Come join us at our upcoming Chapter meeting and a fond farewell to Sally Maier, one of our members and Exco in 2008/2009 whom will be relocating to London.

Date: 2 November
Venue: Sheraton Towers

Members are guests are welcome to the 6.40 pm networking. The official meeting starts at 7.15 pm.

-Vanessa Ching
VP PR 2009/10

Please find the meeting programme below.

The School of Economics and Social Science is located nearest to Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station (directly opp YMCA Building). Parking is available at the National Museum or at the side streets of Waterloo Street and then walk over to the building.

We would like to thank Amelia Ching and Elvin from NUSS Graduate Toastmasters Club and Michael Lau from Toa Payoh Central CC Toastmasters Club for taking their time off to be with us as Project Evaluators.

Welcome Amelia, Elvin and Michael to our club meeting!

Chapter Meeting

Review of 19th October Meeting

Special Pre-chapter Meeting Activity

This evening, we were graced by the presence of guest speaker Violet Lim, founder of Lunch Actually. Violet shared with us some insights on the brave beginnings of Lunch Actually, of the inspiration behind its founding, and of her taking the leap of faith, quitting her job and plunging in full time into the mission of bringing together compatible bachelors and bachelorettes. During the Q&A session, curious Toastmasters and guests eagerly posed questions about her business and on how Lunch Actually might cure ‘their friends’ or themselves, of their singlehood. Busy singles out there, if you are looking to find your other half, you know who to look to.

Lunch Actually was started in Singapore and now has a presence in Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Chapter Meeting

Word of the day
Vivacious (adj.): vibrant, vigorous, animated

Our very own Joshua Ho, CC, once again did us the honour of hosting the chapter meeting as our charming and vivacious toastmaster of the evening.

In his opening speech, our Club President Jeffrey Williams touched on the aspects of our needs and wants. Why it is important to attend a Toastmasters meeting with a positive mind. If we are able pick up and learn from the more proficient speakers, it will stand us in good stead for the future. Jeffrey touched base on the time when he joined Toastmasters on 24th January 2005. He did not know what was in store when he took his first step in his Toastmasters journey. Four and a half years later, he now knows that he made the right decision.

So the decision is up to us; nobody can force us to make a decision; it’s up to us and us alone. Take the plunge and join Toastmasters.

The table topics section

Table Topics Master Kee Chin Ho handed out a series of topics to do with current affairs. From our speakers, we heard their opinions and gained fresh insights on topics ranging from awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the causes of the financial crisis to investing in properties in developing countries.

The prepared speeches section

This evening saw Toastmasters Zack Kong and Clarence Lee take their first steps. Of an accident, a heartbreak and of the start of a very loving marriage, Zack spoke of these defining moments in his life. Clarence spoke of his awakening to life’s adventures, discovering his passion amidst a melting pot of cultures and of his decision to return to Singapore. Congratulations Clarence and Zack!

When it came to Hrydhal Damani’s turn, the audience plucked up their ears and listened attentively as she revealed the steps in the unfailing guide to unfaltering success. Wei Ching shed new light on sadness, the emotion, and on how we should embrace it rather than to run away from it. Following this, Simon Lee gave us an informative speech on the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, the love sponge and its suitability for young families.

The evaluation section

Creativity seemed to be the order for this night’s evaluations. Swee Kiat startled us by starting with some surreal dog speech, while Sally Maier evaluated Hrydhal’s speech using Hrydhal’s own speech structure. We also saw Jasmine Vahdati do an awesome job in tabulating the ‘ah’, ’so’ and other non connective words.

We would like to thank Leong Kai Yan, CL from Singapore Recreation Club for the word of the day and for being our language evaluator for the evening. From him, we learnt some of the causes of the common mispronunciations and a simple exercise on how to include that all important ‘h’ sound in words beginning with ‘th’:

Practice by repeating the following words:
Thief
Third
Through
Three

Winners for the night
Table Topics: Lisa
Best Prepared Speech: Hrydhal Damani, Clarence Lee
Best Evaluation: Ernest Chen

Finally, our Club President closed the meeting with a challenge to the guests to take the first step and a reminder to members to make full use of your time with Toastmasters to reap the benefits and to enjoy the journey.

Announcements
1. TI Nite on 23rd October 2009. Members were encouraged to attend.
2. Ng Cher Khim will represent Division D in the Humorous Speech contest at the District Convention in Macau from 13th to 15th November 2009
3. Members are reminded to be more mindful and respectful of others when speaking of topics relating to sex, race, religion and politics.
4. The members only chapter meeting on the 26 October 2009 will be held in SMU.

For guests, we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on the 2nd of November.

-Sue Yi, Jeffrey Williams

Please find the meeting programme below.

Special Pre-chapter Meeting Activity

 
Chapter Meeting

We look forward to see you at our Chapter Meeting on Monday, 19th October, Sheraton Towers.

Come early to enjoy a special talk on how Lunch Actually, the matchmaking business got started, entertaining anecdotes about the matchmaking business followed by some good advice on how to meet that special someone by entrepreneur Violet Lim, Founder of Lunch Actually at 6.30 pm. The official Toastmasters meeting programme begins at 7.15 pm.

-Vanessa Ching
VPPR 2009/10

We had a great Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest last Saturday at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium at SMU. Our veteran contestant, Ng Cher Khim was voted as the Division D Champion for the Humorous Speech Contest. We would like to congratulate Cher Khim for his achievements and making our club very proud.

Cher Khim will now go on to represent Division D at the District level contest which includes Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Macau at the Semi-Annual Convention next month in Macau from 13th to 15th November 2009.

Let’s now savour this moment and wish Cher Khim all the best as he battles it out with the winners from the 4 countries.

3 Cheers to Cher Khim!
Jeffrey Williams
President

Review of 5th October Meeting

Joshua Ho hosted the evening’s programme as Toastmaster of the Evening.

Club President Jeffrey Williams spoke on this evening’s theme: discipline for excellence, ending with a quote from lao tzu where the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step or.. speech project.

Motivated by the Club President’s speech, this evening saw a crowd of enthusiastic and high calibre speakers bravely taking on the table topics set by Table Topics Master, Steven Tan. From debating the graciousness of Singapore’s society to giving former beauty pageant queens second chances and cross border relations, these topics covered current affairs from across local and regional domains.

Meanwhile, in the prepared speeches…

Alex Ngo took the first step in his toastmaster’s journey this evening and spoke of the progress he has made in his life.
Congratulations Alex!

In his ‘your body moves’ project, Andrew Kloeden moved his way into gaving us fresh insight into the correlation of education and creativity in his speech entitled ‘Schools kill creativity’.

Joseph Alfred Pineda led the crowd in a wave of emotions, first speaking of the devastation of ketsana and then the generous and helpful spirit it brought out in people.

Winners for the night
Table Topics: It was a tie amongst 4 speakers! Clarence, Andrew, Ying Ying and Ernest
Best Prepared Speech: Andrew Kloeden
Best Evaluation: Yap Mingyang

At the end of the meeting, Club President Jeffrey, gave an account update on the club.

See you at our next meeting on 19th October, Sheraton Towers.

-Koh Sue Yi

Please find the meeting programme below. New members are invited to the new members orientation talk at 6.40 pm.

6:45 PM New Membership Orientation 30 mins EXCO 2009/10

7:15 PM SAA calls meeting to order and Introduction from guests

            5 mins Lee Wei Ching

7:20 PM WELCOME by Toastmaster of the Evening 5 mins Joshua Ho, CC

7:26 PM Word of the Day by Language Evaluator 5 mins TBA

7:32 PM President’s OPENING Address 5 mins Jeffrey Williams, CC, CL

            Welcomes Members                   

7:38 PM TABLE TOPICS Session introduced by the Table Topics Master       

             25 mins            Steven Tan, CTM

            Timer’s Report followed by Voting for the Best Table Topics Speaker

             2 mins Lee Wei Ching

8:06 PM PREPARED SPEECHES                

            P1 - The IceBreaker       4-6 mins            Alex Ngo

            P4 - How To Say It         5-7 mins            Darrel Phun Kim Ming

            P5- Your Body Speaks    5-7 mins            Andrew Kloeden

            P6- Vocal Variety           5-7 mins            Yoko Kloeden

            P7- Research Your Topic 5-7 mins            Joseph Alfred Pineda

8:43 PM Timer’s Report followed by Voting for the Best Prepared Speech Speaker   

             2 mins  Lee Wei Ching

8:46 PM BREAK TIME AND REFRESHMENTS           15 mins ALL

9:06 PM PROJECT EVALUATION               

            For Alex Ngo                              2-3 mins Johnny Ang, ACB, CL

            For Darrel Phun Kim Ming            2-3 mins Jeffrey Williams, CC, CL

            For Andrew Kloeden (TBC)          2-3 mins Jeffrey Williams, CC, CL

            For Yoko Kloeden                       2-3 mins Lawrence Cheng, CC

            For Joseph Alfred Pineda             2-3 mins * Yap Mingyang, CC

9:24 PM Timer’s Report followed by Voting for the Best Evaluator   

             2 mins  Lee Wei Ching

9:27 PM AH COUNTER REPORT    

             5 mins  Vanessa Ching

9:33 PM Language Evaluation      

            10 mins

9:45 PM AWARDS PRESENTATION AND SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENTS           

            15 mins Jeffrey Williams, CC, CL

            BY CLUB PRESIDENT     

We would like to congratulate all our 4 member contestants who took part at the Area D5 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest on 30 September.

Our veteran member, Ng Cher Khim won the Humorous Speech contest and will go on to represent TMCS at the Division D contest next Saturday, 10th October at 1.30pm. We welcome our members to come and support Cher Khim as he battles it out with the rest. The venue is at: SMU, School of Accountancy, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Level 2.

It’s an event not to be missed!

The other winners:

Humorous Contest
2nd Runner Up
Soh Swee Kiat

Evaluation Contest
1st Runner Up
Ernest Chen

2nd Runner Up
Jacky Lim