Meeting no: 162

Theme : Unity Is Strength

Word of the day : Wholeness

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful thing can be achieved."  Mattie Stepanek.

Unity means oneness, or togetherness. When there is oneness there is likely to be more strength in opinion, more strength in action, and more strength in character. If you take a stick, it could break easily. But when you take a bundle of sticks, it will be harder to break. 

This is the unique power of unity. UMTMC is like a family, in which we enjoy together, work together and share our love for public speaking. In UM toastmasters we  mix with our peers and share knowledge of learning. 

As the meeting started the cheerful and bubbly TME, ACB Fatima Ajmal took the stage and shared her moments of unity with the members. 

TME, ACB Fatima Ajmal 

The first session kicked off and table topics master, TM Kah Mun bought in some interesting table topic based on tonight's theme "Unity is strength".

TM Kah Mun

Next was prepared speech session. The first speech was delivered by our fellow member, TM Amelia. She gave her "first" ice breaker speech. All smiles Amelia seemed calmed and confident throughout her speech. She talked about her dream of opening a firm, her life experiences and regrets of not having a hometown. She delivered funny and an interesting speech. 

Great Job Amelia. Standing ovation for a speaker.

TM Amelia

The second speech was delivered by our fellow member, TM Sik How. He did his speech #4 - How To Say IT, titled " The Three Bads from the Village". It was a well delivered story with good body language and vocal variety. The story had a great twisted end that captured 
audiences attention.

Good Effort TM Sik How. Keep It Up.

TM Sik How

One of our members, TM Nur Shafinas delivered her speech # 8 titled, "Mermaid Tails", from the CC manual.The objective of the speech was to get comfortable with visual aids. Her speech was very informative, she explained about different types of fish scales and their functions. She talked about underwater caves and carols. Daring speaker touched the topic that has never been done before in UMTMC. 

It was an educational and entertaining speech with very attractive visual aids.
Good work Shafinas !!

TM Nur Shafinas

Last speech of the evening was presented ACB, Sara Ajmal. She talked about harms of smoking and how smoking is hateful to nose, harmful to brain and dangerous to lungs. She encoded a real life story of a smoker who caused awareness about smoking. 

It was an interesting speech that highlighted the dangers of smoking. 
Nicely done !!

CL, ACB Sara

A round of applause to our Speakers!

Refreshment Time... 

Our generous  fellow toastmaster CL, ACS Heng Jing Yi bought us a tasty treat of doughnuts.  

Thankyou Jing Yi... donuts were really delicious.

After refreshment. evaluation session kicked off where CL, ACS Johnny took the center stage and led the evaluation team to provide their analytical comments and constructive suggestions on each and every speech delivered.

 CL, ACS Johnny

Speech Evaluators .

CC Chen Long

ACS, CC Ing Ting

Now its time for Role Players' Report.

Grammarian ACS ALB Jing Yi

Ah Counter TM Vicky

Timer TM, Elisa

Award session

Here is our winner for the Best Table Topics - CL, ACB Sara 

The champion of the evening... Best Project Speaker TM, Sik How.

 CL, ACS Johnny won Best Evaluator Award

GE CL, ACS Johnny Presented Prize of Appreciation to TM Amelia for her daring Ice Breaker speech performance.

The proverb " United we stand, divided we fall", refers to the state of being one. A rope is 

strong when its threads are united. Our community and club will be stronger if we stay

united. Nothing can be achieved without unity. To tackle our communication problems it 

requires a lot of unity among us. To be  a good speaker, all we need to do, is to work 

together and achieve our triumph.

Unity means "all for one, and one for all".