Advance Speech Marathon

Sunway Toastmaster Club held it’s much awaited and anticipated Advanced Speech Marathon on 29th March 2012.

This meeting was different from the rest as we saw a string of Sunway’s very capable speakers attempting different advance speech manuals. The evaluators for these speakers were specially invited from other clubs.

The TME of the day, Murphy Lum maintained a high momentum throughout the meeting that kept everyone pumped up.
Seven advance speeches were given during the night.

First speaker of the day, Rubein gave a speech titled “First Fight”. He shared a story about a fight and managed to tickle the audiences’ funny bones very well.

Next was the clubs’ very own Past President, Selina Chong. In her speech “A life crisis”, she read a chapter of a book to convey the message to the audience. Her consistency of great vocal variety and facial expression kept the audiences glued to her speech.

Danny Bong then came on stage to give his speech, “The Advisor”. He shared a story from a historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. With his calm, cool and confident voice, the audience were able to differentiate the various roles in his story.

The next speaker Kwee Lan then stunned the audiences by opening her speech with a Malay song that she used to sing in school. She then related her song with speech titled “Bread is bad for you”. She supported her speech with easily understandable phrases and words on why bread is not a healthy source of food.

The fifth speaker of the day was Kenny Koay, giving his speech titled “M-Plan Results”. He shared the financial report of a company and the reasons why it was not able to achieve its targets. He then analysed the root of the problem and provided solutions.

The stage was then taken by our Club’s Table Topic Champion, Aaron Ng. In his speech “Miscommunication”, he shared jokes on various miscommunication incidents that happened and managed to make the audiences laugh. He was praised for being very courageous to share his own personal jokes.

The last speaker of the day was Sher Li, with her speech “The Legend of Mount Ophir”. She told the whole story with full of enthusiasm which manage to capture the audience’s attention from the start to the end. She was praised for being able to remember the whole story in detail.

All the evaluators only had praises for the speakers.

The Best Speaker went to Heng Sher Li whereas the Best Evaluator was Meyappa.

Best Speaker, Sher Li

Best Evaluator, Meyappa

The meeting ended on a high note with the President giving his closing address.

The Toastmaster family

Hiking meeting

11 toastmasters signed themselves up on a Saturday morning for an unusual hiking meeting instead of sleeping in. Held at Bukit Kiara TTDI , these members took home with them memorable memories, valuable lessons and satisfying delectable meal.

The team gathered at Sunway University and departed to TTDI. When the pack got there, it started to drizzle. But these resolute members did not want their Saturday morning to go wasted without a hike, hence braved the rain to continue the 50-minutes’ walk.

On the way, the members stopped for an impromptu speech session. As toastmasters, we should be able to speak confidently anywhere at any time, what’s more in an open environment when there are many glaring passers-by and on lookers, made up of the hill’s patron.

Toastmasters Aaron, who was the first volunteer (or should I said, being volunteered) to speak had his first moment of speaking in the middle of the walking path. Toastmasters Murphy then provided his evaluation and also delivered an inspiring speech to encourage the team to take the challenge to speak.

Toastmasters Lincoln, Kwee Lan and Crystal took on the challenge after that. The evaluation session was concluded by Toastmasters Kenny who similarly provided his input and his advice on encountering our fear of speaking.

The team then continued with the hike and chat. When they were happily looking forward to complete the path and get to the foot of the hill so that their stomach could be filled, rained started pouring heavily. These brave souls were soaked as if they just came out from Sunway Lagoon wet park.

What an outing everyone thought. Nonetheless, the rain finally subsided and the team proceeded to Damansara Uptown Village Park for the famous nasi lemak in town.

All in all, the outing provided members with the opportunity to get close to each other and experience a meeting out of normal classroom environment. To those that miss the event, do hope that there’ll be a 2^nd outing.

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Joint Meeting with Deloitte Toastmaster Club

Recently, Sunway Toastmasters Club held a joint meeting with Deloitte Kassimchan Toastmasters Club. The theme of the meeting was “Happy Chinese New Year”.

The Sunway members were warmly welcomed by Deloitte’s members. The meeting kick-started at 7.30 pm .The Acting President of Deloitte, Kwoon Yuen gave a brief introduction of their club and expressed his gratitude and appreciation towards the commitment of the club committee and fellow members.

The Toastmaster of the Evening, Khor Bin Yun then took control of the meeting. She was full of energy, giving a brief history of Toastmaster International and got all the role players to introduce their roles.

Next up was the table topic session conducted by Table Topic Master, Tan Kwee Lan. She played the role of a Feng Shui Master & prepared topics which were significantly relevant to the meeting theme. She used the traditional Chinese philosophy of Five Elements & related them with every speaker’s fortune in the Year of Dragon. A total of five speakers piled the courage to take part in this session. The Table Topics Evaluator, Kwoon Yuen was very impressed with the speakers as all of them appeared confident and spoke well on the topics given.

After this session, there was a 10 minutes refreshment break given for the members and guest of both clubs to mingle and get to know one another. The meeting then resumed with the much anticipated project speech session.

Three amazing speeches were given by members of both clubs. First up was Eddie, from Deloitte TMC attempting his first speech from the CC manual with the title “Who Am I?”. He shared the various stages and phases in life that he had gone through and admitted that he had learnt not everything always happens the way you want it to. He concluded his speech by saying he felt glad he overcame his fear of speaking in public by giving his first speech.

Next up was Leona, from Deloitte TMC also attempting her first speech titled “My First Miniskirt”. She shared that she is from Sarawak and faced various challenges in life during her teenage years. Desperately hungry for success, she struggled on her way and managed to stay afloat. She ended her speech with her aim of eagerly wanting to learn more, thus joining the Toastmaster family.

The last speaker of the day was Aaron Ng, from Sunway TMC giving his first speech from the Advance Communication Manual titled “Love”. Aaron entertained the audience with this humorous quotes and personal stories of having nine girlfriends so far. He ended his speech by stressing that having trust in your partner is an extremely important element in a relationship.

The General Evaluator, Lincoln Leong, who is also Sunway TMC’s President, said he enjoyed the meeting very much, commenting that the joint meeting was well executed & the role players knew their roles.

The best Table Topic Speaker, Project Speaker and Speech Evaluator went to TM Manoj, CC Aaron Ng and ACS Siew Peng.

The night ended on a high note with Deloitte’s Acting President, Kwoon Yuen giving his closing speech and wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year.

Members of Sunway and Deloitte TMC

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!

Sunway Toastmasters Club would like to wish all its readers a very HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR.

International Speech and Table Topic Contest 2011

Sunway Toastmasters Club held its annual International Speech and Table Topics Contest on the 19th January 2011. The recently concluded contest was a huge success, featuring many experience speakers and also new members.

All the participants entertained and wowed the audience with their speech on various topics during the International Speech Contest.

In the Table Topics Contest, the contestants put their impromptu speaking skills to test as the topic of their speech was only revealed to them the moment they were on stage. All the participants did very well in coming up with a well organised speech in just a short period of time.

Upon completion of both sessions in the contest, everyone was waiting anxiously for the results to be announced. The winner and first runner up will be representing the club in the Area Level Contest.

And the winners are………

For the INTERNATIONAL SPEECH CONTEST, Arulkumar clinched the top spot as CHAMPION. The first runner-up was Lincoln Leong followed by Arunadevi as the second runner-up.

International Speech winners with the Organising Chair & Contest Chair

As for the TABLE TOPIC CONTEST, Aaron Ng was crowned the CHAMPION. First and second runner-up were Arunadevi and Arulkumar.

Table Topic winners with the Organising Chair & Contest Chair

The contest concluded on a high note with a group photography session of all those present.

The members and guest that made the contest a huge success

Hohoho…It’s CHRISTMAS

Since Christmas is just around the corner, Sunway Toastmaster Club continued the tradition and celebrated the Christmas meeting themed “Secret Santa”.

The meeting kick started with the Invocator, Tan Kwee Lan instilling the Christmas spirit within everyone in the room.

Club President, Lincoln Leong, in his President address explained the spirit of Christmas and also explained the importance of buying a gift for oneself – the gift of reflection.

Toastmaster of the evening, Aaron Ng then took control of the meeting.

In this special meeting, Immediate Past Area Governor, Murphy Lum, played dual roles – Table Topic Master as well as the Table Topic Evaluator. Murphy would immediately evaluate a speaker after he/she completes a speech chosen from a range of topics such as the gift of wisdom, love, beauty, wealth and so on.

A 15 minutes break was provided for everyone to mingle before the project speech session begun.

There were 3 speakers doing their 2nd speech from the Competent Communication Manual.

First speaker, Lim Ing Kien with his speech title “Be Anxious” urged the audience to be anxious in whatever we do in life.

Next up, Gan Ker Chia grabbed everyone’s attention when Ing Kien and her started salsa dancing as an introduction to her speech “Me & Salsa”. She described the many benefits of salsa dancing from maintaining a good figure to networking with interesting people.

The third speaker, Geraldyn taught us how to respond tactfully to an unwanted gift in her speech “The Icky Gift”. She gave real life situations to better illustrate her points.

This was followed by Christine Tan presented her fourth speech “Earning while Learning” by sharing a personal story on how she educated her younger brother in financial planning.

Last but not least, Area Governor, Danny Bong, took the stage to complete his third speech from the Advanced Manual by sharing with us a true story about how the late “Tan Sri Konosuke Matsushita”, dubbed the management guru, overcame a major crisis at Panasonic.

As this was a Christmas meeting, members and guest stood up and sang the “Jiggle Bell” song led by Dr. Alvin Teoh.

Dr. Alvin leading the group in Xmas Carol

General Evaluator, Kim Chow took over the evaluation session in which different speech evaluators took the stage to present their evaluation for the respective speakers.

The very animated GE

The highlight of the meeting was definitely the gift exchange session at the end. Everyone had a Secret Santa that presented them with a gift to make their Christmas a more special and memorable one. No one went back home empty handed.

Everyone was excitedly finding out their secret santa

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ANNOUNCEMENT!

Meeting dates for the month of December and January will be on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month due to  Xmas and CNY

The meeting dates will be:

1st Dec 2011

15th Dec 2011

5th January 2012

19th January 2012 (club contest)

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.