The meeting started with Sergeant at Arms, TM Grace reminding us of the ground rules before handing the time over to President, CC Kimmy Foo. Mdm President took over the invocation session with her speech and told us about how we should "Start With An End In Mind". And with this, she mentioned that all the officers are working towards strengthening the club internally by reaching out to the students of University Malaya and thus, reaching President Distinguished Club status by the end of her term.
The TME of the meeting, TM Grace Teh took over as the TME of the day. She explained briefly about the history of Toastmasters Club and how it has benefitted many around the world.
Then, the Table Topic Master, TM Fun Mun Wah took centre stage and invited everyone to volunteer for interesting table topics pertaining to the theme of the meeting. The table topic speakers are:
1. Nyuk Jet
2. Selina
3. Terrence (btw, when are you going to start on your ice-breakers speech? *ahem*)
4. Qin Mei
5. KN (btw, when are you going to start on your ice-breakers speech? *ahem*)
Dr Devi Menon, Area Governor of Area W3 and also a lecturer in University Malaya was the Table Topics Evaluator and she gave a thorough evaluation on all our impromptu speakers of the day.
Then, the session was continued with the project speeches and the first one was none other than TM Pang! TM Pang, an alumni of UM, gave a speech on smoking (The Disadvantages of Smoking) which was refreshing indeed to listen to.
Our VPE, TM Teo Bee Guan, did his 8th Project Speech with the simple title: Dimension. Everyone thought he was to give a public lecture on this deep subject but instead his speech left us leaving home thinking about what he said. "Enemies or no enemies, they have family too and who are we to decide..."
Madam President then took over to give her speech from the Advanced Communicator's Manual (Storytelling) entitled, A Rose Without Its Leaves. She told us about Justin, a dyslexic boy whom she taught. The end of her speech left the entire room with pin drop silence...
General Evaluator, CC CL Lee Sook Peng took control and together with her team, gave a feedback which were indeed scrumptious breakfast for the champions of UM Tmc. Her team were:
Speech Evaluator 1: DTM Vincent Hor
Speech Evaluator 2: ACB Christine Ong
Speech Evaluator 3: CC CL Leong Oi Wah
Ah Counter: TM Ras Hadi
Grammarian: TM Grace Kang
Time Keeper: TM Nyuk Jet
Thank you dear evaluators and role players!
Then, it was time for awards and the BEST TABLE TOPICS SPEAKER IS... *drum rolls*...
SELINA!
Congratulations Selina! Congrats too for winning this award when it is just your first time here!
It was a wonderful start to "A New Beginning" and we at UM Tmc would like to thank everyone, guests, members and newcomers alike for attending and gracing our first meeting.
Next meeting details:
Date : 14th January 2009 (Wednesday)
Time : 5.15 pm
Venue : BTEC001, First Floor, Block C, Education Faculty, Universiti Malaya
Reminder to members:
Speech slots and roles are going up fast! Please mail Vice President in Education, TM Teo Bee Guan at teobguan2004@yahoo.com or umtoastmaster@gmail.com if you want a slot. The next available ones are in February! If you also require a mentor, do let us know.
If there are no more slots but you are firing up to give a speech, fear not! We can try to arrange for you to give speeches in other Toastmasters Club nearby!
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