First Meeting - Navigate

23rd July was the first meeting of University Malaya Toastmasters Club. We finally got the ball rolling! As it was also the start of the semester, the theme 'Navigate' was chosen. Just as much as we needed new resolutions in the start of the year, we also need to plan for the semester ahead, hence, 'Navigate'.

TM Grace Kang as the Sergeant-At-Arms kicked the session off at approximately 5.27pm. She then handed the time over to the President, TM Kimmy Foo to deliver her presidential address.

As there were many new guests, TM Kimmy explained briefly the benefits of the Toastmasters Club especially UM Tmc besides asking them to state which faculty were they from.

The session was then handed over to TM Rishi whom was the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME). He started in humourous manner while explaining to the new audience what Toastmasters was all about. He also managed to explain the role players of the evening.

"Toastmasters Club was founded in California.."

The word of the day: Formulate

After that, TM Kimmy took control as the Table-Topics Master. The table topics were interesting as TM Deborah had them in bluecards labeled as North, South, East, West, and etc. In the end, 5 speakers spoke.

1. Tan Kee Aun, Education Faculty, with his title, Backpacking
2. Dineshwary, Education Faculty, with her title, Globe Trotting
3. Ashley Greig, Languages & Linguistics Faculty, with her title, Crossroads in Life
4. Fun, Science Faculty.
5. Yee Liang, Engineering Faculty, with his title, If I Had A Million Dollars to Travel

The time keeper was keeping a very close track on the time, hence, the Table Topics Master handed the time back to the TME.

Next up was the Project Speeches!

The first speaker was none other than TM Bee Guan with his title "To Be and To Have". TM Bee Guan was delivering his First Ice-Breakers speech. He spoke confidently about himself and of how he views life on the whole.

"Being and having? To be and to have?"

Following that, TM Grace Rebekah then delivered her speech with the title "My Name Is..". TM Rebekah is also giving her first project speech. She spoke sincerely on her background and how grateful she was to enter University Malaya.

"Lastly, my name is..."

After that, TM Kimmy Foo delivered her 4th Project Speech with the title "ME Violence". She explained what ME Violence is and that violence isnt only in the physical but also the mental and emotional context.

The next half of the meeting was then handed to ATMG Leong Oi Wah from Maicsa Tmc whom was the General Evaluator.

First, was the Table Topics Evaluation and DTM Tang Sum Chee from Telekom Malaysia Tmc gave his evaluation on all 5 Table Topic Speakers. After that, DTM Vincent Hor, CC CL Lee Sook Ping, both from Maicsa Tmc as well as ATMB Stephen Fernando from Hilton PJ Tmc gave their thorough evaluation on the 3 project speakers.

Next were reports from other role players namely TM Hjh Rohayati who was the Ah Counter, TM Grace Rebekah who was the Grammarian and TM Grace Kang who was the Time Keeper.

GE, ATMG Oi Wah took over the session and gave her evaluation on the meeting in general before passing the time over to TM Rishi. TM Rishi then conducted the Awards Ceremony and the Best Table Topic Speaker for the day was none other than....... *drumroll*

FUN MUN WAH!

Congratulations Fun!

Lastly, TM Kimmy gave her closing speech. She got feedbacks from the floor before announcing the when the next meeting is to be held. She also thanked all the distinguished evaluators for coming and giving their sincere support to UM Tmc.

Cheers to the new semester!

Kimmy Foo,
President,
UM Tmc