HELP University Toastmasters Club: 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!