Area K1 and K4 Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests (1st October 2010)

Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

The Area K1 and K4 Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests were successfully held on Friday, 1st October 2010.

Please join me to heartily congratulate Area K1 Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests CHAMPIONS, KKTMC's very own Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan, CTM and TM Lily Chin! :)

Winners of the Contests were:

Area K1

Humorous Speech Contest:

Champion: Lily Chin (KKTMC)

1st Runner Up: Jason William Vitales (Polytechnic)

Evaluation Contest:

Champion: Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan (KKTMC)

1st Runner Up: Jason William Vitales (Polytechnic)

Area K4:

Humorous Speech Contest:

Champion: Jess Ambrose (KK Advanced)

1st Runner Up: Ophelia Domingo (SWEPA)

Evaluation Contest:

Champion: Pamela Teng (KK Advanced)

1st Runner Up: Alice Liu (SWEPA)

Congratulations to all winners. Thank you, Dr Sivakumar and Lily for doing KKTMC proud! Also to Jess Ambrose who represented KK Advanced Toastmasters, but also a member of KKTMC. :)

Let’s support them as they advance to the Division Level Contests in Tawau on 10th October 2010.

Yours in Toastmasters,
Nora Ridzwan
President 2010-2011
Move. Express. Inspire.

3rd Meeting of the Term 2010/2011: Another fun-filled and inspiring night - 10th August 2010

The night was another night fueled with a lots of warm laughter and positive support. The room filled up close to 30 members and guests prompting Assistant Sergeant-At-Arms TM Andy Wong to order more food from Celyn hotel to ensure members and guests were well fed!

Our invocator of the night was DTM Yee That Hian who shared some wise words from the best selling author book, “Who Moved My Cheese” and some inspiring quotes from Brian Tracy.

Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) was none other than DTM Abu Bakar Sheriff who with his great sense of humor warm up the audience with such ease and had us laughing right from the start. What a great way to start a meeting!

The word of the evening that was chosen by Grammarian and Wordmaster ACB Melissa Betsy Jilimin was "Revelation"

With 14 guests and 16 members, first-timer Table Topics Master TM Sophia Hong was able to shoot 10 table topics for members.

We had three inspiring speakers that night.

1. TM Wesley Koh - CC2 "Pecha Kucha" evaluated by CC Joanna Liew

TM Wesley Koh shared his Pecha Kucha Power Point Presentation method which was introduced by an architect from Japan. This method is based on the concept of 20x20, which is to spend 20 seconds on a 20 slides presentation with minimal text and more on graphics. This method is useful when you're given an alloted time to present your speech using the Powepoint and you want to deliver it effectively and efficiently.

2. TM Bernie Chan - CC4 "First Part Time Job" evaluated by CTM Florence Majanil Liau

TM Bernie Chan shared her first part time job experience in New Zealand when she was 16 years old. She landed her first part time job because she wanted to buy her first pair of basketball shoes. This pair of shoes had motivated Bernie and until today, still reminds her of when  she shed her sweat and tears while doing part time job as a waitress in the Chinese Restaurant.

3. TM Effy Chung - CC5 "My Childhood Incidents" evaluated by CC Sivakumar Kumaresan

TM Effy Chung shared her experience with dogs and other animals. She started with torturing and disecting insects, dog bullier until one days she got into troubles with dogs. Since then, Effy has some phobia with dogs until she started to have a little Chihuahua as her pet. Till then, she started to be a great dog trainer which able to train her dog shakes hand, dancing and other tricks.

TM Andy Wong was our Humor Haster of the evening. He shared his humor speech during his trip with his family to Bario. Andy's sense of humour became our icing of the cake tonight. He even inpressed his daughter also came as a guest and agreed that her dad did a great job on being a Humor Master.

 

Thanks to our General Evaluator Jasmine Leong, ACB, CL  who was always encouraging and supporting to each and every one of us including the roles players as well as the manual speakers.  

The Obligatory Group Picture.


Cheers!

 

KKTMC Club Level Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest

Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

Indeed it was an evening full of non-stop laughter and triumphant achievements at the KKTMC’s Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests last Monday!

Please join me to congratulate our winners:

Humorous Speech

• Champion: Joanna Liew, CC

• 1st runner up: Lily Chin, TM

• 2nd runner up: Melissa Betsy, CC

Other contestants:Clive Chai and Sophia Hong

Speech Evaluation

• Champion: Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan

• 1st runner up: Melissa Betsy, CC

• 2nd runner up: Kevin Lim, ACB

Other contestants: Jamie Chieng, CC and Ronald Tang, DTM

Winners of KKTMC Club Level Humorous Speech & Speech Evaluation Contest

Our Humorous Speech contestants had us all in stitches they surprised us with humour after humour in their well-crafted and speeches. Joanna Liew stole all our hearts (especially the men’s!) as revealed secrets to understanding women and decoding the Women’s Code, adding that it is even tougher to crack than the Da Vinci Code! First-timer contestant Lily Chin ultimately surprised us (and even herself!) with her innate ability to inject humour in her speech. For someone so serious and concerned about not being funny enough for a humorous speech contest, her unassuming ‘poker face’ and strategically placed jokes had us roaring with laughter throughout her speech. Our other first-timer contestants Melissa Jilimin, Sophia Hong and Clive Chai did a splendid job braving one of Toastmasters toughest contests and showing us that they too have a funny side! We look forward to hearing more funny stories from you in the future or even Contests to come, now that you realise that nothing is impossible. There’s no stopping you now!

Evaluation Contest Test Speaker was our young ‘Professor Boy’ TM Wesley Koh, who presented his CC3 speech by role playing as a Physics teacher. Thank you, Wesley, for saying ‘yes’ to being evaluated by not one but five evaluators. I believe the person who gained most is you! Sivakumar’s calm and poised but very well rounded evaluation won the judges votes. Siva’s use of his senses eyes, ears, mind and heart proved that he can produce and evaluation that is honest, practical and encouraging. However, all other contestants Ronald Tang, Kevin Lim, Melissa Jilimin and Jamie Chieng did a brilliant job gathering their thoughts under pressure and being able to come up with such insightful evaluations in just 5 minutes.

Other snippets from the night:



Trophies



TM Johan who was the Sergeant-At-Arms

 



Florence Majanil-Liau, Contest Chair for Humorous Speech Contest





Bernie Chan, Contest Chair for Speech Evaluation



Excited yet nervous contestants

 

Group Pictures!



Well done to all our contestants! You have all Moved, Expressed and Inspired!

Lets support our champions as they advance to the Area K1 Contest on 1st October 2010(Friday) @ Sabah Ports Headquarters Building. Tickets are RM18 and can be collected from Area Governor Jasmine Leong, VPE Melissa, or myself.

Yours in Toastmasters,

Nora Ridzwan

President 2010-2011

Please click here for more pictures from the night.

Wesley, till we meet again!

When we first met Wesley, he was this shy boy. Quiet but friendly. But anyone who came to know Wesley would agree that there is something special about him. From his eagerness to learn to his willingness to take up challenges thrown to him. Though new to KKTMC, he was already an active member and one who really embrace the theme 'Move, Express, Inspire'. So, it really did break our heart when he told us that he was leaving for Scotland to further his study in Mechanical Engineering. Oh well, Wesley, you have a big potential and a bright future ahead of you. The club and its members are definitely going to miss you.

Here are snippets of his journey thus far with KKTMC;

His impressive speech on Pecha Kucha.

He was the test speaker for Speech Evaluation Contest Club Level.

He was one of the singer/actors for Toastmasters Side Story

'Come what may...'

He was so cool that he hang out with the 'seniors'

During the last after-meeting supper @ Old Town, City Mall

We're going to miss you, Wesley Koh!!

Wishing you all the best in Scotland and don't forget to visit us when you're back in town!

2nd Term Meeting of 2010-2011: Keep Moving, Expressing and Inspiring -27-07-2010

Another inspiring night for our KKTMC members and guests. This night, our room filled with members and guests!!

The seconds when our table topics master Brainy TM Bernie Chan, TTM shoots up her 8 table topics with 9 respondents! The room atmosphere already filled with laughters especially when ACS Sylvia Maten describe her dream wedding. Our CC Sivakumar Kumaresan shares his perfect dream honeymoon will be at Nepal or Tibet.  DTM Abu Bakar Sherif creatively answered what would he do if he met Elvis Presley. Then,and a little debate when TM Christopher Shaw commented Malaysian Women are choosy while ACB, CL Jasmine Leong quickly defend Chris’ statements. ACB, CL Jasmine Leong commented that modern women are not choosy but having the equal freedom and opportunity like men. The table topic ends with “Silence is Golden” and responded by TM Karis Chong.

Without any heebie jeebies, our july babies are celebrating their birthday tonight. All of our July Babies are ; 

July Birthday Babies

• T.C Lim (4th July)
• Leung Seh Aun (4th July)
• Abu Bakar Sheriff (5th July) 
• John Liew (8th July) 
• SS Anand (14th July)  
• Christopher Shaw (19th July)

"Happy Birthday Gentlemen! Many Happy Returns!" 

We have inspiring five speakers.

We have two ice-breakers , TM Clive Chai and TM Jackie Miao. Both of them introduced themselves and coincidentally they are in love with Sabah, this beautiful island.  

TM Clive Chai - "First Time"

TM Clive Chai is a Sarawakian and venturing his business in Sabah.  From a hustle bustle capital city of Malaysia, Clive got a few cultural shocks when he first move into Kota Kinabalu. Gradually, he started to love Sabah where he can enjoy happy hour early than his KL's friend.

TM Jackie Miao- CC1 “Just Go” evaluated by DTM Yee That Hian

TM Jackie Miao is an avid travellers. She has been travelling around the world from Madrid to Venice until Niagara Falls. She loves to see diverse cultures, people and languages through travelling.  With a small town girl of Kota Kinabalu, she never lose any opportunity to travel. She still have a lots of places to travel like Bali, Prague or even Seoul. She left us a magic quotes by quote by St. Augustine. He said, “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” 

TM Lily Chin - CC4 "What you do not know matters"  evaluated by DTM TC Lim

TM Lily Chin shared her 16 years of teaching experience at KCC Sandakan. She learnt that teaching students is not all tThe matters of knowledge but the true gems of life lesson is how she learnt by unexpected outcome after teaching students with heart and souls.

TM Sophia Hong - CC6 " Perfectionist" evalutated by CC Melissa Betsy Jilimin

TM Sophia Hong shared her story how she was a perfectionist and lead to procrastinated due to afraid to fail. By using Helen Keller's quote " Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you have decided to see beyond imperfections!". Thrashing perfectionist and start small things at a time is a great way to start her new life. 

TM Mohd. Hanif - CC3 " Life" - evaluated by ATM-S Sylvia Maten 

Mohd. Hanif who is a creative writers are written a lot of beautiful phrase and words through his speech. 

Obligatory Group Pictures

1st Meeting of Term 2010-2011 : Let’s Move, Express and Inspire -13 July 2010

Let's give us a warm welcome to our first meeting for the term 2010-2011! This night indeed an inspiring night with lots of laughters. This night we were moved by our witz TME ACB Jasmine Leong who lead our musical team to be bold and expressive through our latest Toastmaster's songs and truly inspired each other through table topics and speeches.

Our first meeting started with some dance MOVEs with our own and also *world renown (*our KKTMC musical team group photo was posted on our Toastmaster International Magazines, July issue) “WESTSIDE TOASTMASTER TEAM” singing the tune of:

“We like to be in Toastmasters,
OK by me in Toastmasters,
Feedback is free in Toastmasters,
For a small fee in Toastmasters!!’

Our Table Topics Master, DTM Yee That Hian easily came up with 11 Table Topics in variety areas within given 27 minutes while our fellow toastmasters were also creatively express their thought impromptu in very easy manner and lighten up the whole atmosphere.

At the end of this session, our beautiful TME ACB, CL Jasmine Leong concluded for all of our Table Topics in the evening with rhymes as below:

“Now we know that you can fry Paul the Octopus if you don’t like who he predicts are your son-in-law!
PMR, UPSR – is last year the last of it we saw?
Members will be walking the stairs from now, no more carbon footprints you see.
You can choose to be rich in wealth but first, move, express and inspire with Mdm. President!
A Time machine may be nice to amend past regrets,But the only time you have is now, so turn your thoughts, into words and make it happen!
You may think you are unlike your father or mother, but you are more alike than you think!
Legal betting – hmm, it’s still ambiguous; surely it’ll perpetuate more social ills?
But that’s for the Tourism Minister to decide
and last but certainly not least, remember knowledge may be important but imagination, circles the world.”

Our evening won't just stop there. This night we are inspired with four speakers.

1. Mohd. Hanif , CC2 “Enjoy the Simple things in Life “ , evaluator Richard A Gontusan, DTM

Creative writer, Mohd Hanif's speech filled with beautiful words which perpetually inspired us to enjoy simple things in life. He said “The laughter is the greatest medicine”. Is it not our the simplest goal of everyday life? Just want to be happy at every moment of your life.

2. Bernie Chan CC3 “Life is full of Beauty”, evaluator Datuk Adeline Leong, DTM

With the similar humanistic virtue, she emphasized on how life is beautiful with all the simple things surrounding her while she staying in small town Lahad Datu. With her ending beautiful quote, which melts your heart.“Life is full of beauty. Notice it.Notice the bumblebee,the small child, the smiling faces.Smell the rain, feel the wind.Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” By Ashley Smith

3. Wesley Koh, CC1 “From N-S”, evaluator Joana Liew, CC

Wesley used a magnet as a model of our life virtue where how he transformed Naughty to Smart by attracting positive attitudes and good things only.

4.Melissa Betsy Jilimin, ACB3 “Liar, liar, pants on fire..” evaluator ACS Sylvia Maten

Melissa used her childhood mischievous materials to create a humor speech enlighten everyone in the room. A brilliant material such as Using barbie doll’s hairs in replaced of daddy’s white hair to earn some extra pocket money.

To sums up, TME Jasmine Leong wittily written:

"To enjoy the simple pleasures of life, remember that life is full of beauty.

It helps if you perpetually attract good things and repel the negative!

And although lying may provide you material for a humorous speech, honesty is still the best policy!"

Last but not least, our CC Nora Ridzwan came up to the lecturn as our KKTMC President for term 2010-2011 for the first time, wrapping up with announcements.

Oh...let's give a big welcome to our new member for KKTMC CC Jess Ambrose.