A New Year, A New Beginning!

Greetings and salutation fellow Toastmasters!

In the blink of an eye, 2011 has come to pass, overtaken speedily by 2012. A new year beckons new beginnings. For some, that can mean taking time to craft their personal milestones for the upcoming year. For others, perhaps it can mean more time ot have a jolly good time while they are still alive. For us at HELP Toastmasters, it can only mean one thing: A new term of meaningful and energetic meetings! Despite having had many holidays during the beginning of the year, we still managed to pull off two meetings. The first meeting was aimed to remind our members on the importance of being prepared for the new year.

 The first meeting of the year!

 The first role players of the year, From Left:Zhi Han, Siew Li, Jack Ying, Joe, and Ahmad Zakie

 Dinese as our first Toastmasters of the Morning of the year!

 Bryan Cheong talking about his new years resolution

 With the theme of the meeting being 'New Year,' ideas about how best to utilize the year ahead were shared during the table topics session, followed with new-year-themed speeches. At the end, each person was asked to leave a time capsule in the form of a letter dedicated to themselves one year from the written date. Hopefully they will end with with smiles when they open those time capsules that will be sent to them one year from now.

The second meeting adopted the Chinese New Year mood as its theme. Decorated with typical CNY ornaments, the meeting room resembled a Chinese house during CNY, especially when some members brought extra CNY snacks from home to share.

 The ice-breaking session

 Our CNY special Toastmasters of the Morning: Siew Li

 Our Table Topics Master with his arsenal of table topic speeches concealed in CNY red packets

Jason Moi's speech: A Toast to the Chinese New Year!

 Winner of the Table topics: Roshini

Meeting on 1/10/11

Hello everyone,

HELP TMC had our meeting today, on the 1st of October. Today's meeting was themed 'money,' and was very appropriate with the financial demands of this day and age.

The meeting started off with a question posed by ASAA, Kevin Ho. The question was," Would you rather have plenty of money, and be relatively happy, or be very happy, and have a relatively high amount of money?" After hearing a range of answers, we moved on to the table topics session for the day.

Table topics master, Hadi, came up with 5 interesting and thought-evoking titles for the table topics speakers. After hearing from five speakers, we moved on to the table topics evaluation session. Jason Moi, an experienced and seasoned toastmaster, provided the table topic evaluation, accurately pointing out all the speakers' flaws, giving advise, and praising the good parts.


After the evaluation session was complete, we moved on to the assignment speakers. First up, we had Vincent Liew, who was preparing for his District Level Competition, on the 15th of this month. After delivering his speech entitled Love and Imperfections, we then heard from Dennis Wee, who was also preparing for a competition, later this month.


After taking a short break, we had more assignment speeches, from Toastmasters Roshini(cc#1), Tze Yi(cc#6) and Kevin(cc#8). After the speeches were complete, we moved on to our evaluation session, with G.E. Seetho taking the stage, before inviting his team of evaluators to deliver their reports.


After all the evaluations wee over, president Zoe took over. She started by giving out the certificates to the best table topics speaker(Rajveer Singh), best assignment speaker(Roshini), and the best evaluator(Rajveer Singh). She then ended with the announcement of the District Levels Humour Speech competition, which will be held in HELP, on the 8th of October!


On behalf of HELP TMC, I would like to thank all participants for today's meeting, including our guests, speakers, evaluators, and of course, our GE, Seetho. Hope to see you soon!



Celebrate life,
Rajveer Singh :D

HELP Humour Speech and Evaluation Contest

Hello everyone!

On the 13th of August, Saturday, HELP TMC had our annual Humour Speech an Evaluation contest. It was held in our very own DSA room in Wisma HELP. A special thank you to Victor Ong, Area Governer, and chief judge, for taking the time and making the effort for being there for our competition, especially since it was held on a Saturday morning.

The competition started on time, at 10.00 a.m. It sta

rted with the humour speech contest. The speeches were brilliant, and ranged from the effects of facebook, to parents' expectation of their children, from being a transsexual to the evolution of technology, and from one's nightmare birthday experience to the art of photography. There were also many other topics that were spoken about on the day, and really tickled the audience. After hearing the speeches from all eight speakers, we took a 20 minute breather.

After the break, the evaluation contest began. Test speaker Micheal, took the stage with his speech regarding choosing the right career path. A special thank you to Micheal for taking the responsibility of being our test speaker for our in-house competition. After his speech, and hearing the feed back from all 8 evaluators, we had some announcements. The certificates were then presented to all the role players, including the time keepers, the ballot counters, the SAAs, and not to forget the judges.

After the certificates were given out, it was time to announce the results! The results were then announced by the respective contest chairs, Oh Jian Yi for the Humour Speech, and Ivan Yong for the Eavluation contests. The winners are as follows:

Humour Speech
Winner: Loo Han Rong
1st Runner Up: Vincent Liew
2nd Runner up: Rajveer Singh

Evaluation
Winner: Loo Han Rong
1st Runner Up: Vincent Liew
2nd Runner Up: Tan Gui Ming.

Good luck to them, who will fly our college flag high, when they represent us in the G3 and G4 contest next month. A special thank you to all the judges, contestants, role players, and everyone else who was there to support this event. A very special thank you, and congratulations, to organising chair, Eugene Lau, for doing a splendid job. Hats off to you! MORE Pics coming soon :D

Celebrate life,
Rajveer Singh,
VPPR HELP TMC 2011