Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club

Dear Indrahanians Greetings to you. Do you ever wish that you could do with a bit of relaxing after a hard day's work? Sure, you could go drinking or partying or have dinner with friends. Or you could go to a play, or a comedy show - but then you'd have to pay a hefty sum for it. Well, you could just have come to our Toastmasters meeting last Tuesday on 8 Dec & you'd have had a whole night of belly laughs & learning, that would have cost you almost nothing! Do you know, we had so many DTMs (Fong Ming, LeAnn, Dom & Dr Devi) & past Presidents (I'm sorry, I can't even keep count with all my fingers!) on that night - it was unbelieveable. In fact, there were so many high-flying members, they were quite unruly & dominating. The SAA (your truly, who had to stand in for Jenny) had to use the gavel persistently to call the room to order. That's for starters. We had 4 guests, 3 of whom were thanks to Koon Kow. One of them was even game to take part in...

Hi Fellow Indrahana Members, Good Day. We are launching a PR program, where fellow exco of our club will lead the visit of other TM clubs in Nov and Dec 2009. Objective: 1. To strengthen relationship and build rapport with other club officers and members, especially for clubs in Div B 2. To create opportunities for our club officers and members to visit clubs and play roles to gain exposure 3. To promote Taman Indrahana TM Club Duration: mid Nov to mid Dec 2009. Visit 1 club a week. We hope ALL of you will participate actively in this program by joining us. Please choose the dates that suit you. Do you want to take up any role or just wish to visit as guest? I will contact the selected club Presidents and VPE for the arrangement. Thank you. Han

Dear Indrahanians, Greetings to you. During our above meeting on 10 Nov, we almost had a speech marathon. We had 4 wonderful assigned speeches to learn from - tips on anti-burglary, advice on financial management, ask your own self for all the answers you need, & how to handle a radio talk show. Each of the speaker spoke so well, that I'm sure it was a tough choice for all of us when it came to choosing the Best Speaker Award. The fact that Yuan won shows that she's one of our up & coming young speakers in the club. Ditto for the evaluators - all of them performed well. So it was equally difficult to vote. Another point I noted was that members who weren't playing roles that night, were very proactive in volunteering for the limited Table Topics slots. So overall, I'd say that the standard of speaking quality that night was very high indeed. So let's all continue this standard so that Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club continues to be known as the premier spe...

Dear Indrahanians, Greetings to you. Last meeting we had one of the most unusual Table Topics Sessions I've ever attended. It was conducted by Jen. She gave out a few topics & participants were supposed to tell us a lie based on those topics. Basically Jen wanted us to tell a Tall Tale. A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements but told in such a way that it could be true. So you can believe it or not. During the session, you could tell who are the true liars (a.k.a. Dominic), those who can't a tell a lie in their honest-to-goodness life (a.k.a. Alice), those who try but didn't quite succeed (a.k.a. Dr Choong), and those who are probably true blue liars - like our guest Victor and our very own Yuan. For the record, Yuan won the Table Topics Award that night. Congrats to Yuan for being such a good liar! And kudos to Jen for such an entertaining session. Those of us who were present had a 'belly' good laugh. Anan gave his ice breaker speech. Those of you f...

Hi Indrahanians, I feel sorry for those of you members who missed our Deepavali Toastmasters meeting on 13 Oct. Why? Well for one thing it was the Indian food we had. It was also the super-divine homemade choc chip cookies brought by Teresa’s guest, Audrey. They just melt in your mouth…I’m salivating still. Then we also had members & guests dressing up for the occasion. We all got to wear the little Indian do on our “third eye” (sorry I forgot what it’s called!) We looked veritably like our Indian friends. In fact May looked like she’s married to an Indian husband. Dr Devi was in her glorious saree & she started with an invocation regarding the light of Deepavali. My understanding of it is that this light symbolises the light that lights our path along our spiritual journey. We had two ice breakers from two of our new members – they were so well done with such interesting insights into their lives, they deserve the standing ovation. Our GE, Meyya, was a bundle of high energ...

Hi Indrahanians, On Monday morning, just before I woke up at 10.30 am (hehe), I had my last dream of the morning. I dreamt that we were having our Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club meeting during our special Guest Night. We had a huge turnout of about 30 guests and 20+ of us members, making a total of 50+ people at the meeting. It was a record breaking night where we had to sit classroom style - it was exactly like my school classroom where we sat in pairs with little tables in front of us. I was sitting next to Alice & we were animatedly discussing our guest turnout. Of course none of the above is true except that we did just have our Guest Night last week, & it was probably my subconcious mind telling me I haven't written my report to you yet about that exciting event on the night of 29 Sept! So here goes... Yes we did have a big turnout - 21 members & 11 guests. We had to open up the back room to cater to the extra people. First the food - it was scrumptious. What wi...

Dear Indrahanians, Our Toastmasters meeting last week was another week of learning from our members & guests. We learned a little bit more about Fanny's childhood from her icebreaker. Shyly but confidently she read out her speech, which was a great starter point for her Toastmasters journey. I'm sure she'll be better & better as she moves along. LeAnn shared with us something very personal to her - something that she rarely shares with others (so I'm sorry that many of you members missed out on it!). We wish her all the best on her spiritual journey. I believe we are soon to have a couple more new members in our club - Sim is rejoining our fold; Durai's son, Anand, is likely to join in our next meeting (otherwise, we shall "blackmail" Durai!) FYI, Anand won the "Best Table Topic" ribbon that evening - great way to go for a beginner. Wooi Hong tried out his first Humour Master role & was also awarded Half CC that evening. So do send hi...

Dear Indrahanians, Our Toastmasters meeting last week was another week of learning from our members & guests. We learned a little bit more about Fanny's childhood from her icebreaker. Shyly but confidently she read out her speech, which was a great starter point for her Toastmasters journey. I'm sure she'll be better & better as she moves along. LeAnn shared with us something very personal to her - something that she rarely shares with others (so I'm sorry that many of you members missed out on it!). We wish her all the best on her spiritual journey. I believe we are soon to have a couple more new members in our club - Sim is rejoining our fold; Durai's son, Anand, is likely to join in our next meeting (otherwise, we shall "blackmail" Durai!) FYI, Anand won the "Best Table Topic" ribbon that evening - great way to go for a beginner. Wooi Hong tried out his first Humour Master role & was also awarded Half CC that evening. So do send hi...