  Mattie Stepanek.

Unity means oneness, or togetherness. When there is oneness there is likely to be more strength in opinion, more strength in action, and more strength in character. If you take a stick, it could break easily. But when you take a bundle of sticks, it will be harder to break. 

This is the unique power of unity. UMTMC is like a family, in which we enjoy together, work together and share our love for public speaking. In UM toastmasters we  mix with our peers and share knowledge of learning. 

As the meeting started the cheerful and bubbly TME, ACB Fatima Ajmal took the stage and shared her moments of unity with the members. 

TME, ACB Fatima Ajmal 

The first session kicked off and table topics master, TM Kah Mun bought in some interesting table topic based on tonight's theme "Unity is strength".

TM Kah Mun

Next was prepared speech session. The first speech was delivered by our fellow member, TM Amelia. She gave her "first" ice breaker speech. All smiles Amelia seemed calmed and confident throughout her speech. She talked about her dream of opening a firm, her life experiences and regrets of not having a hometown. She delivered funny and an interesting speech. 

Great Job Amelia. Standing ovation for a speaker.

TM Amelia

The second speech was delivered by our fellow member, TM Sik How. He did his speech #4 - How To Say IT, titled " The Three Bads from the Village". It was a well delivered story with good body language and vocal variety. The story had a great twisted end that captured 
audiences attention.

Good Effort TM Sik How. Keep It Up.

TM Sik How

One of our members, TM Nur Shafinas delivered her speech # 8 titled, "Mermaid Tails", from the CC manual.The objective of the speech was to get comfortable with visual aids. Her speech was very informative, she explained about different types of fish scales and their functions. She talked about underwater caves and carols. Daring speaker touched the topic that has never been done before in UMTMC. 

It was an educational and entertaining speech with very attractive visual aids.
Good work Shafinas !!

TM Nur Shafinas

Last speech of the evening was presented ACB, Sara Ajmal. She talked about harms of smoking and how smoking is hateful to nose, harmful to brain and dangerous to lungs. She encoded a real life story of a smoker who caused awareness about smoking. 

It was an interesting speech that highlighted the dangers of smoking. 
Nicely done !!

CL, ACB Sara

A round of applause to our Speakers!

Refreshment Time... 

Our generous  fellow toastmaster CL, ACS Heng Jing Yi bought us a tasty treat of doughnuts.  

Thankyou Jing Yi... donuts were really delicious.

After refreshment. evaluation session kicked off where CL, ACS Johnny took the center stage and led the evaluation team to provide their analytical comments and constructive suggestions on each and every speech delivered.

 CL, ACS Johnny

Speech Evaluators .

CC Chen Long

ACS, CC Ing Ting

Now its time for Role Players' Report.

Grammarian ACS ALB Jing Yi

Ah Counter TM Vicky

Timer TM, Elisa

Award session

Here is our winner for the Best Table Topics - CL, ACB Sara 

The champion of the evening... Best Project Speaker TM, Sik How.

 CL, ACS Johnny won Best Evaluator Award

GE CL, ACS Johnny Presented Prize of Appreciation to TM Amelia for her daring Ice Breaker speech performance.

The proverb " United we stand, divided we fall", refers to the state of being one. A rope is 

strong when its threads are united. Our community and club will be stronger if we stay

united. Nothing can be achieved without unity. To tackle our communication problems it 

requires a lot of unity among us. To be  a good speaker, all we need to do, is to work 

together and achieve our triumph.

Unity means "all for one, and one for all".

Meeting no: 161

Theme : No Pain No Gain

Word of the day : Kudos

The Toastmaster of Evening was our very own VPPR, Sara Ajmal. She took the stage and started the meeting by sharing with us the background and history of Toastmaster International. She roused the crowd to a great start with her good showmanship skills.

Good work!

Toastmaster of Evening ACS,Sara Ajmal

Next was Table Topics session and Table Topics Master was TM Chen Long. He came up with an interesting session which involved Interesting Table Topics.

TM Chen Long

When it came to impromptu speaking, four speakers volunteered eagerly and participated in the session.  Speakers Tm Nur Shafins, Sam, Steven and Adam  took up the challenge and shared  their experiences and thoughts on the topics

                          

                           

And then it was the Prepared Speech session.

The five project speeches carried powerful messages of inspiration and persuasion.

TM Tineesha, presented  the first speech of the day, a brilliantly written ice breaker titled, "101 About Me". In her speech she shared her life stories and ballerina performing art interests. Looking forward for your next speech.

Ice Breaker Speech by TM Tineesha

Second speaker TM Yun Jing gave her  CC#1: The Ice Breaker Speech- titled, "Black and White". The well written speech was themed around its topic. It gave a sneak peak on her life and highlighted the various interest of her life like chess and Taekwondow. Good Work!

TM Yun Jing giving her Ice Breaker Speech 

CL ACB Fatima Ajmal did her motivational speech on the topic called, “Self-Motivation”. She shared an interesting story and gave wonderful examples to support her idea of self motivation leading to success.

CL ACB Fatima Ajmal

The last speaker of the evening was CL, ACS Heng Jing Yi. Her speech title was, “President Distinguished Area Award”. Her speech gave us an insight look on her inspiring journey from a student to a corporate club mentor. She also shared her award receiving experiences. She delivered a very inspiring speech.

CL, ACS Heng Jing Yi

After the break, General Evaluator ACS ALB Peter Ong took the stage as the eagle-eyed General Evaluator. GE flourished us with his constructive feedback and evaluation.

General Evaluator ACS ALB Peter Ong, was giving his evaluation!

Enthusiastic  member, ACS Yew Yi, took role of a Table Topic Evaluator.

ACS Yew Yi Table Topic Evaluator

Ah-Counter role was done by our clubs new member TM, Kah Mun. 

He was taking this role for the first time, but had a confident authority that made him seem like an old hand. First timer did a brilliant job and passed with flying colors. 

Well Done Kah Mun!!

Ah-Counter TM Kah Mun

The evaluators were applauded for their sincere, clear and entertaining comments. All speakers gained a few insights to polish and refine their skills.

Audience Applauding for Evaluators

When it came to the Awards session, Club President TM Nur Shafinas presented award to winners.

 TM Adam Juhann bagged Best Table Topic Speaker

Best Table Topic Speaker, TM Adam Juhann

Best Project Speaker TM Tineesha

Best Project Speaker TM Tineesha

TM Jacky Wong won the Best Evaluator

 Best Evaluator TM Jacky Wong

The President then presented appreciation to the Guest General Evaluator.

Price of  Appreciation to Guest General Evaluator

 Congratulations to all the winners !!

We have learned a lot from this meeting. Thank you every one for sharing valuable information.

Hope to see all of you in our next meeting on 17 Nov 2014 @ 7 pm