Dear Indrahanians,
Greetings to you. Want to know what happened on 23 Feb?
It was a dark & stormy night... Lightning sparked fiercely through the sky. Thunder roared as loud as the Lion King. The rain pounded down relentlessly. And as usual our KL/PJ roads were flooded. (What’s new? And because of that, our poor GE Parames had a slight car accident!)
Anyway, you’d have expected an empty room at our meeting. But you’d be wrong. Because we had our usual attendance of more than 20 over members. Plus, we had the full attendance of our 4 DTMs from our club – Fong Ming, LeAnn, Dom & Dr Devi. Now how’s that for commitment & support from our veteran members?
And so of course, in tango with the weather, we had a high octane meeting. There were flashes of brilliance from many of the speakers. So there was thunderous applause all round for them. And there was a flood of valuable feedback & learning for us all to take home.
I’m really sorry for you if you were one of those who missed this meeting because on that night we had high quality assignment speakers – we had a speech marathon by Anan, LeAnn, Wooi Hong & May. With that, May completed her 10 speeches from the CC manual & she’s now our latest CC in the club. Please give her a big round of applause & send her your congratulations. She’s now so happy & relieved. Whew!
We had contest-quality speech evaluations. If you have been coming regularly to meetings, you’d have been admiring how Thian Seng gets better & better in his speech evaluations. Well done, Thian Seng, we look forward to your representing our club at Evaluation Contest later this year:-)
We had contest-worthy Table Topic speakers who readily challenged the contest-type table topics provided by Koon Kow. Volunteers shot their hands up to be counted readily for the opportunity to practise, as we’re now in TT contest season. The speakers were also very privileged to be given valuable feedback & tips from Fong Ming as to what judges look for, before their dash to victory in a couple of weeks’ time.
Then we had 2 new members who made their debuts – Karen as ‘Ah Counter’ & Yoga as Timer. It’s great to see them taking the first baby step in their Toastmaster journey. And Yoga has already volunteered to be ‘Ah Counter’ in the next regular meeting. That’s the spirit, Yoga. Way to go!
Last but not least, according to Fong Ming, it’s the first time she’s seen a club having TWO words of the day instead of one – that’s because Yeoh, as Language Evaluator that night, wanted to highlight the common misuse and abuse of the words ‘couple’ & ‘several’.
Isn’t it wonderful that our club has such high energy from its members? I’m sure we’re all very proud of our club. And for those of you who haven’t been able to come regularly to meetings, may I urge you to come back soon to add to the spirit of our club.
A couple of final notes. Membership fees are due – please pay up to Wooi Hong. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. And our next meeting on 9th March is our International Speech &Table Topic Contests. You still have time to submit your names to Fanny / Choi Woon if you wish to contest. Or else, just turn up to enjoy the show:-)
May all great blessings come your way.
Kind rgds,
Kay Wong
Taman Indrahana
VPE 2009/2010
Greetings to you. Want to know what happened on 23 Feb?
It was a dark & stormy night... Lightning sparked fiercely through the sky. Thunder roared as loud as the Lion King. The rain pounded down relentlessly. And as usual our KL/PJ roads were flooded. (What’s new? And because of that, our poor GE Parames had a slight car accident!)
Anyway, you’d have expected an empty room at our meeting. But you’d be wrong. Because we had our usual attendance of more than 20 over members. Plus, we had the full attendance of our 4 DTMs from our club – Fong Ming, LeAnn, Dom & Dr Devi. Now how’s that for commitment & support from our veteran members?
And so of course, in tango with the weather, we had a high octane meeting. There were flashes of brilliance from many of the speakers. So there was thunderous applause all round for them. And there was a flood of valuable feedback & learning for us all to take home.
I’m really sorry for you if you were one of those who missed this meeting because on that night we had high quality assignment speakers – we had a speech marathon by Anan, LeAnn, Wooi Hong & May. With that, May completed her 10 speeches from the CC manual & she’s now our latest CC in the club. Please give her a big round of applause & send her your congratulations. She’s now so happy & relieved. Whew!
We had contest-quality speech evaluations. If you have been coming regularly to meetings, you’d have been admiring how Thian Seng gets better & better in his speech evaluations. Well done, Thian Seng, we look forward to your representing our club at Evaluation Contest later this year:-)
We had contest-worthy Table Topic speakers who readily challenged the contest-type table topics provided by Koon Kow. Volunteers shot their hands up to be counted readily for the opportunity to practise, as we’re now in TT contest season. The speakers were also very privileged to be given valuable feedback & tips from Fong Ming as to what judges look for, before their dash to victory in a couple of weeks’ time.
Then we had 2 new members who made their debuts – Karen as ‘Ah Counter’ & Yoga as Timer. It’s great to see them taking the first baby step in their Toastmaster journey. And Yoga has already volunteered to be ‘Ah Counter’ in the next regular meeting. That’s the spirit, Yoga. Way to go!
Last but not least, according to Fong Ming, it’s the first time she’s seen a club having TWO words of the day instead of one – that’s because Yeoh, as Language Evaluator that night, wanted to highlight the common misuse and abuse of the words ‘couple’ & ‘several’.
Isn’t it wonderful that our club has such high energy from its members? I’m sure we’re all very proud of our club. And for those of you who haven’t been able to come regularly to meetings, may I urge you to come back soon to add to the spirit of our club.
A couple of final notes. Membership fees are due – please pay up to Wooi Hong. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. And our next meeting on 9th March is our International Speech &Table Topic Contests. You still have time to submit your names to Fanny / Choi Woon if you wish to contest. Or else, just turn up to enjoy the show:-)
May all great blessings come your way.
Kind rgds,
Kay Wong
Taman Indrahana
VPE 2009/2010
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