Aug 29, 2012

Theme : Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Toastmaster of the Evening - Ivy Gam, CC
General evaluator - Lee Meng Tze, DTM

 Best Table Topic Speaker - Janet Fernandez, ACB CL
Best Project Speaker - Janet Fernandez, ACB CL
Best Evaluator - David Siew, CC

As an SAA of the day,  Ivy Cherng, ACS ALB started the meeting. The president shared  a very special story related to the theme, " Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained". His welcome address made everyone to think. TME , Ivy Gam took over control from Ivy Cherng.

 The word of the day " Patience" introduced by grammarian Ken Choong, who is a new member, bravely took the grammarian role and did that wonderfully. The Table Topic session led by Khoo Ghee San CC CL. We had our 151st meeting  after the school holiday and the festive holidays. He prepared the titles related to festivals in Malaysia and about the independence day. He printed the titles with picture, attracted everyone. There are five table topic speaker." Be volunteer or you will be volunteered" by Janet made everyone to burst out of laugh.  Ivy Cherng, Francis Vasanthi, Janet,Joe and Catherine. Ivy had a chance to talk about deepawali. She mentioned that usually goes to Sivalingam DTM's house. She suggested to have it in a different way for the upcoming Deepawali, to the VPPR. Francis Vasanthi was given the title" August31". Janet talked about The Moon cake festival. Catherine impressed everyone with the given title" September 16- the Malaysia Day". Joe talked about Chinese Valentines day.  That Table Topic session was evaluated by Foo Mei Lee, CC. 
After the intermission, the second session has started. Three speeches were delivered. First speaker, Francis Vasanthi delivered her fourth speech, from CC manual, "How to say it", titled "Life has to go on". She used Lion King 1.5 movie and  a video from National Geographic programme to enlighten her speech. Second speech was done by Catherine Lim. It was her seventh speech from CC manual, "Research your Topic", titled "The untapped power". Even though visual aids are not necessary for this speech, she used power point presentation. That showed her eagerness and sincerity of her work. Third speaker told us a story about "Mat Jenin" with a twist at the end. Her posture, gesture, vocab, modulation attracted everyone.

The third session was took over control by the General Evaluator, Lee Meng  Tze,DTM, the president of IEM toastmasters. Michael Wong evaluated Francis Vasanthi's Speech. Catherine Lim's speech was evaluated by the GE and Janet's speech was evaluated by David Siew. After tha speech evaluation, grammarian report - Ken, Ah counter's report- Bey Shuw Chyi, timer report - Inn Hoon , were presented.

The awards presented by the President. The meeting ended at 9:30pm.

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