Nineteenth Meeting - Fun in the Sun

‘Fun in the Sun’ was the theme for the meeting held on 4th March 2009. Why did we choose this theme? It’s because it was cold and rainy for the past few days. So we decided to make it ‘hot’. Surprisingly, the day we had our ‘Fun in the Sun’ meeting, the weather was quite clear (maybe it was caused by the 'aura' of our theme..hehe...just joking). The word of the day was ‘Authentic’ which means genuine. Example of sentence: ‘Victor has bought an authentic Gucci sunglass for a fun in the sun party tomorrow.

For the first time in UM TMC, TM Nyuk Jet was the Toastmaster of the Evening. The Table Topics Master was TM Deborah Chow and she has prepared a lot of interesting questions related to the theme. She instructed all the Table Topics Speakers to choose any questions from A to N. Yes, it was A to N – a lot of questions!!! The Table Topics Speakers were


1. Siew Peng

2. Ivy Lau

3. Kimmy Foo
4. Shiva

5. Mansoor

6. Rishi… *ahem, you might know this boy*

‘Lemonade – yes or no??!!’ – that was the strict question raised by Table Topics Master to TM Rishi that scared him off. The Table Topics Evaluator of the evening was TM Teo Bee Guan with useful evaluation including - speakers not to be distracted by the audience.

Allow me to shorten the following report to give way for 2 paragraphs to our new Competent Communicator. Our Project Speech Speakers were

1. CC Project #1 – Ice Breaker - ‘An Unforgettable Experience’ by TM Lau Kah Fai

2. CC Project #2 – Organize Your Speech - ‘Global Warming’ by TM Ivy Lau
3. CC Project #2 – Organize Your Speech - ‘Sleepless Night’ by TM Heng Jing Yi

4. CC Project #8 – Get Comfortable with Visual Aids - ‘To Nerd or Not To Nerd?’ by TM Deborah Chow


Evaluators on Project Speeches were

CC Kimmy for Speech 1
DTM Vincent Hor for Speech 2 and 4
ATMB Christine Ong for Speech 3

Our General Evaluator for the evening was ATMB Christine Ong from Midvalley Toastmasters Club. Thank you, GE. Our role players were as the following:

Ah Counter : TM Grace Rebekah
Grammarian : TM Siew Peng
Time Keeper : TM Rishi

Next was the award session.

Best Table Topics Speakers award goes to….drum roll….drum roll….

MANSOOR

Congrats, Mansur. We would like to see you again in action for our upcoming meetings.

Now, let’s go for the dedication to our new CC - Deborah Chow Yik Kuen.

I don’t quite know the exact month when TM Deborah became the member of UM TMC (it was known as TICUM at that time), and she then became the Vice President of Membership for the 2008/2009 session. She started her first speech somewhere in the beginning of the year 2008. All of a sudden, to our surprise, we got to know that she has completed 8 speeches of Competent Communication by the end of last semester. She has actually taken the initiative to present some of her speeches in external clubs, unlike most of us who prefer to present our speeches in our own club.

Let me repeat that - she has completed all the 8 speeches in one semester!! Wow!!! Today, she has completed all the 10 speeches in the CC manual. What can we say about her – she’s a natural speaker. She can think very spontaneously with suitable flow of words when presenting her speech. We, UM TMC, would like to take this opportunity to congratulate TM Deborah Chow for achieving her CC. Congrats, Deb!!!

TM DEBORAH is now CC DEBORAH

Thus, any of you would like to have two dedicated paragraphs, make sure you finish up your Competent Communication Manuals as soon as possible.

There could be some changes in our next meeting due to the upcoming area contest. So please keep surfing our blog for any information on the changes.

TM Rishi,

VPPR,

UM TMC,

2008/2009.