Valentine's Day

Congratulations to Jason Moi Kok Lum, Kevin Ho, and Gerald Tan for emerging as trophy winners for our
International and Table Topics Contest!

Also, thank you to all those who have participated in the contest! Without your participation, this
contest would not have happened!

HELP Toastmasters Valentine’s Special! <3<3<3

Why do you need Valentine’s Day to show love and affection when you can do it every day? That’s why
we at HELP UC TMC decided to hold our very own Valentine’s special meeting despite the fact that
Valentine’s day was over four days ago. Geared with love balloons and a very special table topic session,
we were all set to have a ball of a time! This time round, for table topics, the audience had to pass
around a toy heart while some love music was being played. The moment the music stopped, the person with the heart had to present a table topic related to love.

A New Year, A New Beginning!

Greetings and salutation fellow Toastmasters!

In the blink of an eye, 2011 has come to pass, overtaken speedily by 2012. A new year beckons new beginnings. For some, that can mean taking time to craft their personal milestones for the upcoming year. For others, perhaps it can mean more time ot have a jolly good time while they are still alive. For us at HELP Toastmasters, it can only mean one thing: A new term of meaningful and energetic meetings! Despite having had many holidays during the beginning of the year, we still managed to pull off two meetings. The first meeting was aimed to remind our members on the importance of being prepared for the new year.

 The first meeting of the year!

 The first role players of the year, From Left:Zhi Han, Siew Li, Jack Ying, Joe, and Ahmad Zakie

 Dinese as our first Toastmasters of the Morning of the year!

 Bryan Cheong talking about his new years resolution

 With the theme of the meeting being 'New Year,' ideas about how best to utilize the year ahead were shared during the table topics session, followed with new-year-themed speeches. At the end, each person was asked to leave a time capsule in the form of a letter dedicated to themselves one year from the written date. Hopefully they will end with with smiles when they open those time capsules that will be sent to them one year from now.

The second meeting adopted the Chinese New Year mood as its theme. Decorated with typical CNY ornaments, the meeting room resembled a Chinese house during CNY, especially when some members brought extra CNY snacks from home to share.

 The ice-breaking session

 Our CNY special Toastmasters of the Morning: Siew Li

 Our Table Topics Master with his arsenal of table topic speeches concealed in CNY red packets

Jason Moi's speech: A Toast to the Chinese New Year!

 Winner of the Table topics: Roshini

Meeting on 1/10/11

Hello everyone,

HELP TMC had our meeting today, on the 1st of October. Today's meeting was themed 'money,' and was very appropriate with the financial demands of this day and age.

The meeting started off with a question posed by ASAA, Kevin Ho. The question was," Would you rather have plenty of money, and be relatively happy, or be very happy, and have a relatively high amount of money?" After hearing a range of answers, we moved on to the table topics session for the day.

Table topics master, Hadi, came up with 5 interesting and thought-evoking titles for the table topics speakers. After hearing from five speakers, we moved on to the table topics evaluation session. Jason Moi, an experienced and seasoned toastmaster, provided the table topic evaluation, accurately pointing out all the speakers' flaws, giving advise, and praising the good parts.


After the evaluation session was complete, we moved on to the assignment speakers. First up, we had Vincent Liew, who was preparing for his District Level Competition, on the 15th of this month. After delivering his speech entitled Love and Imperfections, we then heard from Dennis Wee, who was also preparing for a competition, later this month.


After taking a short break, we had more assignment speeches, from Toastmasters Roshini(cc#1), Tze Yi(cc#6) and Kevin(cc#8). After the speeches were complete, we moved on to our evaluation session, with G.E. Seetho taking the stage, before inviting his team of evaluators to deliver their reports.


After all the evaluations wee over, president Zoe took over. She started by giving out the certificates to the best table topics speaker(Rajveer Singh), best assignment speaker(Roshini), and the best evaluator(Rajveer Singh). She then ended with the announcement of the District Levels Humour Speech competition, which will be held in HELP, on the 8th of October!


On behalf of HELP TMC, I would like to thank all participants for today's meeting, including our guests, speakers, evaluators, and of course, our GE, Seetho. Hope to see you soon!



Celebrate life,
Rajveer Singh :D