Meeting No. 109- The Ice Breaker Day

Today's meeting was full of inspiration and motivation as we witnessed 5 new 'Toastees' performing their Ice Breaker speeches.

The day started with the club president, ACB CL Jing Yi, sharing her experience on how she was inspired by the evaluations on her first speech and kindled the spark for the meeting. TM Wei Chin did an awesome job as the toastmaster of the evening for the very first time. She emceed the meeting with lots of joy and laughter.

The energy got even higher when the table topics master, TM Fatima (also for the first time), came out with a special table topics session where we need to become actors like the Hollywood stars!

Then came the main highlight of the meeting, our Ice Breaker speeches of course!

TM Ann started the ball rolling by sharing her love towards rabbits, her favourite colour and her passion in microbiology.

The voracious reader, TM Siau Inn talked about her nerdy side, but to us reading is not nerdy at all! Now we know how she acquire the good command of English.

TM Yik Ming displayed his talent in humorous speaking when he talked about his obsession towards anime and ghost movies in the most hilarious way.

Our ambitious TM Kevin shared his desire of becoming a good public speaker and dream of becoming a politician in the future.

Last but not the least, our TM Wen Hao spoke of his parents and their influence over his self development.

The evaluation session continued after the 10 minutes break, CC Kah Fai took over as the general evaluator with his team of evaluators, DTM Dr Devi, ACB CL Ivy Lau, ACB CL Jing Yi, TM Ing Ting and TM JiaQuan. The evaluations for the speakers were constructive and for sure it had injected great confidence in our new members for their future speeches.

CC Kah Fai wrapped up the meeting with lots of word of encouragement and we are absolutely positive to our new members soar to become excellent speakers and leaders in the future! Keep 'toasting'!

Finally, don't forget our "clubbing" this Thursday. We will be going to visit MAICSA Toastmasters Club. (The visit to BASC Toastmasters Club is cancelled as many of us have lectures on that time.) Please contact us at our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5502052126/) for more information.

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'The Ice Breaker' Day

Next Monday (30 April 2012) is 'The Ice Breaker' Day!

We have changed the meeting time to 5.30pm (30 minutes earlier than regular meeting) at BP201, Block D, Faculty of Engineering.

We will be witnessing 5 new members performing their first ever project speech in Toastmasters meeting. They are:
1. Toastmaster Wen Hao
2. Toastmaster Kevin
3. Toastmaster Ann
4. Toastmaster Siau Inn
5. Toastmaster Yik Ming
Bon vogage! Enjoy your Toastmasters journey!


Not to forget, we will be visiting 2 Toastmasters Club near the university, BASC Toastmasters Club at TM Tower and MAICSA Toastmasters Club near Midvalley Megamall next Thurday (3 May 2012). Please contact the club officers if you are interested to go with us. Grab this opportunity to build your social network. =)

Regards from,
UMTMC

Meeting No. 107, UMTMC Got Talent

HIP HIP HOORAY, three cheers to our latest toastmasters meeting. Yesterday's meeting was a fun filled one sprinkled with good news to keep the meeting mood high. =)

The theme for the meeting was "UMTMC Got Talent" The word of the day (WOD) was "accomplished", meaning skilled in activity. The choice of the WOD was a spot on choice since our meeting was graced with the presence of several accomplished toastmasters including, DTM Vincent Hor (aka Daddy), DTM Dr Devi (aka Mommy), ACB, ALB Sook Ping (Area W1 Governor), ACG Marian Lee (Division Governor).

Meanwhile, our up and coming club members too attended meeting and made an impact, with TM Kevin, TM Yik Ming took up roles plus TM Siau Inn, TM Yik Ming did Table Topics. Speaking of Table Topics, yesterday was all about superpowers. It was enjoyable, plus we get to know a different side of our VPE ACB Ivy Lau, lolx. The Best Table Topic Speaker ended up going to TM Yik Ming. There were several new guest that joined us including, Ann, Soon Yue and Agnes. Glad to have you all around.

TM Yik Ming 1st Best Table Topics on his very 1st too. Good Job, young man.

Here are the project speeches for yesterday :-

1. TM Roanne - High Heels

2. TM Wan Xin - Apple

3. ACB Ivy Lau - PRO-bins

After the project speeches by our accomplished toastmasters, we EAT!!! Yesterday's menu was payasam and vadais, prepared by our beloved club advisor, DTM Dr Devi (Sorry, no photos allowed, Dr Devi's secret recipe. Hehe). Dr Devi, your effort was thoroughly appreciated. Everyone couldn't help having seconds. *BURP* For those who missed it, I can't tell you if there will be a second time. You'll just need to stick around to find out.

Last but not least, our pins for CC and ACB arrived yesterday. (YAY!!) Congratulations to ACB Jing Yi, CC Kah Fai, CC Hui Xin, CC Rishi Ganesh, CC Sook Ching. You guys can wear your title proudly. =D The pins were presented by our Division Governor ACG Marian Lee.

ACB Ivy Lau received pins for CC Hui Xin, CC Rishi, and CC Sook Ching.

CC Kah Fai received his CC pin.

To save the best for the last, ACB Jing Yi with her ACB pin.

Meeting No.106 (Area Governor Visit)

Meeting No.106 - 9 April 2012

Today's meeting started with the word of the day 'LOQUACIOUS' which means full of excessive talk. It was because we were having our speech marathon! Here's the project speakers:

1. TM Ing Ting - Cheer Up

2. TM Wan Xin - Travel

3. TM JiaQuan - Chess Game

4. TM Sara - Shopaholic

5. TM Chen Long - Thesis Journey

We were visited by 6 guests and not to forget our very own Area W1 Governor, Advanced Communicator Bronze, Advanced Leader Bronze Lee Sook Ping.

Today, we have 2 good news!

The first good news is that we have finally got our new banner! Thanks to Area Governor for squeezing through the heavy traffic just to deliver the banner. We really appreciate it.

Next, we have 4 new members joining the Toastmasters family, they are Toastmaster Siau Inn, Toastmaster Chun Khoon, Toastmaster Yik Meng and Toastmaster Wen Hao. Hopefully the new members can excel in both communication and leadership track.

Here's some pictures of our meeting:

Toastmaster of the Evening, ACB Ivy Lau during the introduction session.

Distinguished Toastmaster Dr Devi Menon as the general evaluator for the meeting.

Toastmaster JiaQuan was the best project speaker of the meeting.

Area W1 Governor giving her awe-inspiring speech in the meeting.

Group picture with the old and new banner.

Meeting No.105

The meeting started at 5.15pm with 20 people. Here's the role player for our meeting:

Toastmaster of the Evening: DTM Dr Devi

General Evaluator: CC Rishi Ganesh

Table Topics Speakers:

1. ACB Ivy Lau

2. Siaw In

3. Nithya

4. CC Kah Fai

Project Speaker:

1. TM Fatima

2. TM Ing Ting

3. TM Roanne

Evaluator:

1. ACB Jing Yi (Table Topics)

2. TM JiaQuan

3. CC Kah Fai

4. ACB Ivy Lau

Role Player:

1. CC Kah Fai (Ah Counter)

2. TM Sara (Grammarian)

3. TM Chen Long (Timer)

Today's meeting was an enriching one as Distinguished Toastmasters Dr Devi displayed an excellent example as the Toastmaster of the Evening. It's good to have a guru in the club. And how can we ever forget to take a group picture for the meeting!!! Anyway, I promise to take a group picture after every meeting. Peace~!

Have a nice day. =)

Jing Yi

Meeting date of semester 2, 2011/2012

Our meeting date for session 2011/2012, semester 2

Mondays, 6pm @ BP201, 2nd Floor, Block D, Faculty of Engineering.

Date: 9/4, 16/4, 23/4 7/5 21/5

Please update from our facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/5502052126/

University of Malaya Toastmasters Club International Speech and Table Topics Contests 2011/2012

Great job to the exco team for making the first day back to school our contest day. We were proud to have our club international speech and table topics contests this year as we have 11 contestants competing in the 2 contests. Not to forget the full support from other clubs in providing role players and made our club contest a total success~!

Organizing Chair: Khoo Suat Hong, CC, ALB

Chief Judge: DTM Vincent Hor

Contestants for international speech contest(ISC):

1. Jing Yi

2. Kah Fai

(Contest chair: TM Ing Ting)

Contestants for table topics contest(TTC):

1. Diyaa

2. Wan Ping

3. Fatima

4. Ivy Lau

5. Kah Fai

6. Ing Ting

7. Sarah

8. JiaQuan

9. Jing Yi

(Contest chair: DTM Dr Devi Menon)

= group picture =

Congratulations to the winners!

ISC

1. Jing Yi

2. Kah Fai

TTC

1. Ivy Lau

2. Jing Yi

3. Kah Fai

1st and 2nd place winner will represent UMTMC for the coming Area W1 International Speech and Table Topics Contests:

Date: 18 February 2012, Saturday

Time: 1-4 pm

Venue: BK204&BK205, Block U, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya

All the best to the winners and do us proud in the Area Contest!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

HOHOHO, Merry Christmas to all!

Few days to go, and New Year 2012 will be here. With the advent of new year, a new era begins and with it comes new hopes and new possibilities. Every year teaches us some of life's most important lessons, and with that learning we put our step forward into the new year. May everyday of the new year glow with good cheer and happiness.

Happy Toastmastering!

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