24th Meeting - LAST MEETING for term 2011/2012

It's been a while since the last update ya? :p Sorry for not updating you guys... :( I thought that since I started writing a summary report for "almost" every meeting, I should also end this term properly by writing this email/report to all of you! So, do bear with this bubbly and animated president for the one last time! :D

Last night's meeting was just AWESOME! Everyone relished every moment of the meeting! We had 40 participants coming to the meeting last night, where it also include members from other clubs like UTC and SWEPA TMC and a few long lost members, ie. Enoch Khoo and my dear dear VPE Nanthakumar! Thank you for coming to the meeting and give us all the support! The meeting started on time, thanks to our cute ASAA, TM Darvis. Our invocator was non other than our very own DG-Elect, DTM Richard. He said: "The fun part of tennis is not watching the game, but to go into the court and play!" Yes Richard, we must participate in the Table Topic and Manual speeches session in order to be a better speaker, and not just sit in the meeting and watch! Thanks for reminding us! 

And who's our Toastmaster of this Evening? He is non-other than our President-Elect..... ACG Mohd Kamal Surin! He started off the evening by getting us to guess the Capital of the Country that he mentioned. And boy, I think our team, Team A really need to brush up on our Geography! :p But overall, we all had fun and that's the most important thing, don't you think so? :) This meeting, we had a few first timers.　First timer timer TM Aaron Vun did a commendable in keeping the time! TM Siva Murugesan as well, First Timer AH Counter! And first timer Table Topic Master, TM Amanda Chung conducted the Table Topic Session. Though the session was short, only 5 questions posted, the responses were phenomenal! Now I know if you need to sell something, get Darvis to help you sell it, and.. NEVER go shopping with Raymond Wong because he will "help" you to spend half your money! :D

 

Before we end the first session, we also conducted the Induction Ceremony and celebrated the June babies' birthdays! 6 new members were inducted, and they were: Aaron Vun, Captain James O'Keefe, Wellin Gaban, Eilvane Chieng, Eddie Lim and Intan Salwana! Welcome to the KKTMC Family! And, we also celebrated the June Babies' birthday, Ginni and Fia by inviting them to cut the specially made "Realize your Dream" Cake! Happy birthday darlings!!

Specially made "Realize Your Dream" Cake

Then, the manual speeches session! Tonight, we had 6 speakers! From TM Hiew Ejinn who told us anything and everything about "Perfection", to TM Captain James who told us his life story as the father of his 2 wonderful boys, to TM Eilvane Chieng who spoke about thankfulness and remind us to always say thank you, arigato, terima kasih and etc, to TM Intan who told us the secret to look young naturally (Yes Intan, I will exercise more, sleep more and stay positive all the time.. I will look like Jennifer Aniston in no time, right? :p), to TM Ahmad Izzat who told us the story of 4 phenomenal person, ie. Adele, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and.... Ahmad Izzat?! (hahaha.. Don't worry Izzat, your life story is still by far the best among the other great icons!), and lastly, to our secretary, CC Fia who gave a toast to...... (I can't believe it....) Yours truly! It was an honor to be the subject of her speech/toast! All the speakers did a marvelous job tonight! Well Done!

TM Hiew Ejinn with his "PERFECT" speech

Proud Father of two wonderful boys, TM Captain James

Thank you Eilvane for the "thankfulness" speech

The naturally young looking Intan sharing her secrets on how to stay young

Izzat was too phenomenal till the photographer's hand was shaking while taking the pic! :D

A beautiful ribbon for Fia for the great toast! :)

After such inspiring speeches, our enthusiastic DTM Christine Yap, aka mama, took up the role as the humour master after so long.... hmm.. maybe, not so long ago... And her jokes, really tickled our funny bones and made us laughed like mad! Great job Mama! Looking forward to seeing you taking up other roles in the near future! Again, our forever humorous DTM Abu Bakar took up the role as General Evaluator and conducted the GE session like a true Toastmaster!

Since this is the last meeting of the term, of course, we will be giving out tons of awards.

Best Table Topic Speaker Award: Sophia H. Shaw, CC
Best Project Speaker Award:　TM Ahmad Izzat
Best Evaluator Award: Nora Ridzwan, CC ALB and Jasmine Leong, ACS ALB
Best Humour: TM Darvis Chong
Best Enthusiasm Award:　Christine Yap, DTM 

 

Fellow Toastmasters & guests, the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Thank you for allowing me to live the life of my dreams, being the youngest president in KKTMC History! This adventure has been a WONDERFUL and MEMORABLE one for me! So many events happened this year. A special thanks to OC Jasmine Leong and her team for the successful and significant event held during this term, the KK2012 District Convention! Thank you to all the senior members, my personal adviser aka my DAD, my anchors (you know who you are.. :)), my dream team, and all the members who guided me along the way and allowing me to witness your growth and give me the opportunity to sharpen my leadership and people skill for the past year! I really can't thank you enough!

At the beginning of the meeting, our TME said: Let's end the meeting with a BANG.. and... did we achieve our objective? Yes, we did. It Ended with a HUGE BANG!! With tears (Happy tears.. of course) and laughter and all!! Haha..

Thank you for bringing out the magic, moving, expressing and inspired others and lastly, REALIZED YOUR DREAMS with me this term. It has been my honor serving you as the Madam President for the term 2011/2012.

So, for the one last time, as your Madam President,

Thank you for realizing your dreams with me.. And Happy Toasting ...    :):)


Yours in Toastmasters,
Joanna Liew
President 2011-2012
"Realize Your Dream"

D87 2nd Annual Convention 18-20 May 2012

This was it! After 1 year of preparation, finally, the day has come! 350 delegates all over Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and US came to Kota Kinabalu for the District 87 Toast-masters Annual Convention to grow and flourish together at Promenade Hotel, Kota Kinabalu.

Welcome Night
The 3 days 2 nights convention started with a bang! Yes.. It’s the Grease 60s-70s Welcome Night! Everyone dressed in their poker-dots skirts and their thunder bird leather jackets! It was indeed a fun night with lots of Rock & Roll decorations. On this very night, KKTMC also performed our very own 25min Grease Toastmasters Musical that WOWed the crowd. We also invited the dele-gates to be part of us by teaching them the famous HAND JIVE moves! (“Clap, clap, Cut, cut, Punch, punch, hand to the back, hand to the back!”)!

19th May 2012 (Saturday)
The Opening Ceremony the next day started with class with the Grand March-In by all the Past & Current District Officers! Our Guest-of-Honour is none other than Yang Berhormat Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Resources Development & Information Tech-nology, Sabah. After his inspiring message, our keynote speaker, Dr. Dilip Abayasekara, Toast-masters International Past President and twice 1st Runner-Up at World Championship of Public Speaking took the stage and presented his keynote speeches. Then, the day followed by a series of educational and interesting workshops by Datuk Adeline Leong DTM, Dunstan Chan DTM and Li Yo Wei DTM.

Gala Night
The Gala Night is normally known as the Toastmasters Oscar Night for the fellow Toastmasters where Appreciation Awards, Educational Awards and other notable achievement awards were given out. This year, all delegates glam up the Gala Awards Night with a shade of BLUE! The night started with our very own Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest on TM Network interviewing the delegates while walking on the Red Carpet!
This year, once again, KKTMC achieved the President’s Distinguished Club Awards and congrat-ulations to ALL members. On this night, we also witnessed our very own Richard A. Gontusan DTM being installed as the 3rd District Governor of District 87! Congratulations Richard… We will “Go-To-The-Sun” with you!! Of course, what is a good function without entertainment? Again, KKTMC brought to the delegates our very own musical medley! And believe me, everyone went GAGA!!

International Speech & Table Topic Contests
What an inspiring and mind-blowing District level International Speech and Table Topic Contests we had this year! This year’s International Speech & Table Topic Contests was really of high standard! Our Division’s representatives, who “happened” to be our club members as well, Mohd Kamal Surin ACG and Shahar Banon CTM have made us proud by getting the 1st runner up for the contests.

The results are as follows:

International Speech Contest
Champion: Dinesh Vaswani
1st runner up: Mohd Kamal Surin
2nd runner up: David Pranata

Table Topic Contests
Champion: Kelly Tiong
1st runner up: Shahar Banon
2nd runner up: Neeraj Khiani

 

This Convention was definitely a huge success! Thank you to the Organizing Chairperson, Jasmine Leong ACS and her team for organizing it with a song in their hearts, and a dance to their steps!