It was our twelfth and final meeting of the semester 1, 2008/2009, on 22nd October 2008. The theme of the meeting was ‘Deepavali’ as the festival of lights will be celebrated next week on 27th October 2008. The word of the day was ‘Extravagant’, which means – going beyond what is deserved or justifiable. Example of sentence: Grace will be extravagant in buying cakes when she’s at the bakery shop.
We started off the meeting with the welcoming speech by Vice President of Education, TM Bee Guan. Then the floor was taken over by Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Rishi. He, who was the ‘start-end’ TME of the semester, explained briefly about the history of Toastmasters and the legend behind Deepavali. Why ‘start-end’? Hmmm…It was because he was the TME for the first meeting and the final meeting of the semester, co-incidently.
Next was the Table Topics Session by TM Bee Guan. The questions were related to the celebration of Deepavali. The table topics speakers were Hadi, Kimmy, Ter, Arrisa, and Qin Mei. They all did well in their table topics and none of them intended to change the questions given. However, for the first time in UM TMC meeting, there were actually two table topics evaluators in the session, as Kimmy, our initial Table Topics Evaluator, suddenly volunteered herself to be the speaker. This has pushed Bee Guan as the Table Topics Evaluator specially dedicated for Kimmy.
After that, it was the project speech session. Our speaker of the day was TM Fun Mun Wah, with the title “Learning & Competency” (CC Project # 2 – Organize Your Talk). He explained about the different types of competency classes that humans are equipped in their characters. Well, some secrets were out from the audience when he was communicating with them while presenting his speech. Want to know more about the secrets? Hmm, I guess not.
Then, our General Evaluator, TM Qin Mei, from the HELP University College, took over the control. She was also the Speech Evaluator for TM Fun. Thank you, Qin Mei, for coming to our meeting as the evaluator all the way from HELP Damansara.
Not to forget our role players, TM Terrence (Ah Counter), TM Grace Kang (Grammarian), and TM Nyuk Jet (Time Keeper for the first time). All of you were great.
Next was the award time for the best Table Topics Speaker…….drum roll….drum roll….drum roll…..
We started off the meeting with the welcoming speech by Vice President of Education, TM Bee Guan. Then the floor was taken over by Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Rishi. He, who was the ‘start-end’ TME of the semester, explained briefly about the history of Toastmasters and the legend behind Deepavali. Why ‘start-end’? Hmmm…It was because he was the TME for the first meeting and the final meeting of the semester, co-incidently.
Next was the Table Topics Session by TM Bee Guan. The questions were related to the celebration of Deepavali. The table topics speakers were Hadi, Kimmy, Ter, Arrisa, and Qin Mei. They all did well in their table topics and none of them intended to change the questions given. However, for the first time in UM TMC meeting, there were actually two table topics evaluators in the session, as Kimmy, our initial Table Topics Evaluator, suddenly volunteered herself to be the speaker. This has pushed Bee Guan as the Table Topics Evaluator specially dedicated for Kimmy.
After that, it was the project speech session. Our speaker of the day was TM Fun Mun Wah, with the title “Learning & Competency” (CC Project # 2 – Organize Your Talk). He explained about the different types of competency classes that humans are equipped in their characters. Well, some secrets were out from the audience when he was communicating with them while presenting his speech. Want to know more about the secrets? Hmm, I guess not.
Then, our General Evaluator, TM Qin Mei, from the HELP University College, took over the control. She was also the Speech Evaluator for TM Fun. Thank you, Qin Mei, for coming to our meeting as the evaluator all the way from HELP Damansara.
Not to forget our role players, TM Terrence (Ah Counter), TM Grace Kang (Grammarian), and TM Nyuk Jet (Time Keeper for the first time). All of you were great.
Next was the award time for the best Table Topics Speaker…….drum roll….drum roll….drum roll…..
KIMMY FOO !!!
Congrats, Kimmy. Oh..oh..I almost forgotten again…Dear President, can we have a humor session around the month of January where only the Officers of UM TMC with Competent Communicator should take part?
Finally, it was the closing speech of the semester by the President. Dear all, we at UM TMC would like to take this opportunity to wish good luck for your final examinations. Study smart and you will definitely pass in flying colors. We would start our meetings again when the new semester begins.
Please log in to our blog continuously for more information on our upcoming meetings in the next semester.
Looking forward to see you all in the next semester with more enthusiasm and energy. Till then,
Signing off,
TM Rishi
VPPR,
UM TMC,
2008/2009.
2 comments:
Sure we can do the humour session Rishi! Coz u're gonna complete your CC then right? ;)
I like the slide presentation of happy members. Good way to promote the club. Everyone loves the attention.
The table topics is based on a holiday theme and is a subject that most members are comfortable to talk about. This encourages members participation.
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