Tentative details:
Date: 26 July 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 9.30 am
Venue: Department of Student Affairs, Wisma HELP
Anyone interested to participate as a contestant or role player (contest chair, Sergeant-At-Arms, ballot counter, time keeper), please contact me as soon as possible.
Note: There is no minimum requirement to join either contest, meaning even if you haven't given your icebreaker speech, you still can join both contests.
I will keep you posted.
Hope to see every single one of you there, either as a contestant or role player. =)
Organizing Chair
Qinmei (qinmeihuang@hotmail.com)
017-2860933
Thursday, 10 July 2008
5th July - A Fresh Start
5 July 2008 marked the new term. It was a brand new beginning, with new committee members. The atmosphere felt fresh. Already small changes were being made.
The meeting started 7 minutes late, with Qinmei as the Sergeant-At-Arms (SAA) asking everyone to introduce themselves and tell everyone what they hope to achieve in the coming week. Since the bulk of the members were A-Levels students, most of them were hoping to get used to college life once again or accustom to the new timetables.
After Qinmei’s welcoming address, it was John’s turn to give his first ever presidential address as the new president of the club. In his speech, he spoke about time. According to John, there is a time to do things, a time to focus and limited time to achieve our goals. He also reminded us on how we need to work hard to achieve the President’s Distinguished Award yet again this year.
Next up was Han Lian as the Toastmaster of the Morning (TOM) with his ‘warming up the audience’ session. He started off by asking the audience to take a deep breath as they did not look as awake and alert as they should be. The word of the day ‘attentive’ was then introduced by the Language Evaluator (LE), Kang Han.
Not before long, it was time for the ever exciting table topics session. The Table Topics Master (TTM), Jee Aik, took a different approach this time around. Before he asked for volunteers, he announced the topics. If within 10 seconds, no one volunteers to speak, he would choose them at random.
The first topic was ‘no man is an island’, which Han Lian volunteered to speak about. He spoke about how he discovered that when he was transferred to Inti Nilai which was in the middle of a jungle.
The second topic, ‘money is everything’ was presented by Ernest, our Immediate Past President (IPP), who made the effort to come even though he was no longer the president of our club. The word ‘money’ caught his attention, and this made him volunteer to speak about the topic. However, on his way to the stage, he forgot the topic. In the end, he spoke about how money saved him when he was stopped at a police road block.
The third topic, being ‘family is more important than friends’ was spoken about by Nikki, a first timer at our club. She reminded everyone that no matter how many friends we have, we will still turn to our families in the end.
The fourth topic was ‘evil people can become good people’. This topic was presented by Commander Anthony who told us how evil people can guide good people. Not only can evil people become good people, but also good people can become evil people.
The fifth and final topic was ‘sharing is caring’ which was spoken about by Pui Yee. She told us how she learnt to share, and that has brought her relationship with her brother closer. She said that you share because you care.
When the table topics session was over, Chee Hoong was called upon as the Table Topics Evaluator (TTE) to give his evaluation on each speaker. He was commended for his improvement in terms of giving more detailed and concise evaluations besides learning to point out ways to improve instead of just focusing on the strengths of each speaker.
The second part of the meeting was the assignment speeches.
The first assignment speaker was Jamie, giving her ice breaker speech entitled ‘The Little Girl’. She told a heartwarming story of her past even though at the beginning, she did tell us how she disliked introduction speeches. The topic she chose was definitely close to heart as she told us the story full with emotions.
The second assignment speaker was Boon Keong with his speech, ‘Leaders of a Great Nation’. According to him, we are all leaders of a great nation. We are all leaders of procrastination. He then moved on to give four simple tips to stop procrastinating, which were to list the essentials, create accountability, focus on small steps and set deadlines.
The third assignment speaker, Jook Yew’s speech title was ‘Football’. He started off with a short story of a young boy who wanted to play football and moved on to Malaysia and eventually, reminded us to be grateful of what we are and what we have.
The fourth assignment speaker was Han Lian, speaking about ‘Mind Your Language’. He told the audience many instances on how a simple punctuation can cause such a big difference, sometimes causing it to be misleading or even offensive.
The final part of the meeting was the evaluation session. After all, evaluation is the breakfast for winners. Each evaluator, Claudia, John and Joyce gave their evaluations respectively, thoroughly going through each point of improvements and strengths of each speaker. Next up was the reports from the Language Evaluator (LE), Kang Han, Ah Counter (AC) Denise and Timekeeper (TK) Boon Keong.
Before the business session and closing address, the new Area W2 Governor, Ernest, who happens to be our IPP as well gave an area governor’s address. Ernest was kind enough to introduce to us our roots, starting from club level to area to division and to district. For those of you who didn’t know, we are in Area W2, Division W and District 51. We are encouraged to go clubbing especially to those clubs of same area so that we can create a closer friendship and bond among area clubs.
Lastly, John as the president conducted the business session and gave a closing address. The best table topics speaker was Ernest, best assignment speaker Han Lian and the best evaluator was Joyce. John did acknowledge that there was just too much for him to say, but he did tell us about the upcoming events such as humour contests.
To New Beginnings,
Qinmei
The meeting started 7 minutes late, with Qinmei as the Sergeant-At-Arms (SAA) asking everyone to introduce themselves and tell everyone what they hope to achieve in the coming week. Since the bulk of the members were A-Levels students, most of them were hoping to get used to college life once again or accustom to the new timetables.
After Qinmei’s welcoming address, it was John’s turn to give his first ever presidential address as the new president of the club. In his speech, he spoke about time. According to John, there is a time to do things, a time to focus and limited time to achieve our goals. He also reminded us on how we need to work hard to achieve the President’s Distinguished Award yet again this year.
Next up was Han Lian as the Toastmaster of the Morning (TOM) with his ‘warming up the audience’ session. He started off by asking the audience to take a deep breath as they did not look as awake and alert as they should be. The word of the day ‘attentive’ was then introduced by the Language Evaluator (LE), Kang Han.
Not before long, it was time for the ever exciting table topics session. The Table Topics Master (TTM), Jee Aik, took a different approach this time around. Before he asked for volunteers, he announced the topics. If within 10 seconds, no one volunteers to speak, he would choose them at random.
The first topic was ‘no man is an island’, which Han Lian volunteered to speak about. He spoke about how he discovered that when he was transferred to Inti Nilai which was in the middle of a jungle.
The second topic, ‘money is everything’ was presented by Ernest, our Immediate Past President (IPP), who made the effort to come even though he was no longer the president of our club. The word ‘money’ caught his attention, and this made him volunteer to speak about the topic. However, on his way to the stage, he forgot the topic. In the end, he spoke about how money saved him when he was stopped at a police road block.
The third topic, being ‘family is more important than friends’ was spoken about by Nikki, a first timer at our club. She reminded everyone that no matter how many friends we have, we will still turn to our families in the end.
The fourth topic was ‘evil people can become good people’. This topic was presented by Commander Anthony who told us how evil people can guide good people. Not only can evil people become good people, but also good people can become evil people.
The fifth and final topic was ‘sharing is caring’ which was spoken about by Pui Yee. She told us how she learnt to share, and that has brought her relationship with her brother closer. She said that you share because you care.
When the table topics session was over, Chee Hoong was called upon as the Table Topics Evaluator (TTE) to give his evaluation on each speaker. He was commended for his improvement in terms of giving more detailed and concise evaluations besides learning to point out ways to improve instead of just focusing on the strengths of each speaker.
The second part of the meeting was the assignment speeches.
The first assignment speaker was Jamie, giving her ice breaker speech entitled ‘The Little Girl’. She told a heartwarming story of her past even though at the beginning, she did tell us how she disliked introduction speeches. The topic she chose was definitely close to heart as she told us the story full with emotions.
The second assignment speaker was Boon Keong with his speech, ‘Leaders of a Great Nation’. According to him, we are all leaders of a great nation. We are all leaders of procrastination. He then moved on to give four simple tips to stop procrastinating, which were to list the essentials, create accountability, focus on small steps and set deadlines.
The third assignment speaker, Jook Yew’s speech title was ‘Football’. He started off with a short story of a young boy who wanted to play football and moved on to Malaysia and eventually, reminded us to be grateful of what we are and what we have.
The fourth assignment speaker was Han Lian, speaking about ‘Mind Your Language’. He told the audience many instances on how a simple punctuation can cause such a big difference, sometimes causing it to be misleading or even offensive.
The final part of the meeting was the evaluation session. After all, evaluation is the breakfast for winners. Each evaluator, Claudia, John and Joyce gave their evaluations respectively, thoroughly going through each point of improvements and strengths of each speaker. Next up was the reports from the Language Evaluator (LE), Kang Han, Ah Counter (AC) Denise and Timekeeper (TK) Boon Keong.
Before the business session and closing address, the new Area W2 Governor, Ernest, who happens to be our IPP as well gave an area governor’s address. Ernest was kind enough to introduce to us our roots, starting from club level to area to division and to district. For those of you who didn’t know, we are in Area W2, Division W and District 51. We are encouraged to go clubbing especially to those clubs of same area so that we can create a closer friendship and bond among area clubs.
Lastly, John as the president conducted the business session and gave a closing address. The best table topics speaker was Ernest, best assignment speaker Han Lian and the best evaluator was Joyce. John did acknowledge that there was just too much for him to say, but he did tell us about the upcoming events such as humour contests.
To New Beginnings,
Qinmei
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
21st June 2008 - another great meeting
On the 21st, HELP UC Toastmasters Club had another momentous meeting. Not only were there 2 members beginning their toastmasters journey by giving their ice-breaker speeches, one of our current committee members was giving her 10th and final speech from the competent communicators manual. Furthermore, there were quite a number of visitors and a relatively good turnout for this meeting.
Preisdent Ernest giving his opening address. Amongst our visitors was his little sister cassandra: (spot the similarities)
Our club was also honoured with the presence of 3 members of the Midvalley Toastmasters Club as well as Ahmad from MIM Toastmasters Club who consented to be an evaluator as well as volunteer himself for the table topics session:
Midvalley Toastmasters:
On top of that, we proud to announce we have 2 more members who have begun their Toastmasters journey: Kevin and BK!
As mentioned earlier, we are proud to announce that one of our members, namely Miss Kan Foong Wen was completed her competent communicator manual. Although she lives a great distance away, she has not allowed distance or higher oil prices to decrease her growth as a Toastmaster. Good Job Foong Wen!
However, the speech of the day went to Jook Yew. His title in itself deserved a mention for its unique-ness "the long lost laughter of a not so common ATM machine"
In facet Jook Yew's speech was so good that it is included after the jump.
All in all, the meeting was great, HELP UC Toastmasters Club will continue to grow. Until next time everyone!
Jason
(VPPR come 1st July 2008)
Jook Yew's Speech:
Good morning everyone! My name is Jook Yew. Today, I'll be giving mysecond speech entitled, the long lost laughter of the not so common ATM machine. I know it does sound long.What does this not so common ATM machine sound like to you all? Does it sound like, A, a very hugesophisticated four legged machine? Or, B, a small convenient I-Podlike machine? (waiting for response from the audience)..All of youranswers are wrong!. Because the correct answer is C! this machine isactually my father. Technically he is an ATM machine because he is thesole supplier of all my necessities n luxury. What makes him not socommon? Simple! He is biologically programmed to love n nurture me!This reason is simply good enough.
What day was 6 days ago? Was it the regular where you wake up, play, eat and sleep? Or was it the Sunday where you do all your dull boring housework? I bet none of these is the answer because 2 days ago was a day where u should at least do something special 2 express your immense filial love towards your father. It was rather a meaningfuland ideal father's day which I would treasure in my Pandora box.
Today, I am about to share a few wonderful chronicles which happenedon this year's father's day with you all with the intention toencourage all of you to love your father deeper than you do right now.Last Sunday was rather simple but extremely meaningful. The spotlight of the day was neither the luxurious present which we bought for my father nor the few lovely kisses which we gave him on his fleshy cheek. It was actually the movie which we watched, Kung Fu Panda. I amas certain as the sun will set from the west that those of you whohave watched this movie already would agree with me that it is 1 ofthe most hilarious , entertaining and relaxing movies! I would like to convince those who have not watched this movie yet go grab a ticket n pamper yourself with a few hours of good laughter. The bottom line is,it is a 2 thumbs up movie.
While me and my family were watching the movie, there I was peepingsecretly on my father who was laughing non stop insanely like a 5 year old innocent kid while he is actually a 50 year old mature stallion.At the instant moment, I could actually feel the intense aura of him as a happy man as though he is an unleashed freeman already. Free from the grief of hiking oil prices, free from the grief of bills n debts about to be settled and free from the worries of his infinite endless tedious job. I personally the movie was a truly a miracle as though laughing bombs with power similar to an atomic bomb just fell off the sky, creating an atmosphere of wilderness! In the case of my father,it was rather therapeutic,purging off n diffusing his "stress poison". It has been so long. So long that I felt it was like 500 billionlight years ago since the last time he was indulging himself so much.The 50 minutes of queing up was definitely worthy in exchange of such enjoyable moment. I'm glad he was jubilant throughout the whole movie,throughout the whole day.
There are 2 great lessons which I have learnt and thought would befantastic if applied in real life. First, appreciate present time.Time is basically classified in 3 categories, past, present and future. The reason why the time right now is called present is because the time right now is like a wrapped up Christmas present filled with surprises and miracles. It all depends on how you unwrap it, enjoy it and appreciate it. That's why it is called Present. People, learn from the past, engage in the present and believe in the future. Last butnot least, the second lesson. LOVE. Love everything beside of you including your enemy who stole your lover or the teacher who cannedyou while u were so young and defenseless. Just like how I love mystrict, fierce, discipline Japanese- like father who consistently challenge me in such an annoying way such as "Hey son. U don't just talk the talk. When are u going to walk the walk and show me you'recapable of…BLA BLA BLA..which goes on forever n ever. People,appreciate n love!!! Thank you.
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