The last meeting of 2008

The meeting started at approximately 9:40am. This was the last toastmasters meeting for the year 2008! A brand new year is coming people!

Guests and members were asked to introduced themselves and also tell us the goal that they’ve set for the coming year 2009!
After the introductions by the SAA – Abel, the control was then passed to John to present his presidential address. After that, it was Ernest, the toastmaster of the morning took over the control.
After that was the Table Topic Master – Fun, to conduct the table topic section. Fun has prepared total 15 inspiring topics for the volunteers to choose from.

The first volunteer was Abel who is also the SAA of the meeting. The topic he has chosen was “Excited. Get really excited about today.” He thought for a while and tells us what is excited about today which is the toastmaster meeting and a brand new year is coming.

I was the next volunteer for the table topic section, attempted the topic “Win. Winning is not everything”. I said that winning is not everything; the process of achieving something is already winning.
The third volunteer was Ka Chuan with the topic “Shut up! Move on”. Ka Chuan has talked about him making decision to back from UK to finish his A-levels at Malaysia.

Last but not least, it was Lay Choo attempted table topic with title “Today, not tomorrow”. Lay Choo also tell us why are the successful people are successful. That is because they will complete the things that they need to do on that day and will never leave it to tomorrow. Lay Choo’s speech was really inspiring one and she was voted to be the best table topic speaker of the day. Congratulation!

The table topic speakers were then evaluated by Qinmei. She pointed out the strength of each speaker and areas of improvement.
It was then the assignment speakers to present their speech. Firstly, it was by Faiq having his Ice Breaker Speech with the title “People Change”. Faiq talked about his achievement in athletes, the classical old songs that he like especially by Alvis Bradley. He also showed us his skill on playing yoyo which really caught the audiences’ attention. The evaluator for this speech was Jason Lim.

Second assignment speech speaker was by Jee Aik doing his CCM #7 with the title “Mysterious Creatures Co-existed with us”. Jee Aik has showed us a bird type thingy and asked us whether we know its name if we saw it flying in the sky. We didn’t know. Jee Aik then said it was UFO – Unidentified flying object. This brought a laugh bomb to us. It was a humorous one. Jee Aik then told us that it was a dinosaur. With the credible sources that Jee Aik has provided to us, there’s a reason to believe that dinosaur do exists. We’ve understand more about dinosaur through the speech Jee Aik presented.

Third assignment speech speaker was our president John presenting his ACM #5 “The Ballot or the Bullet”, evaluated by Lay Choo. He talked about the black and white community, which the black fight for the freedom. It’s either to achieve the freedom or to die in achieve them. It was very interesting.

After the break, we have Lay Choo to present her ACM#4 “Demystifying Audit”. Lay Choo has explained hows the internal audit works. She also conducted a Q&A session with the audience in order to let the audience understands more. She also introduced a FAMA Association to us which stands for Father-Mother association.

As usual, after the assignment speech session, it was evaluation session by the evaluators and calls for reports from the role players. All the role players have done a good job in giving a detail report. Jee Aik as the Language Evaluator has done an impressive job by explaining to us. Jack, first time as the Ah-Counter has done a good job also. Well done toastmasters!
The meeting has come to an end. The general evaluator – Chee Hong has evaluated the progress of the meeting. Then, it was John to deliver his closing address.

Well, who is the best assignment speaker, best table topic speaker and best evaluator?

*DRUM ROLLS*

Best assignment speaker was John Lee, the president of HELP UC Toastmasters Club. While the best table topic speaker and best evaluator was Lay Choo!

Congratulation to both of them!

Last but not least, Faiq has finally delivered his ice breaker speech! Congratulation Faiq! We look forward to your next speech!

On 3rd January 2009, we’ll have a rather different meeting compared to last time. We’ll have a vocal meeting which we focus more on your vocal and less focus on your gestures. Do visit our club to experience a rather different toastmasters meeting!