8th Meeting for the term 2013-2014 'From The Heart' (22.10.13)

Fellow Toastmasters, family & friends,

"Sometimes in life, we just have to break things into smaller pieces, 

and take things one step at a time"

~Competent Communicator Janice Tan

Congratulations Janice Tan, CC for an inspiring speech, and for achieving your award way earlier than you initially planned. To mentor Jasmine Leong, DTM, another graduated mentee; you must be beaming with pride! :) Thank you for being the big sister who guided Janice through her journey of becoming a CC :)

In this Halloween themed Meeting; our 8th Meeting of the Term sure ROCK! Lead by our Effervescent Toastmaster of the Evening Nantha Kumar, CC, our typical meeting room transformed into a scary graveyard with black spiderwebs and bloodshot walls. Good job Nantha & Nora Liew for your dedication in decorating.

We have quite a few first timer guests this time... For the first time we have Batgirl!!! (Nora Liew, CC), Pocahontas (Joanna Liew, CC), 1920's Queen (Jasmine Leong, DTM), 50 Cent (Nantha Kumar, CC), The Mummy (TM Kevin Ng), The Dead-Come-Alive Senorita (TM Kamilia Kamaruzaman), Jellicle Cat (Nora Ridzwan, ACB, ALB), The Gypsy (TM Abigail of UTC), Spiderman (Amir Iskandar, Guest), Power Rangers (Muhammad Iskandar, Guest).

And in the middle of the Table Topics Session by our Abu Bakar Sheriff, DTM, in came Wolverine I mean Werewolf (TM Aaron Subash George)! We were all stunned for a whole 1 minute, before we absorbed that it was him, and we all started laughing..... Speaking of the Entrance of the Year, Aaron!!! 

Oh, our meeting was also attended by a few dressed as Modern Zombies, and the leader of the pack was Yee That Hian, DTM in his long-sleeved shirt, necktie, and a smile.... Hehehehee... 

This meeting, we welcomed 5 new members with cheers and applause:

Bryan Liau

Ching Jiun Woei (he prefers to be called J)

Kamilia Aisyah Kamaruzaman

Ananda Wong

Viknesh Raj Vijay

Isaac Voo

In his CC1, TM Ching Jiun Woei told us about his father's love of animals and how his house is like a mini zoo. We also know that, Christine Yap, DTM can't wait to get discounts from J's Jewelry Shop! :D

Also in his ice-breaker speech, TM Bryan Liau shared with us about his path in life where, things do not go his way initially, but eventually, when he set his mind to it, he becomes a Straight A's Student. Well done Bryan :)

Best Dressed Male & Female:

Since the members and guests put in so much effort to dress for the occasion, this time we have 5 gifts for the Best Dressed Male & Female. Here goes:

1st Place: TM Aaron Subash George the Wolverine

2nd Place: TM Kamilia Kamaruzaman aka Dead-Come-Alive Senorita

3rd Place: Joanna Liew, ACB, ALB our Pocahontas

4th Place: Jasmine Leong, DTM the 1920's Queen 

5th Place: Nantha Kumar, CC aka 50 Cent

Congratulations to all and everyone for dressing up, and showing up! :)

Attached are some photos taken at the meeting for your viewing :)

Our next meeting will be as follows:

9th Meeting of the Term

Date: 12th November 2013 (Tuesday)

Time: 7.30 pm

Venue: Celyn Hotel, City Mall

...from the heart

Fia binti Iskandar

President 2013-2014

Kota Kinabalu Toastmasters Club

Tel: +60167763622

Find us on:

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7th Meeting for the term 2013-2014 'From The Heart' (08.10.13)

Fellow Toastmasters, Family, & Friends, 

Was our 7th Meeting of the Term a 'sanguine' meeting or what?

Lead by our charming TME the graceful, poised, successful, and exemplary mentor Nora Ridzwan, ACB, ALB (not Nora Liew ok) and her Team of role players, I definitely had a good time at the meeting.

To all the members and guests, thank you for coming to the meeting and sharing the good time with us. Your presence mean a lot to us, and we look forward to seeing more and more of you. :)

Special thanks to our members, Abu Bakar Sheriff, DTM, Jasmine Leong, DTM and TM Dean Yee for inviting your guests along to share the evening with us. The number makes it fun-ner. As they say, the more the merrier... :)

The speakers and role players combined together, made that meeting Another Night of Inspiration . At the end of the meeting, 5IVE new members signed up to join the club! And they have already written down their names to play a role / present their CC1 next meeting. 

We had a recap of our Club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests, and we re-presented our Club Champion Khairul Azfar Kamaruzaman with the Area K1 Champion Trophy. 

The Table Topics Session was conducted by another Champion, our Double Champion, VPPR Aaron Subash George. Also the President of SBO Toastmasters Club, he made us proud by winning Gold Trophies for both contests in Area K4. He will be going forth in the Division contest on the 26th October 2013.  All the best Aaron. I'll be in the audience shouting, " That's My Friend".

TM Janice Tan is another member on her fast track. Determined to complete her CC before she leaves for her next posting. In her CC8 she shared with us on how fruits and vegetables, physically, resemble the major organs in our body, and how these plant food can strengthen our vital organs. For one, a cut section view of a tomato looks like our heart. Thus, eating tomatoes can promise more pictures of us with our grandchildren. Thanks TM Janice for the very futuristic yet realistic reminder. I'll take more tomatoes from now on... 

Nora Liew, CC.... With her roast on me...... You definitely touched my heart my dear.... A friend like you is hard to find. Yes, I am highly dependent of your hands, especially before my welcoming address every single meeting. Emm..... You kind of forgot to mention how you depend on my hands, too.. To a point where at one time, you were so nervous for that one speech and you bit my hand remember?Anyway.. Thank you for that very personal, heartfelt speech from the heart.  I'll treat you to teh tarik soon :))

We also witnessed the graduation speech by our Champion Khairul Azfar, and did he deliver an inspiring speech! To me, he is an inspiration himself. As he made his mind to the unexpected, "Weyh Fia, I'll credit the CC to your term", and he did it well. There you go Azfar, I am proud to call you Competent Communicator Khairul Azfar Kamaruzaman. 

The meeting closed with the General Evaluation by our Superwoman Jasmine Leong, DTM. Always giving comprehensive evaluations. Thank you Jas, keep up giving good examples to us the newer members.

The results for the votes are as follows:

Best Table Topics Speaker: Khairul Azfar Kamaruzaman, CC

Best Manual Speaker: Khairul Azfar Kamaruzaman, CC (again)

Is it me, or is this meeting too biased towards Azfar? Well, you made the votes! :) Anyway, sadly speaking, this meeting will be his last meeting as he will be leaving us to head to Brisbane, Australia to pursue his PhD in Biotechnology, majoring in Drug Design. All the best Azfar, see you in the future :)

Attached are some photos taken at the meeting for your viewing :)

 

                     

                      

                      

                     

 

 

 

                       

Our next meeting will be as follows:

8th Meeting of the Term

Theme: 'Halloween ' 

Date: 22nd October 2013 (Tuesday)

Time: 7.30 pm

Venue: Celyn Hotel, City Mall

Leading us will be Nantha Kumar, CC. Let's see what he's got up his sleeves this time.... 

Till then, thank you for Loving the Journey, From the Heart. :)

...from the heart

Fia binti Iskandar

President 2013-2014

Kota Kinabalu Toastmasters Club

Tel: +60167763622

Find us on:

Blog: http://kktoastmastersclub.blogspot.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kktoastmastersclub/ 

Fia binti Iskandar

Pharmacist

Pharmacy Department

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Tel: 088-517 555  Sam: 7517

    4th Meeting for the term 2013-2014 'From The Heart' (27.08.13)

MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! 

We conducted our MERDEKA themed meeting last week. Woohoo! According to Mahatma Gandhi, freedom is not worth having, if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. In toastmasters, we are allowed to make mistakes and we learn from our mistakes. 

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most patriotic of them all.Weeeeee! It's none other than Christine Yap. 

Fauziah Mat Noor, CTM, started the meeting on time. I'm serious people, no SRP. (Sex, Religion and Politics)  

TME Dean, conducted the warm up session. Brilliant idea. If you would like to improve your body language, you should play this game. Look at how their body speaks.

    

Gooofraaaabaaahhh!!! Nora Liew is deeply into meditation before taking up her role as the Ah Counter Specialist  

Dean, it's Merdeka Themed meeting. Where are your flags???

 I'm never going to give you mine!!!!

Now I know who stole my flag!!!!!!

Our Manual Speakers for the day

  Vijay Panickar, CC completed his ACB 1

TM Janice Tan completed her CC5

Shaolin Master Nantha : "Janice, I'm very pleased with your performance!!!"

Best Dressed Male and Female. 

Drum Rolls!!!!!!!!! 

TM Dean Yee and Nora Ridzuan, ACB,ALS 

Stay tuned for our next meeting. Details as per below:

Date: 10.09.13

Time: 7.30 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.

Venue: Celyn Hotel, City Mall Kota Kinabalu