Final Meeting of the Year 2009

In case you'd forgotten; we're soooo gonna have our final meeting of year 2009 (phewww; finally!) on this coming Saturday morning; 930-11am as usual on 26th December 2009.

Yup, right after Christmas; but it doesnt mean we can't celebrate Christmas twice a year rite?

This time, take part in roles you'd never took part before in Toastmasters. Get real. Get your resolution done. Gather your courage in the mood and spirit for Christmas.

Let's make the final meeting of 2009 a blast!

S.e.e. y.o.u. t.h.e.r.e.! =)

Jaime Liew, TM

Exuberant People on 19th December Meeting

19th December Meeting. Exuberant People. =)

Stay tuned for more updates.

HELP Anniversary Meeting on 31st October 2009

Be sure not to miss it!

Sorry for the late update about recent meetings. The blog moderator is been catching up with her assignments; and ignoring the blogs! Apologies to die-hard fan of HELP University Toastmasters Club! Lol!

UNITAR Hallowen Party 2009

"Dear toastmasters,

It is just 8 days away from the "Halloween Party 2009"!! Have you confirmed your attendance to this party? Remember, each club will be able to send 5 representatives to this party. So, please send in the names, e-mail addresses of the members and the tickets will be available by next Monday (5/10/2009). For those who will be attending the "Self-Love" Seminar, you have an option to hand in the ticket payment (RM10) to our Jefferey Tang (Organising Chair) as confirmation.

Other than that, anyone would like to take on the 3-5 minutes speech slots on ghost stories? There are still 5 slots available.

I hope to hear the good news from all of you by this weekend or Monday =) Have a wonderful weekend!!

Thank You.



--
Lim Hui Shan
UNITAR Toastmasters Club"

any enquires; find us=)

19th September 2009 Meeting

The meeting started with SAA Michelle breaking the ice by getting all the members to introduce themselves. She also requested all the members to reveal their Hari Raya holiday plans as our meeting was just a day before the Hari Raya celebration.

Meeting moved with Qinmei giving her presidential address. She gave a message to fellow members to make full use of their toastmasters membership for personal growth and advancement.

jee aik our TOM for the third time in the row..

Lorna Fisher as our LE..language evaluator

Next up was table topic session. Denise, the Table topic master gave a common speech title to all speakers which goes: “Action speaks louder than words. Do you agree or disagree?”. I volunteered myself to be the first speaker and was able to pull through the session. Cassandra took a stand of disagreeing with the statement. Kok Weng, the 3^rd speaker agreed to the statement only to a certain extent and gave examples with regards to politics. Lorna Fisher, a guest from KL Advanced Toastmasters Club playing the role of the language evaluator gave us an interesting perspective where action can be more appropriate in certain circumstances than words, vice versa. Last but not least, Qinmei affirm the statement and gave examples where she personally experience the power of action over words.

Table topic evaluator Boon Keong gave us a detailed evaluation by summarizing our good points and pointing our weakness coupled with ways of improvement.

denise as our tabletopic master=)

Chee Hong is giving his opinion on the topic given..

Table topic evaluator Boon Keong gave us a detailed evaluation by summarizing our good points and pointing our weakness coupled with ways of improvement.

Next on the agenda were assignment speeches. Firstly, Qinmei gave us a speech on how to sell a product effectively. She even performed a demonstration with TOM Jee Aik to give a picture of how to sell effectively using her key points in the selling process, which were establishing rapport, identifying needs, solving problem and obtaining commitment.

Ernest was the second speaker. He gave us a short presentation on the importance of the Toastmaster of the morning’s role and detailed points on serving as a TOM. In his speech, the TOM should introduce the speaker in which the following questions are answered: 1. Why this speaker? 2. Why this audience? 3. Why at this time? 4. Why this subject?

Last on the list was Joyce Hue, our club’s past president. She gave a speech on hypnotherapy, a form of therapy which is relatively new in Malaysia. Its purpose was to unleash the power of the mind to overcome fears and problems. She even conducted a simple session on the audience which gave us a feel on hypnotherapy.

Evaluation session was conducted by the general evaluator Sze Ling from D’Utama Toastmasters Club. Janice from TTDI Toastmasters Club evaluated Qinmei. The language evaluator Lorna Fisher gave her report and stressed on the importance of proper pronunciation of words. Roon Hui gave his Ah counter report for the 1^st time. Timekeeper Jamie presented her report as well. General evaluator gave her comments on the meeting. She enjoyed herself very much in this meeting and gave a few pointers for improvement such as starting the meeting on time and giving a warm applause after every speech. Respect and recognition are 2 values which toastmaster embodies and as members we should also put them into practice.

Janice Lee giving her evaluation for Qinmei's first ACM Speech.

Sze Ling played her role well as a GE; General Evaluator.

Lastly, Qinmei gave a closing address by expressing her gratitude to all the guests and members for making the meeting a success. The best table topic speaker was awarded to Lorna Fisher.

Lorna Fisher was the best Table Topic Speaker

Qinmei giving her closing address.

It was definitely a fruitful meeting and hopefully the coming ones will be even better.

Prepared by,
Chee Hong, TM

5th September Meeting and Farewell Lunch to John Lee, Jason Lim and Gajendran

It's a pleasant thing to have your camera. That's number 1 case. Contrary to the number 1, it's not soo pleasant thing if your camera's battery was dead half way for the second half-day. okay, forget about my rambling introduction; let's skip to the main menu of today. Today; besides having our first September meeting; unfortunately it is the final meeting for our three musketeers of our club: John Lee, Gajendran and Jason Lim as they are going to UK for their law studies.

Cassandra as the SAA-of the meeting gave us an introductory question by asking the latest movie we've watched or we want to watch. After that, Qinmei took over by giving her presidential address and asked us to 'Be Sad' as she announced about John, Gajendran and Jason Lim's departures. Nevertheless, the moody atmosphere was brighten by TOM Jee Aik who gave us the brief Toastmasters history and proceed with the agenda of the meeting.






After that, Ernest Wong gave us an insight on 'Creating the Best Climate for Your Club' through his workshop. As he mentioned, he stressed on the importance of creating the good atmosphere and setting in order to invite and retain people in and out of the club.

After that, we went into the Table Topic session headed by Jaime as the TTM. She divided the choices of questions into two paths: the Chance or the Destiny/Fate. Jason Lim was the first who chose the Destiny: The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.

Next, we have Gajendran for the tough destiny choice on 'A big shot is little shotsd that kept shooting'.

De Ren was pretty unfortunate to choose the Destiny path on the longest quote given; 'The World is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil; but because of those who look on and do nothing'. And this quote was by Albert Einstein.

Finally, our newly joined member Daniel also gave his second Tabletopic speech who was the first and final person who chose the Chance path and his question is 'If I wasn't me, I'd be...?"

We had a quick break of 10 minutes before we had our first and only one assignment speech by John Lee. It was his fifth ACM speech where he gave us the new term; new meaning; and the new information about 'Schadenfreuder' [Sha.den.fr0y.the] (it's german, by the way). The meaning? The joy/pleasure for seeing sufferings. He stressed that it is a 'social comparison' phenomenon; where people in nature love comparing; thus, they fell pleasurable when others do badly than them.

Next, John also conducted a workshop on 'Finding New Members for Your Club'. He gave many tips on how to attract new members and making sure the members' interests are attained in order mantain the flow of the members in and out of the club.

Next session was evaluation session where GE Dr.Sharon Tan CTM, ALB gave us the detailed general evaluation about our meeting and the role-playing for the benefit of the guests and new members. She also encouraged us about involving in Toastmasters for the future.

Next, Gajendran took over and evaluated John's speech.

As for the best table topic speaker, Jason Lim pulled off with his 2-min speech on reasons why plan A will fail and why plan B will be used instead in order to be successful.

After two years! Gajendran finally gained his CC and CL title before he flew to Wales.

And John managed to get his ACS title as he completed his ACM manual!

After that, we headed to the farewell lunch at Marco's Pizzas.



Ernest Wong, Jason Moi, Qinmei and Jess Foong from UNITAR TMC gave their farewell mini speech to three of future lawyers respectively.







And of course the three future lawyers had to gave speech. And so John spoke about Gajendran, while Gajendran to Jason Lim and Jason Lim to John Lee. We had our group photo before we left=) All those moments captured!



To Gajendran, John Lee, and Jason Lim!

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing"

and

"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor"


Jaime

29th August Speech Marathon Meeting

As the main blogger of this club, I should be equipped with cameras all the time. *tsk* *tsk* *tsk* And i apologize for not being able to fulfill the above statement. Nevertheless, as the saying goes; you just take anything you got and make something out of it. Yes, 2..0 megapixel camera phone's effect on the following pictures.

Anyway, keep things short, another bad news ahead in this post. Due to the unbelievable speeches and amazing scenes, I forgot to snap those scenes. My bad. But seriously, for those who missed the previous meetings, you should make up for the upcoming meetings even more:

Date: 5th September 2009
Time: 9.30am-11.45am
Venue: DSA, Main Block of HELP, Pusat Bandar Damansara
p/s: There will be two workshops conducted by John and Ernest respectively, so you just couldn't miss them!

Okay, back to our 29th August 2009 meeting.

We started off 5 minutes late; and SAA Jaime began the meeting by conducting the introduction section by members and guests and asking the question; "Name one thing about Malaysia that doesn't have to change". After that TOM Jee Aik gave his own version of brief Toastmasters' history before John took over for his evaluation workshop titled; Evaluate to Motivate: Mould A Winner with A Winning Evaluation'. He gave us the importance of evaluation to both the evaluators and the speakers, evaluation methods, and tips and tricks from John himself.

TOM Jee Aik

John Lee gave his ideas on better evaluation in his workshop

Later on, Janice Lee, CC, CL from TTDI Toastmasters Club gave her third ACM speech on topic "Sell a Product". By asking us (audience) to pretend that Toastmasters is an alien term, she tried to sell / introduce 'TM (toastmasters)" to us.

Janice Lee trying to get us to get inspired by Toastmasters in her speech

After that, Cassandra gave us the stunning CC speech number 5 on 'There is no perfect ones, only better looking ones". The word 'stunning' is used for describing her speech simply to acknowledge her boldness in demonstrating us on wearing a bra! Unfortunately, I didn't manage to snap her photos because I was totally taken aback!

Nevertheless, we managed to have 10 min short break and refreshments before continuing with the marathon speech session. Jess Foong, CC, ALB from UNITAR Toastmasters Club gave her first ACM speech on 'Keynote Address for the Asean+3 Youths'. Again, i forgot to snap her photos though she was wearing a cute green turquiose kebaya=).

Last but not least, John Lee gave his interesting speech on 'Let's Talk Scientology'. Then GE Kuok Sum, CC, ALB from TTDI Toastmasters Club called for the evaluation session. Firstly, Qinmei, CC, CL gave her evaluation for Janice followed by Jason Moi, TM for Cassandra's speech. After that, John Lee, ACB, CL gave his evaluation to Jess Foong before Hadzrin, ACB, CL from UEM Academy Toastmasters Club gave his to John.

Jason Moi on giving his evaluation for Cassandra

Later, GE Kuok Sum also called for the role players' report respectively: LE Jason Moi, TM; AC Chee Hong, TM; TK Abel, TM; and finally from himself.

At the end of the session, President Qinmei gave out certificates to the best speaker of the meeting; Cassandra and best evaluator of the meeting; John Lee. After that, there was a little award-giving ceremony from our Immediate Past Area W2 Governor Ernest Wong to our Immediate Past President John Lee for achieving the President Distinguised Club Award 2008/09 term. Congratulations once again to all the winners and our club for the award!

Best Speaker: Cassandra Wong

Needless to say, John Lee for best evaluator

President Qinmei giving us end-note after presenting certificates...

John Lee, IPP and Ernest Wong, IPAG for the President Distinguished Award ribbon

To all who have read this blog, you know what you should do; visit our 5th September meeting!

Jaime Liew, TM

Updates: Our 29th Aug Marathon Speech Meeting

Dear respected guests,

We are going to have our final meeting of month August on 29th!

As usual, our final meeting usually is a speech marathon meeting.

In addition, John Lee, our IPP is giving an evaluation workshop;
"Evaluate to Motivate: Mould A Winner with A Winning Evaluation"

Therefore, we are looking forward to meet you guys there!

Time: 9.30am-12.00pm
Date: 29th August 2009
Venue: DSA (Department of Student Affairs), Main Block of HELP University College,
Pusat Bandar Damansara
Entrance Fee: Free

For more details, do not hesitate to give us a call (to any of our members) or drop us a quick e-mail.

Thanks!

Regards,
Jaime Liew, TM
VP-Public Relations of
HELP UC Toastmasters Club
012-972 1290
huiqing_liew@hotmail.com

Area W3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest

It's finally here! The Area W3 Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest has just wonderfully succeeded with Midvalley Toastmasters Club as the Organising Club. The contest began at 7.30pm with Mohd Hazrin Shah, ACB, CL as the Contest Chair for Humorous Speech.

The contestants are:

1. Chan Chee Hong
2. Moi Kok Lum, Jason
3. Tah Poh Leong
4. Poh Ban Chung
5. Lee Su Jane

After that, we had a quick intermission (about 5 min only!) before we proceeded with our Evaluation contest under the Contest Chair, Gerald Wee, CC. The test speaker for the evening was Sam Thong with his Speech title; "How to Operate A SLR Camera". The contestants who evaluated Sam are:

1. Tah Poh Leong
2. Ernest Wong
3. Christine Ong
4. Jacylyn Wee
5. Moi Kok Lum, Jason

We enjoyed ourselves at Cititel Midvalley bcoz of its good food and its cosy environment! The attendance for tonight was fabulous as it was roughly about 40 people who came for this contest. Besides, each representative from the participating clubs gave us a good laugh and many informative evaluations, and we are pretty sure that it gave the judges a tough time to pick who will be representing us to the division contest!

In the end, the best among the bests were announced by respective contest chairs. The results for the Speech Evaluation Contest are as followed:

1. Champion: Christine Ong
2. 1st-Runner Up: Jason Moi
3. 2nd-Runner Up: Ernest Wong

While the Humorous Speech winners are:

1. Champion: Poh Ban Chung
2. 1st-Runner Up: Jason Moi
3. 2nd-Runner Up: Chan Chee Hong

Congratulations once again to our winners as they made us proud tonight and all the best for the Division W Contest which the details are as followed;

Date/Day: 12th September 2009/Saturday
Venue: WISMA WIM, TTDI
Time: 1.30pm till further notice
Fee: RM15 (before 24th August) and RM20 (after 24th August) ; Lunch is included

*P/S: Our next regular meeting is on 29th August 2009; 9.30am at DSA, Main Block of HELP, Pusat Bandar Damansara=) We are having our marathon meeting again! See you there! For more details, always e-mail us helptmc@gmail.com, give me a call 012-972 1290, or check us up at ChatCubicle in this blog!

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2009!

Although we started half an hour late (due to the massive traffic jam in Klang Valley Area), it didn't stop us from anticipating our annual contest; Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest for HELP University College 2009! Firstly, we have our President, Qinmei as our Toastmasters of the Morning welcoming our participants and guests.

The Humorous Speech contests began after the Contest Chair, Jason Lim finished the rules and regulations for the contest as followed:

1. Jack Ying
2. Chan Chee Hong
3. Jason Moi
4. Cassandra Wong
5. Ernest Wong

Later, we had a 15-min short break and refreshments before we continued with Evaluation Contest organized by Contest Chair, Gajendran. The test speaker for our evaluation was Ellie Moey from Bangsar Toastmasters Club with her title "Diamonds are Women's Best Friend".

The contestants were:

1. Chan Chee Hong
2. Jason Moi
3. Cassandra Wong
4. Denise Tan
5. Ernest Wong

After the contest, awards and certificates of appreciations were presented. (for more pictures, please go to our facebook account!)



And while waiting for the announcemnts of the winers, we had a free air-time so Gajendran and Hazry shared with us some light and funny stories and experiences.



*Drum rolls please* The announcement of the winners by Jason Lim, acting Organizing Chair on behalf of John Lee (who is in Australia currently)

Congratulations to our Humorous Speech Winners:

1. Champion: Chan Chee Hong
2. 1st-Runner Up: Ernest Wong
3. 2nd Runner Up: Jason Moi

And our Evaluation Winners:

1. Champion: Ernest Wong
2. 1st Runner Up: Jason Moi
3. 2nd Runner Up: Chan Chee Hong

Our Champions and 1st Runner Ups for both of the contests will represent us to compete in our Area W3 Speech Contest:

Area W3 Speech Contest
Date: 18th August 2009
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Cititel, Mid Valley

For more information about the contests and other toastmasters events, do visit our club blog often!
Our next regular meeting is on 15th August 2009 (Saturday), 9.30am at DSA, Main Block HELP, Pusat Bandar Damansara.

See you there!