Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club

Who are they? They are our new members (except LeAnn, of course). This term, all new members are required to give one-minute speech introduce about themselves. From the short speech, we know each and everyone better, and we unanimously voted them in as part of Toastmasters members.  As of April 15, we have 14 members joining the club. They are Judy Foong, Michael Kum, Lim Kwong Siong, June Tan,  Undarmaa Gansukh( from Mongolia), Chan Weng May, Peggy Yeap, Tang Chee Yan, Mahan Rezaee(from Iran), Angie Ng, Linda Tang, Jaslyn Yap, Jean Ng and Karen Cheah. As a few of the beautiful faces are missing here, we will be here again, update with their photos two weeks from now. Yeoh, let's capture their faces next meeting. New members, welcome to Indrahana - caring, supportive, encouraging and loving family!

Sunday, April 10, 2011 Contributed by Victor Ong Communication Skills Wanted The Sunday Star newspaper today front-paged this advice: “It does not matter if you are top of your class or have a string of degrees, that dream job will not be yours unless you can speak and write well in English”. Simply put, if you cannot communicate in English, how can you be expected to perform? Feedback from local and international employers – consolidated into the MEF Salary Survey for Executives 2010 – shows that verbal and written communication skills in English remain the most sought-after attribute in prospective employees. This is reflected by the 68% of the companies that were surveyed that identified it as the top quality required in job applicants. Yet many students are still not realizing this and if they do, they are not doing anything about it – they remain cocooned in their "tidak apa" mindset and hope that by the time they graduate, they would have made some headway in s...

Karen brings laughters to people, she is a Laughter Yoga Leader who brings HO HO HA HA HA to the club. Judy, our new kid on the block... bright, intelligent and smart.   Victor lives and breaths with toastmasters, he just can't stop making speeches that make him an eloquent speaker today. Fong Ming is our big sister, she does effective verbal evaluation without making any note, impressive!  Jade , the VPPR of the club who loves to organise events for members, she feels happy seeing members come with smiles, leave with laughters.  

A journey of exploration! It was about barefoot walking, organic living, ice cold pure fruit juices, harversting of sweet potatoes & enjoying an awesome organic vegetarian lunch - so fresh, tasty & delicious. What a day of fun and refreshing! Thank you Indrahana family and friends for your participation!  

27 March 2011, Sunday ~ By Victor Ong Today, Klang Bilingual Toastmasters celebrated their fifth Anniversary and organized a debate to commemorate this occasion. Two formidable teams squared off. I was the second speaker with the opposing side and I represented Taman Indrahana Toastmasters. My other team-mates included Dennis Wee (D’Utama Advanced), Vincent Hoh (Metropolitan Bilingual) and Jonathan Moh (D’Utama). The other side started with the proposition that “Leaders are made, not born” and their members were Johnson Yike (Phoenix), Lee Xi Wen (TTDI), Shirley Cheok (Klang Bilingual) and Lawrence Hoo (Speaker’s Dream). We did our best to turn the argument on its head, but we weren’t successful. We didn’t win. I was chosen the Best Speaker of my team, if that is any consolation for me. (For the other team, the Best Speaker award went to Johnson). Oh well, at least, I got the opportunity to experience a debate, Toastmasters-style.

30 March 2011, Wednesday Victor Ong (right) won the 1st runner-up at Division G International Speech Contest . Victor, being a committed and passionate toastmaster, always up to the challenge, representing different clubs in many International contests. A role model for toastmasters to learn from.