Bulletin District 51 April 2012 issue.

We are proud to annouce that the club's photo is featured in the April 2012's bulletin.
You can check it out at this link below:
http://www.tmdistrict51.org/bulletin-51/bulletin-51-apr-2012-edition/

Speechcraft session - "How to evaluate"

Victor Ong was the lead speaker in the speechcraft session yesterday (21.02.2012). The session was on "How to evaluate?" He shared with us the do's and don't when giving an evaluation. He gave a 15minutes presentation with slides of information. 
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The newbies evaluated the three prepared speakers and they all generally did well. When there is fun in learning, learning becomes fun. The newbies made a great first attempt. Well done! Keep up the effort and soon the club will be filled with excellent evaluators.

If you want to know what was the content of the presentation, and the secrets behind all the new evaluators. Do come and join our Taman Indrahana TM Club meeting! Or be a member instead!

Taman Indrahana TMC is Proud.

Victor with his mentees

Taman Indrahana is proud to have a good mixture of senior and new members. This helps the club to constantly improve in being a better club term after term. The senior members become good mentors that help newer members to excel, and indirectly help the club succeed. This one particular member that deserves recognition is one of the experienced members in the club. He is none other than, Victor Ong. 

Here is a write up regarding some of Victor's personal experiences when he was completing his forth CC title. 
 

Member’s personal experience

Q : What does this educational achievement means to you?

A : This CC achievement represents my fourth CC attempt and I am already embarking on my fifth. When I repeat my CC Manual - it is always about doing it better than the last time - and so, it is about self-betterment.

Q : How long does it take to complete the educational goal?

A : This particular attempt took me 422 days. My earlier attempts took 218, 260, and 360 days respectively.

Q : How did you complete your educational goal?

A : I did it because I recognize that to be a good speaker, I need to speak regularly - hence my personal goal of wishing to speak at least once a fortnight. This excludes taking part in Table Topics, Evaluations and/or Contests. Most importantly, I did it because I enjoyed it immensely.

Q : What have you learned most from this journey - to achieve the educational goal?

A :  I learned that there is no one excellent speech - it is always about speaking to improve. I also learned that Toastmastering is a journey of self-discovery.; that we are always learning to improve and be a better speaker.

Q : Any personal setbacks or limitations while pursing the educational goal? If yes, how did you overcome it?

A : If there are challenges, I will just bulldoze my way through and do the best I can.

Q : Any words of advice, inspirational quotes or encouragement - for members who are "trying" to achieve the educational achievement?

A : My word of advice is to banish your fears and speak. And learn to enjoy speaking.

Q : Do you have any future plans after achieving this award?

A : My future plans are to continue speaking and once my AG stint is over, to participate in contests.

Q : Do you have a personal mentor to guide you on achieving this educational goals?

A : I have no mentor; everything I know is self-learned.

Q : When did you join as a Toastmasters member?

A : I joined as a Toastmaster on July 01, 2008.

Q : What does communication and leadership means to you?

A : To me, communication is extremely important because with communication, there is understanding. Leadership is equally important - but it should be servant leadership.

A job well done, Victor! Hope you enjoy your Toastmasters journey towards the fifth title! 

TI turns 87 today!

Not an ordinary club meeting.(11 Oct 2011)

Dear fellow Indrahanians, 

October babies! (from left) Michael, Dr Devi and Angie

It was Dr Devi Menon's DTM last day of work that day! The next day would be her birthday and first day of retirement. That’s why her cake had a single candle! We celebrated the occasion with a chocolate-banana cake brought by Dr Devi herself. The club had the honor of hosting a regular meeting with a visit by the International President Elect 2011-2012,  Dr John Lau, DTM; Lieutenant-Governor for Education and Training (LGET) Ramdas Nayar, DTM; and Lieutenant-Governor for  Marketing, Kiang Faang Pyng, DTM. The latter was our madam General Evaluator (GE) for the evening.

The meeting started off with the presidential address by Lim Thian Seng, then he handed control of the lectern to the Toastmaster-of-the-Evening, Jean Ng. It was her first time taking up this role and she managed it perfectly well. With no delays and confusion towards the schedule in the meeting programme, it was a job well done!


The audience then burst out laughing during the humour session open to the floor. Thian Seng and Dominic both did well to tickle our funny bones. For the table topics session, Angie Ng also played her role with confidence. A total of 4 speakers - Mahan, Angeline, Ramdas and Durai - volunteered to take up the challenge.


Assignment speakers were up next. The three speakers for the evening were Mohan Singh doing his maiden speech, Karen Cheah with her fourth speech and Tang Chee Yan with his fifth. Mohan showed bravery and shared with us about his past experience and the laziness in him that caused him to fail from getting promoted. He taught us a valuable lesson on how important knowledge is in this current competitive world. Karen talked about the pros and cons of having a maid at home. And lastly, Chee Yan shared his fear of autistic children and how he managed to overcome it.

Dr John Lau enlightening us to become great leaders

The GE, Kiang Faang Pyng took over control for the second half of the meeting after the intermission. The evaluators for the night were Ho Fong Ming (table topics evaluator), Dominic Joseph, Chrristine Ngiam and LeAnn Tang. All of them gave thorough evaluations for each speaker. And I am sure that every speaker had something to bring back to learn as they reflect on what the evaluators had mentioned.


At the later part of the evening, Dr John Lau shared with us a few words of wisdom as we embarked on the Toastmasters journey. Thank you for sharing with us those inspiring words, Dr John Lau.

The Best Table Topic Speaker award went to Durai, while Chee Yan was voted as the Best Speaker for his Project #5. LeAnn won the Best Evaluator award.

Durai: It's been a while since i got this ribbon! Great to be back! 

The EGM followed after the meeting as fellow Indrahanians voted for whom to take over the role as Vice-President Public Relations (VPPR) of the club. After the voting, Tang Chee Yan was the new VPPR of the club, taking over the role from May Yong. Welcome Chee Yan and hope you will enjoy and gain experience in this role you have taken up!

Overall, it was a fantastic evening, filled with wonderful speeches and happiness that comes along with it. Well done, fellow Indrahanians and we hope every guest enjoyed their time as well.

The Indrahana Family!  

Meeting @ 27/9

What a night! 33 people turned up for a regular meeting! This number includes guest from Sunway University! The night started out by the presidential address, Lim Thian Seng took the floor and asked the guest to introduced themselves. Next! the usual energetic, hyper, fullofsarcasm  yet humourous, Victor Ong took over the control as the Toastmaster of the Evening! He created an blissful atmosphere in the room to start off the meeting. 

Table Topics, done by Undarma( 1st timer ) gave opportunities to 5 speakers to try on deep topics that require the participants to think hard, thoroughly, and critical. Topics such as eg: 1) What is the significance of life? 2) Who inspire you most and why? 3) If you are the ruler of the world for 1 day, what are the 3 things will you do? 

Participants like Fanny, Angie and Tong Fong, took up the challenge and gave it a go towards the given topic! All the participants did extraordinary well. 

After that came the assignment speeches. First one up is Angeline Loo on her project #2. She gave a thorough informative, educational and yet interesting presentation on the way to prevent breast cancer. Next up is Teoh Lee Lian doing her project # 3. She did the presentation regarding the advantages of donating blood, also rich in knowledge and plenty of good information for the audience to bring it back home today! Michael Kum was next to talk to us about what is a job scope of a project manager. He came in with full of details and points to give us all a good overall view on his job. Speaker number 4, Chan Weng May came in to give us a good laugh with her speech #2 from the Advanced manual - Humorously Speaking Manual. She talked about how body language and a smile can change a person's attitude towards you. Last but not least, Kay Wong did her final project on the Successful Club Series. She taught us to break from our own comfort zone and gave us a good headstart on where can TM bring us in the future. She wants us to go beyond in Taman Indrahana and be more initiative in joining other clubs and pick up some roles to play. 

Overall, an amazing night it is! Full of laughter, joy, happiness and good fellowship! That's the way a TM meeting should be! When a person just got off work, and wants to release all the stress load for the day. A toastmasters meeting is where someone should be! Especially Taman Indrahana, where it is filled with people from various types of jobs and background! A place to socialise and make new friends. 

Division B Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest!

Taman Indrahana sent two fantastic speakers out for the Division B contest held on the 24 of September 2011 at Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. Our funny guy, Han Lee Hwee was competing in the Humorous Speech Contest while Ng Jean Hui was competing in what she does best, the Evaluation Speech Contest.

The evaluation contest started out first. Kenneth Yee as the test speaker gave his speech titled "When I realised... " In his speech, he talked about the Pain and Pleasure that every human will face in their lives and how these two factors affect each one of them in making decisions. Jean was up against many senior toastmasters such as Ng Sok Teng from Crystal Toastmasters Club, Sarimah Morshidi, Dennis Wee and Nor Lida Dahalan. Jean was cool and calm when it was her turn to evaluate Kenneth. She spoke with clarity and gave strong point regarding his strengths and areas of improvement. Loud applause was given to her as she was done. 

Next came the Humorous Speech contest. The contestants were Chong Mei Wen, Han Lee Hwee, Dennis Wee, Johnson Yike and lastly Sarimah Morshidi. All of them tickled our funny bone with hilarious speeches that includes events that occur with the family, work bosses and their experiences in being a toastmaster.

Stephen Fernando was in the house to give us a short 15 minutes talk on tips in presenting a humorous speech. A past district champion came in a gave us a few good laughs during his presentation. As a natural funny guy, he made learning so easy and fun. I m sure all the participants there were amazed on his delivery and definitely had something to bring home at the end of the day.

Results for the Evaluation Contest:
Champion: Dennis Wee (D'Utama Advanced)
1st Runner Up: Ng Sok Teng (Crystal)
2nd Runner Up: Ng Jean Hui (Taman Indrahana)

For the Humorous Speech Contest:
Champion: Dennis Wee (D'Utama Advanced)
1st Runner Up: Johnson Yike (Pheonix)
2nd Runner Up: Sarimah Morshidi

Overall, a great saturday and congratulate Jean for being the 2nd Runner Up, and her bravery to step up to the challenge. And Han, although he wasnt placed, but all the effort and time used for the preparation deserves recognition. Well done both of you! The club is proud for having young and experienced toastmasters in the club as we move forward in being a better club.