Themed 'Unity Through Mission', we started at 9.36am once all of the invited clubs members and guests arrived. SAA of the meeting; Jee Aik, CC (also the organising chair) gave the first welcoming speech and began the meeting.
Later, President Qinmei, CC, CL gave her presidential address which touches on the themes 'Unity through Mission' and the main objectives of the meeting as to bond with one another in order to reach for the higher goals in Toastmasters journey and life.
It is then Toastmasters of the Morning (TOM) Hui Shan, CC from Unitar Toastmasters Club took over the stage by telling of the brief Toastmasters history, introducing role players, and requesting the Word of the Day from our Language Evaluator (or LE/Grammarian), Jason Moi. The word of the Day was 'synergize'; and the definition is 'to produce greater outcome by working together in groups than working alone'. In line with our theme, the example given to the word is 'One club can energize the meeting but more than one can synergize the meeting!'.
As today's joint meeting is a marathon meeting, we started of with the assignment speeches; skipping the usual TableTopic sessions. Firstly, we have Fun Mun Wah, TM from UM Toastmasters Club gaving his 6th speech based on a love story of 'Jacob and Rachel'. Unlike typical ending 'happily ever after', Mun Wah, Jacob and Rachel left us to wonder what their ending would be after the dissaproval from Rachel's parents. Only time knows. Mun Wah was evaluated from Jeremy, CC from Nilai Toastmasters Club based on the objectives of the 6th project speech.
Secondly, Mike, TM from HICT Toastmasters Club enlightened to our moral values when he re-defined the term 'Homeless'; by refering it to the golden citizens in our society. Based on his 7th Speech objectives, he told us his own experiences and feelings when he visited old folks homes and orphanages. At the end of his speech, he strongly asked us to appreciate our grandparents, parents, and anyone around us who are close and dear as we may not know what will happen tomorrow. Lukreiza, CC from Unitar Toastmasters Club gave her evaluation by the ancronym of M-I-K-E on building and preparing for better speeches in the future.
Next, Michael, TM persuaded us with his thoughts and opinions as he talked on 'The Solution to Our Language Problem"; the currently highly debated questions nationwide. He strongly believed that through refering to the older days; we could reshape our education systems better as it can promote the national integration, social mobility, and more. Victor, CC from HICT Toastmasters Club gave his constuctive comments and credits to Michael while stressing on the purpose of 9th speech project.
Jee Aik, CC called for a break for refeshment and fellowship before continuing with marathon speeches. We enjoyed ourselves when we fully used up 15 minutes (actually, more than 15 minutes) to exchange thoughts and to get to know more about one another's clubs.After the break, Hui Shan, CC gave her 2nd Advanced Speech by telling her 'Transportation Blunders'. She shared with us her funny 'bad luck day' experience when she was having troubles with the taxi drivers and buses in desperation of going to her workplace. She ended up her story with a line from her boss as 'If you can't get a cab, get a car!'. Gregory Sim, ACB, CL from Nilai Toastmasters Club was her evaluator for her speech.
And last but not least, we have Jeremy, CC to end our marathon speech session when he presented the "Toastmaster of the Year Award" to Gregory, ACB, CL with a 'pink throphy' (it was actually; a pink color bottle). Jason Lim, CC then evaluated his speech while adding and sharing his own opinions and ideas on improvements for Jeremy, CC.
After that, General Evaluator (GE) Ernest Wong, ACB, ALB called for evaluations for the assignment speakers and an open evaluation was given to the audiences. Later, the role players of the meeting; Language Evaluator (LE) Jason Moi, Ah-Counter (AC) Shireen, Timekeeper (TK) Nyuk Jet, and GE Ernest gave their reports accordingly.
As to express our gratitude to Nilai UC Toastmasters Club, HICT Toastmasters Club, Unitar Toastmasters Club and University Malaya Toastmasters Club, we gave them each a banner of inspirational quotes.
And the moment we've been waiting for: Qinmei, CC,CL then presented the certificates for Best Speaker Award to Jeremy,CC and Best Evaluator to Jason Lim,CC respectively. The meetings adjourned at 11.45am before we have the group photo session.
At here, we sincerely thank the clubs and guests who have made their way all from places to make this meeting a successful one. We are looking forward to make this intercollege joint meeting an annual event in the future.
Report done by,Jaime, TM
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