23rd Meeting - April Fool!!!

Could you guess the theme of our meeting on 1st April 2009? Yes, you have got it right – April Fool!!! The word of the day was not ‘fool’ but ‘Prank’, which means, a trick that is intended to be amusing but not to cause harm or damage. Example of sentence – ‘When I was at school, we were always playing pranks on our teacher’. Of course that was not me, since I was in good behaviour during my school days…*ahem…ahem*…but you have to ask our Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) who created the sentence.

The SAA called the meeting to order and our President, CC Kimmy Foo, gave the warm welcoming speech. You might be asking - who was the TME playing prank on teachers? It was none other than TM Grace Rebekah. She explained briefly on the background and history of Toastmasters before passing the meeting on to the Table Topics Master.

The Table Topics Master, TM Rishi, has prepared 7 questions to be selected by the Table Topics Speakers randomly. Our Table Topics Speakers were as the following:

1. Kimmy Foo
2. Grace Kang
3. Alaa
4. Vijay
5. Kung Shyh Yu
6. Ras Hadi

One question was very interesting – What if you have fools’ day every month? May’s Fool? June’s Fool? July’s Fool,….? Wouldn’t that be great? I would say that Grace Kang was very very very excited to be the Table Topics Speaker of the meeting, due to Kimmy’s prank of getting married soon. Wow, Grace Kang, I have never seen you so excited as a speaker.

The Table Topics Evaluator was DTM Vincent Hor. DTM stands for Distinguished Toastmaster – the highest level in the Toastmaster journey, and we are lucky to have a DTM attending most of our meetings.

Next was the Project Speeches as the following:

1. CC Project 1 - ‘Have I Ever Enjoyed My Life’ by TM Hadi (our new member)
2. CC Project 3 - ‘Local vs Foreign’ by TM Ivy Lau
3. CC Project 3 - ‘River Conservation’ by TM Heng Jing Yi
4. CC Project 10 – ‘Reason To Speak’ by TM Teo Bee Guan

We had the beginning, we had a sort of the middle, and we had the ending – various speakers. Welcome Hadi to the world of Toastmasters. For Ivy and Jing Yi, keep on going with the journey as most of us have already noticed your improvements. To Bee Guan, let’s dedicate him two paragraphs.

Teo Bee Guan, our Vice President of Education (VPE), became the member of UM TMC in the early stage of year 2008 (if I’m not mistaken). He was very fast in finishing his project speeches from CC Project 1 to CC Project 8. He also did some of his speeches in the PJ Hilton Toastmasters Club, in front of the Toastmasters experts. However a bit delayed in his CC Project 9 & 10. We told him that he should finish it up since it’s just another 2 speeches away from CC. We could notice that he was actually giving preference of speech slot to our new members to give their opening speeches till he has forgotten all about himself. Yes, he’s very concerned for others rather than himself. Finally, we managed to force him to do his CC Project 10 in our home club.

He is also a postgraduate student doing his Masters in Science and will be continuing his doctorate soon. Then we can call him Dr. Bee Guan one day….hehe…Moreover, he has the ‘professor kind of look’… We, UM TMC, would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him for being a Competent Communicator of Toastmasters.

TM BEE GUAN is now CC BEE GUAN

The General Evaluator of the meeting was Dr Devi Menon, our UM TMC advisor, and the speech evaluators were TM Rishi, DTM Vincent, Dr Devi, and CC Kimmy (first time evaluating Project Speech 10 Speaker and did a great job).

Thank you to our role players – TM Heng Jing Yi (Ah Counter), CC Kimmy (Grammarian) and TM Ivy Lau (Miss Rolex).

Next was the award session for the Best Table Topics Speaker…..drum roll….drum roll…

KIMMY FOO

Congrats, Kim.

Dear President, is it ok if we prank you on some other days other than April Fool’s Day? It’s because we would really enjoy it!!! Lolz……

See you all in the next meeting.

Rishi,
VPPR,
UM TMC,
2008/2009.