Sixteenth Meeting - Federal Territory

It was our sixteenth meeting with the theme ‘Federal Territory’. The Federal Territory Day is a special day for Wilayah Persekutuan and celebrated on the 1st February of each year. The Federal Territory is a collective of three territories, namely Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, governed directly by the federal government of Malaysia. The territories have neither a head of state nor a state legislature.

The word of the day was ‘Holiday’. Example of sentence: St Patrick’s Day is a holiday in Ireland.

The Sergeant-at-Arms of the evening called the meeting to order at about 5.25pm. Then our lovely President, CC Kimmy Foo, gave a welcoming speech and asked us to introduce ourselves briefly. It’s a method where everyone who attended the meeting was given a chance to speak. Then, the floor was passed to the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Deborah Chow.

Deborah introduced the role players and explained more about the celebration of Federal Territory Day (well, “almost all”….including - doing nothing at home...hehe..).

Then, it was the Table Topics Session by the Table Topics Master, CC Kimmy. Dear President, can we use TM Kimmy instead of CC Kimmy since most of us are having problem to pronounce ‘CC’ in front of your name? Ooops, wrong question!!! All the table topics questions were related to the theme and Kuala Lumpur as a whole. The Table Topics Speakers were as the following:

1. Rishi

2. Vijay

3. Kah Fai

4. Grace Rebekah

5. Deborah Chow


Great going speakers, especially the first…*ahem*

Next, it was the Table Topics Evaluation by DTM Vincent Hor. Actually, DTM stands for Distinguished Toastmaster, the highest ranking in Toastmasters, and we are proud to have a DTM as our Evaluator, giving full support to our club, all the way from MAICSA Toastmasters Club.

The ‘stars’ started glittering showing that they were fully prepared for the next session - Project Speeches. The Project Speech Speakers were as the following:

1. CC Project No.2 : Organize Your Speech – “An Overview of Teaching of English in Malaysia" by TM Ras Hadi

2. CC Project No.7 : Research Your Topic – “Why sleep early? “ by TM Nyuk Jet

3. CC Project No.9 : Persuade With Power – “Natural Selection or Your Selection? “ by TM Bee Guan

Ras Hadi showed us the whole view and importance of whether English should be used in secondary and tertiary education in Malaysia. Currently, the issue is under the consideration of government. On the other hand, TM Nyuk Jet explained about the disadvantages of sleeping late (after 11 pm) which really made us all frightened since most of us sleep quite late night. Even I’m a bit frightened – it’s 2 am now, and I’m still writing this report. My liver ‘should be working now’ since its optimum functioning time is from 1 am to 3 am. The third speaker, TM Bee Guan, told a story of determination of a worm called the ‘Simpson’. Yes, it’s true that when there’s a will, there’s a way.

The General Evaluator, DTM Vincent Hor, took over the session for the overall evaluation of the meeting. Our Speech Evaluators were TM Bee Guan and TM…oops…CC Kimmy Foo. Our Ah Counter (Heng Jing Yi), Grammarian (Vighnes) and Time Keeper (Ivy Lau) were first timers and they did a great job. Thank you all.






Finally, it was the award giving session. We had the awards for Best Table Topics Speaker and Best Project Speech Speaker.The Best Table Topics Speakers goes to…..drum roll…..drum roll…..

DEBORAH CHOW

The Best Project Speech Speaker goes to…….drum roll……drum roll……

RAS HADI

Congratulations for the award winners. For those who did not win any award yet, keep on participating and you can do it too.

Our next meeting details are as the following:

Date : 11th February 2009

Time : 5.15pm

Venue : BTEC001, First Floor, Block C, Education Faculty, University Malaya.

The theme is “VALENTINE’S DAY”. Now, that could be exciting, right? So make sure you are in your great looks.

TM Rishi

VP Public Relations,

UM TMC.