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When light shines

"When you have a decision to make, choose the path that brings light, not darkness         -  Dr Devi Menon"
Dr. Devi, in her elegant black punjabi suit, was our Toastmaster of the Evening on 28th October 2014. She shared the origin and the meaning of Deepavali with all of us during her session. Our Madam President, Pei Lim also dressed up to the occasion in this sweet punjabi suit :)


Induction session is very vital for new members when they first join Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club. Last Tuesday, Jee Peng, Vice President of Membership inducted Gavin Teoh ~ Gavin, welcome you to our club! 


'Toastmaster wears many hats' was mentioned by Yeoh Cheng Lim during the invocation session. He is ready to take up any challenge given to him. He was our in-house general evaluator of this meeting too. He accepted the job at the eleventh hour! Thanks Yeoh!


It is new to me that Japan celebrates Deepavali. I got the information from our sweet Table Topic Master, Yeong Ai Lin. She gave us a very creative table topic session. She used the flag of the countries as the table topic of the day. All table topic speakers enjoyed themselves at this session. I have a good laugh when Durai gave us a short humorous table topic! Dr Devi, Julian (guest), Ong Beng Chung, Durai and Kah Fai were the table topic speakers. 





We have two prepared speeches for this meeting, Jeremy Lim and Victor Ong. Interesting topics from these two speakers. One on 'why you should marry an accountant' by Jeremy Lim (author interpreted the topic to:- why you should marry me - Jeremy Lim) - joking, :P ! Victor Ong delivered a speech on 'Masks". 



We have a very interesting phenomena for the meeting as we have three best table topic speakers. See, they enjoyed themselves very much! Durai, you should speak more in the club!


All in all, we have a good meeting on last Tuesday. Attention peeps! We have few events coming up in the month of November as announced in the Facebook Page and email. Do check them out :)

8th November: Division D organizing mentoring workshop. Do check out here. 
29-30th November: Youth Leadership Program. For more information, click here. 

Signing off, see you in our club next meeting!

Footnote: Quote by Dr Devi taken from Chrristine Ngiam's facebook. Thanks Chrristine! 

Written by shiuan

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