5th Meeting 2011-2012 - RAYA Themed Meeting

Dear Fellow Toastmasters & Guests,

Tuesday’s meeting was unquestionably an ELEGANT one! Thank you to our first timer TME, our ever lovely TM Fia Iskandar and also all the role players! Our club is also blessed to have ELEGANT Toastmasters like TM Ahmad Izzat and ATM-G Kamal Surin a.k.a Danny Tra-botak who spread their love with the kuih raya that they bought! Thank you so much to all the 39 elegant participants yesterday for making our meeting a huge success!

A friend once told me: “The distance is nothing. It’s only the first step that’s difficult”. Yesterday during the table topic session, I saw so many speakers, even some guests taking the first difficult step to overcome their fear of public speaking. I specially want to give a big A-plus to our new member, TM Adeline Thien! Yesterday was the first time she was called to answer a table topic question. Even though she was so nervous and don’t know how to answer the questions, she still stood up and took the first step. Watching that moment, I was so proud of her! Another person that I salute is our guest, Captain James! Thank you for braving yourself to answer the question even BEFORE the question was posted! 

Captain James answering his first Table Topic Question!

Just before the break, we conducted our term’s first Induction Ceremony! Please join me to officially welcome TM Peter Liow, TM Ong Seng Teng, TM Darvis Chong and TM Ahmad Izzat to the KKTMC Family! Thank you for being part of our family & let’s realize lots of dreams together!

Our newest members of KKTMC!

Then, we had our next highlight: The manual speeches. This meeting, we have 5 speakers, ranging from ice breaker speaker to advance speaker. From our newest member, TM Sentence Ong who has summarized his life in a sentence (which is 4-6 minutes long) :p, to TM Karis who told us how numbers represented our characters, to TM Raymond Wong who informed us that too many good things is not exactly good sometimes, to TM Kirksman Teo who told us his view of a simple life, and finally, our only Advance Speaker, ACS Jasmine Leong who told us which DISC are we.. Not the CD that you hear in your car, but which D.I.S.C (personality) are you! Thank you for waking up from your dreams and made them come true!

Fellow Toastmasters & guests, when there’s themed meeting, there’s of course… Presents to encourage those who have dressed up nicely for this auspicious meeting! Not forgetting that we have also given out Best Table Topic Speaker Award & Best Evaluator Award! Everyone says “Yay!!” And our awards recipients are:

Best Dress (Male): TM Ahmad Izzat

Best Dress (Female): TM Fia Iskandar

Best Table Topic Speaker: Christine Yap, DTM

Best Evaluator: Richard A. Gontusan, DTM

Best Dress Male - TM Ahmad Izzat

Best Dress Female - TM Fia Iskandar

Best Table Topic Speaker - Christine Yap, DTM

Best Evaluator - Richard A. Gontusan, DTM

 I hope our Raya Themed Meeting has been a pleasant & enjoyable one! I had certainly enjoyed myself seeing all of you expressing yourself and realizing your dreams! I hope for a better meeting in 2 weeks time. So, till then, take care and I’ll see all of you at our Mooncake Themed Meeting on 27^th September 2011.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

God Bless!

2011 KKTMC Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest

Our club level Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest was successfully held on Thursday 8th September 2011! 


Please, join me to heartily congratulate our Club Champions!

(From Left: Madame President: Joanna Liew, 2nd Runner up: Jasmine Leong, Champion: Shahar Banon, 1st Runner up: Mohd. Kamal Surin)

Evaluation Speech Contest 2011:

Champion: Shahar Banon 

1st Runner Up: Jasmine Leong

2nd Runner Up: Mohd Kamal Surin

(From Left: Madame President Joanna Liew, 1st Runner up: Nora Liew, Champion: Mohd Kamal Surin, 2nd Runner up: Rafaellia Yong)

Humorous Speech Contest 2011:

Champion: Mohd Kamal Surin (Title: "A Blind Escape")

1st Runner Up: Nora Liew (Title: "Effective Communication")

2nd Runner Up: Rafaellia Yong (Title: "Korean Drama Addict")

"Laughing all the way! All night!"

We had a great contest. The whole night was filled with laughters and chuckles as all of us were truly entertained by all the humorous speech contestants and our insightful evaluation contestants. From our speech champion, Mohd Kamal Surin's blind ('bald') date experience, to Nora Liew's Wet Market 'Ah Sum''s selling technique, to Rafaellia's interpretation of why are we addicted to Korean Drama, to Sophia's women vs beer, to Siva's bad boyfriend's theory and finally, to Kirksman's theory: Why the world is coming to an end! After all these speeches, the audience were literally rolling on the floor because the speeches were too entertaining!

Another highlight of the night is of course the Evaluation Contest. A big thank you to our test speaker, Fia Iskandar with her speech title "pet sisters". You have definitely given the contestants a hard time writing their evaluation because all of them were thinking of their pet sisters/brothers after your speech! As for the Evaluation Contestants, a job well done for being able to gather all your thoughts in just FIVE minutes! WELL DONE to all 7 contestants: Shahar Banon, Jasmine Leong, Mohd Kamal Surin, Kirksman Teo, Nanthakumar Kumaresan, Sivakumar Kumaresan & Sophia Hong, ! You guys have definitely make Fia improved 7 times better!

Last but not least, a big thank you to all the role players for making this contest a huge success! And once again, Congratulations to our champions. 

Our champions (Mohd Kamal Surin - Humorous Speech Champion and Shahar Banon - Evaluation Champion) will be representing our club to compete at a higher level, the Area K1 Contest on 7th October 2011 at Politeknik Auditorium, Sepanggar! Please support our champions. Tickets are at RM18.00 per person only.  


Till then, I hope to see you there.