21st Meeting - TV Programmes

It was our 48th meeting (since UM TMC was born) and 21st meeting of the session 2008/2009 on 18th March 2009. The theme of the day was TV Programme. The word of the day was “Censorship”, which was closely related to the theme. Meaning: Official supervision. Example of sentence – If I were a lawgiver, I would exercise a censorship over the poets. Some parts of TV programmes need to be censored in order to influence the audience with unhealthy characters.

The meeting started on time. Let me highlight the sentence in bold. The Sergeant-of-Arms called the meeting to order and hand it over to the President, CC Kimmy Foo. After the introduction session, the first-time Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Ras Hadi, took control by explaining briefly on local made television programmes. He also explained about the history of Toastmasters International, where some TME do forget that, especially me!!

Next was the Table Topics Session by CC Kimmy Foo. Well, what can I say, she has taken some initiatives to actually design the table topics questions in Power Point format with the television set background. Great job!! There were 8 questions altogether, but we had the time for only 6 Table Topics Speakers. Our timekeeper, TM Grace Kang, said – “No, no time for anymore speakers” – after the 6th speaker. The Table Topics Speakers were as the following:

1. Grace Rebekah

2. Rishi

3. Lee Yan

4. Vijay

5. Zheng Ming

6. Hadi (our new member who's been attending all the meetings lately. Thanks Hadi for the support).

Next was the Table Topics Evaluation by TM Teo Bee Guan. Evaluating 6 speakers at a time is not an easy task as you really need to use your listening and thinking skills. I can feel it even though I have not been a Table Topics Evaluator. All the speakers did well including the first timers and the third timer.

After that, was the moment of Project Speeches. UM TMC has made a history again in today’s meeting. We have 5 Project Speech Speakers (including the trial speech for the Division W Contest by the champion of Area W5 winner). The Project Speech Speakers were as the following:

1. CC Project # 1- Ice Breaker - 'Myself' by TM Hui Xin
2. CC Project # 1- Ice Breaker - 'A Person From My Past' by TM Clarence
3. CC Project # 1- Ice Breaker - 'Before, Current and After' by TM Roanne
4. CC Project # 1- Ice Breaker - 'About Me' by TM Ong Kah Hoe
5. Trial Speech for Division W Contest by CC Teh Tze Chien

It seems to be that we are getting to know closely a lot of our new members by their ice-breaker speeches - their interests, characters, hobbies, school life, sports, activities, and memorable events (eg. TM Hui Xin's incident - I'm sure you couldn't forget that at all, Hui Xin). We appreciate that all of you (Ice Breaker Speakers) took the hassle to share it with all of our us. About the trial speech, we gave some comments of improvement to CC Tze Chien after the meeting so that he will succeed in the division contest by representing our Area W5. Good luck Tze Chien, our support is for you.

Our General Evaluator was Dr Devi Menon, our very own UM lecturer from the Linguistic Faculty, and the advisor of UM TMC. Our Project Speech Evaluator were CC Kimmy, ATMB Christine Ong (from Midvalley TMC), Dr Devi Menon, and TM Rishi. So, we had 4 different evaluators evaluating speeches from all angles, and it’s for the best of the Project Speakers.

Thank you to all the role players – TM Lee Yee Sin (Ah Counter), TM Rishi (Grammarian), and TM Grace Kang (Time Keeper). Wow, TM Rishi’s name was all over the place in this meeting..hehe..

Next was the awards session

The Best Table Topics Speaker goes to…drum roll….drum roll…

LEE YAN

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

HUI XIN

Congrats, girls…

Dear President, I’ve heard that of all the TV programmes you have watched, you like news the most, is it true?

Our next meeting details are as the following:

Date : 25th March 2009 (thanks Zeuf!)

Time : 5.15pm

Venue : BSEC101, First Floor, Block C, Education Faculty, University Malaya.

The theme is “NUMBERS”. We will be giving appreciation to all the numbers that have influenced our lives from the day we were born till now. So make sure you attend the meeting to give your support to the numbers.

TM Rishi

VP Public Relations,

UM TMC,

2008/2009.