Sunday, December 25, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Last meeting for 2011 - 20th Dec 2011
Roles :
BEST:
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BEST:
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
2nd Last Meeting...
6th Dec 2011
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Review: 29th Nov 2011 - Tall Tale Contest
The Tall Tale contest, held on Nov 29th, was quite interesting.
We had 4 contestants:
The speeches included wild adventures in Maldives, the OM of Al Arqam's founder, meeting the not so right men while searching for a life-partner and Japanese soldier finally surrendering to a schoolboy. For those who did not attend, see what you missed.
The winners of the Tall Tale contest were:
Judging was done by all those who did not participate.
After the Tall Tale contest, we had a Table Topics session.
The speakers were:
Sabrina was voted : "The Best Table Topics Speaker".
Overall, the meeting was enjoyable and everyone learnt a little something.
Remember the 3F's - Fun, Fulfillment, Fellowship - we had all of that in this meeting.
Regards
Lourdes C
Contest Chair
We had 4 contestants:
| Contestant | Speech Title |
| 1. Patricia K | My Kindred Friend |
| 2. Sham Sunder | The Secret behind The Obedient Wives Club |
| 3. Anita T | Mr.Not So Right |
| 4. Raja Reubendran | The Last Surrender |
The speeches included wild adventures in Maldives, the OM of Al Arqam's founder, meeting the not so right men while searching for a life-partner and Japanese soldier finally surrendering to a schoolboy. For those who did not attend, see what you missed.
The winners of the Tall Tale contest were:
| Champion | Sham Sunder |
| 1st Runner-up | Raja Reubendran |
Judging was done by all those who did not participate.
After the Tall Tale contest, we had a Table Topics session.
The speakers were:
| 1. Sabrina | (member-to-be) |
| 2. Sharmini | (member-to-be) |
| 3. Baelin | (guest) |
| 4. Dinesh |
Sabrina was voted : "The Best Table Topics Speaker".
Overall, the meeting was enjoyable and everyone learnt a little something.
Remember the 3F's - Fun, Fulfillment, Fellowship - we had all of that in this meeting.
Regards
Lourdes C
Contest Chair
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Diwali/Deepavali Greetings
Wishing All Toastmasters Friends, everywhere, who celebrate,
A Very Happy Diwali/Deepavali!
A Very Happy Diwali/Deepavali!
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Meeting Review (# 08 / 2011-2012) -
Oct 18th, 2011
| THEME: | BLAST FROM THE PAST | |
| WORD OF THE DAY: | FLASHBACK |
| Attendees | |||
| MEMBERS ( 10 ) | ROLE | ||
| Eileen Marie Crawley | CTM | GE | |
| Ibrahim Uvais | TIMER | ||
| Lakhmichand M. A. | ATMB | ALS | GRAMMARIAN |
| Lourdes Chandramohan | DTM | TTE | |
| Patricia Kolandai | |||
| Raja Reubendran Selvaraju | CC | ASA / TTM | |
| Ranjani Visvanathan | ACB | ||
| Ranjit Singh | ACS | CL | TME |
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani | ACB | ||
| Tilagavathy Anita | AH |
| GUESTS ( 2 ) |
| Arne Reis |
| Kimmy Yean |
| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS | |
| Ranjani Visvanathan | |
| Eileen Marie Crawley | |
| Ranjit Singh | |
| Arne Reis | BEST |
| Kimmy Yean | |
| SPEECHES | |
| CC Manual (Basic) | |
| #6 - Patricia Kolandai | BEST |
| " How The Monkey Stole The Ground " | |
| Advanced Speeches | |
| # 1 - The Entertaining Speech | |
| Lakhmichand M. A. | |
| " The Light At The End Of The Tunnel " | |
| #4 - Specialty Speeches | |
| Ranjit Singh | |
| " Hearts & Hands " | |
| EVALUATORS | |
| Lourdes Chandramohan, DTM | BEST |
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani | |
| Ranjani Visvanathan |
| Meeting Started at : | 7.30 pm |
| Ended at : | 9.40 pm |
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Meeting Review (# 07 / 2011-2012) -
Oct 4th, 2011
| THEME: | MAKE A FRIEND | |
| WORD OF THE DAY: | MINGLE |
| Attendees | |||
| MEMBERS ( 9 ) | ROLE | ||
| Indraveni Kamalanathan | |||
| Lakhmichand M. A. | ATMB | ALS | TME |
| Lourdes Chandramohan | DTM | GRAM / EVAL | |
| Mooi Kheng Lim | CC | TTE | |
| Raja Reubendran Selvaraju | CC | GE | |
| Ranjit Singh | ACS | CL | AH/TIMER/EVAL |
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani | ACB | SAA / TTM | |
| Tilagavathy Anita | |||
| Uma Narayanan, K N | CC | ||
| GUESTS ( 2 ) | |||
| Daniel M (Hungary) | CC | CL | EVAL (Anita) |
| Soh Or Ken (Roy) |
| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS | |
| DANIEL H | BEST |
| Indraveni Kamalanathan | |
| Raja Reubendran Selvaraju | |
| Uma Narayanan, K N | |
| Tilagavathy Anita | |
| SPEECHES | |
| CC Manual (Basic) | |
| #2 - Tilagavathy Anita | |
| "Advantages & Tips of being | |
| organised & on Time " | |
| Advanced Speeches | |
| #2 - Interpretive Poetry | |
| Uma Narayanan, K N | BEST |
| "Naming of Cats" & "RETURN" | |
| #2 - Humorously Speaking | |
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani | |
| " In Search of Excellence " | |
| EVALUATORS | |
| Daniel M (Hungary), CC, CL | |
| Lourdes Chandramohan, DTM | |
| Ranjit Singh, ACS, CL | BEST |
It was just another Bangsar TM club meeting. Same ‘regular faces’, same ‘handful members’, doing the same things like we always do, and like always enjoyed doing what we always do!
The enthusiasm was very evident. At 6.30 pm it was just the President. At 6.35 VPE & VPPR were on the scene. At 6.40 SAA walked in, with the Secretary coming in couple of minutes later... they all took their time, slowly walking in. While everyone enjoyed the refreshments they had ordered, 2 of my 4 guests joined the group. Daniel (CC,CL) from Hungary and Roy (looking for a club to join) completed the attendance – 9 members, 2 guests.
Did we have fun? We sure did. Daniel wanted to know how we did it – small numbers, lots of fun. Positive attitude! Good speeches, encouraging evaluations; entertaining table topics; some doing their roles for the first time, some doing multiple roles. Just to remind you, the early birds don’t wait for the late comers. First come first served – if you had volunteered for a role but didn’t arrive before the meeting started, someone will take over the role, and don’t expect to be assigned the role you had volunteered after you walk in. It is taxing, but the show must go on, and no disrupts.
The President, as always added a twist to the introductions – taking advantage of the theme, “MAKE A FRIEND”, everyone had to introduce the member sitting next to. This can be challenging – if you don’t know the members.
Sham Sunder’s table topics were simple, with lots of opportunities to express one-self. The evaluation of the table topics speakers by Mooi Kheng Lim, CC, (her first time) was very precise. She charmed her way through with her smiles.
After a 12-minute-break, we were entertained by 3 speakers:
Anita, (basic manual #2), with “Advantages & Tips of being organised and on time”, evaluated by guest Toastmaster, Daniel. Anita had lots of tips to share.
Uma (CC), delivered assignment from Interpretive Reading, (# 2) Interpreting poetry with 2 poems – “Naming of Cats” by T.S.Elliot and Constantine P. Cavafy’s “RETURN”, a beautiful poem- sensual love remembered and, through that memory, re-experienced. What made it more exciting were the tone and facial expressions that went with the reading. Her assignment was evaluated by Lourdes, DTM.
The 3rd speech was by Sham Sunder (ACB), from the Humorously Speaking manual, #2 – “In Search of Excellence “, evaluated by Ranjit Singh, ACS,CL. Sham Sunder narrated his latest visit to Las Vegas and the surroundings and his observations of the residents.
The evening’s session was evaluated under the coordination of the GE, Reuben, CC, (his first GE role). Reuben had so much to share. Good observations on the evaluations and the reports by the grammarian, ah-counter and the timer.
This evening we had the opportunity to vote for the 3 BEST awards which went to:
BEST TT-Speaker: Daniel (guest), CC, CL
BEST Assignment Speaker: Uma, CC
BEST Evaluator: Ranjit Singh, ACS, CL.
In his concluding remarks, the President reminded the attendees to –
1) Attend the Div G HS/EV contests on Oct 8th and support our contestants in the evaluation contest.
2) Participate in the tall-tale contest, jointly organised by Speakers Dream and TAR college TM clubs, as well as try and organise a similar contest of our own.
The meeting adjourned at 9.48 pm, but the night wasn’t over yet for the BANGSARIANS. We had a date at the cafeteria, to ensure we did justice to the food ordered. We always do, at every meeting, not to mention an opportunity to socialise with the members, for some of us this is the only time to have a conversation with each other.
by Lucky
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Meeting Review (# 06 / 2011-2012) -
Sept 20th, 2011
| THEME: | ASK A STUPID QUESTION | |
| WORD OF THE DAY: | REVENANT |
| Attendees | |||
| MEMBERS ( 10 ) | ROLE | ||
| Aishah Ayub | CC | TTM | |
| Ibrahim Uvais | GRAMMARIAN | ||
| Lakhmichand M. A. | ATMB | ALS | GE |
| Lourdes Chandramohan | DTM | TTE | |
| Patricia Kolandai | |||
| Raja Reubendran Selvaraju | CC | TME | |
| Ranjani Visvanathan | ACB | ||
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani | ACB | SAA/EVAL | |
| Tilagavathy Anita | TIMER | ||
| Wai Leong Soon | |||
| GUESTS ( 1 ) | |||
| Peter Yeoh, ACS, CL | AH |
| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS | |
| Lucky | |
| Peter Yeoh | BEST |
| Ibrahim Uvais | |
| Raja Reubendran Selvaraju |
| SPEECHES |
| # 5 - Patricia Kolandai |
| " My Venus, My Beagle " |
| # 5 - Ranjani Visvanathan |
| " Ignorance is Bliss " |
| Lourdes Chandramohan |
| Successful Club Series |
| " MENTOR " |
| EVALUATORS |
| Lourdes Chandramohan |
| Sham Sunder Lakhiani |
The meeting started at 7.35 pm, with the SAA, Sham Sunder, ACB, calling the meeting to order. After leading the attendees into reciting the Toastmaster’s Promise, he handed the control to the President, Lourdes Chandramohan, DTM, for the welcome address.
The theme of the meeting, ‘Ask a Stupid Question’, was applied to the introduction of the attendees asking a ‘stupid question’ from any one of the attendees.
The meeting was conducted by yours truly as the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME), starting with the brief history of Toastmasters International and the latest statistics on number of clubs, members and countries with Toastmasters club.
The following role players were introduced: Peter Yeoh (guest) - the Ah-Counter, Uvais - the Grammarian and Anita – the time keeper.
The grammarian introduced the word of the: “Revenant”
The 1st session, Table Topics, was handled by the Table Topics master, Aishah, CC, who spun the topics around the theme, ‘favourites’. The speakers spoke on their ‘favourites’. The following volunteered: Lucky, Peter Yeoh, Uvais and Reuben. Lourdes, DTM, was invited to do the evaluations.
During the break which followed immediately, we celebrated birthdays of September babies, Uvais & Mooi (absent).
After the break, we resumed our meeting with 2 prepared speeches. Patricia K and Ranjani, both delivered project #5 from the basic manual. In the usual Toastmasters fashion, the objectives of the assignment were read out by Lourdes (evaluator), followed by Lucky (GE) reading the notes to the evaluators.
Patricia’s speech title was, ‘My Venus, My Beagle’. Ranjani spoke on ‘Ignorance is bliss’.
President Lourdes presented a module from the Successful Club series – MENTOR.
The 3rd session was the evaluations under the GE. Evaluators, Lourdes & Sham Sunder delivered evaluations of speeches by Patricia & Ranjani, respectively. The reports from the Grammarian (Uvais), Ah-Counter (Peter Yeoh) & the time-keeper (Anita) were readout to complete the evaluation session.
In his general evaluation, the GE emphasized on punctuality among other ways to improve the standards of the meeting.
The BEST Table Topics Speaker award went to guest, PETER YEOH!
During the business session, the President identified the role player for the Area G1 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on Saturday, 24th September. He also reminded members to attend the contests to support our contestants. Although the meeting ended 25 minutes late, it was a fun filled meeting with everyone having a role to play.
by Reuben, CC
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