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REGULAR MEETING - 240912 - THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

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The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people. Celebration of the Mid-Autumn festival has a history of over 3,000 years dating back to the moon worship in ancient times. The festival is celebrated extensively across the country, and is one of the few reunion holidays for Chinese families. On that day, Chinese family members stay together, admiring the full moon, as it is the brightest and fullest in the whole year and eating mooncakes. In conjunction with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Crystal Toastmasters Club had set the Theme – Mid-Autumn Festival to boost up the meeting. Our Toastmaster of the Evening, Lee Mei Foong, did a fantastic job by staging the mood!! And, record show that we had 10 guests and 21 members attending the meeting. Congratulation!! Our Table Topic Master, Serene Ting had vividly come out with the idea to have the questions put

Regular Meeting - 10th September 2012 - Crystal Gangnam Style

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CRYSTAL GANGNAM STYLE "Gangnam Style" a 2012 Korean pop single by PSY. It has been highly praised for its humor, catchy rhythm, as well as PSY's unusual dance moves. The song was released on July 15, 2012, when it debuted at number one on the Gaon Chart. The music video has been viewed over 246 million times as of September 22, 2012 making it You Tube’s most watched K-Pop video. The song has topped the iTunes Charts in 31 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. On September 17, "Gangnam Style" was nominated for Best Video at the upcoming 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards to be held in Frankfurt, Germany. On September 20, "Gangnam Style" was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the Most 'Liked' Video in YouTube History. The music video shows PSY dancing at various locations in Gangnam. On 10th September 2012, it was brought to live at Crystal Toastmasters Club as Crystal Gangnam Style by Ogy as the

REGULAR MEETING 24TH SEPT 2012 - MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

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Updated by, Nicole Yap VPPR 2012/2013

Club & Area - Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests

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Crystal Toastmasters Club, hit the wave of sensation for the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on 27th August 2012 as its smash the record of participants for both contests. Caroline Wong, ATMB our Organizing Chair vibrantly energized the audience by commencing the evening with the Humorous Speech Contest and followed by the Evaluation Contest. In every contest, each and every participants are a winner in his or her own way by having the courage and confident to step forward as a contestants. The enrichment of knowledge, experience and fun learning is a journey to success. The audience and role players are equally important as without them the show cannot goes on !! It was a humorous evening as everyone is entertained with all the Contestants speeches. The speech with the title “Nine Month Glory” was so hilariously presented that it captured the audience heart as soon as the first sentence was utter. And as true as the speech title stand out, it was GLORY for Yip See See,

Mentoring Workshop - 8th October 2012

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Crystal Toastmasters Club proudly present a "Mentoring Workshop" by Jon Tan . Come and join us and see him in action. Signing off Linda Phoon VPE 2012 - 2013

Regular Meeting - 10th September 2012

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Updated by Linda Phoon VPE 2012/2013