Meeting - 6th August 2013

There couldn’t have been a better theme for the evening than ‘Going Home (Hari Raya)’ with Hari raya round the corner and  festive atmosphere all over the country. It was the 1st meeting of August. The meeting started with the ASA Johnson calling the meeting to order and welcome speech by Acting President Reuben. The introductions were interesting as everyone was reminiscing about their native place and sharing their memories of ‘going home’.

The TME Ranjani introduced the Role players:
General Evaluator – Ranjit
Grammarian – Kertar
Ah-counter – Vasanthi
Timer – Kim

Our new member Johnson was inducted into Toastmasters Club by Lucky (VPM). Welcome to Bangsar Toastmasters Johnson! We wish you a great journey here.

The TME Ranjani introduced the Table Topics Master Lourdes who invited 4 volunteers Shobha, Lucky, Ranjit and Dinesh to speak on the topics which evolved right then and there by Lourdes! The table Topics Evaluator Aziza presented her evaluation on the speeches given.

After a short break of 10 minutes, ASA Johnson called the meeting back to order when TME Ranjani introduced the speakers  Zaim, Lucky and Reuben whose Evaluators were Mala, Sharmini and Dinesh respectively. After the 3 speeches the TME handed over the control to the General Evaluator Ranjit who invited the Evaluators to the floor one by one to give their evaluations. The Role Players presented their reports later and the control was returned back to the TME.

The Best Table Topics speaker of the evening was Lucky, the Best Evaluators were Mala and Sharmini, and the Best Speaker of the evening was Reuben.

The guests present were Aziza Hassan, GS Ong, Jess and Kumar.

See you all on 20th August for another interesting meeting!

Mala

Meeting - 30th July 2013

It was the last meeting for the month of July 2013 with the theme  "James Bond”, starting with the unmistakable James Bond music!

The role players had different titles befitting the theme. Bartender(ASA) Zaim called the meeting to order and the meeting started with the welcome speech by Prime Minister (President) Uma. Everyone had to introduce him/herself and tell his/her favorite James Bond actor, all in one sentence!

James Bond (TME), Reuben, took us through the entire session smoothly. It began with the induction of our new member Kim done by Lucky. We extend a warm welcome to Kim and we wish her journey with the Toastmasters to be the most fulfilling one.

After the introduction of the role players by the TME , the Table Game  (Table Topics) master, Anita, invited the volunteers to speak on the topics followed by the Table Game (Table Topics) Evaluator, Ranjani's evaluation of the speeches.

After a short break, it was time for the prepared speeches. Our first speaker was Kertar, followed by Elaine and Mooi. The speakers were very well prepared and we had something to learn from every speech. The Evaluators were Lucky, Wai Leong and Ranjit respectively.

The General Evaluator, Mala, called for the reports by the role players: M-Marian/Grammarian – Peter, Ah-Counter Device – Kent Ong and Q&Q/Timer – Lourdes. The GE presented her opinion on the meeting conducted at the end  and handed over the control to  James Bond (TME).

The 'Best Table Topics Speaker' as well as 'Best Evaluator' were awarded to Ranjit . The 'Best Speaker' of the evening was awarded to Elaine. The guests present were Kuhan, Peter, Anita, Kristal, Su Ki and Sakty. 

It was a well-conducted meeting infused with wit and humour at every given opportunity by the ever-sunny members.

Awaiting the next meeting with a new theme next week.

See you all there… bye.

Mala