Keynotes for the meeting on 26 September 2011

Dear members and guests,
It was another eventful and rewarding night .

The momentum was set off by the opening address by our President Emily Bong, CC. She spoke passionately on the power of belief and the magic of Toastmasters’ Spirit and how they have helped her to venture out of her cocoon. She said “ I am moving out of the ordinary and mundane existence and will be exploring the realm of extraordinary .

TME Siew Tho, CC moved the momentum one notch up with her effervescent personality . She was an amiable host and created an atmosphere of interest and expectation for the audience.

Li Xi Wen, ACG a young, handsome and vibrant, president of TTDI Toastmasters Club was our Humour Master. He entertained us with a string of jibes at infamous traffic jam, corruption and other topical issues.The laughters he garnered from the floor was a testimony that Xi Wen ‘got talent’ and his jokes were funny.

In the table topics session, our Table Topics master, Carolin, ATMB gave us a series of questions related to the power of believing.

1) Do you believe the power of believing? Speaker: Siew Eng
2) Do you have any plan you can execute to achieve what you believe? Speaker: Karen Hee
3) The power of believing versus the law of attraction? Speaker: Alvin
4) The powers of believing in yourself change your life. Speaker: Joann
5) Is believing enough to achieve what you want. Speaker: Saw Bee

All the speakers spoke exceptionally well and each speak gave us some food for thought to bring home.

The best table topics speaker was Saw Bee who injected wit and humour in her impromptu speech . No wonder she was the champion of District 51’s inaugural table topic speech contest .

In the Speech Assignment Session:-

Our 1st speaker, Tammy Lim,TM in her speech titled ‘ One Is Not Enough’ spoke about the many parties organized by her . She held the audience's attention throughout her speech with her vivid details of her parties. Her evaluator Karen Hee gave her a thumb up !

Our 2nd speaker, Ogy Ong,TM was sincere and convincing when she spoke of the wholesome goodness of Banana in her CC speech #7. After her speech , we experienced a shift in our perspective - we would have a greater appreciation for ‘banana’ .Ogy was evaluated by Siok Looi, CC

Our 3rd speaker,Linda Phoon, TM in her CC speech #7 made a clarion call for action -“keep the air we breathe clean” . She was evaluated by Alvin Lim, ACB

Congratulations to Tammy ! She was the best assignment speaker. Her evaluator, Karen Hee could not find any area of improvement for her, as she has fulfilled all the objectives of her CC speech #3 .. Well Done Tammy!

Word of the day –“slather”

Our grammarian, Saw Bee successfully encouraged many in the room to use the word ‘slather’ .

Special thanks to Lee Xi Wen, ACG our General Evaluator. We would take heed of your constructive feedbacks so that we could move Crystal Toastmasters Club to a new level.

Happy  Birthday Karen Hee – our "September baby". Karen is our BIG sister. A lady much admired by all and she is an epitome of graciousness .

All in all , it was a fabulous meeting

Reported by
Ng Siew Tho, CC
VPE

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

REGULAR MEETING – 8TH OCTOBER 2012 – MOVING FORWARD

Image
The theme “Moving Forward” is to motivate the members to progress or advance further in our journey of toast mastering. The Toastmaster Of The Evening, Emily Bong, ACB, ALB, had early on before the meeting, blast out an email, “ Are you  moving  forward  to  equip  yourself to be a  better mentor?" Our honorable Brand Strategist Speaker’s, Jon Tan, DTM, had tailor made a “Mini Mentoring Workshop” in this meeting. In this workshop, he talks about how to be an effective mentor and the benefits of being a coach, mentor or mentee. It also explore on defining vision plan and mentoring scope. A practical role of Mentor and Mentee had taken place in this session to in-depth further in this workshop. He even distribute the materials of Mentoring to all who attended the workshop. As the quote goes, “ A picture say a thousand word “, as shown below.           Everyone was so engrossed in the meeting !!   ...
Read more

Crystal TMC Meeting Keynotes 26th May 2014

Image
“LET IT GO…………………LET IT GO…………………” In life, sometimes we harbour bitter and unpleasant feelings about someone or a disagreement; we allow such guilt or grief to be embedded in our hearts. Life goes on, just face the world, let it go and  let bygones be bygones . So ladies, set yourselves free, be someone who you want to be. Dress and look the way you like. From now on, transform and move forward with confidence and  RISE  like the break of  DAWN. A big applause to our ever energetic and confident TME, CC Tammy Lim for bringing in the idea of  “Let It Go.” Our Humour master CTM ATMB Carolyn Wong let go her first blast by standing on stage with her yellow  “wigs”  and act like a  “crown” . The laughter erupted even before she utter the first sentence. Obviously, a good beginning makes a good ending. Most of us burst into laughing    tears  upon watching and hearing her jokes. Well done Carolyn Wong. ​ Datin M...
Read more

The Power of You - 13 April, 2020

Image
THE POWER OF YOU by: Dr. Elaine Loo Every member in our society is valuable and necessary for our society’s progress, just like every part of the body plays an important function. We tend to think certain parts of the body being not as important – but actually we need every part equally. It’s only when each part of the body is respected and treated with care that the whole body remains healthy and can grow well. I had a friend who had the appendix removed due to an infection. “It does not have an important function. It’s ok.”    he said. “ For the past few decades, conventional medicine believed the appendix was an unimportant organ and served very little function. Emerging evidence is painting a strikingly different picture. It turns out that the appendix play a vital function in the development of the immune system,” said my friend who is a doctor. Similarly in our society, each and every member is an essential part to the health of the whole nat...
Read more