Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Deepavali Themed Club Meeting



Once a term, the club will conduct a Deepavali Themed Meeting, while the men come in their Deepavali-inspired shirt and thrown in an interesting scarf or turban, the ladies, always the more interesting species when it comes to dressing up in styles, will come in their Saris or Punjabi wear.


Toastmaster Vijay Panickar was the TME for this term's Deepavali Themed Meeting. He started off the meeting getting members to dance to an Indian beat, assisted by ATMG Kamal Surin. The meeting proceeds and role players were introduced. Melissa Betsy, then, led the table topic sessions, shooting 9 questions of various topics, from the meaning of Deepavali to cleanliness of public toilet.


After the break, we had four speakers, all embarking on their competent communicator's manual; TM Nantha, TM Raymond, TM Fia and TM Nora Liew. Each of them gave a commendable speech and all of them achieved their speech objectives earning them one step closer to the title Competent Communicator.


Other role players

The best dressed award for male and female went to ATMG Kamal Surin and CC Joanna Liew, respectively. Again, the meeting ended in high spirit, members and guest had yet another fun and inspiring meeting. Cheers to many more fun and inspiring meeting ahead!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

KKTMC SAA Outing

A day of Sun, Sand and Sea

Organized by our club’s Sergeant at Arms, Toastmaster Vijay Panickar, the club outing took place in the beautiful island of Manukan, just 15 minutes away from mainland of Kota KInabalu. Aren’t we blessed with beautiful islands nearby? The outing was for members of the club to get to know each other more outside the usual club meetings. During the outing, we had members who brought friends to the outing and in turn, several of them joined the club as members. Perhaps, we should do more of these outings in effort to get more members? Picture time!
Excited faces

Everyone settling down the picnic site...

Some joined a game of charades

Sun-kissed people

Tired but still happy from the island trip :)


Again, we would also like to extend our gratitude for Toastmasters Allen Ding (also Managing Director of Borneo Nemo Adventures) who kindly made arrangements i.e. boat transfers to Manukan, sea sports/island activities e.g. banana boat, sea bed walking, snorkelling etc.
So, I'm just thinking, when is our next outing? :)