Regular Meeting 81 (E) - 27th July 2009

This is the first time for me to write a blog on behalf of Klang Bilingual Toastmasters Club (KBTC). I am thinking what I should write for the blog? Actually I still have not visit KBTC blog yet, I plan to visit and see how other write, but I don’t do it, because I think I should write what I think on KBTC without affected by others. If I have visited the blog, I may affect by them and write something that out of my style… What do you think ?

Another mountain conquered as we the Klang Toastmaster Bilingual Club with the force of 24 distinguish Toastmasters in our Regular Meeting 81 being honored with 3 wonderful guests:

1. Shirley Cheok

2. Niessah

3. Andy Ching, ACB CL from CIMA Toastmasters Club

Toastmaster Chew Siew Lei as the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) with the theme of the meeting was “Forgiveness”. Such a nice word, that led us to think of how many of us are really and truly forgive others? Our Table Topic Master, Patrick Lim also used the same theme to challenge us in the Impromptu Speech Session. All in all we had 6 participants for the Impromptu Speech Session, and it’s unbelievable that among our guest, Ms.Shirley Cheok took the 1^st challenge, and the 2^nd one was challenged by our guest, Ms.Niessah, followed by our member Tee Yeh Ching, Cecelia Hoo, Soh Fong Wai and last but not least Siew Ming Yan. It’s a courtesy of KTBC to give the chance to the guests to have a change in the Table Topics sessions first hence the excitement. J

Remember still, one of the topics given by our TTM, “Asking for forgiveness is easy than asking for permission” thinking back what do you think?

The Word of the Day was “Per.se.vere”, verb.

Meaning = To continue trying to do or achieve something despite difficulties/obstacles.

Eg: “In spite of all obstacles and failures, the scientist persevered with his experiments.”

Prepared by Language Evaluator, Alvin Yong.

The 3 assigned speakers are as follow:

1. C&L #1: The Ice Breaker - Mary Sai Soo Ngoh, TM

2. C&L #7: Research Your Topic - Ng Yau Hong, TM

3. C&L #8: Get Comfortable with Visual Aids - Derric Tan, TM

I was personally inspired by Derric's speech, and his quote of “Living through Life or Just Merely passing through”, “To make money and lose our health” and “The beauty & perfection in all imperfection”. By watching the short clip from Youtube that he prepared, it truly inspired me to recall my own personal life. Before this, I dislike my mum to calling me up requesting me to return home early, and repetitively telling me that it is now late! Even in adulthood as I am now, it really gets me annoyed and irritated. Here I would like to take the opportunity to apologize to my mother, sorry mum. After watching the movie, it made me think, because my mum is still with me now, that is why she’s still able to call me up and I should not only value but treasure it! Most of our club members are progressing very quickly tonight we have 4 first timers that signed up for the role play, they are:

1. Toastmaster of the Evening - Chew Siew Lei, TM

2. Table Topic Master - Patrick Lim Kwang Ming, TM

3. Table Topic Evaluator - Adrian Kow, TM

4. Time Keeper - Ong Hoong Tat, TM

A job well done as it was impressive even for a first timer. Congratulations!

Last but not least the Awards! The winners are:

1. Best Table Topic Speaker – Cecelia Hoo, TM

2. Best Assignment Speaker – Mary Sai Soo Ngoh, TM

3. Best Assignment Evaluator – Soh Fong Wai, DTM

Congratulation to all the winners of best Speakers and Evaluator! And for those who tried congratulations as well for taking up the courage, her at KTBC we shall never give up as we are here to learn and progress for a better tomorrow!

By,

Loh Boon Keong

VPPR